What are the responsibilities and job description for the Bioinformatics Scientist position at GAP Solutions, Inc.?
Position Objective: The Bioinformatics Scientist will support the overall operational objectives of the Critical Care Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center within the National Institutes of Health.
Duties And Responsibilities
Duties And Responsibilities
- Participate in the formulation of hypotheses, study design to inform dataset structure and monitoring quality of data collection
- Contribute to project management for projects within the Clinical Epidemiology Section
- Research and review literature to retrieve targeted clinical or scientific information from publicly available resources, such as PubMED, National Library of Medicine, and other government publications eg, the CDC various survey response databases and other resources
- Use electronic medical record data Center Health Facts Database, Hospital discharge datasets maintained by Agency for Healthcare
- Research and Quality AHRQ and Premier as well as registry data for creating analyzable datasets for testing hypotheses related to prevalence and risk factors and outcomes for selected diseases of interest 3
- Perform troubleshooting, interpretation of results and analysis
- Work collaboratively with senior scientists; support other personnel including data managers, computer scientists, biostatisticians and technicians 2
- Conduct data management and analyses for studies related to infectious diseases and/or critical illness of high national priority in the
- Clinical Epidemiology Section, Critical Care Medicine Department, including but not limited to the following diseases and conditions: critical illness, infectious diseases, emerging antibiotics, comparative effectiveness of new and existing therapies using observational design, clinical outcomes research in antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and COVID-19 1
- Records observations and report results at weekly laboratory meetings.
- Interact with epidemiology, laboratory and clinical personnel to coordinate ongoing studies as well as extract and analyze relevant information
- Review assembly and accuracy of missingness in clinical and microbiologic datasets to be used for epidemiologic analysis and assess and adjust for missing data
- Provides research / service goals in the context of the laboratory's overall mission.
- Analyze specified study cohort with relational database management systems DBMS and tweak based on investigator feedback and
- analytical needs
- Utilize knowledge of data structure and various programming language SQL, SAS, R as applied to epidemiology or infectious disease research for the above tasks; present results in tabular and graphical format using appropriate language
- Contribute to manuscript preparation including drafting of methods and analysis and online supplement sections with detail relevant to data curation and assembly as well as epidemiologic design with opportunities to lead the analysis of a study
- Initiates interdisciplinary collaborations with other research centers.
- Collaborates when statistical input is required. Collaboration may involve intramural investigators from other Institutes, and or other federal agencies such as the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration
- Deliver at least one presentation per year to audiences outside the Government.
- Services to also be provided at University of Maryland's Institute of Health Computing (IHC) as needed, per Memorandum of
- Understanding between NIHCC and IHC 4
- Work products and documents related to working collaboratively with senior scientists; participating in the formulation of hypotheses, design of trials, sample size and power determinations; interacting with epidemiology, laboratory, and clinical personnel to coordinate ongoing studies.
Salary : $160,000 - $170,000