Lead MRI Technologist

General Description

The ASRC MRI Facility seeks a motivated and talented research technician to serve as the Lead MRI Technologist. Primary duties involve promoting a safe enviroment for all and coordinating with other technologists, researchers, and the MRI scanner schedule to ensure all scheduled scans are accommodated.

Additional duties include:

RESEARCH COORDINATION

• Coordinates between scheduling requests from users and MR tech staffing availability
• Add visitors to security list
• Request temporary parking for visitors as needed
• Navigate participants to ASRC and MRI facilities.
• Coordinates scheduling of service maintenance with vendors (e.g. Siemens for MRI)
• Maintain up-to-date scheduling calendar (e.g. notification for when instrument down for repair, for PM, facility closure, or no technologist available)
• Flag MRI safety contraindications prior to scans. Assist in safety verification (e.g. request subjects provide documentation from doctor/dentist regarding implants).

NEW USERS

• Assist with onboarding
• Schedule badge creation
• Set up user accounts on stimulus, behavioral, and mock scanner computers
• Add info to PI list spreadsheet
• Create new Project and User accounts on Flywheel Database

PURCHASING

• Recurrent purchases of consumables for regular operations
• Submit RF payment requests (e.g. teleradiology)
• Reconcile pcard purchases
• Identify new items for purchase as needed

SCRUBS, SHEETS, AND BLANKETS

• Maintain adequate inventory of scrubs, sheets, and blankets for subject use
• Schedule laundry pick up and delivery
• Restock as needed

PATIENT DATABASE

• Backups to XHD and server
• Update spreadsheet of backup data info
• Periodic Deletion
• User specific, custom data pushes

MRI SCANNER OPERATION

• Checklist creation and completion for each study
• Prepare ancillary equipment for scheduled experiments:
  • button boxes
  • physiological (BIOpak and Siemens) devices
  • RF coils
• Post scan
  • Sterilize
  • Vacuum
  • Data backup
  • Upload incidental findings to teleradiologist
• QC
  • Spherical phantom
  • Siemens QA

EEG QC

• Perform EEG QC routinely on 6 EEG head caps
• Update QC log and post in behavioral room in sight of users

RECORD KEEPING

• Safety screening form
• Study checklists
• Purchases
• QC logs

Additional duties as assigned.

Other Duties

Qualifications

ARRT certification for MRI or equivalent.

RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).

RFCUNY stands between CUNY's principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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