- Support AIDE Lab Scientists in forecasting and anticipating resource needs, including students and staff.
- Organize and lead recruitment, onboarding, and project training activities for team members, including both staff and students.
- Supervise research team (staff and students) in conducting day-to-day research activities across the project life cycle, including initiation and feasibility assessments, creating study materials (., study protocol, REB application, consent forms, data collection forms), collecting and analyzing research data, reporting results, and study close-out activities.
- Oversee operational and financial aspects of the AIDE Lab under the direction of the AIDE Lab Principal Investigator.
- Manage operations of AIDE Lab projects, including oversight of project milestones and timelines, tracking agreements, and managing study budgets and finances.
- Manage data extraction and anonymization and ethical use of data.
- Support enterprise governance of AI tool deployment and monitoring.
- Liaise with internal collaborators and enabling services (., Research Operations, REB, Research Finance, .
- Liaise and collaborate with non-technical stakeholders, including communicating about complex technical concepts and actional insights with hospital leaders and industry partners.
- Conduct feasibility assessments of proposed projects in collaboration with industry partners to determine viability, including technical, economic, and operational aspects.
- Lead and support knowledge translation activities, including but not limited to preparing reports, peer reviewed publications, conference proceedings, curriculum development, and stakeholder engagement.
- Provide regular updates of research progress and prepare reports as determined in partnership with AIDE Lab Scientists and in alignment with operational reporting requirements.
- Contribute to growing and amplifying the impact of the AIDE Lab, including grant development, strengthening relationships with existing academic and industrial partners, and building and managing new partnerships.
- Other tasks or activities identified by the AIDE Lab Scientists.
- PhD in health informatics, data science, or health services research, OR Master's degree in health informatics, data science, or health services research and 4 years of relevant work experience managing data-related research projects in healthcare. Due to the specialized nature of this role and the required technical knowledge, candidates with relevant work experience who do not meet these criteria are strongly encouraged to apply and will be considered.
- Passionate about using data to improve population health.
- Experience mentoring students and junior research staff.
- Experience coordinating the development of grant and funding applications.
- Experience coordinating submission to ethics applications at multiple sites.
- Knowledge of the full cycle of a data science research projects including NLP and computer vision.
- Demonstrated initiative, independence, and organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills.
- Experience leading knowledge dissemination activities related to research to a broad audience.
- Strong collaboration and relationship management skills to work with and align a diverse, inter-professional team.
- Entrepreneurial, growth mindset is key. Innate desire to take initiative, ability to work independently, and a very strong organizational skills are required.
- Experience managing the entire lifecycle of data science projects, with an emphasis on evaluation.
- Familiarity with health system data types including DICOM, HL7, coded data (DAD/NACRS) and Ontario provincial data assets (ICES, CCO, etc).
- Interest in, and familiarity with, ethics of research and data sharing.
- Experience with human-computer interaction testing, managing industry funded research projects.
- Experience with health data mining projects and the challenges of EMR data extraction, anonymization, ethical use of data and bias
- Evaluation methods for classification, regression, and time to event analyses.
- Cover letter detailing your interest in the role
- CV
- Writing sample
Research Lead, AI Deployment and Evaluation Lab - Mississauga, Canada - Trillium Health Partners
Description
Job Description
Position: Research Lead, AI Deployment and Evaluation Lab
Department: Institute for Better Health
Posting ID :
Status: Permanent Full Time
Role Level: PG11 $ $56.29
Hours of Work/Shifts: M-F | 37.5 hours per week
Site: Mississauga Hospital
Posted: March 25, 2024
Internal Deadline: April 15, 2024
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Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital and the Queensway Health Centre, Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Our Mission: A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community
Our Values: Compassion, Excellence, Courage
Our Goals: Quality, Access, Sustainability
Our Enablers: People, Education, Innovation, Research
Trillium Health Partners and the Institute for Better Health
Trillium Health Partners (THP) is the largest community-based hospital system in Canada. Comprised of Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga Hospital and Queensway Health Centre, Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities. Trillium Health Partners is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto and is an associate member of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network.
As THP's research and innovation engine, the Institute for Better Health (IBH) is a core enabler of THP's mission of a new kind of health care for a healthier community through the application of scientific expertise, innovative thinking and partnerships. Focused on generating cutting-edge science and innovation in health service delivery and population health, IBH leads practical research and innovation that shapes how we engage, design, deliver, and finance health care to solve problems stretching from the bedside to the system. IBH operates within a Learning Health System Model, with specific thematic areas of focus in population health, patient and family engagement, innovative models of care, and implementation and evaluation science.
