Concentric Methods is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join our team in Bethesda, MD in support of the NIH.
Responsibilities:
Provides screening and recruitment of patients for research protocols.
Perform screening evaluations of potential research subjects using structured and semi-structured testing methods
Coordinates scheduling and evaluations of patients within each protocol.
Work with staff on data collection, entry and analyses of behavioral phenotypic data from a variety of studies, including those in several Branches of the NIMH and other NIH Institutes, including NICHD and NHGRI This will include providing consultation to multidisciplinary research teams regarding study findings for incorporation into research manuscripts and presentation
Provides clinical support to patients and their families throughout the time they are participating in research protocols.
Provide verbal and written feedback to participants and their families
Conducts psychological testing of patients and healthy control subjects.
Collaborate with staff in the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service and other research teams from NIMH and other
Institutes on incoming neurodevelopmental and neuropsychological assessments from Clinical Center inpatient studies
Administers and interprets psychological assessments to probands and family members as part of the research protocol.
Utilize structured instruments and assessments to perform diagnostic assessments
Participates in the planning and execution of clinical research.
Provide specific autism and neurodevelopmental disorder assessment measures; work with very impaired populations that are= assessed for behavioral phenotyping
Educates research staff regarding the use, strengths and limitation of psychological testing.
Contribute scientific proposals regarding potential studies and analyses of data as an author to peer-reviewed
manuscripts regarding study findings
Conducts psychological testing of patients and healthy controls.
Provide teaching and training and other presentations to various groups within NIH and to outside community stakeholders regarding conditions being studied and research findings
Performs as senior clinician responsible for conducting research ratings for inpatients and outpatients.
Participate in research group meetings and in the decision-making process regarding patient inclusion in the studies, patient and parent diagnosis, and patient and family management throughout participation in the research protocol
Documents research processes and findings
Write research summaries and reports of findings related to clinical research
Develop and maintain complete and accurate research protocol records
Develop and maintain research protocol records
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