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NASA Data Scientist opportunity

Dear Space Grant Consortium Director,

The NASA funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) invites applications for a Visiting Data Scientist to be based at NASA Johnson Space Center. The opportunity is designed for individuals who desire to use a sabbatical or other career development leave to explore new applications for their research or to develop their skills at the research program level.  We are contacting you to ask that you forward this announcement to your member universities for distribution to interested faculty.

The selected candidate will work with NASA scientists to improve and interpret analytical assessments of research and astronaut health data.

Specific duties and responsibilities are:

·         Collaborate with NASA personnel to design and apply data analysis to health outcomes and research in alignment with strategic goals

·         Support concept development, protocol design, and analytic plan development for research and discovery projects

·         Develop and administer data collection instructions to support integrated analytics of research projects

·         Build and manage strategic internal and external relationships to expand data analysis projects, develop new opportunities, facilitate work, and achieve business goals

·         Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to implement and evolve Data Systems Architecture to support analytic-based outcomes and real-world- evidence efforts

·         Take an active role in data interpretation, analysis, and presentation development of health-related information

Program specifics include:

·         24 months duration (Candidates may propose for less than two years but availability of the candidate may be a factor during selection)

·         The visiting scientist will remain an employee of his or her home institution (the employing company, university, laboratory, etc.)

·         If a visiting scientist candidate is selected, a grant will be awarded to the visiting scientist’s home institution (the employing company, university, laboratory, etc.)

·         The visiting scientist will be located at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston,  TX

·         Two years of salary support (competitive) plus fringe and benefits and indirect costs (if applicable)

·         Cost of relocation and some travel to scientific meetings is covered by TRISH

·         TRISH grants require cost-sharing consisting of an augmentation of at least 10% of the total annual grant

Program specific details and how to apply for this opportunity can be found at:  https://spacehealth.bcm.edu/prog/flex-1901/.

Please email SpaceHealth-Info@bcm.edu for additional information.

About TRISH:

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health is a NASA-funded virtual institute charged with leading a national effort in translating cutting-edge emerging terrestrial research into applied space flight human risk mitigation strategies for exploration missions. The institute is led by Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in partnership with the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Learn more about the Translational Research Institute of Space Health.

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Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Oct 11, 2018

Present:   Levi Bonnell, Marianne Burke, Juvena Hitt, Kairn Kelley (GTM), Ben Littenberg, Gail Rose, Connie van Eeghen, Jen LaVoie, Paula Reynolds (GTM)

1.                   Warm Up: Introduced Paula Reynolds as an IBHPC patient partner

2.                   Jen Lavoie and Gail Rose -   Invited to share what IBHPC project learned about patient engagement and its impact on the project.  Audience includes funded researchers, researchers looking for funding, patients, family members, policy makers, and others.  This is Jen’s first poster; her mission is to extend PCORI’s message of patient-centered care and research.

a.       Instructions:  What do you like/not like?  What is clear/what not?  How would you do it differently

b.       What we like:

                                                   i.      Color

                                                 ii.      Last sentence in introduction: helpful, but raises question of how it leads to PCI, which was the presumed outcome of the poster on first read

                                               iii.      Conversational tone

                                               iv.      Favorite boxes are all to the right and small

                                                 v.      Pictures that showed what you did

c.       What to think about:

                                                   i.      How to reduce the feeling of “too much too take in”

                                                 ii.      Gradient background is hard to read; white on light green is also hard

                                               iii.      Lessons Learned are key but not readable; these should answer the question; consider putting in center

                                               iv.      Reduce picture content (but keep the smiling, laughing faces)

                                                 v.      Trim the sentences

                                               vi.      Reduce the acronyms

                                              vii.      Combine green “Focus Group” steps with yellow action steps for Affinity Diagram; include who is in the groups

                                            viii.      Identify the key message: what are you doing to make engagement effective?

                                                ix.      Can you include preliminary results in a poster?  (Gail to check with Abby.)  Or anticipate results, but don’t report them.

                                                 x.      Revise the title to focus on the key message

                                                xi.      Add objective of poster, with a brief explanation of IBHPC

3.                   Next week: Levi to decide

4.                   Future topics: TBD

Recorded by: CvE