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Reporting to Manager, Community and Conditioning Programs, the incumbent is accountable for adhering to the professional standards of the Fédération des kinésiologues du Québec (FKQ) and for the coordination and delivery of research, hands-on training, and community activities within the Conditioning Floor area.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate and deliver research, community, and training activities taking place within the Conditioning Floor area.
  
• Supervise, coordinate, schedule, and report on the activities of the internship students from the Kinesiology & Clinical Exercise Physiology (KCEP) program. Provide reinforcement, support, and guidance to the interns conducting fitness assessments and overseeing exercise programs for clients within the Conditioning Floor area.
  
• Verify and review the information that is gathered on medical history and current conditions in order to ‘risk stratify’ clients and participants to develop customized fitness assessments and exercise training programs. Perform cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPETs) on clients and research participants from diverse populations and record, analyze, and report the results for interpretation and/or for the development of exercise programs.
  
• Ensure the valid use and operation of all equipment within the Conditioning Floor area in compliance with external regulatory requirements, University Health and Safety policies, and School SOPs.
• Document and report on maintenance needs of equipment and inventory within the Conditioning Floor area.
• Conduct Conditioning Floor area orientation for all users, including clients, research participants, internship students, researchers, visitors and casual staff.
  
• Ensure safety of all users (clients, research participants, students, researchers, visitors, and staff) while in the Conditioning Floor area.
• Deliver approved research protocols and community programs.
  
• Assist in the development and implementation of School SOP’s for the Conditioning Floor area.
• Perform other duties in support of the unit.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a discipline related to Kinesiology, Clinical Exercise Physiology, or a related field and two to four years of experience in exercise testing, fitness appraisals, and exercise program development and delivery.
• Certified member of the Fédération des kinésiologues du Québec (FKQ).
• Certified, or in the process of becoming, Clinical Exercise Physiologist with the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP-CEP).
• Strong background knowledge and practical skills in clinical exercise physiology.
• Experience in community and specialized exercise programs.
• Experience with state-of-the-art modalities, software and equipment in a Conditioning Floor environment; including equipment used for cardiorespiratory fitness assessment (metabolic cart, ECG, blood pressure monitoring, etc.).
• Basic knowledge of Word and Excel.
• Good knowledge (Level 4) of spoken and written English and French in order to communicate effectively with internal and external clients.
• Strong personal initiative, leadership skills and team work capabilities.
• Experience in matters of scheduling.
• Strong planning, organizing, decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Aptitude to work in a service-oriented environment.
• Previous experience in supervising internship students, an asset.
• Experience in a University research environment, an asset.
  

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Positions available in the Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab - Montreal Canada
McGill University / Concordia University

After receiving funding for a research project entitled “How is neurovascular coupling impacted by the occurrence of epileptic activity during sleep: a whole night personalized EEG/fNIRS investigation”, we are happy to announce several positions available in my laboratory, the Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, affiliated to Concordia University (Concordia School of Health, Physics) and McGill University (Montreal Neurological Institute – epilepsy group, Biomedical Engineering). We are proposing a multimodal study, involving EEG/MEG, simultaneous EEG/fMRI and whole night EEG/fNIRS recordings to study sleep in healthy controls and interactions between sleep and epileptic activity in patients.

Research associate position:

We are looking for a research associate holding a PhD in biomedical engineering/neuroimaging/neurosciences with expertise in programming and software management, as well as excellent skills in organization and team working. The candidate will be more specifically in charge of multimodal data acquisition (sensors installation, whole night recordings), database management and data analysis.

MD postdoc position:

We are looking for a clinical postdoc. The fellow will be mainly based at McGill University (Montreal Neurological Institute), will join a multidisciplinary team and have the opportunity to get involved in projects involving multimodal data acquisitions and advanced analyses (EEG/MEG, high density EEG, whole night EEG/fNIRS) for applications in epilepsy presurgical mapping and sleep studies. We are looking for a postdoctoral fellowship, a MD candidate (neurologist) with previous training in epileptology and electrophysiology (EEG /intracranial EEG). Expertise in sleep characterization and diagnosis using polysomnography would be an asset. The candidate should be fluent in English (and if possible French) due to the patient population studied. Applicants must have their degree in neurology to be considered as postdoctoral fellow by the University and are required to have demonstrated clinical expertise in epileptology and electrophysiology.

PhD student positions:

We are looking for two PhD candidates to join our multimodal projects, involving EEG/MEG source imaging and advanced analysis and reconstructions of fNIRS data, in sleep and epilepsy. The ideal candidates should have MSc in biomedical, electrical and computer engineering or neurosciences, with good programming skills (Matlab, Python) and expertise in neuroimaging.

For all positions we are looking for applicants who have excellent organizational skills, an aptitude for teamwork, and good writing skills. A productive publication records as well as experience in the use EEG/MEG softwares or fNIRS softwares will constitute an asset.

For more information about our current research programs, please visit the lab website:
https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/physics/research/grova-research-group.html

The positions are available now. Review of applications will begin as they are received and will continue until the positions have been filled. If interested please send your CV, a brief research statement indicating clearly for which position you are applying and two references letters to christophe.grova@concordia.ca.

Cordially,

Dr. Christophe Grova, Ph.D,
Professor, Dpt of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Concordia School of Health
Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Engineering,
Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Montreal Neurological Institute – epilepsy group
christophe.grova@concordia.ca