RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER 2

Updated: over 1 year ago
Location: Seattle, WASHINGTON
Deadline: Open Until Filled

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

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Family Medicine has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer 2.

This position will execute research efforts in the areas of primary care, behavioral health, informatics, and practice-based research. This position requires strong biostatistics, and oral and written communication skills. The Research Scientist should be adept at collaborating with diverse multidisciplinary research teams. This position will conduct analyses, quantitative methods development, and data analytic work. The Research Scientist should have mastery of data analytic and biostatistical methods, that can be leveraged to interrogate data sources generated in research trials and electronic health systems. The Research Scientist’s direct supervisor will be Dr. Kari Stephens, Research Section Head and Associate Professor in Department of Family Medicine.    

This position will work primarily the following research projects:

1) ITHS Data QUEST Consults: Supporting a centralized repository containing a limited data set from all primary care clinics in the DQ network including: data quality efforts and studies that use use electronic health record data from primary care practices in Washington and Idaho; executing consults that target analytic and biostatistical support for individual researchers seeking collaboration with Data QUEST; supporting development and maintenance of data access tools that support cohort discovery, data visualization, and biostatitical analyses.
2) NIDA PNW CTN: The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded Pacific Northwest Node (PNW) of the Clinical Trials Network (CTN), collaborates with the Data QUEST coordinating center to support annual substance use disorder projects using EHR data to make new discoveries related to substance use and treatment in primary care. These studies examine different dimensions of substance use disorder across our Data QUEST network and UW Primary Care clinics.
3) GIBHS: This study explores opioid prescribing practices in acute hospital and ambulatory care settings for patients experiencing traumatic brain injury (TBI) using electronic health records (EHR), state level prescription monitoring program (PMP) medication fill data, and the Washington State Trauma Registry (WTR) to examine when and how opioids are prescribed following TBI in a community-based population.
4) INSPIRE: The CDC funded INSPIRE project curates a registry of participants nationally, to examine prospectively the long term effects of COVID-19

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identifying and executing appropriate methods and plans for conducting descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of research data, in collaboration with research teams
• Providing analytic team coordination within project teams
• Evaluating and understanding secondary data sources
• Contributing to the development of data extractions
• Assembling, cleaning and managing analytic datasets using conventions established by the Research Section
• Preparing presentations of data analyses for the study team, including quantitative results summaries and data visualizations
• Identifying problems and technical issues that affect project goals and timelines and identifying appropriate solutions in collaboration with the study teams
• Supporting grant development (e.g., conducting power analyses, writing portions of methods plans, summarizing preliminary data)
• Monitoring progress toward accomplishing project goals
• Soliciting input from colleagues as appropriate on analyses and their interpretation
• Contributing to positive collegial relationships in all interactions
• Developing and implementing data quality checks and procedures
• Supporting staff to develop skills to contribute to data analyses
• Presenting or supporting presentation of research findings to internal and external audiences (e.g., academic products that include manuscripts, presentations)
Additional responsibilities could include the following, though will not be the emphasis of this largely analytical position:
• Conducting literature reviews and synthesis of information
• Coordinating and conducting other project activities, such as management of project work, data collection
• Contributing to project design and methods
• Supporting IRB application submissions

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

A bachelor’s degree and 2 year experience in quantitative data analysis or a master’s degree in biostatistics or a relevant health-related field

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Ability to work efficiently and independently
• Excellent English writing skills
• Excellent time management skills
• High degree of proficiency in standard workplace computer programs, such as Microsoft Office, as well as analytic / statistical software (eg, R, SAS).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills needed to work with a multidisciplinary team of faculty investigators, research scientists, and research staff

DESIRED:

• At least two to four years’ experience in the general conduct of health-related research

Application Process:
The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.  These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others.  Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.



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