For more information, visit the IBH website .
The Role
The Institute for Better Health is seeking a Research Lead that will support the AI Deployment and Evaluation Lab (). The AI Deployment and Evaluation Lab is a global leader in bridging the gap between academic and industrial research and real-world deployment of clinical AI tools. The AIDE Lab is a cross-discipline team composed of clinicians, computer scientists, software engineers, informaticists and health system researchers. It focuses on projects related to clinical AI tool deployment (imaging and EMR-based tools such as pneumonia detection and sepsis prediction), third-party AI evaluation, open data set creation, and opportunistic screening. The AIDE Lab collaborates with leading AI centers across north America and has works presented and published in high impact environments.
The Research Lead will facilitate the development and implementation of multiple academic and industry-funded data science deployment and evaluation projects at Trillium Health Partners.
The Research Lead will support scientific activities for the AIDE Lab portfolio, including grant development, study design and execution, and knowledge translation. Additionally, the Research Lead will manage the operational elements of the AIDE Lab portfolio, including coordinating data extraction and management with the IBH and THP data teams; coordinating study logistics and managing timelines; budget creation, tracking, and resource planning; supporting research students and staff in conducting the daily study activities; and organizing the ethics and regulatory requirements of various research studies. In this capacity, the Research Lead will report directly to Dr. Laura Desveaux, Scientific Director, IBH.
This role will work closely with the AIDE Lab Scientists.
This is a unique opportunity to be exposed to AI applied in the clinical setting, support innovative health research and to play a pivotal role in enabling and mobilizing health research within hospital and community settings.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Core Qualifications:
Additional Qualifications that are an asset to the role:
Please submit the following application components in a single file (PDF preferred):
Building an Antiracist and Equitable Team and Why it is Important to Us - A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community
When we set out to build our vision and future, we connected with and heard from our community - patients, families, visitors, physicians, staff and volunteers. Our plan to create a new kind of health care for a healthier community means advancing health across the hospital, the system and the community and is built on an inter-connected system of care organized around patients and leaving no one behind. Recognizing this mission could not be realized without also assessing and investing in our internal practices, culture and processes we are building an organization where everyone at THP feels they belong, their voice matters, and contributes to our collective success. We commit to making systemic fairness a reality for all and are working to ensure that the community we serve is reflected at all levels, and in all professions at THP. Diversity is our strength and we recognize and value teaching and learning we all contribute and benefit from in our environment; our unique lived experiences matter and shape our actions and behaviors. In becoming an antiracist organization, we acknowledge the existence of oppression, racism, bias and complicity, and we have been working steadily to make changes in the way we work to dismantle these barriers. This includes developing and realizing an action plan to advance racial equity and embed anti-racism accountability across IBH, starting with our anti-Black racism priority initiative.
Our Commitment to and Progress Towards Anti-Black Racism
THP and IBH have made a commitment to becoming a safer and more inclusive environment with a dedicated focus on dismantling anti-Black racism and white supremacy at THP. This commitment is in response to the recognition that Black people systemically experience the organization differently than their white and non-Black colleagues. Similarly, Black scientists and research staff experience the research ecosystem differently. Anti-Black racism is the starting point as Black individuals and communities are disproportionately impacted by the harms of systemic racism and white supremacy culture. In this work, we are committed to disrupting and reconstructing the processes, practices, and systems that contribute to anti-Black racism.
THP established its Equity Secretariat Office in 2020, providing education and training on anti-Black racism, and establishing a THP Circle on Anti-Racism and Inclusion. Today, the Equity Secretariat has become the Equity, Anti-Racism and Inclusion Office, with a current staff of four whose specific focus is on dismantling anti-Black racism and white supremacy and advancing other dimensions of inequity within THP. This office supported the completion of an externally-led Anti-Black Racism Climate Review and resulting report, which includes recommendations and actions that are being integrated into THP's operating plan. At IBH, the Anti-Black Racism Allyship Initiative (ABRAI) was established in 2020 to understand the experiences of Black staff within IBH and develop an action plan in partnership with Black staff to address anti-Black racism. The action plan has been translated into operational objectives that support the recruitment, retention, and career development of Black staff. As part of this plan, IBH has established an optional, monthly Black Excellence meeting for Black staff at IBH where the purpose is to provide a safe space where all hold power and attendees can connect, network, and support each other.
Trillium Health Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a healthy, safe and respectful environment for healing, based on our values compassion, excellence and courage. To be Better Together, we commit to fostering a respectful workplace culture that promotes a safe and supportive environment for everyone who provides care, supports caregiving, receives care or visits the hospital.