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

Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and Marshall Health Network seek an innovative leader to develop and integrate clinical, research, and health informatics systems across the School of Medicine and the academic health system. The Assistant Dean will advance 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 consortia. The role provides strategic and technical leadership for HIPAA-compliant clinical research data platforms, cloud infrastructure, clinical data warehouses, and scalable data-sharing capabilities. The Assistant Dean will act as a liaison to faculty, residents, fellows, and students who lead clinical and translational research programs and clinical trials. The position reports academically to the SOM Senior Associate Dean of Informatics and Population Analytics and the Vice Dean of Research, and clinically 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, TriNetX, and other EHR tools and software used in research and clinical trials.
Familiarity with IRB processes, federal regulations, and ethical standards governing human-subjects research and health information privacy, including HIPAA and CRDSA standards.
Familiarity with 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.
Ability to interface with institutional executives, academic investigators, external vendor networks, and compliance officers.
Advanced proficiency with Snowflake organization administration, including data sharing, subaccount governance, and cost monitoring, and with 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 EHR tools and software used in research and clinical trials.
Lead harmonization across OMOP CDM, PCORnet CDM, i2b2, and ACT to facilitate cohort discovery, federated authentication, and multi-site clinical analytics.
Build honest broker systems to govern 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 and build a team to expand 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 to support compliance with HIPAA, CRDSA standards, and other regulated data environments and institutional cloud infrastructure.