Associate Scientific Director - TechQuity Health Lab

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provides superior pediatric care in a setting that offers the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology, research and family-friendly design. As the largest pediatric provider in the region with a 140-year legacy of excellence, kids and their families are at the center of all we do. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is ranked in all 10 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report.

Location

680 Lake Shore Drive

Job Description

  

The Associate Scientific Director, TechQuity Health Lab (THL), serves as the scientific leader of the THL, and is a critical partner to the Lab Principal Investigator in both day to day operations and long term strategic planning and growth for the lab. The Associate Scientific Director will provide scientific and administrative oversight for research lab staff, students, trainees, and collaborators, as well as technical guidance to vendors and IT collaborators. The Associate Scientific Director will share overall lab administration responsibilities with other Associate Director roles in the lab. This individual will make meaningful contributions to manuscript writing, data analysis, grant development, and grant administration. This is a grant-funded, nonfaculty position with guaranteed, 100% support for 4 years; support beyond the first 4 years is contingent on the availability of grant funds.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead and co-author scientific abstracts and manuscripts for publication

• Contribute to writing grant applications and serve as co-investigator of funded grants

• Contribute to writing progress reports for partners and funding agencies

• Contribute to data analysis of THL projects

• Present research at scientific and professional conferences

• Remain aware of advances in informatics research and integrate them appropriately

• Contribute to informatics architecture design and implementation for data, technology, and informatics projects in the THL

• Co-mentoring post-doctoral and pre-doctoral research trainees

• Participate in and lead project and full team meetings

• Participate in and lead THL Symposia and Events

• Participate in Lurie Children’s meetings and committees related to THL research and programs

• Collaborater with other Associate Directors in the lab on administrative responsibilities, including financial oversight of grant budgets, management of THL research staff, including the authority to hire, separate, promote, demote, write and administer performance evaluations.

• Other job functions as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Master’s, MD, PhD, or equivalent doctorate in Medicine, Public Health, Informatics, Data Science, Math, Computer Science, or a related field of health

• Preferred: At least one year of postdoctoral research experience in informatics research

• First-authored and co-authored research publications in informatics research

• Record of high quality scholarly productivity in informatics research

• Experience as a co-investigator or postdoctoral researcher on a health research grant

• Excellence in scientific writing and oral presentation skills

• At least 5 years of experience working on common data models, data standards, interoperability, ontologies, tech stack design, and patient generated health data.

• A long-term interest in a position contributing to the overall mission of the THL

• Ability to work both independently and in collaboration with a team

• Ability to work in transdisciplinary teams across institutions and faculty

• Ability to develop and maintain records of THL-related metrics

• Excellent project management skills required

• Develop and direct project budgets to achieve research and program objectives

• Software, analytic, and programming skills in multiple applications, including R, Python, SQL, SSIS, REDCap, Java, etc.

• Experience with cloud computing is a plus

• Experience with geocoding is a plus

• Experience with machine learning methods is strongly desired

• General familiarity with healthcare IT systems

Education

Master's Degree (Required)

Pay Range

$110,240.00-$181,896.00 Salary

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