Post-Doctoral Fellowship | Computational Knee/ACL Biomechanics Hospital for Special Surgery | Biomechanics Department | New York City, NY, USA

[Carl Imhauser]

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computational Knee/Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Biomechanics
Hospital for Special Surgery
Biomechanics Department
New York City, NY, USA

Position start date: earliest March 15, 2023
Position duration: minimum 2 years with opportunity for yearly extension thereafter
Degree Requirement: PhD in Biomechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent specialty; (exceptional MS-level applicants to be considered)
Correspondence: To apply: https://jobs-hss.icims.com/jobs/1737...ral-fellow/job
Carl Imhauser, PhD imhauserc@hss.edu

The mission of the Biomechanics Department at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is to enable world-class orthopaedic care through innovative engineering. The current project will directly impact patient care by improving ability to counsel patients on ACL injury risk and to provide clinical recommendations on activities, therapy, and surgery. The technical goal is to continue developing computational workflows and tools to rapidly inform (a) patients about their risk of suffering an ACL injury and (b) surgeons regarding personalized treatment decisions following ACL rupture. The scientific goal is to identify biomechanical factors associated with increased risk of non-contact ACL injury and tear of ACL grafts.

This project is a multidisciplinary, translational research effort conducted in close collaboration with the Sports Medicine Service at HSS. It integrates physics-based computer simulation, robotics, epidemiology, clinical data, and uncertainty analysis. The work is clinical and translational necessitating a fellow with not only technical aptitude but also exceptional communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in diverse teams.

The fellow will be supervised by Carl Imhauser, PhD in the Biomechanics Department and our multidisciplinary team of orthopaedic surgeons, radiologists, bioengineers, clinical epidemiologists, and statisticians. Salary is commensurate with experience.

We are looking for an individual with the following traits:

• Passion for musculoskeletal biomechanics focusing on the knee and the ACL
• Desire to rapidly learn new skills to creatively solve problems in a dynamic and evolving work environment
• Strong organizational skills
• Independently motivated, self-directed, and solution-driven
• Ability to work independently and within a diverse team of clinicians and engineers
• Ability to set goals and adhere to timelines
• Attention to detail in documenting research activities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain complex topics to a multidisciplinary group with diverse expertise

Responsibilities:

• Continue streamlining our computational knee modeling pipeline to rapidly develop and analyze populations of knee models (sample sizes ≥200)
• Work closely with statistical experts implementing uncertainty quantification, calibration, and dimensionality reduction methods
• Synthesize large, diverse sets of biomechanical and clinical data for injury risk modelling and treatment planning
• Maintain software, licensing, and data storage infrastructure
• Provide detailed technical documentation of workflows and findings and unify advancements with those of our larger knee modeling team
• Communicate results of analyses to a diverse group of engineers, surgeons, epidemiologists, statisticians, and therapists through oral presentations at weekly/monthly group meetings
• Disseminate findings at national and international conferences and through publication in peer-reviewed, scientific journals
• Cultivate managerial and leadership skills by training and supervising engineering undergraduate and graduate students, medical students, and orthopaedic residents and fellows, who will participate in research projects

Required qualifications:

• Exceptional computer programming and scripting skills (MATLAB, Python, C, etc.)
• Graduate training in the theory of multibody dynamics, systems, and control
• Experience in clinical and translational biomechanics research
• Exceptional written, spoken, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience in project management and organization
• Demonstrated ability to implement mathematical optimization techniques
• Experience with CAD and reverse engineering software. E.g., SolidWorks, ProEngineer, GEOMAGICS, and DesignX

Desirable qualifications:

• Knowledge of applied optimization and statistical techniques (i.e., machine learning)
• Training in computer science and software architecture
• Graduate course work in statistics including Bayesian methods
• Experience coding statistical software (for example: R)
• Extensive experience (≥3 yrs an asset) using multibody dynamics software including MSC ADAMS and associated scripting languages
• Knowledge of OpenSim COMAK for musculoskeletal modeling and FEA packages, such as ABAQUS and FEBio, with specific experience in contact modeling
• Experience in image processing methods including exposure to commercial packages for 3D reconstruction of medical image data such as MIMICS

To apply, please upload your resume and a cover letter using the HSS job portal at: https://jobs-hss.icims.com/jobs/1737...ral-fellow/job.
In the cover, letter please include a statement of career goals and brief description of why you are well-suited to work on this project.


Carl Imhauser, PhD
imhauserc@hss.edu
Biomechanics Department
Hospital for Special Surgery