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Dr. Sadigh’s Lab is part of the Radiological Sciences Department at the University of California, Irvine. All of her work shares the overarching theme of healthcare value and decreasing health disparities. Dr. Sadigh alongside her research team has encompassed healthcare utilization, comparative effectiveness research, financial hardship, patient preferences and costs of care discussion, price transparency and financial navigation a part of her research. Her long-term research goal is to improve patient-centered and evidence-based healthcare delivery while decreasing healthcare costs.
Key Research Studies
CONCURxP
Testing an innovative way to potentially increase medication adherence for patients using CDK4/6 inhibitors.
CostCOM
Addressing the urgent need to develop and test scalable interventions aimed at reducing financial hardship for patients with cancer.
Empower Latinx LCS
Empowering the Latinx community on taking lung cancer screenings, and developing an understanding of barriers and perceptions for LCS.
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Junior Specialist Position
The Department of Radiology at the University of California, Irvine is accepting applications for Junior or Assistant Specialists. These are one year appointments, non-senate, and is renewable based on performance and availability of funding.
The position involves assisting faculty with research investigation in the health services research. Areas of research include costs of care discussion with patients, improving patients’ care adherence, shared decision making, patient preferences, and health disparities predominantly in patients with cancer, but also other health conditions.
Incumbent is expected to make scientific and scholarly contributions to the research enterprise. Incumbent will assume responsibilities including: 1) providing support for recruitment and participant engagement; 2) maintaining study database (RedCAP); creating data reports; 3) conducting literature reviews; 4) assisting with protocol development and IRB submission; 5) assisting with presentations, reports, and manuscript writing; 6) assisting with training and supervising student research assistants; and assisting with other tasks as needed. There is close collaboration with other departments and institutions.
Minimum Qualifications:
Junior Specialist requirement: Baccalaureate degree (or equivalent degree) or equivalent research experience.
Assistant Specialist requirements: MS Degree or relevant Bachelor’s degree plus 3 or more years of research experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with medical research and scientific writing. Experience in health services research is desirable.
Collaborative: performs as a team member with good interpersonal skills Strong analytical and organizational skills; detail-oriented
Ability to work independently and in a multidisciplinary team Contribute to manuscript preparation, IRB submission and grant writing.
Priority will be given to candidates with excellent written/spoken English and Spanish or Vietnamese, given potential for recruit of Spanish-speaking and Vietnamese speaking research participants.