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Location: SEATTLE, WA
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Job Type: Part Time

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               <td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER 3 (50% FTE)<BR><BR><BR>Req #: 88590<BR>Department: SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK<BR>Job Location: Seattle Campus<BR>Posting Date: 09/13/2012 <BR>Closing Info: Open Until Filled <BR>Salary: <BR>Salary and benefits are competitive. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. <BR><BR><BR>The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation?s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoy outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.<BR><BR>Social justice, empowerment, multiculturalism, social change are at the heart of our mission at the UW School of Social Work. We believe that the true test of the quality of a society is in the way it responds to its most vulnerable members. Teaching, research, and community service are not abstract; rather, they are intensely practical, focusing on critical issues that matter to individual lives and to society at large.<BR><BR>As members of the University of Washington School of Social Work, we are committed to promoting social and economic justice for poor and oppressed populations and enhancing the quality of life for all.<BR><BR>The Indigenous Wellness Research Institute - National Center of Excellence (IWRI-NCE) is devoted to improve AIAN health and eliminate health disparities by:<BR><BR>(1) developing an integrated, comprehensive, and centralized trans-disciplinary research infrastructure that builds on the successes of IWRI?s research, training activities, and community capacity building;<BR>(2) cultivating existing and establishing novel partnerships with AIAN tribal communities and other organizations to facilitate truly collaborative research;<BR>(3) developing new and enhancing existing research training activities at IWRI that prepare researchers to conduct scientifically rigorous and culturally grounded health research; and<BR>(4) strengthening and consolidating AIAN engagement, outreach and institutional partnerships.<BR><BR>We have an outstanding opportunity for apart-time (50% FTE) Research Scientist Engineer 3.<BR><BR>American Indians (AIs) living in the Northwest have very high rates of diabetes, obesity, tobacco use, depression, and other risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease. Depression and diabetes have a pernicious effect on CVD risk and susceptibility. This study seeks to build upon the success of the 1-month, 5-session motivational interviewing (MI) CVD prevention component of the h?li?dxw Project (aka Healthy Hearts). We propose to develop a 3-month, 10-session MI-based cognitive-behavioral-adherence (MI-CBT-CVD) treatment program to address underlying depressive symptomatology, activate CVD prevention behaviors, and decrease BMI and CVD risk behaviors among 50 pre-and recently diagnosed diabetic AIs at risk for CV                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             </font></td>
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