Opportunities for Employment

The Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center is seeking two data managers to join a team of data managers and biostatisticians supporting the Center’s clinical trials, observational cohort studies, and pilot programs. The data managers will be responsible for deeply understanding PAIR’s study protocols and translating that understanding into the creation of appropriately structured analytic files, queries, data collection tools, data pipelines, and external data requests with data use agreements. The data managers must demonstrate a strong knowledge of research concepts and data structures, ideally in the healthcare setting, and communicate effectively and openly with collaborators, internal and external, about technical requirements and study design considerations. These individuals will also be responsible for planning for data acquisition, preservation, and destruction; establishing data use agreements on behalf of the Center; and maintaining complete documentation.

The successful candidates must have significant data programming experience in R (preferred) and/or Python, and in SQL; experience with MS Access and SAS are also beneficial. Above all, attention to detail and the ability to clearly and concisely convey nuanced technical information to different audiences (project managers, investigators, technical and non-technical external stakeholders, biostatisticians, other data managers) will be essential to this individual’s success in the position.

The Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center is seeking to expand its team of experienced project managers to support a portfolio of pragmatic, randomized, multi-site clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of palliative care interventions for seriously ill hospitalized patients. The mission of the PAIR Center is to generate high-quality evidence to advance healthcare policies and practices that improve the lives of all people affected by serious illness and remove the barriers to health equity that seriously ill patients commonly face.

The first trial seeks to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of generalist and specialist palliative care on patient-centered outcomes and equity of palliative care delivery among seriously ill patients admitted to two large U.S. health systems. The second trial will assess the effectiveness of an automated palliative care needs “trigger” in the electronic health record (EHR) combined with a behavioral intervention for clinicians across nine hospitals within MedStar Health.

The project managers will work closely with the Principal Investigator(s) and external research partners to effectively operationalize these trials. Specifically, the project managers will: monitor study enrollment and protocol adherence; supervise research staff; communicate with data managers and analysts regarding data processing and acquisition efforts; facilitate analysis and reporting on study metrics (data safety, compliance, benchmarks for enrollment, and finances); and contribute to manuscript writing. The project managers will be responsible for ensuring all study protocols are carried out consistently and appropriately across all clinical sites and ensuring that the projects remain within scope, budget, and timeline.

The Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center is seeking a full-time research administrative assistant (RAA) to provide administrative support for 2 of the Center’s faculty members in the Department of Medicine. The mission of the PAIR Center is to generate high-quality evidence to advance healthcare policies and practices with the goals of improving the lives of all people affected by serious illness and removing the barriers to health equity that seriously ill patients often face.