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University of Kansas Medical Center Clinical Informatics Coordinator - Research Administration in Kansas City, Kansas
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Department:
Research Informatics
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Research Informatics
Position Title:
Clinical Informatics Coordinator - Research Administration
Job Family Group:
Professional Staff
Job Description Summary:
Incumbent works as part of a team responsible for development, implementation and maintenance of KUMC\'s Enterprise Resource Planning systems and its related sub-systems.
Job Description:
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Acts as an effective liaison between clinical research customers and biomedical informatics staff and resources.
- Provides consultation and service to clinical and translational researchers regarding the informatics resources at KUMC and nationally.
- Coordinate and provide informatics support to the academic experts who make up other translational research cores and CTSA components.
- Conducts analysis and interpretation of information needs to informatics colleagues and director(s), and provides information on technical capabilities and limitations for clinical research customers.
- Assesses complex situations and seeks collaborative solutions to address short-term needs.
- Facilitate informatics strategic planning by evaluating national translational resources through collaboration with peer institutions.
- Maintain clinical/translational knowledge bases/resources aligned with standard terminologies/ontologies so as to enhance accessibility and interoperability of our resources with national research objectives.
- Develops and maintains content, and elicits feedback for web based clinical/translational research applications and websites.
- Identify relevant resources including databases, evaluation tools and literature that will facilitate the development or access to other translational research cores and CTSA components.
- Designs training programs and materials to augment consultative services. Provides training, constructs evaluative instruments, and conducts evaluations.
- Coordinates with CTSA and department leadership in scheduling training or collaborative sessions with clinical and translational researchers.
- Provides training, constructs evaluative instruments, and conducts evaluations.
- Coordinates with CTSA and department leadership in scheduling training or collaborative sessions with clinical and translational researchers.
- Participates in research projects.
- Develops and presents content at various conferences/ meetings, both on and off site.
- Other duties as assigned by Director of Research IT
Required Qualifications
Education: Must meet one of the following education qualifications.
- A clinical professional bachelor\'s degree such as nursing, laboratory sciences, or pharmacy
- Bachelor\'s degree in biology, biochemistry, or other scientifically related discipline
Work Experience:
- Training in biomedical informatics through advanced degree programs or comparable experiences in knowledge management, clinical decision support, translational informatics, or relevant informatics standards
- Experience in clinical environments; ideally collaborative medical research experience
- Strong communication as evidenced by application materials.
Preferred Qualifications
Education: Master\'s degree in biomedical informatics or master\'s in library sciences and experience at an academic medical center.
Work Experience:
- Two years successful project coordination and technical documentation experience.
- On year experience with relational databases, their design, and use via SQL
- Experience using or assisting in the development and curation of clinical data repositories and warehouses is highly desirable.
- Experience promoting effective teamwork in a rapidly changing multidisciplinary research environment
Skills:
- Knowledge of clinical information systems and applicable terminologies is desirable.
- Knowledge of biomedical informatics, clinical research, and translational resources such as UMLS, i2b2, REDCap, vivoweb, clinical trial systems, and human subjects research processes (IRB).
- Knowledge of clinical trials, ICH/GCP and other federal guidelines in regards to clinical trials, exposure to translational research resources such as i2b2, REDCap, and newer initiatives.
- Knowledge of basic/translational research approaches (genetics, drug discovery, bioinformatics).
The Clinical Informatics Coordinator (CIC) is a full-time position in The Office of the CRIO (OCRIO) and reports to the Director of Research IT. The OCRIO seeks highly motivated individuals with a passion for informatics, scientific discovery, and improving healthcare to serve as a consultant an