The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (TDI) and the Department of Orthopaedics at Dartmouth Medical School seeks a PhD or MPH graduate interested in a one-year practical research experience in comparative effectiveness research in back pain associated with arthritic degenerative changes in the lumbar spine, a topic ranked among the top 25 research priorities established in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine.
The research in which the Fellow will participate has the potential to inform decision-making by patients, clinicians, payers, device manufacturers, and regulators. It fills a critical knowledge gap in comparative safety of spinal devices and is responsive to needs of regulators, device makers, surgeons, and most importantly, patients. The objective of this work is to evaluate the diffusion of innovation by a comparison of benchmark safety data to real world safety performance through analyses of administrative claims data. The research examines post-market safety and diffusion for five novel spine technologies in order to create a repeatable model based on large administrative data sets including Medicare.
The position is a one year Research Fellowship funded by a National Research Service Award (NRSA) T-32 Training Grant. Funding is subject to NRSA guidelines.
The Research Fellow will: serve as a major contributing member of the research team, participating in the development of the hypothesis and planning the projects’ parameters and scope; independently conduct research while engaged in academic/intellectual endeavors; author or co-author research findings and present at national conferences; may obtain funding for research projects and write grant proposals.
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