Postdoctoral Associate
Hyman, Jaime
Medical School Campus
Full time
68500
Michelle’s Year 1 training will focus on preparing her to contribute at a postdoctoral level through protocol mastery, clinical interpretation, and scholarly productivity, while also gaining the practical trial operations experience necessary for informed leadership. She will complete an investigator-level onboarding to THRIVE procedures and oversight processes, including learning the details of outcome measurement timing, adverse event reporting pathways, and protocol decision-making for complex eligibility or workflow scenarios. She will participate in team discussions of real-world implementation challenges and learn how pragmatic trials maintain fidelity while adapting to clinical realities.
A major component of Michelle’s training will be structured work toward analytic and scientific deliverables. Under mentorship, she will help design a secondary analysis study using THRIVE outcome data that will later support a statistical analysis plan and manuscript development. She will be trained to integrate clinical reasoning with trial design. This process will support her development as an independent clinical researcher and will provide a clear academic product during the training year.
Mentorship for Michelle will be structured to support transition toward an academic physician-investigator role with increasing independence. She will meet regularly with Dr. Hyman for scientific guidance, prioritization of research goals, and mentorship in framing questions that are clinically meaningful and methodologically sound. She will also receive mentorship from Dr. Hyman regarding the operational aspects of pragmatic trial conduct.
As a first-year postdoctoral research associate on the THRIVE trial, Dr. Boakye-Yiadom will receive education designed to leverage her medical training and public health background while developing deeper expertise in clinical research leadership. Her education will emphasize the clinical and scientific rationale for THRIVE, the interpretation of perioperative recovery outcomes, and the importance of pragmatic trial design in generating patient-centered evidence. A core element of her educational plan will be strengthening her understanding of how study procedures connect to clinical workflow, including how eligibility, safety considerations, and protocol implementation interact within perioperative practice.
Given her MPH-level training and clinical foundation, her education will also include structured exposure to trial analysis concepts at a level appropriate for a physician-investigator pathway. Topics will include outcome selection and interpretation, analytic populations, and approaches to missing data. She will also review key background literature relevant to THRIVE’s clinical and patient-centered outcomes framework in preparation for scholarly outputs, including secondary analysis proposal submissions for the THRIVE publications committee.
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