Sr. Staff Scientist, Clinical Informatics Center

WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals.

Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

JOB SUMMARY
Through our partnership with the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, the department is building state-of-the-art facilities for drug and device testing and fostering collaborative research on brain disease therapy. At the interface of this partnership and the UT Southwestern Clinical Informatics Center is the IMAGINe Lab (Informatics for Multidisciplinary Advancement, Guidance, and Innovation in Neuroscience), which specializes in clinical and research informatics with a mission to advance brain health research and care using biomedical and electronic health record (EHR) data through development, implementation, and evaluation of biomedical informatics applications and methods.

Our lab seeks to identify, harvest, and make pertinent biomedical and health care data and information accessible and usable to support evidence-based clinical decisions, information sharing through transitions of care, and health research through methods including natural language processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI, information extraction, standard ontologies and terminologies, computable phenotyping, and data warehousing.

The IMAGINe Lab connects the O’Donnell Brain Institute, the Neurology Biostatistics and Clinical Informatics Section, and the UT Southwestern Clinical Informatics Center, which is a vibrant, interdisciplinary community of physicians, scientists, students, researchers, and developers whose goal is to leverage the knowledge from research and experience in biomedical informatics, data sciences, social sciences, clinical sciences and other domains for the generation of knowledge and informatics-based products or services to improve quality and safety, the efficiency of patient care, and the health of people in general.

We are seeking a motivated Health Informatics Senior Staff Scientist to lead, supervise, and manage a portfolio of clinical and research informatics projects leveraging EHR and multimodal research data through NLP, LLMs, computable phenotyping, and data management and warehousing, to advance both patient care and discovery across the neurosciences.

This individual would utilize research and analytical skills for scholarly excellence in a research setting. They would be the lead researcher, responsible for overseeing, development, modification, execution and supervising research projects and activities. They would manage the technical, budgetary, and scheduling aspects of scientific research projects. Responsibilities include understanding all facets of the research program; overseeing research trainees and laboratory staff;

gathering information about institutional and state and federal government procedures, regulations, laws, and policies regarding the particular topic of research; ensuring that research activities comply with all institutional and governmental policies and/or regulations; and comply with the highest standards of research ethics.

The Health Informatics Senior Staff Scientist participates in all phases of clinical informatics research projects, from study design to analysis and writing manuscripts for submission to academic journals. They work closely with research participants and with other research team members, including data scientists, database analysts, informaticists, electronic health record analysts, members of collaborating research groups, research coordinators, fellow staff in the Clinical Informatics Center, and study physicians.

BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
Paid Time Off, available day one
Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
Paid Parental Leave Benefit
Wellness programs
Tuition Reimbursement
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

Required

• Education
  PhD or equivalent terminal degree in a relevant discipline

• Experience
  8 years of job-specific experience…