[FILLED] Inova Ortho Trauma Research Fellowship 2025-2026 FUNDED

Position: Inova Health is seeking an Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Research Fellow / Research Project Associate. This is a full-time paid position with benefits.

 June 2025-2026 (start date flexible)

 Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA

 Extremely competitive salary with benefits

 Seeking current US medical students interested in an orthopaedic surgery research fellowship to enhance their orthopaedic surgery residency application. 

Highly motivated applicants that work well in a team environment with an interest in orthopaedic surgery as a future career are encouraged to apply.

TEAM

• Collaborate on a team with 2 other clinical research coordinators
• Work directly with Greg Gaski MD, 6 additional surgeon investigators and service line research director PhD
• 5 physician assistants/nurse practitioners
• 6 orthopaedic surgery residents (Georgetown and Walter Reed)
• Undergraduate and medical student volunteers

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist clinical research coordinators with prospective funded studies
  • Data collection and entry
  • Conduct patient interviews, physical exams, follow-up visits, enrollment, and consenting
• Daily participation in team clinical rounds for patient screening
• Assistance with statistical analyses (optional)
• Travel to Orthopaedic Trauma Association annual meeting
• Coordinate financial aspects of clinical trial implementation through study closure
• Provide regulatory, IRB, and budgetary guidance and support to coordinators and investigators 
• Assist with grant writing
• Work directly with the Office of Research at Inova
  • Grants management office, IRB, contracts, billing compliance
• Scientific collaboration with numerous nationally renowned trauma centers and study sponsors 
• Assistance with surgeon-investigator initiated retrospective studies including design and analysis

OPPORTUNITIES

• Contribute to abstracts and manuscripts
  • Typically, we submit 10-12 abstracts annually to the Orthopaedic Trauma Association annual meeting and the Virginia Orthopaedic Society annual meeting
  • Our research infrastructure can support high research output (publications, presentations) depending on student goals and interests
• Research mentorship experience from PhD-level research analysts
• Operating Room observation and clinic shadowing opportunities available
  • 3-5 operating rooms daily
• Attend attending lectures, monthly journal clubs, morbidity conference and other academic offerings (all optional)