Post-doc position in Clinical NLP at University of Utah

[Alejandro Valerio]

This position may be of interest to some people in the list.
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POST DOCTORAL POSITION IN CLINICAL NLP
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah

In an effort to improve clinical NLP, the POET project researches ways
to preprocess raw clinical text into a form amenable for high level
NLP systems. This postdoctoral fellowship offers an opportunity to
play a substantial role in the development of advanced technologies
for resolving clinical short forms (e.g., abbreviations and
shorthand); to re write templated text; and to formally explore
clinical sub languages. The recipient of the fellowship, funded under
an R21 grant from the National Library of Medicine, will be expected
to add his/her own research project to the over goals of POET and will
be mentored in 1) clinical NLP in a high performance, clustered
computing environment; 2) in preparing manuscripts for publication; 3)
and in biomedical informatics grant writing (with a special focus on
the NIH K99/R00 grant process).

POET is being built around a UIMA pipeline architecture and is
implemented on a small, dedicated, HIPAA compliant high performance
compute cluster (56 cores and counting...). POET currently has access
to >700,000 clinical notes spanning multiple clinical disciplines and
clinical settings from two different healthcare networks.

Qualifications: PhD level experience in natural language processing is
a must. An NLP focus in biomedical NLP experience is desired but not
mandatory, as is some experience in machine learning techniques. UIMA
experience is a definite plus. For more information on POET, query
1R21LM009967 01 at http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp_query.generate_screen

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The University of Utah is the oldest biomedical informatics in the
world, tracing its beginnings to the pioneering work of Dr. Homer
Warner in the 1950s. This funded postdoctoral position is for one year
(with a second year possible upon satisfactory performance and
additional funding). Applicants must have PhD in hand at the start of
the fellowship. Interested candidates should send a complete CV and a
letter of interest describing their research background and future
goals to:

POET NLP Postdoctoral Opportunity
Attn: Jo Ann Thompson
joann.t...@hsc.utah.edu
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University of Utah School of Medicine
26 South 2000 East Suite 5700 HSEB
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 5750

The University of Utah is committed to policies of equal opportunity
and nondiscrimination. The University pursues a vigorous program of
affirmative action in all classifications of employment in order to
prevent any form of discrimination, harassment, or prejudicial
treatment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex,
age, sexual orientation, status as a disabled individual, disabled
veteran, or veteran of the Vietnam Era.

(US citizenship or permanent resident status not required)
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