Associate Director - Cancer Registry

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center•Houston, TX

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Associate Director of the Cancer Registry provides strategic, operational, financial, and regulatory leadership for MD Anderson Cancer Center’s institutional Cancer Registry Program. The role oversees cancer data collection, validation, analysis, and reporting to support mandatory reporting, accreditation, institutional decision-making, quality improvement, research, and population health initiatives. The position plans staffing and financial resources and ensures complete, accurate, and timely submissions to the Texas Cancer Registry and the National Cancer Database. The Associate Director leads Cancer Registry initiatives across the institution and ensures alignment with institutional systems, including OneConnect, FIRE, and the electronic health record. The role oversees system interfaces and workflows, including MyChart integration to facilitate patient follow-up and improve the completeness and timeliness of follow-up data. It also supports Commission on Cancer accreditation through standards compliance, coordination with multidisciplinary teams, and preparation for accreditation surveys. As the institutional subject matter expert on Cancer Registry standards, data governance, and cancer surveillance, the Associate Director advises clinicians, executives, researchers, and other professionals on data requests and study design. The position represents MD Anderson at professional meetings and conferences, serves as an advisory committee member to the Texas Cancer Registry, and develops relationships with external organizations. This is a fully remote position that may require occasional onsite presence in Houston, Texas; employees who do not live in Houston are responsible for travel costs for onsite requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Business Administration, Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or a related field.
Six years of healthcare or business management experience, including three years of project management experience.
CTR – Certified Tumor Registrar certification upon hire.
Must pass a pre-employment skills test as required and administered by Human Resources.
Must be able to satisfy and maintain requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of critical infrastructure, if applicable to the position.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Informatics, Epidemiology, or a related field.
Completion of the LEADing Self Accelerate and/or LEADing Self Discover programs may substitute for one year of required supervisory or management experience; completion of both may substitute for a maximum of two years.

Responsibilities

Direct strategic planning, financial management, and operational management of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Cancer Registry Program.
Lead the development and implementation of Cancer Registry initiatives throughout the institution.
Plan Registry data needs and staffing to ensure compliance with state and federal mandatory reporting requirements.
Oversee collection, validation, analysis, and reporting of comprehensive oncology data.
Ensure complete, accurate, and timely cancer data reporting to the Texas Cancer Registry and the National Cancer Database.
Provide leadership and oversight for Cancer Registry compliance with applicable Commission on Cancer accreditation standards.
Coordinate and support Commission on Cancer accreditation activities with multidisciplinary teams, including preparation for accreditation surveys.
Ensure Cancer Registry data are available in FIRE and OneConnect in compliance with Commission on Cancer requirements.
Consult with clinicians, executives, researchers, and other professionals on study design and data requests for clinical, financial, demographic, statistical, and institutional information.
Provide expert guidance to users of Cancer Registry data.
Ensure registry reporting data elements are integrated into institutional applications, including the electronic health system, and work with relevant systems to maintain registry requirements.
Oversee development and maintenance of system interfaces and workflows supporting Registry operations, including MyChart integration for patient follow-up.
Represent MD Anderson as a Cancer Registry subject matter expert at local, national, and international meetings, conferences, and symposia.
Serve as an advisory committee member to the Texas Cancer Registry.
Evaluate, develop, and implement relationships with external organizations that benefit MD Anderson in relation to the Cancer Registry.