Transplant Surgery Research Fellowship

Job Summary

The Transplant Surgery Research Fellow, supported by the University of Michigan Section of Transplantation and the UM Health Transplant Center, is a new position managed in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. This exciting new program is designed to support research education for general surgery residents interested in a career in abdominal transplant surgery or postdoctoral scholars with an interest in organ transplant policy and outcomes. The program will offer comprehensive health services research training tailored to the specific subject matter and methodologic interests of the Fellow. The program will provide access to a formal research education curriculum run through the established fellowship program at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy (CHOP).

The program is designed to provide broad exposure to an array of databases including clinical registries from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) and United Network for Organ Sharing UNOS) in addition to Medicare and Medicaid claims. Our team also has extensive methodologic experience, including natural experiments/econometrics and various machine learning techniques. The Fellow will have the opportunity to collaborate with the broader CHOP community of funded surgeon-scientists, economists, sociologists, and qualitative researchers. A specific longitudinal goal of the program is to create faculty-level research startup plan.

Trainees will be selected competitively by the program leadership and existing transplant research team members. Special emphasis will be devoted to recruitment of under-represented in medicine candidates. This training program will be embedded within the rich research environment of the University of Michigan, including a highly collegial and interdisciplinary surgical health services research community, excellent core resources for biomedical research, and strong resources for clinical and health services research.

The transplant surgery research fellow position means a post-graduate research residency position which:

• Shall be a graduate of an accredited medical school and shall remain in excellent academic standing with permission from Program Director and Chairman to apply for dedicated research fellowship.
• Shall be the equivalent to a full-time position comprising of no less than forty hours per week.
• Shall be completed in 24-month time frame as structured by usual fellowship standards, starting July 1, 2027, to June 30, 2029.
• Shall exceed the minimum standards required by a residency review committee in the specialty the research fellow has trained or is currently training.
• Shall be filled by a surgical research fellow who will receive formalized instruction in health services/clinical research, including biostatistics, manuscript preparation, research ethics, grant writing and regulatory guidelines.
• Shall be supervised by a sponsor-mentor team comprised of extramurally funded investigators at all stages of their careers.
• Shall be filled by a research fellow who is: a United States citizen, national or permanent resident of the United States a graduate of medical school and currently enrolled in a surgical residency program.

Required Qualifications*

• A terminal doctoral degree (for example: Ph.D.) or a professional doctorate (examples include M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M.)