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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, in Hershey, PA, is seeking a Research Project Manager. An NIH funded project will welcome an enthusiastic research project manager with to join a collaborative research team working on a clinical trial studying the impact of clinical decision support (CDS) on diabetes care optimization funder by the NIH.

The dual role of this new team member will contribute to program management and the scholarly pursuits of the project aligned with the concepts addressed in the program. Our research program focuses on the implementation and testing of a clinical decision support within Health Informatics. It incorporates health service research, bioinformatics, education research, qualitative and quantitate research, data science, biostatistics, health economics, population health, implementation science among other domains of health system science.

Key contributions of the new team member will include managing study data to support the analysis of primary and secondary outcomes of the study. Our new team member will participate in data interpretation; will lead manuscripts preparation and collaborate on preparation of future funding proposals along with the PI. Attributions also include record and files keeping, agenda setting and reports. The combined scholar and management role will provide an opportunity to excel professionally while contributing to program management operations, interactions with study’s co-investigators and research support members. This position may be remote and/or on-campus work.

Project Description

Funded by a previous NIDDK K23 program and now continuing as an NIDDK R01 sponsored trial, we developed, validated and piloted GlucAlertCDS, which is now in the stage of clinical trial. As a real-time, electronic health records resource, the CDS tool recognizes diabetes optimization opportunities in the context of hospital practice. Our previous intervention demostrated reductions in rates of glucose abnormalities and showed shorter length of hospital stay. Our current R01 project is a clinical trial designed to study clinical, economic and practice performance outcomes of diabetes related to the implementation of GlucAlertCDS within the Penn State Health System. Our multidisciplinary team incorporates members from academic and community hospitals. The impact of our collaborative work derives from evaluating the impact of this innovative approach to help optimize the care of diabetes and glucose abnormalities in the hospital setting and transitions of care.  The overarching goal is identifying potential solutions in clinical practice that can impact the care of patients across a health system, and which can be extrapolated to various health settings. Our study capitalizes on a rich da