Open Rank Clinical Data Coordinator (Entry – Senior)

Job Summary:

Clinical Data Coordinators perform key roles in gathering clinical data and ensuring high degrees of comprehensiveness, accuracy, and fidelity. They establish and maintain patient databases crucial for successful academic clinical research and basic science pursuits involving patient samples and information. Additionally, they have intimate knowledge of data transfer mechanisms and usage, thus can inform strategies to streamline these processes through computational and artificial intelligence-based approaches.

This Clinical Data Coordinator position is unique in that it is part of a pilot program for a campus-wide initiative to better harness clinical data. The position is funded for one (1) year as a proof-of-principle, with the potential for prolonged extension if successful. The position is funded in collaboration with a bio-tech company (Refined Science) embedded on the University of Colorado campus, with the opportunity to help develop translational tools applicable to both academic and industry data projects. The coordinator will work closely with our clinical trials unit and the clinical data team at Refined Science to further develop skills applicable to all manner of clinical data collection and analysis. If successful at the one (1)-year mark, there is significant opportunity for this data analyst to lead and shape the expansion of data efforts across the school of medicine and improve the collaborative clinical data efforts with Refined Science.

Key Responsibilities:

• Efficient abstraction of pathology, treatment and other clinical data from medical records that is thorough and accurate.

• Utilization of critical thinking skills with a high attention to detail while performing abstraction.

• Identify potential problems affecting the abstraction process for improvement and quality control.

• Perform quality review on work completed by other data abstractors.

• Review data quality dashboards and make corrections.

• Address data quality questions from the multidisciplinary team.

• Work with the multidisciplinary team to support automated abstraction activities.

• Work to develop new procedures for data abstraction involving computational approaches and artificial intelligence.

• Work with clinicians for clarification when needed.

• Assist in the development of data definitions and abstraction procedures.

• Practice a high level of integrity and honesty in maintaining confidentiality.

• Adhere to research regulatory standards.

Work Location:

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO. located at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Why Join Us:

Investigators in the Division of Hematology’s Blood Cancer Program are actively engaged in multiple research activities aimed at improving outcomes for patients with blood cancers and related disorders. These studies are wide-ranging and involve extensive collaboration between laboratory scientists and physicians. Our work is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), and numerous other foundations and industry sources.

Why work for the University?

We have AMAZING benefits and offer exceptional amounts of holiday, vacation, and sick leave! The University of Colorado offers an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical: Multiple plan options

• Dental: Multiple plan options

• Additional Insurance: Disability, Life, Vision

• Retirement 401(a) Plan: Employer contributes 10% of your gross pay

• Paid Time Off: Accruals over the year

• Vacation Days: 22/year (maximum accrual 352 hours)

• Sick Days: 15/year (unlimited maximum accrual)

• Holiday Days: 15/year

• Tuition Benefit: Employees have access to this benefit on all CU campuses

• ECO Pass: Reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service

There are many additional perks & programs with the CU Advantage.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

Entry Level:

• Bachelor’s degree in any field.

Intermediate Level:

• Bachelor’s degree in any field.

• One (1) year clinical research or related experience.

Senior Level:

• Bachelor’s degree in any field.

• Two (2) years clinical research or related experience.

  • A combination of education and related technical/military/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.

Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in science or health related field.

• Three (3) years of clinical research or related experience.

• Experience with electronic data capture systems (e.g. EMR or EHR and data management systems).

• Prior experience in a healthcare or research setting with oncology or blood cancers.

• Prior experience with biostatistics.

• Prior independent programming experience with R, particularly analysis with common healthcare outcome metrics such as kaplan-meier curves, hazard ratios, demographic statistic tables, and others.