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<div style="text-align: center; "><font face="SimSun" size="4"><b>Medical Informatics Fellowships</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="SimSun" size="2">The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication (LHNCBC) at the National Library of Medicine seeks postdoctoral fellows as well as graduate and medical students, who are interested in collaborative research within
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<li>Capture, processing and analysis of clinical data for care and research applications</li><li>Biomedical and document image analysis </li><li>Development of health informatics resources. </li></font>
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<div><font face="SimSun" size="2">Successful applicants are matched with LHNCBC staff and participate directly in ongoing research. LHNCBC’s research activities include basic and applied research in fields such as:</font></div>
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<li>Tools and standards development for electronic medical records</li><li>Natural language processing for understanding medical text and improving information retrieval</li><li>Medical knowledge representation</li><li>Text mining</li><li>Multimedia database design</li><li>Interactive publications</li><li>Machine learning techniques</li><li>Image processing research</li></font>
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<div><font face="SimSun" size="2">LHNCBC has a tradition of advancing health information systems and its world class research staff is involved in activities that define and support the research infrastructure for next generation medical information systems.
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<div><font face="SimSun" size="2">Postdoctoral candidates should have a Ph.D., MD/OD/DDS or equivalent degree in medical informatics, information science, computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, or related disciplines. Candidates should have research
experience in these areas. Medical student rotation programs are available as well as programs for graduate students. Post doctoral fellowships are in residence at LHNCBC in Bethesda, MD for one year with the possibility of renewal. Time in residence is variable
for other awards, including visiting scholars, visiting faculty and graduate student candidates. </font></div>
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<div><font face="SimSun" size="2">Stipends are commensurate with research experience and education. The annual application deadlines are: January 15, March 15 and October 15. However, applications also are considered year round under special circumstances.
For additional information and instructions to submit an application, please see our website: <a href="http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov</u></font></a><font color="#000080">. </font>The HHS and NIH are equal opportunity
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