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The Senior Clinical Bioinformatician works under the strategic guidance of the Division Director. Develops and maintains bioinformatics tools and pipelines, contributing to the enhancement of genomic data analysis and interpretation. The Senior Clinical Bioinformatician aids in the division's quality management program and strives for operational excellence. Working alongside faculty and the operations team and contributing to aligning bioinformatics efforts with the division's goals, meeting both immediate needs and long-term objectives. Identifies opportunities and makes recommendations to leadership on services provided. The Clinical Bioinformatician is committed to patient care, applying bioinformatics practices with an understanding of the patient population's needs to positively impact clinical outcomes. Leads and participates in process improvement and new testing projects.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Performs data analyses for clinical genomics testing, including quality control functions consistent with the Division's Quality Management Plan.
Designs, develops, implements, and maintains bioinformatics analysis pipelines for clinical genomics service, including NGS.
Designs, develops, implements, and maintains tools for data mining and quality control of clinical genomic testing in accordance with the Division's Quality Management Plan.
Assess data analysis workflows, identifies opportunities to automate analysis, reporting and QC, implements in collaboration with laboratory leadership.
Collaborates effectively with faculty, variant scientists, and laboratory operations teams for efficient delivery of clinical services.
Evaluates the current landscape, identifies opportunities, and makes recommendations to leadership on the expansion of services provided.
Leads and participates in divisional, interdivisional, interdepartmental development projects for new testing and process improvement.
Acts as a project manager when required.
In collaboration with faculty and operational leadership, effectively adjusts priorities according to the workload, aligning to business and/or operations plans and to meet the needs of the Division.
Keeps abreast of the latest developments in bioinformatics, computational biology, and clinical genomics to assist in identifying, evaluating, and incorporating relevant algorithms and software.
Educates and mentors colleagues, investigators, fellows, and students in bioinformatics, fostering an environment of continuous learning and development within the division.
Qualifications
Education:
Master's Degree in Bioinformatics, computational biology, or related field.
Doctorate Degree in Cancer genetics, human genetics, or applicable biological science is preferred.
Experience and Skills:
Five (5) years of experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining NGS pipelines.
Five (5) years of experience with common amplicon-based and/or hybrid capture sequencing bioinformatics open-source tools and databases.
Four (4) years of experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining NGS pipelines in a clinical setting.
Familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Java, Perl, python). Advanced expertise with one or more programming languages. Familiar with Linux environment and bash scripting. Use of high-performance computing, including schedulers, associate tools, and data storage strategies. Use of version control systems such as Git.
Familiar with medical and biological terminologies, bioinformatics resources, and national biological databases.
Collaborate with laboratory operations and faculty teams to efficiently deliver quality patient care.
About Us
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
About the Team
Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.
Req ID : 5697 Working Title : Senior Clinical Bioinformatician - Molecular Pathology (On-site) Department : Molecular Pathology Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Job Category : Clinical Operations Job Specialty : Clinical Operations Overtime Status : EXEMPT Primary Shift : Day Shift Duration : 8 hour Base Pay : $120,224 - $192,358.40
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
