Clinical Research Informaticist

About the role

The Clinical Research Informaticist will be embedded in the Department of Medicine’s Section of Cardiology and will be responsible for meeting with faculty and research teams to develop and design functional project specifications for research data requests. The position is 80% funded through Cardiology and 20% through the Center for Research Informatics.

Responsibilities

• Meet with faculty, residents, clinicians, and students to develop and design functional project specifications for data requests from the Clinical Research Data Warehouse (CRDW) and the MDClone application.
• Act as a liaison between clinicians, researchers, and data stewards to streamline data acquisition processes.
• Understand data extractions and identify new data sources for the data warehouses and affiliated data marts, both local and distributed.
• Aid in the preparation of self-service data from various applications.
• Prepare scientific publications, presentations, and grant proposals.
• Oversee the prioritization and portfolio of Cardiology Data Center projects in partnership with the faculty lead and the CRI’s Center Director; includes the planning, design, implementation, and completion of all projects.
• Provide ongoing feedback and support to clients to understand how available data sources align with project needs while working with the team to facilitate an understanding of client’s goals.
• Ensure that activities dependent upon the CRDW and self-service applications adhere to relevant regulations, industry standards, and internal policies.
• Conduct business process analyses, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits analyses.
• Implement functional, system, and program specifications. Assist in revising existing system logic difficulties as necessary, under the direction of more experienced colleagues.
• Perform other related work as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
• Knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a health-related field is preferred.
• 1 year of clinical experience.
• Experience with the clinical research processes.
• 6 month experience with clinical quality improvement processes and project management, cardiology preferred.
• Experience with AHA Get With the Guideline program.
• Experience with AAMCs.
• Experience navigating a matrixed organizational structure.
• Experience translating between clinical and data ontologies.
• Experience facilitating groups with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience investigating data issues and working with a cross-functional team for problem resolution.
• Experience with statistical software such as R, Stata, and SAS.
• Experience with Tableau or other business intelligence tools.
• RN, DNP, MD, or other clinical licensure is preferred.
• Knowledge of healthcare data including ICD-9, ICD-10, and CPT.
• Academic medical center knowledge.
• Medical terminology knowledge.

Skills

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including but not limited to bioinformaticists, software developers, system administrators, and hospital reporting teams.
• High level of problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills, working directly with clients and the team to translate clinical research deliverables into technically viable data extraction needs.
• Ability to understand faculty research requirements and translate them to technologies.
• Ability to develop functional project specifications.
• Ability to elicit cooperation and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to translate technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Critical thinking and multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage multiple projects.
• Time management skills.
• Proficiency in creating technical specifications, business cases, and other development-related documentation.
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and web-based applications.
• Proficiency with AgileMD software.
• Proficiency with REDCap EDC software.
• Ability to manage, interpret, and present data.
• Self-motivated given appropriate direction for goals.
• Must be able to work autonomously in a sometimes ambiguous and changing environment.
• Intellectual curiosity.
• Energized by working through complex problems.