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Scientific Investigator- Pediatric Cardiovascular Care
Research
Employee Status: Regular
Hours Per Pay Period: 80
FTE: 1.0
Shift: Days
Shift Length: 8
hours
Weekend Coverage: Not
Applicable
Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Description:
Position Summary
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
is the seventh-largest pediatric health care organization in
the United States. An independent, not-for-profit health care
system, Children’s of Minnesota is the only Minnesota hospital
system to provide comprehensive care exclusively to children. Our
mission is to advance scientific knowledge through research to
improve the health of the community and children that our
hospital serves.
The continued growth of our cardiovascular
program has allowed us to invest in our research
infrastructure. We currently have the opportunity to hire a
PhD Scientific Investigator to join our research team. The
purpose of this position is to specifically advance clinical
research across the sub-specialty services for patients with
cardiac conditions. This individual will join a team of
scientific investigators who are focused on research within
the field of Critical Care Services.
The ideal candidate will have an interest in
research related to pediatric cardiologists and cardiovascular
surgeons with an emphasis on epidemiologic and quality
improvement research. The position will involve identifying
quality of care benchmarks as well as assessing the impact of
quality improvement initiatives. The candidate will benefit
from previous experience working with clinicians and will need
to be comfortable working with multidisciplinary research
teams, utilizing large clinical data-sets and independently
writing manuscripts.
Qualifications:
Minimum
* A doctoral degree in biostatistics, epidemiology, health
services research or a related discipline.
* Ability to lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams
of researchers.
* Thorough knowledge of research design (observational,
comparative effectiveness, pragmatic trials) and advanced
statistical methods.
* Demonstrated skills in providing scientific consultation on
research design and analyses for a wide range of
health-related research projects.
* Demonstrated writing skills and ability to independently
prepare manuscripts suitable for publication in high-impact
journals.
* Working knowledge of health care organizations, policy,
practice, and management.
Preferred additional qualifications:
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4+ years postgraduate experience as a statistician /
consultant in a research setting
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Experience with large national data-sets (i.e.
Vermont-Oxford, PHIS, STS)
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Experience with research proposal preparation, especially
pertaining to methodological design, project
planning/implementation, and data analysis
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Experience with collection of health care administrative
and/or chart data
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Experience with a variety of statistical software packages:
R, SAS, SPSS, Stata
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