The Sloan School of Management at MIT and the Massachusetts General Hospital are seeking candidates for postdoctoral fellowship positions in a multiyear collaborative research project.
MGH is one of the oldest hospitals in the US, and was recently ranked first in the country. The hospital has a long tradition of innovation and excellence in clinical care and research. Over the last five years the Sloan School of Management and MGH have been collaborating on a hospital-wide project that is focused on major design and operational issues within academic medical centers. The goal of the project is to develop new scientific and data-driven methodologies, predictive models and decision support tools to design patient care processes and systems within the unique environment of academic medical centers, and apply them effectively in the MGH environment. The project is supported by the president of MGH and is considered as strategic to the organization.
Appropriate candidates should demonstrate strong research abilities, passion to conduct applied and theoretical publishable research in the respective area, as well as an ability to work within a large team of faculty, students and hospital’s clinicians and administrators. Candidates should have a PhD by July 1, 2013 in related areas, such as operations management, operations research, statistics and machine learning and electrical engineering.
Interested candidates should send to Ariel Brandner( abrandne@mit.edu): (i) a CV including updated list of publications and at least three references and (ii) a 1-page statements that articulates their interest in the position. Emails should be titled with “MIT/Sloan-MGH Postdoctoral Fellowship in System Design and Operations of Academic Medical Centers”. *The application review will start by *March 10, 2013.