Psychology Assistant - Bilingual Malayalam

• Enroll and administer informed consents
• Develop population lists for recruitment, conduct telephone recruitments and follow-up interviews, and do study mailings.
• Conduct patient interviews, cognitive tests, mobility assessments, quantitative gait measurements, and backup quality control of all activities
• Conduct bimonthly follow-up interview with participants
• Maintain computer databases of study data
• Enter data into paper and computerized forms, review forms for completeness and accuracy
• Perform other related duties, such as studies, surveys or assessments as requested by investigator

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Coursework in Psychology preferred

Skills and Comptencies

• Fluent in Malayalam
• Excellent organizational, oral, written and analytical communications skills; strong database management and clear understanding of clinical and research databases
• Outstanding interpersonal skills required
• Strong telephone interviewing skills
• Strong project management skills are highly preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Windows
• Proficiency in statistical software preferred.

The Psychology Assistant will work in the Human Clinical Phenotyping Core at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The Human Clinical Phenotyping Core aims to make a big difference in the ability of the Einstein research community to engage in research on developmental disorders, not only for those that work with humans using neurophysiology, neuroimaging, but also for the genetics groups for whom characterization of their samples is so important. Our main goal is to advance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of various developmental disorders such as autism in order to improve the care of children with autism and related disorder.