Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center (HMNCC) is a leading medical facility dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment, and research of cancer. Located in Houston, Texas, the center is part of the Houston Methodist Hospital, renowned for its high-quality healthcare services and cutting-edge medical research. Houston Methodist Hospital has been named the Best Hospital in Texas for 13 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report and recognized on the Honor Roll eight times. For more than 100 years, we have provided patients with the highest quality care, the most advanced technology and the best patient experience. That’s the difference between practicing medicine and leading it.
The HMNCC offers a comprehensive range of cancer care services, including advanced diagnostics, personalized treatment plans, surgical interventions, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and access to clinical trials. The center emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together a team of expert oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, and other specialists to develop and deliver the best possible care for each patient.
The center is particularly known for its commitment to innovation and research. It collaborates with leading research institutions to offer patients access to the latest treatments and technologies, often through clinical trials. The center’s research efforts are focused on developing new therapies, improving patient outcomes, and advancing the understanding of various types of cancer.
In addition to its clinical services, Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center provides comprehensive support services to patients and their families. These include counseling, nutritional support, rehabilitation, and survivorship programs, all designed to address the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of those affected by cancer.
The Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center’s reputation is built on its dedication to compassionate care, excellence in clinical practice, and a relentless pursuit of innovation in cancer treatment and research.
A 540,000 square foot building dedicated to research, the research institute houses over 1,500 staff and trainees, 284 principal investigators and has more than 570 ongoing clinical trials.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Effectively work with primary investigators and HMNCC members, with data analysis, study design, data analysis proposals, study form development, grant proposal/protocol development and review.
- Develops new ideas that promote current research. Exercises a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgement in planning, organizing, and guiding extensive scientific research programs and activities of outstanding novelty and/or importance.
- Ensures timely and accurate completion of research projects.
Prepare data sets for analyses, including checking for data anomalies, statistical analyses and provide data summaries including graphical representations, tables, and analysis reports for ongoing studies and study investigator meetings. - Effectively collaborate and communicate with multidisciplinary teams including clinicians, trainees (e.g. residents, fellows), project staff, external collaborators and personnel involved in various projects.
- Prepare summaries of methods and interpretations of results for analysis reports, presentations, study manuscripts, monitoring reports, and grant applications.
- Respond in a timely manner to various analytic requests from study investigators.
- Provide independent consultation for smaller consulting projects as requested.
- May participate in writing grant proposals.
- May develop protocol for the collection and quality of research data
- May coordinate the activity and experimental design between various labs, scientific staff, and collaborators.
- Initiates, interprets, organizes, executes, and coordinates research assignments critical to department’s mission.
Position Qualifications
Ideal applicants will have a Master’s degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, or similar quantitative field required with experience in data analysis, preferably in a healthcare/research setting.
- Excellent general written/verbal communication skills.
- Proficient in R, Python and MATLAB with experience with Image data is a plus.
- Outstanding ability to communicate technical information to both technical and nontechnical audiences; ability to effectively communicate technical concepts both written and verbal.
- Excellent skills in using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, relational databases (userfriendly interfaces) are expected.
- Demonstrated experience in at least one area of expertise, statistical methodology such as longitudinal, survival analysis, or informatics; statistical computing; biomedical informatics, graphical techniques. Strong analytic skills including machine learning type analytic skills, correlated data, longitudinal, survival and multivariate data analysis, etc.
- Strong ability in critical thinking and problem solving.
- Possesses a track record of collaboration on research projects.
Houston Methodist Standard
PATIENT AGE GROUP(S) AND POPULATION(S) SERVED
Refer to departmental “Scope of Service” and “Provision of Care” plans, as applicable, for description of primary age groups and populations served by this job for the respective HM entity.
HOUSTON METHODIST EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS
Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values:
INTEGRITY: We are honest and ethical in all we say and do.
COMPASSION: We embrace the whole person including emotional, ethical, physical, and spiritual needs.
ACCOUNTABILITY: We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions.
RESPECT: We treat every individual as a person of worth, dignity, and value.
EXCELLENCE: We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.
Practices the Caring and Serving Model
Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards
Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET, Managing Up, Key Words)
Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees’ experiential journeys to ensure strong communication, ease of access to information, and a seamless experience.
Involves patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job
Displays cultural humility, diversity, equity and inclusion principles
Actively supports the organization’s vision, fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values
Responsibilities
PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Communicates results of queries in database systems and upgrades regarding electronic protocol management system to coworkers, staff and management.
Completes and works directly with physicians, clinical staff and management on customized data queries and other requests for operational and research needs.
Fosters teamwork approach in all interactions with peers and team members. Anticipates needs of other team members; proactively offering assistance. Provides contributions towards improvement of department scores for turnover/retention/employee engagement.
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Provides troubleshooting logic in relation to technical support.
Provides and/or supervises gathering, entering and auditing of data in database.
Assists with design and implementation of processes to ensure accurate data collection and input.
Performs statistical analysis interpretation by preparing reports (monthly, quarterly and/or as needed) on productivity, quality activities, trends and other clinical or business metrics relevant to the department.
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Conducts routine data processing and implementation of quality control methods.
Develops standard operating procedures. Ensures compliance with all HIPAA/confidentiality regulations.
In conjunction with management, participates in performance improvement program for department.
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Conducts, as appropriate, statistical power and sample size determination, inferential hypothesis testing, data mining and knowledge discovery in databases.
Responsible for all aspects of clinical data analyses for multiple studies.
Programs and develops algorithms for numerical methods and develops workflow and data pipelines as needed for project(s).
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Collaborates with Technology regarding software system proposals, purchases, installations, upgrades, enhancements and modifications.
Identifies and assumes responsibility of own learning needs, consults with team experts and seeks continuing education opportunities to meet those needs. Completes and updates the individual development plan (IDP) on an on-going basis. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Three years in data analysis, preferably in a healthcare/research setting
License/Certification
Apply using the following link:
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Job link: Apply here.
For questions, contact, Dr. Sunil Mathur, Director-Biostatistics, Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center.
Application Deadline: 09/30/2024