Research Fellow

King's College London

Job id: 086567. Wage: £51,974 – £61,021 each year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 19 March 2024. Deadline: 24 March 2024.

Enterprise unit: College of Life Sciences & Medication. Division: Surgical & Interventional Engineering.

Contact particulars:Dr. Rachel Sparks. [email protected]

Location: St Thomas’ Campus. Class: Analysis.

Job description

We’re looking for a part-time senior post-doctoral researcher to assist the medical uptake of our novel image-guided computer-assisted planning software program, EpiNav. The submit holder would be the interface between the event group at KCL and our medical collaborators on the Nationwide Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and different dissemination websites together with King’s School Hospital.

On this position, the submit holder can be chargeable for serving to to coach clinicians to make use of the software program, present related coaching supplies in addition to present assist within the type of picture processing and the creating of normal working procedures. They are going to be chargeable for serving to the technical group to outline customary working procedures for one of the best use of the software program and highlighting issues encountered within the software program throughout routine use. The place applicable they’ll assist to establish attainable centres to make use of the software program and assist to evaluate their suitability as a dissemination website.

The submit holder can be supervised by and work in shut collaboration with Dr. Rachel Sparks, a Lecturer within the Division of Surgical & Interventional Engineering. Candidates will need to have clear demonstratable expertise speaking with clinicians which can be a part of the epilepsy surgical workflow and should be conversant in the epilepsy surgical workflow within the U.Okay.  Candidates should be educated about neuroimage processing together with segmentation and registration strategies. Moreover, they need to concentrate on the right way to entry and anonymise DICOM scans. Candidates ought to know the completely different instances of medical scans acquired as a part of assessing epilepsy and concentrate on their benefits and drawbacks. Candidates will need to have wonderful oral and written communication expertise and a demonstrated monitor document of working with a group to ship prime quality publications. Familiarity with the EpiNav software program and its use in medical follow is fascinating. Expertise with image-guided interventions and coaching clinicians to make use of open-source software program is preferable.

This submit can be provided on a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

It is a part-time submit – 20% full time equal. 

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