Research Project Manager - Medicine

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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 database that support the main and secondary investigative questions of the program.

Research program manager overarching roles:

• Outline and follow tasks derived from study milestone and provide recommendations that impact the daily direction and operation of the research program.
• Participate in data queries and data management, analysis and interpretation.
• Support work related to the design of scientific inquiry pertaining to primary and secondary endpoints of the study.
• Effectively lead the pursuit of scholarly products and significantly contribute to ongoing publications of the study.
• Participate and contribute to short and long-term planning of activities supporting subsequent grant proposals.
• Identify potential disruptions of milestones achievement and propose corrective actions.
• Consistently and proactively assess project's and self-goal achievements and realign according to program goals.
• Pursue professional self-development.

Regular responsibilities:

• Organize resources, processes and activities, and evaluate progress and efficiency related to study operations including data queries, management, analysis, interpretation and reporting.
• Lead, coordinate, and evaluate milestones of project including scholarly products to completion.
• Interact with team members for collaborative contributions of the project.
• Prepare regular reports of study goals based on standard operating procedures reflecting achievement and/or barriers.
• Coordinate study data queries and data management from study's database, based on predetermined scientific questions in collaboration with the study's PI.
• Lead work and scientific inquiry design supporting primary and secondary endpoints of the project.
• Facilitate study's records and document keeping.
• Participate and contribute to short and long-term planning of activities supporting subsequent grant proposals.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have experience in program management and be interested in becoming skillful on specific projects' tasks.
• Demonstrate competency in oral and written communication.
• Have computer skills or commitment to acquiring skills on graphic design, Word, Excel and other Microsoft office tools, REDCap or other software,
• Have experience designing, coordinating and managing research inquiry.
• Have experience writing and preparing scholarly manuscripts.
• Be or become proficient in IRB and NIH reporting processes.
• Be organized, responsive, attentive to detail, and possess a professional demeanor.
• Be flexible with changing priorities and able to communicate in a diplomatic manner.
• Be goal oriented and able to work independently.
• Possess excellent research integrity and work ethics.

This is a limited-term position funded for one year from date of hire, withpossibility of refunding.

The salary range for this position, including all possible grades is:

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