How to Apply
Dr. Parker and the HCA lab welcome applications from interested students or post-doctoral fellows on a rolling basis. To express interest, please email:
- William F. Parker, MD, PhD — william.parker@bsd.uchicago.edu
- Haley Beck, MA (Lab Manager) — haley.beck@bsd.uchicago.edu
Include your CV, a brief description of your research interests, and any relevant experience.
Post-doctoral fellowship positions
The HCA Lab seeks MD or PhD post-doctoral fellows with training in healthcare data science, health policy, health services research, critical care medicine, transplantation, or medical ethics. Formal training opportunities include:
- The Siegler Clinical Medical Ethics fellowship
- Formal coursework in the Public Health Sciences and throughout the University of Chicago as an at-large graduate student
- T32 project development and grantwriting course
Direct T32 training grant funding is also available for qualified applicants. Fellows will be expected to apply for F or K level awards in the first year of their fellowship. Compensation in the Biological Sciences Division follows the NIH NRSA Stipend scale. Additional information on benefits and being a postdoc in the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division can be found at bsdpostdoc.uchicago.edu.
CLIF post-doctoral fellowship
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on carrying out data science research studies for the Common Longitudinal ICU data Format (CLIF) consortium. CLIF is a common data format for privacy-preserving federated critical care research developed by the CLIF consortium. The consortium is comprised of critical care clinicians and data scientists from 12 health systems who work collaboratively to execute a wide range of observational critical care electronic health record (EHR) studies, including Dr. William F. Parker’s R01 projects on crisis standards of care and organ allocation. However, CLIF post-doctoral fellows will be free to pursue any high impact question they are interested in using CLIF.
Organ allocation post-doctoral fellowship
The HCA lab is seeking post-doctoral fellows with a specific focus on designing and evaluating organ allocation policy. Applicants from broad backgrounds (e.g. clinical transplantation fellows, health services research PhDs) are encouraged to apply. Data sources will include national transplant registries (SRTR and OPTN data) as well as emerging real-world EHR data sources.
Undergraduate or Medical Student Research Rotation
We welcome undergraduate and medical students seeking experience in biostatistical research, particularly regarding organ allocation and healthcare resource distribution. Students in the lab conduct analysis of patient health data, create data visualizations, and co-author conference presentations and manuscripts.
What You’ll Do
- Analyze large-scale patient health datasets using R or similar tools
- Create data visualizations for research findings
- Co-author and potentially first-author conference presentations and manuscripts
- Contribute to ongoing research in organ allocation, crisis standards of care, or scarce therapeutics
Requirements
- Basic statistics knowledge preferred
- Experience with data analysis software (R or similar) preferred
- Minimum 3-month commitment, ideally longer
Why Join
The lab has a strong track record of publishing work first-authored by medical students and preparing them for competitive residency programs. Successful participants develop advanced biostatistics skills, gain experience with real-world transplant and critical care datasets, and strengthen their academic portfolios. Undergraduates gain valuable experience in data science and have opportunities to contribute in co-author roles to manuscripts.