Manager Research Project B (Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics)

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Manager Research Project B (Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics)

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Manager Research Project B

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Job Description

The individual’s primary functions will be to manage and lead aspects of pharmacoepidemiologic studies, including but not limited to: a) understanding and interpreting data arising from observational research studies of medical products, managing and cataloging data output/findings, tracking the conduct of statistical analyses described in observational research protocols and accompanying analytic plans, analyzing data, and drafting manuscripts; b) leading biomedical literature (i.e., systematic and scoping) reviews and synthesizing findings; c) completing institutional review board applications; d) completing data use agreement, data reuse agreement, and business associate agreement applications, and liaising with external groups (e.g., the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) to execute these agreements; e) designing medical record abstraction forms and abstracting clinical data from primary medical records; f) managing conflict of interest reporting and data retention requirements; g) drafting research plan (e.g., data description, sample size) and technical sections of grant applications (e.g., protection of human subjects, inclusion of women, children, and minorities, research facilities and equipment), study abstracts, and manuscripts; h) drafting study progress reports; and i) generating data from publicly-available health statistics datasets (e.g., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics).

The individual will have secondary functions. These include: a) managing the Center for Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Therapeutics' (CREST’s) UPenn-Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certificate program in pharmacoepidemiology (including liaising with FDA); and b) support CREST activities, including but not limi