Dr. Matthew Weed is a totally blind and very brittle type I diabetic three time graduate of Yale (SM’93, Grd’01, Ph.D. (Genetics)’04, with masters’ degrees from Princeton and Harvard; speaker and consultant on improving outcomes and access to healthcare for people with chronic health needs; an innovator in technology and health professions education; advisor to the Federal and state Governments on making their physical and virtual facilities more accessible; and consultant on the development of new health professions schools. He also helps students applying to colleges and health professions schools. His website is at www.drmatthewweed.com.
IN working with him you will learn a great deal about how patients manage disease and disability outside of the clinical setting, how health professions schools are developed, and become well versed in regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act as they impact the clinic and other public venues.
Matthew has succeeded in helping many students get into US colleges and health professions schools; completed a rollerblading marathon; co-created early technology that made books accessible to the blind; traveled around the world—twice; published in the academic literature; and worked at the National Institutes of Health and University of Wisconsin-Madison. His life proves that no matter the seeming obstacles, determination, discipline and creativity along with help from people who choose to get involved in others’ lives, can make anything possible for all of us.
Many of Dr. Weed’s hundreds of former mentees are now leaders in healthcare, research and policy making. His life experiences facilitate his work on initiatives to cost-effectively improve patient outcomes while helping pre health and health professions students learn how patients manage disease and disability in the world outside of the clinical setting.
As Matthew’s activities grow, he needs to find people who can help him with various tasks, many of which are semi-time flexible. All of which can be done remotely. Note: The position is part-time, it should not exceed 5 hours a week.
- Assistance building and running PowerPoint presentations for his rapidly growing speaking practice with talks currently planned for several conferences, schools and government agencies.
- Literature research for the projects he is working on with partner institutions (including several universities and government agencies, and Execudent, Inc).
- Starting pay from $21-23 per hour depending on education and experience. Mentoring from Dr. Weed and contacts to many in his large and rapidly growing science, health, and policy networks may be available,
- if you are willing to sign an independent contractor agreement pay will be adjusted to accommodate this.
- Ability to commit in writing to working with Dr. Weed for at least a year is strongly preferred.
- Being self-disciplined, organized, timely and comfortable engaging with others are big pluses.
- Availability during the noon Eastern hour on at least some days will be a major plus.
- ability to help with website edits in Wix is a long-term plus as are video editing skills.
- Total time should average no more than five hours per week.
Interested? Send cover letter and resume + references to: matthewweedspeaks@gmail.com. In your letter, please say which sets of tasks are best suited to your interests and skills. Dr. Weed can put you in touch with current and former student assistants at Yale if needed.
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