Executive Director of Clinical Analytics, Research and Outcomes

Executive Director of Clinical Analytics, Research and Outcomes

College/School/Unit: Dell Medical School

Department: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery

Posted: Aug 31, 2026

Apply By: Open until filled

The Director of Clinical Analytics, Research, and Outcomes willlead a multidisciplinary team that includes clinical research coordinators and quality and outcomes specialists. The Executive Director will oversee these efforts at Dell Children's Medical Center and collaborate across a comprehensive healthcare platform that includes a broad range of services. The Executive Director will partner with clinical faculty to accomplish academic and carequality initiatives. These initiatives will expand researchinitiatives through collaborative engagements across hospitalsections as well as other aligned stakeholders within the University of Texas at Austin and Ascension Texas hospitals.

The primary goal of this position is to build sustainable, rigorousoutcomes and research programs that advance the science and delivery of care for patients with congenital heart disease and their families. This will include establishing high‑quality clinical research, a robust data infrastructure, and a continuous quality measurement platform. The incumbent will be responsible for developing and maintaining data systems to measure key outcomes,leading prospective and retrospective studies, pursuing extramuralfunding, and partnering with clinical and quality teams to translate findings into practice.

This position is a faculty‑level role at the Assistant Professor level or above, with active participation in the education and training of undergraduate, graduate, and medical students;residents; postdoctoral fellows; and other trainees, as well asparticipation in the academic activities of the Departments of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Pediatrics.

• Set and drive the strategic direction for a comprehensiveoutcomes and research program, including clinical research and data infrastructure for congenital heart disease care.
• Recruit and mentor research colleagues in successful grant writing and acquisition and build a high-performing team.
• Oversee the design and conduct of clinical research studies(prospective and retrospective) and clinical registries and databases, ensuring feasibility and alignment with programpriorities.
• Lead the development and implementation of data collection, data management, and analytics processes, including integration of clinical, administrative, and patient‑reported data sources.
• Partner with quality and clinical operations teams to design,implement, and evaluate quality improvement initiatives that are informed by data and research findings.
• Disseminate research and outcomes findings to internal and external audiences through reports, presentations, manuscripts,dashboards, visualizations, and other communication tools.
• Train faculty, staff, and trainees in research methods, data interpretation, and best practices in outcomes and quality research.
• Foster and create collaborations with Dell Medical Schooldepartments, UT Austin partners, and Ascension Texas to advisecomplex and strategic research and quality initiatives.
• Oversee, prioritize, and activate research initiatives that leadto high-impact peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and extramural grant funding. Work with the Sponsored Programs Office on behalf of the researchers.
• Ensure the quality of research work and data, drive research excellence, and maintain research team compliance with relevant regulations and best practices, including human subjectsprotections, data governance, and institutional policies.

• Doctoral degree (MD, PhD, or foreign equivalent).
• Demonstrated…