Salary is set by NIH and is based on training and years of experience.
Preferred Education:
Doctorate
Fully funded, mentored, one year research fellowship in IR
This is a funded 1-2 year research position in Interventional Radiology. The primary work for this fellowship will be in the area of bariatric interventions in a large animal model (MR-guided cryoablation, embolization, radio-embolization and novel intra-arterial therapeutic approaches). There will also be opportunities to work in prospective clinical trial design and management (vascular malformations, HHT) and registry and database - based research (HHT, vascular malformations, cholangioscopy) and device development.
Johns Hopkins Interventional Radiology has extensive, ongoing, translational and clinical research efforts in the area of bariatric embolization. The program has vibrant, innovative and active research programs in IR and IO and are actively involved in multiple national clinical trials and are the lead for two national registries (cholanigoscopy and HHT interventions). Our program is also establishing a new Histotripsy research program.
Johns Hopkins IR has an established relationship with the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering, and is actively involved in the development of new interventional devices as well in the development of new applications of existing devices.
We also have some of the largest HHT and Vascular Anomalies Databases which serve as the basis for retrospective studies of these diseases in adults and children. Currently we are examining the relationship between MR based radiomics and patient reported outcomes (PRO) measurements for low flow malformations, and to develop and test a new PRO for HHT.
Research fellows will be expected to submit abstracts and present data at national meetings as well as to publish manuscripts during their year.
Research fellows will be encouraged to attend morning conferences and to shadow IR faculty in clinical cases as time permits.
Applicants must have previous hands-on clinical IR training and experience.Applicants must be able to perform percutaneous and intra-arterial interventions in large animal models under the supervision of the the PIs (Drs Weiss and Kraitchman). Although on-the-job training specific to the needed interventions will occur, this should be supplemental to already-established IR skills.
A background either in clinical research or in basic/translational research is preferred but is optional.
