Biomedical Technologist

Biomedical Technologist Position at Tripler Army Medical Center

Tripler Army Medical Center is looking for a Biomedical Technologist to provide scientific laboratory services and support for researchers and graduate medical education residents for the Department of Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC), Honolulu, Hawaii. Salary: $49000.

Responsibilities

The Biomedical Technologist will:

• Consult with PI on specimen collection, data quality control, the interpretation of data, manuscript preparation, advising on data analysis and equipment, production and submission of required reports, and completion of scholarly manuscript for publication after appropriate scientific, Operation Security, and Public Affairs reviews are obtained and approved.
• Provide specimen collection and processing for clinical studies which evaluate new drugs and treatments or evaluate course of disease progression.
• Provide laboratory analyses for clinical studies which evaluate devices that improve readiness and military operational medicine.
• Develop and characterize models for promotion of Defense Health Readiness.
• Provide laboratory analyses for studies which address military priorities such as combat casualty care, wound healing, and transport medicine.
• Investigate therapeutic efficacy of novel molecular or cellular treatments that improve learning.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify molecular and protein biomarkers that detect distinct signatures of emerging infectious diseases.
• Characterize new methods for detecting and tracking antimicrobial resistance patterns.
• Identify more rapid diagnostic technologies to prescribe correct antibiotics for infected patients.
• Provide infectious disease surveillance in the Pacific Region.
• Provide input to, but not independently execute, in vivo and in vitro experiments to fulfill requirements of grant and electrolyte balance testing done for Command approved Tripler Army Medical Center investigative studies for a variety of projects supported by the Department of Clinical Investigation.
• Meet with the senior Department of Clinical Investigation Lab Manager weekly to review assay laboratory and experiment results and data entry.
• Provide input (but not independently execute) to experiments and other physiological, pharmacological assays, human specimen collection and data collection and analyses to assure the meeting of research grant objectives and deadlines.
• Gather data and provide input to (but not independently execute) clinical investigation study protocols including collection and preparation of specimens and maintain patient confidentiality as written in protocol.
• Administer drug doses to research animals as specified in research protocols.
• Provide data as specified in study protocols that may require testing of devices or executing biomedical assays.
• Prepare and verify quality control reagents used in a variety of biomedical assays.
• Prepare data summaries and research progress reports as well as preparation of data presentations and manuscript preparation.
• Update standard operating procedures as needed to keep laboratory procedures current and at the forefront of technology.
• Enroll study participants and extract chart review data or administration of surveys.
• Rack and maintain equipment and supplies for specific studies.
• Comply with applicable Tripler Army Medical Center written policies, procedures, and Army Regulations, JCAHO standards, and installation rules and regulations concerning fire, safety, sanitation, security and possession of firearms and other lethal weapons.
• Attend training, meetings, and conferences as required by the Department of Clinical Investigation.

Qualifications

The Biomedical Technologist must have:

• A Master's degree in basic biomedical research field (to include, but not limited to biology, chemistry, zoology, microbiology) OR a minimum of 10 years demonstrated experience in laboratory research.
• Sufficient initiative, interpersonal relationship skills and social sensitivity such that he/she can relate constructively to a variety of patients from diverse backgrounds.
• Broad knowledge of computers and related software to include word processing, spreadsheet, data base management, statistical applications, and intranet and Internet connections and applications.