Chief, Scientific Computing Branch

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is recruiting a Chief of the Scientific Computing Branch (SCB) in the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC). LHNCBC was congressionally authorized “for the improvement of communications necessary for health education, research, and practice”

LHNCBC focuses on advancing the use of clinical data for cutting edge biomedical research and development through the effective application of data science, computational sciences, and biomedical informatics in the diagnosis, prevention, and management of diseases and to promote health. LHNCBC is comprised of an Office of the Director and two branches: the Applied Clinical Informatics Branch (ACIB) and the Scientific Computing Branch (SCB).

The SCB Chief is an expert in computational science tasked with:

• Leading, managing, and overseeing the strategic development and deployment of scientific computing resources and efforts in LHNCBC;
• Serving as the senior scientific computing advisor to the LHNCBC Director; and
• Directly performing biomedical product assessment and research related to algorithms, tools, systems, biomedical and clinical datasets, and other scientific computing methods for the use of datasets and development of analytical tools and methods (e.g., artificial intelligence or informatics).

The SCB Chief will lead the design and development of scientific computing tools and next generation enterprise computational infrastructure to enable applied clinical informatics research and development.

Job Summary

The SCB Chief will be appointed to a position in the Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service (SBRBPAS) and will lead a team of approximately 15 federal and contract staff and manage a budget of approximately $5 million. The SCB Chief serves as a leader within LHNCBC and works in coordination with the LHNCBC Office of the Director and Applied Clinical Informatics Branch (ACIB) and key NLM and NIH offices and centers on biomedical product assessment, biomedical informatics, data science, computer science, artificial intelligence, and other relevant scientific disciplines to leverage the power of clinical data to enable and drive LHNCBC applied clinical informatics research and development activities to accelerate scientific discovery and health.

The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience in biomedical product assessment, clinical informatics, computer science, and data science. The candidate must also possess broad scientific knowledge to comprehend LHNCBC applied research and development activities.

In addition to direct involvement in data science research and development, and biomedical product assessment, the SCB Chief is a member of the LHNCBC leadership team. The subject position will also have a crucial role in enhancing the efficiency and efficacy of clinical informatics resource and tool creation and sustainability.

Specifically, the SCB Chief’s duties are as follows:

• Advising the LHNCBC Director, Deputy Director, and leadership team broadly on delivery systems of products, services, processes, and technologies to advance the LHNCBC mission.
• Assessing LHNCBC scientific computational needs and outline and drive analytical tool development and assessment, computational analysis, and data management practices that enable the LHNCBC’s mission and activities.
• Coordinating with LHNCBC staff regarding the strategic, scientific, and technological considerations in applied clinical informatics research and development.
• Outlining priorities for technology and innovation to integrate Al and other computational tools and techniques with LHNCBC applied clinical informatics research and…