Research Specialist

The ECU Brody School of Medicine is affiliated with ECU Health which is the flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the principal teaching hospital for ECU. We treat more than 120,000 patients per year in a state-of-the-art ED at ECU Health. VMC is a 960+ bed level 1 trauma center and regional stroke center.

In the Department of Emergency Medicine, our mission is to provide and continue to improve the quality of health care services whenever and wherever the patient needs them; to promote scholarly activity regarding emergency health care through education and research; and to maximize the accumulation and utilization of resources to accomplish service and scholarly activities and promote the wellness and satisfaction of department members.

Our tertiary care catchment area includes more than 1.5 million people in eastern North Carolina, many of whom arrive via our integrated mobile critical care and air medical service. Our children's ED opened in July 2012 and the children's hospital opened in June 2013. In September of 2016, we extended our coverage to begin providing professional medical services at The Outer Banks Hospital in Nags Head, North Carolina.

Our current faculty members possess broad interests and expertise leading to extensive state and national-level involvement. The emergency medicine residency is well-established and includes onboarding 12 EM and 2 EM/IM residents each academic year, for a total of 46.

This position is required to continue a successful line of neuroscience research, primarily in the laboratory of Dr. Kori Brewer, Department of Emergency Medicine. This position will be responsible for supervising the daily activity of a multidisciplinary laboratory and conducting independent research on the mechanistic aspects of secondary neuronal death following nervous system insult. This includes investigating neuroprotective strategies for spinal cord injury and therapeutic interventions for deficits resulting from neurotoxin exposure. This position will also support all basic science research efforts of departmental faculty to the extent that time allows.

Bachelor's degree in a discipline related to the area of assignment; or equivalent combination of training and experience. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.

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Research experience in neuroscience with use of general histological techniques preferred.

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If no applicants apply who meet the required competency level and training & experience requirements, then management may consider other applicants. Salary would be determined based on budget, UNC salary administration, and/or candidate qualifications.

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