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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dear
Colleagues,<br>
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I would appreciate it if you could pass this position advertisement along to
anyone that you think might be interested.<br>
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The <i><a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/PKD">Process: Knowledge
and Decisions<span style="font-style: normal;"> (PKD)</span></a></i> lab at the <a href="http://is.haifa.ac.il/">Department of Information Systems</a>, <a href="http://www.haifa.ac.il/index_eng.html">University of Haifa</a>, Israel is
looking for </span></p>
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Post-doc researcher and PhD students </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Working
on Medical Informatics for the EU project <br>
<a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/PKD/MobiGuide.html">MobiGuide</a>:
personalized clinical-guideline based distributed decision-support systems and
body-area networks</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About the Project:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mobiguide
is a large-scale integrated project (IP) in the Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7) of the EU. The project coordinator is <a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/">Prof. Mor Peleg</a> from the <a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/PKD">PKD</a> group, Department of
Information Systems, University of Haifa. The project's duration is 4 years and
is expected to start on October 1<sup>st</sup>, 2011.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Our consortium includes 13 complementary
partners from academia, industry, and healthcare institutions in 5 different
countries. MobiGuide will develop a patient guidance system that integrates
hospital and monitoring data into a Personal Health Record (PHR) accessible by
patients and care providers and provide personalized secure
clinical-guideline-based guidance also outside clinical environments. MobiGuide's
ubiquity will be achieved by having a Decision Support System (DSS) at the back
end, and on the front end by utilizing Body Area Network (BAN) technology and
developing a coordinated light-weight DSS that can operate independently. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">MobiGuide will be validated on
pre-selected clinical domains with intensive vs. sparse monitoring to
demonstrate the generality of the design and assess functionality, feasibility,
and impact.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About the positions</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Post-doc position</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The position is a 24 month appointment
that is potentially renewable up to 48 months based on strong performance.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The post-doc researcher will work
closely with the MobiGuide's team at the University of Haifa, including the PhD
students and software developer, and with the consortium's partners. The
post-doc will lead the research of designing, developing, and evaluating
service-oriented software that would support mapping of declarative clinical guideline
knowledge to data found in a personal health record (PHR) that integrates
different types of data. These data include structured medical data such as
medications, diagnoses, and laboratory test results, bio-signal data collected
from monitoring devices, patient context data, clinical abstractions, and
events generated from the clinical decision-support system.<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span>The mapping will enable the clinical
guideline engine that is at the heart of the decision-support system to query
the patient data while high-level abstractions are used by the formalized
clinical guideline. The work will extend the Knowledge-Data Ontology Mapper (<a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/PKD/KDOM.html">KDOM</a>) by
supporting new mappings, mappings of new data types, generating queries that
operate on potentially different kinds of databases (relational, XML-based
formats), and supporting a service-oriented architecture. Additional tasks
include evaluation of different standards for the PHR.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The applicant must have a PhD degree
in Information Systems or Computer Science and have deep experience in one or
more of the following areas: ontologies, information systems analysis and
design, decision-support systems, medical informatics, programming languages, service-oriented
architecture, databases, software engineering. The candidate should have good
communicative skills in English, both in speaking and in writing; moreover,
candidates are expected to realize research ideas in terms of software. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The work will be done in collaboration
with researchers and developers from the University of Haifa, Israel, ATOS
Origin (Madrid), ZorgGemak BV (The Netherlands), and Ben-Gurion University,
Israel. <br>
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Please send a cover letter, resume, research statement describing past
experience and career goals in the area of medical informatics or software
engineering/system analysis, and three professional references to </span><a href="mailto:morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank">morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il</a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">. Screening of applicants will
begin on June 25, 2011 and continue until the position is filled. Background check
is required.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">PhD positions</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Two positions are available. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One position concerns development of
process-learning algorithms and tools that would be used to study the
variations in execution for chronic care processes and their resulting
outcomes, and propose clinical guideline improvements for specific patient
contexts. These algorithms would extend the work done by researchers from the
University of Haifa on learning process model (<a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/PKD/LPM.html">LPM</a>), which was
developed for the domain of business processes; the extension to the domain of
chronic disease management would need to adapt LPM for processes where there is
no definitive goal at which the process terminates. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The second position concerns
development of an ontology of patient context (including not only clinical
context but also socio-demographic and technological context, and quality of
data) and their effect on clinical decision-making. The research will also develop
and evaluate a methodology for eliciting such information based on clinical
guidelines. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The applicants must have a Masters
degree in Information Systems or Computer Science. Medical or biological
background is preferred. For the first PhD position, the candidate should have
deep experience in machine learning. For the second PhD position, the candidate
should have deep experience in one of the following areas: ontologies, medical
informatics, information systems analysis and design, decision-support systems.
The candidate should have good communicative skills in English, both in
speaking and in writing. Moreover, candidates are expected to realize research
ideas in terms of software. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The work will be done in collaboration
with researchers and developers from the University of Haifa, Israel, and other
partners of the MobiGuide consortium. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Please send a cover letter, resume,
research statement describing past experience in the area of medical
informatics or software engineering/system analysis, and three professional
references to </span><a href="mailto:morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank">morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il</a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">. Screening of applicants will
begin on June 25, 2011 and continue until the position is filled. Background
check is required.</span></p>
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The University of Haifa is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks
diversity among its employees. The salaries of post-doctoral researchers, and
the scholarships of the PhD students at the University of Haifa are regulated
by HU's Research Authority and are in accordance with the expertise assumed by
the position and the cost of living in Israel.</span></p>
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contains all necessary information for a researcher moving to Israel or Europe;
it provides information on entry and visa conditions, taxes and social
security, general information about Israel and job opportunities.</span></p>
<br clear="all">Thanks,<br><br>Mor<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Mor Peleg<br>Assoc. Prof. of Information Systems<br>Head, Department of Information Systems<br>University of Haifa, 31905, Israel<br>Email: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank">morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il</a><br>
URL: <a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/" target="_blank">http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/</a><br>Phone: 972-4-824-9641<br>Fax: 972-4-828-8522 </div><br>
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