Clinical Informatics Specialist

The key job responsibilities of the Clinical Data Analyst (CDA) include managing research customer requests for data sets, working with the client to understand data needs, developing clear specifications of requirements, building complex queries, writing Structured Query Language (SQL) code  , and translating those needs into data extract, documentation, and code. This may include the implementation of tools that are applied to clinical information that would allow clients to accomplish their research aims. The CDA. works closely with clinicians across all hospital/healthcare departments to understand and effectively extract data from data management systems. The incumbent will apply sound programming principles and standardized procedures to all requests to ensure reproducibility. The incumbent will support requests from various research domains. The incumbent must provide excellent customer service, troubleshoot system issues, and validate results.

The CDA will build code against UCSF’s APeX or other electronic healthcare systems. This role must demonstrate clear communication with clients and team members. Other responsibilities include validating data, providing output in a clear understandable format and overall maintaining strong customer relationships with clients.

Department Overview 

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Information Technology Academic Research Systems group is chartered to provide data services and infrastructure that support clinical researchers' computing and analytic requirements.  Its services include providing data sets from clinical systems to researchers, the development support and maintenance of UCSFs secured environment (RAE and REDCap).