Concentric Methods is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join our team in Bethesda, MD in support of the NIH.

Responsibilities:

• Provides screening and recruitment of patients for research protocols.
• Perform screening evaluations of potential research subjects using structured and semi-structured testing methods
• Coordinates scheduling and evaluations of patients within each protocol.
• Work with staff on data collection, entry and analyses of behavioral phenotypic data from a variety of studies, including those in several Branches of the NIMH and other NIH Institutes, including NICHD and NHGRI This will include providing consultation to multidisciplinary research teams regarding study findings for incorporation into research manuscripts and presentation
• Provides clinical support to patients and their families throughout the time they are participating in research protocols.
• Provide verbal and written feedback to participants and their families
• Conducts psychological testing of patients and healthy control subjects.
• Collaborate with staff in the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service and other research teams from NIMH and other
• Institutes on incoming neurodevelopmental and neuropsychological assessments from Clinical Center inpatient studies
• Administers and interprets psychological assessments to probands and family members as part of the research protocol.
• Utilize structured instruments and assessments to perform diagnostic assessments
• Participates in the planning and execution of clinical research.
• Provide specific autism and neurodevelopmental disorder assessment measures; work with very impaired populations that are= assessed for behavioral phenotyping
• Educates research staff regarding the use, strengths and limitation of psychological testing.
• Contribute scientific proposals regarding potential studies and analyses of data as an author to peer-reviewed
• manuscripts regarding study findings
• Conducts psychological testing of patients and healthy controls.
• Provide teaching and training and other presentations to various groups within NIH and to outside community stakeholders regarding conditions being studied and research findings
• Performs as senior clinician responsible for conducting research ratings for inpatients and outpatients.
• Participate in research group meetings and in the decision-making process regarding patient inclusion in the studies, patient and parent diagnosis, and patient and family management throughout participation in the research protocol
• Documents research processes and findings
• Write research summaries and reports of findings related to clinical research
• Develop and maintain complete and accurate research protocol records
• Develop and maintain research protocol records