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Title: Research Assistant for the Patient Reported Outcomes Centre of Excellence
Employer: Pfizer
Description: Primary Care Business Unit, Pfizer, Sandwich, UK

Pfizer wishes to offer advanced post-graduate psychology students an opportunity for a 12 month placement in its Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) Centre of Excellence based at its R&D headquarters in Sandwich, Kent, UK.

Pfizer’s PRO Centre of Excellence, Primary Care Business Unit examines the value of our medicines from the patient perspective by providing strategic oversight for the development and validation of PROs, implementation of relevant PROs in clinical trials and dissemination of resulting PRO data.

This position provides a unique research and education experience for someone who might be interested in applying their health psychology training in the pharmaceutical industry. It is expected that the research assistant will work under supervision on discrete projects, which allows them to take ownership of this work. They will have opportunities to interact with colleagues within Clinical, Statistics, Health Economics/Outcomes Research, Marketing and other relevant internal groups. There could also be opportunities for contacts with External Vendors and Experts.

Requirements
  • Completed an Advanced Degree (Masters) in Health Psychology.

  • Good oral and written English communication skills.

  • Good interpersonal skills

  • Ability to synthesize and present complex information

  • Good IT skills: Office for Windows, including Excel. The knowledge of a statistical software such as SPSS and qualitative software (Atlas.TI) would be an advantage.


  • Conditions

    Remuneration £25-30,000

    Proposed topics for 2009 Placement

    It is possible that the content of the work placement might change on the basis of future research priorities. Currently it is envisage that the candidate will work on a number of research areas. The specific tasks to be performed during the placement will be agreed upon between the Student and the Supervisor:
  • Set up of data-base, devise statistical analyses plan for study in interstitial cystitis, analyse data and report writing

  • Qualitative Analyses of patient interviews of COPD with Atlas.TI – report writing and dissemination in peer-reviewed journals

  • Systematic reviews of the literature


  • For any queries, the Point of Contact from PRO Centre of Excellence is :

    Dr Katja Rüdell, katja.rudell@pfizer.com.

    Working Hours: Full-time
    Salary: £25-£30,000
    Location: South East
    Closing Date: 11/Aug/2010
    Address Details
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    Further Details
    Contact Name: Dr Katja Rudell
    Contact Email Address: katja.rudell@pfizer.com
     

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