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Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX

The Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine has
established a new section for Health Services Research. This
new program will be built upon the extensive expertise in
health services research that already exists within the
Department of Medicine at the Houston Center for Quality of
Care and Utilization Studies, a VA Health Services Research
and Development Field Program.

One of the major areas of interest of this new unit will be
to expand applied research in the field of bioethics.
Currently, we already have a strong investigative team in
this area. This team includes physician health services
researchers and individuals representing the disciplines of
medical sociology, social psychology, psychometrics, and
biomedical ethics. Regarding the field of bioethics our
research team includes the faculty of Baylor College of
Medicine's Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
(Baruch Brody, Ph.D, Director, Laurence McCullough, Ph.D.,
and Hugo T. Engelhardt, MD, Ph.D.).

Currently, we have several funded projects, for example, an
NIH funded study for developing measures of patient autonomy;
a study funded by the American Cancer Society that seeks to
develop a better understanding of the effect race has on
patients' health seeking behaviors and their compliance to
treatment; and a VA funded study designed to examine patient
preferences of end stage prostate cancer patients. To expand
our activities, we are actively searching for MDs who have
received formal training in either ethics or health services
research, in addition to individuals with PhDs in the
disciplines of cognitive psychology, psychometrics, or
sociology - particularly those individuals who have a
demonstrated interest in applied ethics research.

Faculty appointments will be made at the levels of assistant,
associate, and full professor commensurate with experience.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Interested individuals
should forward a letter of application, and a current
curriculum vitae to Nelda P. Wray, MD, MPH, Chief, Section of
Health Services Research, VA Medical Center (152), 2002
Holcombe, Houston, TX 77030. If you have any questions,
please call (713) 794-7716.

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