Professor or Associate Professor Without Tenure & Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO)

Description

The Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME) at the University of Washington (UW) is looking for a full-time faculty at the Professor Without Tenure (Job Code 0111) or Associate Professor Without Tenure (Job Code 0112) levels. The new faculty will serve as Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) and join our current faculty and students in growing both the scholarship and practice/service aspects of our clinical/translational research informatics program. The effort will be distributed across the following areas: ~30% FTE maintaining an independent research program, ~ 60% FTE serving as CRIO for UW Medicine and the Biomedical Informatics Core Director of the UW CTSA and ~10% FTE serving as the Director of the UW Institute for Medical Data Science (established in 2021). This faculty position works closely with eleven other BIME faculty who also engage in scholarship, education in BIME and operation roles within UW Medicine IT Services in areas of clinical informatics, analytics, and clinical/translational research informatics.  Associate Professors and Professors hold indefinite appointments that align with a 12-month service period (July 1-June 30). Faculty with 12-month service periods are paid for 11 months of service over a 12-month period (July-June), meaning the equivalent of one month is available for paid time off.

The faculty’s research and practice activities will build on existing clinical/translational research informatics scholarship and practice in the context of a) our CTSA (the Institute of Translational Health Sciences), b) our clinical computing operations group (UW Medicine Information Technology Services, UWM ITS), c) the Institute for Medical Data Science, d) the ongoing research and educational programs in the BIME department. Systems at UW that support research IT include: an Epic EHR with multiple modules configured for research, the Epic Cosmos database, a locally developed enterprise data warehouse with 30 years of data on over 5M patients, REDCap, Leaf (a locally developed query tool for research data), the Oncore Clinical Trial Management system and a learning management system. Services offered by RIT include research data service, research computing services, training on the tools, configuring Epic for research, and software solutions development.

The CRIO role is responsible for developing, evolving, and overseeing an organization-wide UW Medicine and CTSA research IT strategy. This position exercises substantial discretion, independent judgment, and decision-making authority in applying the responsibilities called for. Responsibilities are to be carried out at a significantly high level of technical expertise; providing authoritative advice and counsel to the Chief Information Officer as well as UW Medicine research leadership; working with the clinical translational researcher and stakeholder community. The CRIO role provides strategic and tactical leadership and oversees the Director of Research IT (RIT) and the members of the UWM ITS RIT team (~50 staff). Research IT supports a dynamic and expanding portfolio, managing 30-40 grants and approximately 100 active projects at any given time. The CRIO role also serves as the Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core for the UW CTSA (ITHS) which is a subset of the core services offered by RIT team. The CRIO role includes oversight of the budget and personnel in the Research IT group and the ITHS BMI Core. The incumbent will report to the Chair of BIME for scholarship and dual report to the UW Medicine Vice Dean for Research and the UW Medicine Chief Information Officer for operational work.

The leadership role in the Institute for Medical Data Sciences (IMDS) will focus on leading the development of a 2nd generation strategic plan for the IMDS including fund raising while maintaining and expanding current IMDS activities. The IMDS role will work with the IMDS sponsors, executive committee and steering committee on development of the strategic. The IMDS is housed in BIME administratively and is a partnership between the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health (Biostatistics and Health Metric Sciences), the College of Engineering (including the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering). The current IMDS activities include a seminar series, a journal club, a regional medical data science symposium, a pilot grant award program as well as forums for cross disciplinary research project development.

University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. The department is seeking multidisciplinary faculty with backgrounds in foundational and/or applied biomedical informatics research who are interested in scholarship, teaching and practice in a highly collaborative academic setting. We are seeking candidates with an un