Postdoctoral Scholar Opening
Human Factors in Health Care – Designing and Integrating Smart Technology in Surgery
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has an opening for a postdoctoral scholar on a large, interdisciplinary projected aimed at improving intraoperative margin assessment during cancer surgeries, specifically breast, lung and hepato-pancreatic-biliary (HPB) cancers. In this project, we will design and develop an end-to-end technology solution to meet the needs for reducing positive-margins, reoperation rates, and local recurrence rates in surgical oncology procedures. The technology leverages imaging technologies (OCT, NLOI), AI and robotics. This project is funded through ARPA-H Precision Surgical Intervention program for up to 5 years and is in partnership with the Mayo Clinic. For more information, see:
The post-doc will participate in study development, data collection and analysis as a member of the human factors engineering team with a focus on workflow analysis and redesign, human-computer interaction and human centered design; the post-doc will also be exposed to physical ergonomics expertise with others on the team.
For further information, please contact Abigail Wooldridge (arwool@illinois.edu).
The start date is as soon as possible, and the term is for a minimum of 1 year with ability to renew up to five years.
Dr. Wooldridge will also be attending HFES ASPIRE Annual Meeting and is happy to talk there.
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Abigail R. Wooldridge, PhD
Assistant Professor & ISE Faculty Fellow
Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
209A Transportation Building
104 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Email:
arwool@illinois.eduPhone: 1-217-300-8086
https://hfss.ise.illinois.eduPronouns: she/her/hers
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