To develop a program of research through designing specific projects for submission to funding agencies, implementing research and demonstration projects in the investigator's area of specialization, preparing papers reporting research results for presentation to scientific/professional organizations and for publication in the scientific/professional literature, and participating in the overall development of the CHR's research agenda.
Essential Functions:
-Design, develop, and obtain funding for delimited but well defined research, demonstration, and evaluation projects in the investigator's area of particular expertise in order to add to knowledge about health and health care delivery.
-Develop an ongoing program of research through coordinating a series of research proposals and projects into a logical investigation of a particular research question, topic, or area.
-Disseminate research results through presentations and publications in scientific and professional journals, books, etc.
-Provide technical consulting and professional service to KP, and serve on various KP committees and task forces.
-Participate in the ongoing maintenance of the Center through assisting in the development of Center policy, providing technical services and consultation, and by helping to define the CHR's future research agenda.
-Participate in education by helping to train undergraduate, graduate, and post doctoral students pursuing health and health services research careers.
-Provide service to the scientific and professional community through membership on scientific peer review groups and national boards; and consult with local, state, and national voluntary and governmental agencies.
-Use appropriate computer programs to assist in data collection, tracking, ordering laboratory tests or procedures, or communication, such as RRS, Health Connect, study specific programs, CAS, and other computer software as needed.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
-2 3 years' experience as co investigator or principal investigator of research projects.
-2-3 years' research experience during graduate and post-graduate training.
-Doctoral degree (e.g., Ph.D., M.D., or Dr.P.H.) in one of the social sciences, medicine, or health care disciplines.
-Investigators from the academic fields typically hold membership in their respective professional/scientific associations.
-Investigators from health care fields typically hold licenses in their respective professions (e.g., M.D., R.N.) as well as membership in scientific associations.
-Thorough knowledge of quantitative methods (from mathematics and statistics) for dealing with methodological and analytic problems in the investigator's substantive area of expertise, e.g., epidemiology, sociology, economics.
-Working knowledge of health care organization, policy, practice, and management (to facilitate application of research to medical and health care phenomena).
-Working knowledge of a standard statistical software library (e.g., SAS or SPSS) and design of relational databases.
-Research methods and theory in health-research related discipline.
-Potential or successful independent research career as evidenced from written recommendations from at least three nationally recognized experts in the Investigators area of expertise.
-Ability to write and communicate effectively to scientific/technical audiences.
-Ability to work in a computerized work environment, including word processing and data processing.
-Data analysis and interpretation skills.
-Experience in organizing and transmitting the knowledge of their disciplines, such as through teaching at the college or university level as an assistant or associate professor.
-Demonstrated ability to author and co-author publications in national, peer-reviewed scientific journals.
-Experience presenting research findings at national meetings.
-Substantive knowledge in health-related discipline.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience leading a program of research in one of three areas: genetics epidemiology, implementation science, or informatics.
- The successful candidate will have a proven track record securing federal grants in one of these research domains and demonstrated success collaborating with colleagues in a multidisciplinary environment.
- The successful applicant will collaborate with investigators, both at TCHR and externally, as well as clinical and administrative leaders of Kaiser Permanente (KP), to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative programs and interventions to improve and maintain the health of the members of KP and the larger community and improve the administration and delivery of healthcare.
- The successful applicant will be expected to leverage KP's strengths in integrated healthcare delivery and information technology to address a wide range of research questions, such as the use of informatics in the discovery and management of new knowledge relating to health and disease.
- Five or more years' experience pertaining to health related research, theory, and policy.
- Experience working in or with a health maintenance organization.
- Comprehensive knowledge of complex quantitative methods (from mathematics and statistics) for dealing with methodological and analytic problems in the senior investigator's area of expertise.
- Comprehensive knowledge of health care organization, policy, practice, and management (to facilitate application of research to medical and health care phenomena).
- Comprehensive knowledge of specialized theories or a body of knowledge of particular relevance to CHR's research agenda.
- Thorough knowledge of one or more standard statistical software libraries (e.g., SAS, STATA or SPSS) and relational database design.
- Outstanding ability to write and communicate effectively to scientific/technical audiences, as well as lay audiences.
- Excellent administrative skills for dealing with large, complex projects.
Salary range: 106,680 - 150,720
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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