Principal Clinical Sciences Professional

at  University of Colorado

JOB SUMMARY:

The Research Services Principal Clinical Sciences Professional is responsible for managing and analyzing large and complex health data from University of Colorado Health electronic medical record systems, Health Data Compass and other systems as required. The individual will be required to work with new and challenging data requiring advanced data skills using state-of-the-art methodologies, collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure data integrity, compliance with program and sponsor requirements.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in any field.
• Three (3) years clinical research or related experience.
  A combination of education and related technical/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.
  Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in science or health related field.
• Four (4) years of clinical research or related experience.
• Experience with electronic data capture systems (e.g. EMR or EHR and data management systems).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Advanced knowledge and understanding of federal regulations and Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and orally.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees at all levels throughout the institution.
• Outstanding customer service skills.
• Demonstrated commitment and leadership ability to advance diversity and inclusion.
• Knowledge of basic human anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology.
• Ability to interpret and master complex research protocol information.
• Strong scientific or technical writing skills; particularly in the areas of manuscript development, protocol development, and grant writing.
• Ability to multitask and successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to proactively resolve issues.
• Self-directed with the ability to manage workload and priorities.
• Ability to synthesize and apply knowledge from different disciplines.
• Understanding of HIPAA and IRB requirements for epidemiologic and clinical research and programming.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate, manage, advise, and supervise medical students, residents, or fellows.
• Superior technical expertise in harvesting data from electronic medical record and other data sources, defining variables, transforming, and maintaining data for meaningful use.

QUALIFICATIONS

Application Materials Required: Cover Letter, Resume/CV, List of References
Job Category: Research Services
Primary Location: Aurora
Department: U0001 - Anschutz Med Campus or Denver - 20214 - SOM-MED-ONC GENERAL OPERATIONS
Schedule: Full-time
Posting Date: Oct 17, 2024
Unposting Date: Ongoing
Posting Contact Name: Stephanie Fields
Posting Contact Email: stephanie.n.fields@cuanschutz.edu
Position Number: 0082833

• Oversee and supervise clinical research specialists, including managing day-to-day priorities, evaluating, and redistributing workloads, and mentoring staff. Oversee medical students, residents, and fellows, including education on database use, managing priorities, evaluating, and redistributing workloads.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert and authority in the area(s) of data management and quality control including export, data merge, data normalization, and assuring adherence to the data and program requirements.
• Work collaboratively with all members of the hereditary cancer program to ensure data quality and integrity, compliance with new data collection, management, and analytic processes (in collaboration with data analysts), SOPs, guidance documents and work instructions.
• Develop projects for data collection and management utilizing REDCap. Build and modify REDCap instruments (database tables), forms, surveys, and reports. Provide technical support to REDCap end users. Create and modify ad hoc queries and reports for use in data management.
• In collaboration with data analysts export, and merge, and normalize complex datasets from multiple data platforms, including UCHealth Tumor Registry, EPIC medical record, Health Data Compass, and other sources of clinical data. In collaboration, perform review and analysis of data, participate in and oversee activities related to ensuring and clean data set for submission(s) or to fulfill data requests.
• In collaboration with data analysts perform complex analyses to identify potentially problematic data, make corrections, and determine root cause for data problems from input errors or inadequate field edits, and suggest possible solutions.
• In collaboration with data analysts create analytic datasets, including ensuring appropriate levels of de-identification and HIPAA compliant delivery to investigators.