The Department of Population Health Sciences (PHS) at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in New York City invites applications for the position of senior faculty member (Associate Professor or Professor) to lead collaborative research leveraging real-world data (RWD). The faculty member will work closely with Rainu Kaushal, Senior Associate Dean of Health Data Science and Department Chair of PHS, and Fei Wang, Associate Dean of AI and Data Science and Division Chief of Health Informatics and AI under PHS, and play a leadership role in the design and execution of translational, clinical, and health services research with RWD, build collaborations, and bring in external funding.
PHS houses multiple high-quality large RWD sources, including but not limited to:
- INSIGHT Clinical Research Network (CRN) - a unique collaboration of eight academic medical centers across the greater New York City area, as well as Houston, Texas. Funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), INSIGHT is part of the national Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet®) and serves a one of the nation’s largest urban CRNs. INSIGHT houses administrative and clinical electronic health record (EHR) data representing more than 23 million patient records.
- PCORnet-RECOVER EHR - a collaboration among PCORnet CRNs, including INSIGHT, that represents 41 institutions across the nation and is funded as part of the NIH Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative.
- Inovalon - a national, multi-payer claims database that includes ~226 million unique individuals across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial plans, with data sourced directly from more than 160 payers.
PHS has also established the new WCM Data Coordination Center , where we will host data from large amounts of clinical trials and make innovations. In addition, we have access to the state-of-the-art computing environments at WCM and Cornell University, such as the Scientific Computing Unit (SCU), where data is served to users via a Mellanox HDR InfiniBand network infrastructure with uplinks at 200 GBs. Its analytical systems include 128 graphics processing units (GPUs) using a variety of NVIDIA P100, V100 and A100 and A40 cards along with 3424 total traditional CPUs. We are an active member of the New York State Empire AI consortium, where our faculty have access to the 144 H100 GPUs in its current “Alpha” machine. The computing power will be tripled in its “Beta” version that will be released later this year.
The successful candidate will play a leadership role in designing and executing clinical, translational, and health services research using large-scale real world data sets, fostering multi-institutional collaborations, and securing external funding to advance patient-centered outcomes and real-world evidence generation. The faculty will join a highly collaborative, rapidly growing department and sit in the newly named Division of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence. Our faculties interact extensively across Weill Cornell Medicine, with colleagues at Cornell Tech and Cornell University (particularly Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and Cornell Engineering), as well as with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (ranked 7th in the country by U.S. News & World Report) and its multi-hospital system. The position has the potential for WCM institutional leadership roles.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborative Research: Contribute to the development and implementation of research agendas in areas such as clinical, transitional, implementation, and health services science using real-world data including EHR data, claims, and linked datasets.
- Grant Strategy and Growth: Collaborate with faculty and partners to identify opportunities, contribute to competitive multi-site submissions, and support sustained funding
- Partnership Engagement: Represent PHS and INSIGHT with national partners, funders, and stakeholders; cultivate new collaborations with clinical, industry, and community organizations.
- Data and Governance Oversight: Work with PHS leadership, and institutional committees to ensure appropriate data use, privacy-preserving linkages, and IRB and governance compliance.
- Mentorship and Team Development: Mentor junior faculty and staff; foster inclusive, collaborative teams and shared infrastructure that accelerate science.
Qualifications
- Doctoral degree or an MD with equivalent training in one or more of the following areas: data science and health informatics, health services and outcomes research, clinical and translational science, implementation and population health research, pragmatic clinical trials or a closely related field
- Demonstrated track record leading collaborative, multi-site research programs and securing extramural funding
- Expertise in analyses of large clinical data sets including electronic health records, claims data, and linked datasets
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and a record of consortium-level, collaborative leadership
- Commitment to mentoring junior faculty and building inclusive, high-functioning teams
Interested applicants should submit, via email: (1) a cover letter describing their qualifications for and interest in the position; (2) a recent CV; and (3) the names and contact information of three references to Ancheska Castillo at phs_admin@med.cornell.edu as soon as possible. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
Cornell is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, visit hr.cornell.edu/eeo.
Salary established below per annum commensurate with qualifications and experience:
Associate Professor: $205,798 - $266,017
Professor: $266,017- $403,283
Weill Cornell Medicine provides the above salary range in compliance with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range listed is for full‐time employment not including bonuses, clinical incentive compensation, or benefits. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity, specialty, training, and hospital/community needs.
The above salary range for New York City based roles represents WCM’s good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting.