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RESEARCH PROGRAM LEADER - DUKE PA RESEARCH GROUP

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Duke University
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FMCH - Research and Education

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School of Medicine:

Established in 1930, Duke University School of Medicine is the youngest of the nation’s top medical schools. Ranked tenth among its peers, the School takes pride in being an inclusive community of outstanding learners, investigators, clinicians, and staff where traditional barriers are low, interdisciplinary collaboration is embraced, and great ideas accelerate translation of fundamental scientific discoveries to improve humanhealth locally and around the globe.

Comprised of 2,400 faculty physicians and researchers, the Duke University School of Medicine along with the Duke University School of Nursing and Duke University Health System create Duke Health. Duke Health is a world-class health care network. Founded in 1998 to provide efficient, responsive care, the health system offers a full network of health services and encompasses Duke University Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke Primary Care, Private Diagnostic Clinic, Duke Home and Hospice, Duke Health and Wellness, and multiple affiliations.

The Department of Family Medicine & Community Health is a diverse, robust, interdisciplinary academic department with programs focused on education and training, patient care, community health, and research and scholarship. The department is home to the Number 1-ranked Physician Assistant Program. The department’s mission is to serve our patients, learners, communities, and each other in pursuit of better health for all. In all that we do, remembering that people and communities come first helps us put things in perspective.

The Duke PA Research Group was established to advance scholarship on the PA profession. The Group’s research focuses on physician assistants and nurse practitioners and how these professionals impact patient, team, and system outcomes.

Occupational Summary
This position will support the Physician Assistant Research Group. The multidisciplinary research program includes projects utilizing national datasets, claims data analysis, survey development and administration, qualitative approaches (e.g. interviews) and intervention planning, and testing. The successful candidate will assist and support all aspects of research and will interact with colleagues from the Department of Community and Family Medicine and other research groups internal and external to Duke University.

Work Performed
Portfolio Responsibilities( 60% of Effort):

Assist the Physician Assistant Research Group leadership in managing complex research portfolios. This includes developing strategies to improve or maintain the effectiveness of the research program and helping individual study teams work through solutions. Additionally, this includes developing, negotiating, and overseeing budgets; allocating and forecasting resources; overseeing, supervising, or managing staff who manage the day-to-day operations.

Establish and maintains internal (Duke) and external communications to ensure successful research partnerships. Suggests hypotheses, research strategies, research partnerships, and research opportunities. Frequently represents the study teams, research program, and/or shared resource on behalf of the Physician Assistant Research Group.

Other responsibilities (40% Effort)
Operations: For complex scenarios, recognizes when agreements are necessary within the research program. Facilitates the process by coordinating with study teams and appropriate Duke offices. Provides oversight, training, and expertise to multiple study teams and/or research program regarding participant level documentation for all studies, including those that are complex in nature (e.g., procedural and interventional studies).

Regulatory/Ethics: Serves as an expert resource to multiple study teams and/or research program regarding regulatory and institutional policies and processes. Independently completes and/or provides oversight and training on preparation and submission of documents needed for regulatory and safety reporting to the institutional review board (IRB), sponsors, and other agencies.

Data: Quantitative research: Conduct statistical analysis in SAS, STATA, or similar software, database management in REDCap, import and clean data, and ensure data integrity. Qualitative research: Assist with planning, conducting, and analyzing focus groups; and analyzing other sources of qualitative data including survey responses and online content. Survey research: Develop and manage online survey instruments, administer online and mail-based surveys, and assist with the development of survey content.

Science: Independently develops funding proposals and grants, including leading the drafting of research aims, background, methods, etc. Independently reviews articles, synthesizes the literature, and uses to independently develop manuscripts or grant proposals. Assist with manuscript preparation and submission to academic journals, including article writing, conducting literature reviews, and creating graphics and tables for presenting research findings.

Study and Site Management: Oversees the use of systems and system reports to manage research participants' activities and tracking/marking financial milestones. Oversees implementation of operational plans across multiple research studies and/or research program. Works with the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) or departmental leadership to ensure that studies are closed according to best practices and guidelines.
Leadership: Keeps current with research updates and advances in the scientific area, considers the impact on the broad research portfolio, and oversees necessary implementation. Serves in a leadership capacity with internal and external groups (e.g., speaks at events, leads institutional initiatives or committees).

Minimum Qualifications
Education

Completion of a Bachelor's degree

Experience
Work requires a minimum of four years of research experience (e.g., experience. research, clinical, interaction with study population, program coordination). A Master's degree may substitute for two years of related

Department preferred qualifications.
Education:

Master's degree, preferably in health professions, social sciences, public health, or similar curricula.

Experience:
3 years of experience creating, cleaning and analyzing large datasets (preferably healthcare, education, and policy-related) OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE and independence
3 years of experience with administration of research projects/project management OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE and independence
3 years of experience using a variety of analytical software including SAS and STATA OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE and independence

Desired skills:
Can easily use many analytic software including SAS and STATA. Can easily use qualitative software. Strong ability to work independently and problem solve. Ability to utilize interpersonal and communication skills to get work done effectively. Knowledgeable in the regulatory landscape, especially as it relates to sensitive data.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Organization

Read our Diversity Profile History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

 “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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