Manager Research Project B

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The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn’s distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning.

As an employer Penn has been ranked nationally on many occasions with the most recent award from Forbes who named Penn one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2023.

Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home for work and play.

The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

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Manager Research Project B

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Manager Research Project B

Job Description Summary

The individual’s primary functions will be to manage and lead aspects of pharmacoepidemiologic and reproductive epidemiology studies, including but not limited to: a) understanding and interpreting data arising from observational research studies, managing and cataloging data output/findings, tracking the conduct of statistical analyses described in observational research protocols and accompanying analytic plans, analyzing data, and drafting manuscripts; b) leading biomedical literature (i.e., systematic and scoping) reviews and synthesizing findings;

c) completing institutional review board applications; d) completing data use agreement, data reuse agreement, and business associate agreement applications, and liaising with external groups (e.g., the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) to execute these agreements; e) designing medical record abstraction forms and abstracting clinical data from primary medical records; f) managing conflict of interest reporting and data retention requirements;

g) drafting research plan (e.g., data description, sample size) and technical sections of grant applications (e.g., protection of human subjects, inclusion of women, children, and minorities, research facilities and equipment), study abstracts, and manuscripts; h) drafting study progress reports; and i) generating data from publicly-available health statistics datasets (e.g., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics).

The individual will have secondary functions. These include: a) managing the Center for Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Therapeutics' (CREST’s) summer program in target trial emulation and real-world evidence; and b) support CREST activities, including but not limited to managing its online presence. The latter requires a basic understanding of health communication and social media platforms.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage pharmacoepidemiology and reproductive epidemiology studies including but not limited to understanding and interpreting data arising from observational research studies; managing and cataloging data output/findings; tracking the conduct of statistical analyses described in observational research protocols and accompanying analytic plans; conducting biomedical literature reviews and synthesizing findings; completing institutional review board applications.
• Complete complex data use agreement, data reuse agreement, and business associate agreement applications, and liaise with external groups (e.g., CMS) to revise and execute these agreements.
• Lead systematic and scoping reviews and small-scope analytic studies in support of…