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BSD MED - Pulmonary - Parker Research Staff
About the Department
The Healthcare Allocation Lab (HCALab) led by Dr. William Parker resides
within the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the
Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. The Department
produces leading innovative research in medical ethics, health economics
and policy, health services, and outcomes research. The HCALab evaluates
and develops fair algorithms for scarce healthcare resource allocation.
Job Summary
The Research Program Manager is a specialized research professional that
is responsible for the direction of a program or a research office. The
Manager works closely with the Principal Investigator (PI) on long-range
plans for research studies. While the PI is primarily responsible for
the overall design and conduct of programs and studies, the Manager
collaborates with the PI and other senior research faculty and personnel
as well as participates as a skilled individual contributor and/or lead
researcher as an expert in specialized areas. The Manager ensures
research projects progress according to plan by overseeing the
coordination of the daily project activities and closely managing other
staff, including coordinators and research assistants. The Manager will
write grants, articles, reports and manuscripts and/or present research
findings at meetings and conferences. By performing these duties, the
Manager works with the PI, department, sponsor, and institution to
provide guidance on the administration of the compliance, financial,
personnel and other related aspects of research studies.
This is a full-time position responsible for the management of 1) the
HCALab\'s R01-funded project to design a fair crisis standards of care
algorithm for allocating life support in a crisis and 2) the Common
Longitudinal ICU data Format (CLIF) consortium. CLIF is a common data
format for privacy-preserving federated critical care research developed
by the CLIF consortium. The consortium is comprised of critical care
clinicians and data scientists from 10 healthsystems who work
collaboratively to execute a wide range of observational critical care
electronic health record (EHR) studies, including Dr. Parker\'s R01
project on crisis standards of care.
Responsibilities
Responsible for direction of a program or research office.
Conduct research in area of team\'s expertise.
Collaborate with other researchers on long-range plans for research
projects.
Oversee development and carry out of research projects.
Ensure research projects progress according to plan.
Investigate, modify, and apply new procedures, techniques, or
applications.
Establish goals and operating procedures, practices, and guidelines.
Plan and manage protocol review process for all research studies which
includes the receipt and coordination of protocols for review, committee
meetings, and research conferences.
Help monitor project budgets.
Participate as skilled individual contributor and/or researcher in
collaboration with research faculty and personnel.
Prepare grant/funding applications.
Manage financial, personnel, planning, compliance and other
administrative aspects of research project(s).
Organize and lead team meetings and gatherings.
Oversee activities related to data collection and analysis.
Coordinate conduct of the study from screening to completion including
recruitment and screening of study participants, obtaining informed
consent/assent, collecting research data, preparing data for analysis,
ensuring protocol adherence, and disseminating findings.
Protect patients and data confidentiality by ensuring security of
research data and personal health information.
Ensure compliance of researchactivities with institutional, state, and
federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives and mandates.
Understand the IRB submission and review process and when and how to
apply for IRB review, including facilitation of study initiation through
meticulous and timely preparation of IRB submissions.
Understand the federal research regulations and identify the federal
research organizations\' role in regulating human research
participation.
Identify and explain the responsibilities of Principal Investigators,
research team members, sponsors, contract research organizations (CROs),
and regulatory authorities related to the conduct of research studies.
Supervise staff and students on research team, including day-to-day work
of the team members on projects.
Support hiring and onboarding of research team members.
Coordinate with Principal Investigator for performance reviews of team
members.
Help develop, carry out, and support formal training for both new and
existing staff within the unit and any affiliates and/or partners.
Monitors federal regulatory agency requirements related to research
training requirements and e
