Clinical Research Fellow

Digital Health 

Location: Health Impact Lab, White City Innovation District, Imperial College London, 86 Wood Ln, London W12 0BZ

Job Summary 

This Health Impact Fellowship (clinical research fellow) post is hosted by the newly formed Health Impact Lab (Hi Lab), founded in response to the urgent need for health and life sciences ecosystems to progress beyond efficacy and effectiveness research into implementation science. Hi Lab builds on a five-year team track record for bringing technology-powered clinical pathways into direct clinical care – fully realising the potential of “innovation” by implementing, studying, and optimising of the contextual factors that underpin maximal impact. 

Hi Lab operates a clinical-pathway-first philosophy, taking an approach to implementing MedTech and digital health technologies (DHTs) only where a potential pentad of impact – clinical, health economic, patient-centric, workforce, and sustainability – is sufficiently compelling and understood. Led by practising clinicians who are also academics, Hi Lab’s portfolio of work is now broadening beyond cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic health, applying a focused “go-to-care” methodology to some of the health system’s biggest problems. 

This post brings an exciting opportunity to lead, with support, the day-to-day execution of a vanguard Hi Lab programme: TRICORDER-PLUS. This is the UK’s first study applying a point-of-care artificial intelligence technology for triple cardiovascular disease to high-risk primary care cohorts across several UK geographies. TRICORDER-PLUS is designed as a precursor study to underpin a national screening programme. This work is principally funded by the British Heart Foundation and delivered by Hi Lab in close and unprecedented collaboration with NHS Integrated Care Systems, the National Screening Committee, industry collaborators, and the Pumping Marvellous patient charity.

Duties and responsibilities 

• Planning, implementation, and evaluation of TRICORDER-PLUS, in addition to immersing themselves in Hi Lab’s wider portfolio.
• Collaboration with other Hi Lab team members and a diverse set of stakeholders across clinical/NHS, governance/regulatory, industry collaborator(s), and patient organisations. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to.
• Study governance; setting up research protocol, securing Health Research Authority approval (ethics approval); data protection office approvals. 
• Site initiation visits (travel); training primary care teams in the use of digital stethoscope technology and use of AI-guided clinical pathway execution. Hi Lab operates out of Imperial’s White City Innovation District, where the appointed fellow will be based, but TRICORDER-PLUS encompasses NHS Integrated Care Systems in the North Thames geography and South West England. 

There will be scope for incorporating the implementation of technology-emabled pathway(s) in the Fellow’s preferred sub-speciality to underpin registering with Imperial for a MD(Res)/PhD degree, or post-doctoral research.

Clinical Responsibilities 

The post holder will hold an honorary clinical contract with the appropriate NHS Trust(s) and will flexibly be expected to take clinical responsibilities appropriate to their level of experience and expertise. 

Essential requirements

• Medical qualification with registration at the General Medical Council  

Please see the Job Description for full list of Duties & Responsibilities and Essential & Desirable requirements. 

Further Information

This role is fulltime, fixed term based at White City Campus.

Interested candidates may contact Professor Nicholas S Peters n.peters@imperial.ac.uk.  

Please complete an online application to be considered.

As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, at the appropriate level, will be required for the successful candidate.

Closing date: 03/06/2024

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