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Job Description

Title: **Postdoctoral Fellow**

Salary: **$74,692.00**

Department: **BMEII (BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute) - Radiology**

Physical work location: (must be proper street address)

+ Leon & Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine

1470 Madison Ave, 1 st Floor

New York, NY 10029

Name PI or Supervisor: (include phone and email)

+ **Bachir Taouli, MD, MHA** | (212) 824-8475 | [email protected]

Web link to Lab: https://bmeiisinai.org/cancer-body-imaging-copy/

Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/bmeii | https://bmeiisinai.org/

Administrative Contact: (phone and email)

+ **Katherine Wang** | (212) 824-8476 | [email protected]

+ **Gilbert Aguinaldo** | (212) 824-8459 | [email protected]

Qualifications

Educational and other Requirements for the position:

+ MD/PhD, PhD or MSc

+ Radiologist (in-training acceptable)

Experience Required:

+ Experience with imaging quantification methods

+ Familiar with radiomics and texture analysis in oncology

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project:

+ The project seeks to deliver on a radiomics machine learning model for the characterization of indeterminate nodules in cirrhosis. In other words, we will provide a tool (model and nomogram) that will input clinical variables, liquid biopsy data and radiomics features and return a reclassification of the indeterminate nodule into either benign or malignancy with a high probability. This will decrease the inherent uncertainty of the current LI-RADS classification.

Responsibilities

Details of Research Project:

+ Liquid Biopsy and radiomics for liver cancer surveillance (NCI funded study)

+ Aim 1: To conduct a phase 2 biomarker study testing liquid biopsy to detect curable HCC.

+ Aim 2: To integrate clinical data, liquid biopsy and MRI-based radiomics to characterize indeterminate liver nodules in cirrhosis.

+ You may also participate in other research studies involving multiparametric MRI in abdominal cancers (eg, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer or rectal cancer etc).

Technical Duties: (include any protocols)

+ The primary responsibility of this position is to build an imaging database, acquire, process and analyze MRI data, with an emphasis on radiomics and machine learning analysis

+ Your responsibilities in this research are to build an imaging dataset or radiomics libraries in pre-cancerous liver nodules and liver cancer based on imaging (CT and MRI). All technical and infrastructural requirements needed for this project, including imaging equipment, image post-processing software histological resources are available at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

+ The research projects at our institution comply with our institutional review board and are in conformity with international ethical standards. Your participation is solely for the purposes of observation, consultation, teaching, or research. No element of patient care will be involved.

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About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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Compensation Statement

Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $72500 - $80000 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.