Assistant Dean for Healthcare Research Informatics - Marshall Health and Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine

Marshall Health•Huntington, WV

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About The Position

The Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and Marshall Health Network jointly seek an innovative leader to develop and integrate clinical, research, and health informatics systems across the medical school and academic health system. The role advances clinical care, research, education, and operations by connecting complex clinical data—including electronic health records and billing data—with scientific research, while enabling secure, compliant access to health information technology for institutional investigators and multi-site research consortiums. The Assistant Dean provides strategic and technical leadership for HIPAA-compliant clinical research data platforms, cloud infrastructure, clinical data warehouses, and scalable data sharing in an academic medical and healthcare research network. The position serves as a liaison to faculty, residents, fellows, and students leading clinical and translational research and clinical trials. On the academic side, the role reports to the SOM Senior Associate Dean of Informatics and Population Analytics and the Vice Dean of Research. On the clinical side, it reports to the MHN Manager of Population Health Analytics and the MHN Director of Application Development and Data Analytics.

Requirements

Master’s degree or PhD in Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, Health Informatics, or a closely related quantitative field.
At least 5 years of experience leading research informatics initiatives in an academic health system, translational research environment, or industry.
Record of scholarly productivity and leadership in clinical research informatics, evidenced by publications, grants, or national roles.
Experience with Cerner/Oracle, REDCap, i2b2, AWS Snowflake, and TriNetX, as well as other EHR tools and software used in research and clinical trials.
Familiarity with institutional review board processes, federal regulations, and ethical standards governing human subjects research and health information privacy, including HIPAA.
Familiarity with Clinical Trial Data Sharing Alliance (CRDSA) standards and enterprise-scale medical terminology mapping, including LOINC, RxNorm, and SNOMED.

Nice To Haves

Deep technical expertise in clinical data warehousing using PCORnet CDM, OMOP CDM, and HL7 FHIR/SMART-on-FHIR.
Prior experience with IDeA-CTR, CTSA programs, or large-scale collaborative research initiatives.
Proven ability to work with institutional executives, academic investigators, external vendor networks such as GPC and Cerner/Epic teams, and compliance officers.
Advanced proficiency with Snowflake organization administration, including data sharing, subaccount governance, and cost monitoring, and AWS cloud architecture.
Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, SQL-based data transformations, Airflow orchestration, and modern data-validation applications such as Streamlit.
Experience constructing secure AI/ML data enclaves and NLP-driven document ontology mapping for EHR text analysis.
Demonstrated success developing, maintaining, and implementing enterprise-wide informatics tools or platforms.
Ability to collaborate with academic, clinical, and operational leaders and faculty from interdisciplinary backgrounds.

Responsibilities

Direct the design, deployment, and optimization of informatics tools for cohort discovery, trial eligibility, recruitment, study management, and research data analytics.
Implement data access and sharing platforms, including REDCap, i2b2, AWS Snowflake, OMOP-based data marts, and other electronic health record tools and software used in research and clinical trials.
Lead data harmonization across health informatics models such as OMOP CDM, PCORnet CDM, i2b2, and ACT to support cohort discovery, federated authentication, and multi-site clinical analytics.
Build honest broker systems to control data requests and access and connect genomics data from Foundation Medicine and other partners with clinical data.
Lead Marshall Health Network's use of Cerner/Oracle for Research, including governance, customization, and user support.
Mentor and train informaticians, software engineers, and database administrators to expand team capabilities.
Collaborate with Marshall Health Network IT, Marshall IT, informatics leads, and clinical faculty to align platform capabilities with grant-funded research priorities and budgets.
Facilitate access to clinical and EHR data for fellows, residents, and medical students conducting research projects.
Direct the architecture and governance of cloud-native research data ecosystems, including AWS and Snowflake, supporting millions of patient records across internal institutions and national research networks.
Develop and govern agile/Scrum processes, deployment pipelines, and project lifecycles to deliver funded-project commitments on time.
Define and enforce security controls for compliance with HIPAA, CRDSA standards, and other regulated data environments and institutional cloud infrastructure.