• Job Description

  Req#: 230171

  SHIFT:

  Day (United States of America)

  Seeking Breakthrough Makers
  Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)—named America’s 2022 Best Large Employer by Forbes—offers countless ways to change lives. Our diverse community of more than 20,000 Breakthrough Makers will inspire you to pursue passions, develop expertise, and drive innovation.
  
  At CHOP, your experience is valued; your voice is heard; and your contributions make a difference for patients and families. Join us as we build on our promise to advance pediatric care—and your career.
  
  CHOP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  CHOP is committed to building an inclusive culture where employees feel a sense of belonging, connection, and community within their workplace. We are a team dedicated to fostering an environment that allows for all to be their authentic selves. We are focused on attracting, cultivating, and retaining diverse talent who can help us deliver on our mission to be a world leader in the advancement of healthcare for children.
  
  We strongly encourage all candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.
  
  A Brief Overview

  This position will focus on data analyses using data from the electronic medical record, administrative/billing data in the Pediatric Health Information Systems (PHIS) database, and multi-center chart abstractions to improve outcomes for children with acute leukemia. The electronic medical record data include vital sign, laboratory results, medications, radiology results, and procedure data from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and three other pediatric hospitals. Data from PHIS include standard demographic data and daily resource billing data and chart abstraction data include very extensive treatment and outcome data, including cardiac function data. These data have also been linked to external data sources, including a wide range of geospatial data sources and the Children’s Oncology Group clinical trial data. Currently, ongoing research projects using these data include identifying modifiable drivers of disparities in leukemia outcomes, improving the identification and reporting of adverse events on clinical trials, determining optimal therapeutic strategies for patients with relapsed/refractory AML, and longitudinal analyses of cardiac outcomes.

  • Uses SAS and/or R to import and merge data from various sources/database i.e., REDCap, PHIS, NEDS, HCUP, administrative data, data from medical health records and other health record repositories
  • Transform and merge long and wide data per clinical team member’s request
  • Communicates with team members regarding data complexity, data contents and data availability
  • Programs quality control checks for source data and reporting data issues
  • Understands ICD 9/ICD10 diagnostic and procedure codes to query data from various data sources
  • Interprets project level requirements and develops programming specifications
  • Creates analytic data sets, codebook, data dictionary, statistical analysis tables and figures
  • Validates datasets and all statistical outputs per prescribed gate checks
  • Determines appropriate data variables based on research questions and methods, format data, and identify and resolve data anomalies
  • Actively contributes to development of a statistical analysis plan that includes methods, programming procedures, variable definition, and data handling rules and procedures.
  • Investigates increasingly complex methods for inclusion into projects.
  • Uses SAS and R to analyze and clean data to build models
  • Applies proficient level of statistical programming to clean and interrogate data, view diagnostics elements of data such as underlying distributions and parameters, implement optimal statistical methods, interpret and export key visuals and results.
  • Validates and documents methods such that both more senior statisticians and domain experts may understand and replicate.
  • Investigates optimal methods for validation and documentation.
  • Provides analysis services for grant applications.
  • Contributes to academic output of study teams by writing methods, results, and interpretation for manuscript publication, authoring abstracts, and presenting at professional conferences under the guidance of senior staff/manager.
  • Recommends protocol, workflow, or data management changes based on results.
  • Participates in communication of research methods, implementation, and results to varied audience of clinicians, scientists, analysts, and programmers.
  • Contributes to critical assessment of computational and algorithmic approaches to address assigned biomedical research questions.
  • Tracks project activities for reporting and billing purposes.

  Education Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree Required

  • Master's Degree Preferred

  Experience Qualifications

  • At least three (3) years experience with progressively more complex applied statistics. Required

  • At least three (3) years applied experience in using one or more common statistical language programs Required

  • At least five (5) years of experience with progressively more complex applied statistics Preferred

  • At least five (5) years applied experience in using one or more common statistical language programs Preferred

  Skills and Abilities

  • Proficient in programming and application of common statistical methods in medical and clinical research, such as SAS, STATA, R or another commonly accepted analytical programming language.

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the demonstrated ability to explain technical concepts to a lay audience.

  • Detail-oriented with excellent validation and documentation skills.

  • High level of personal initiative; ability to work independently as well as collaborate in teams and with people from multiple business and scientific areas.

  • Proficient in UNIX and/or Windows OS.

  
  To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, professionals working onsite—at any CHOP location, for any portion of time—must be vaccinated for COVID-19. Learn more.
  
  CHOP also requires employees who work in patient care buildings to receive an annual influenza vaccine. Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.
  
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• About the company

  The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is a children's hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with its primary campus located in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia in the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.

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