Research Data Management Specialist - Surgery

Overview

Research Data Management Specialist - Surgery, based with the Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Surgery in Hershey, PA. This position provides data management services for faculty, residents, and medical students, collaborates with IT staff to utilize optimal programs and platforms, and attends weekly meetings to stay updated on advances and upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Administer, design, analyze, implement, and maintain database structures with respect to access methods, access time, device allocation, validation checks, organization, protection and security, and statistical methods.
• Coordinate with Surgery faculty and research staff to resolve data problems.
• Develop and implement administrative, automation, and data integration scripts utilizing various programming languages.
• Ensure database optimization, relational integrity, and integrity of the transaction profile. Optimize physical designs of databases to a given hardware platform; proactively monitor systems for optimum performance and capacity constraints.
• Review existing databases by working closely with individual research laboratories and suggest alternatives. Collaborate with computing and networking staff to revamp the IBD database.
• Test data validation error conditions to identify potential data problems. Oversee the development of comprehensive application testing plans, coordinate the execution, resolution of problems, and documentation of testing with IBD staff on campus.
• Obtain knowledge of database systems and the unique requirements of different services. Provide customer service to research staff related to data management procedures.
• Analyze statistical data, assisting researchers with the summarization of findings and preparation of their final reports for distribution.

Qualifications

Education / Experience Requirements

As stated above under Qualifications.

Additional Information

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