RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MUHC
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is a world-renowned biomedical and hospital research centre. Located in Montreal, Quebec, the Institute is the research arm of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The RI-MUHC is supported in part by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS).
Position summary
Under the direct supervision of the Scientific Director of the Health Informatics & Analytics Unit the incumbent will play a central role in a team that is building the data backbone for a learning health system at the MUHC.
The data scientist is responsible for guiding the establishment of a modern data science working environment, contributing to the structuring and cleaning of data sources, and leading the development, evaluation and deployment of predictive algorithms and other machine learning (ML) based innovations for use in healthcare research and practice. The individual will design, implement and support statistical and ML models for use in clinical, administrative, and research settings.
The goal is to ensure the ongoing operation of a modern clinical and research data analytics ecosystem for use by the MUHC and RI-MUHC communities. This ecosystem will concurrently facilitate research and clinical performance and quality operations, including dashboard-based tracking and quality assessment.
General Duties
• Build, deploy and maintain AI and ML enabled care workflows. This includes working with others at the MUHC to design and develop solutions to the problems undertaken by the Unit,
• Inform the acquisition and configuration of tools, platforms and strategies used by the Unit and MUHC partners to manage the lifecycle of building models from healthcare data,
• Structure and clean core data sources, including: establishing quality assurance monitoring, deidentification and entity extraction from free-text, mapping of system data to common data model (i.e., OMOP),
• Train, develop, and validate researcher-built or vendor provided machine learning algorithms on hospital data with strong quality control checks and bias assessments.
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Posted: Sept. 15, 2024, 6:06 a.m.
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