Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Durham VA Medical Center is hiring an Informatics Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner to support the National Telepharmacogenomics Program and the broader National Pharmacogenomics Program. The role provides clinical pharmacogenomics consultation and leads informatics, data, technology, and program-management work to improve precision-medicine initiatives and systems across the VA.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert clinical pharmacogenomic review and interpretation of PGx test results for veterans across VA, including both asynchronous and synchronous clinical encounters
- Conduct population health work to monitor, optimize, and drive outcome based results for veterans and the NPP
- Serve as a clinical subject matter expert supporting provider and facility-level PGx consultation, mentorship, and education
- Per VA guidance, at a minimum, all informatics professionals perform the following eight core informatics functions: application support, business architecture management, enterprise data management, content management, system optimization, change management, requirements management, and partnership management
- Serve as the National Telepharmacogenomics (NTPGx) lead Informatacist in collaboration with the National Pharmacogenomics program representing both programs on a national scale
- Evaluate clinical computing systems and analyze the effect of interventions on health outcomes, executing deliverables as assigned by leadership
- Enable healthcare capabilities and the evolution of technology adjoined to the EHR (e.g., CPRS/VistA and, as sites transition, Oracle Cerner/FEHR) to deliver quality care by developing, implementing, monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing informatics tools
- Responsible for designing, modifying, and supporting management information systems and databases in a manner that will support and promote planning and implementation for clinical/pharmacy programs
- Develop and maintain interactive dashboards and visualizations using Power BI, Power BI Report Builder, SSRS, SSAS, and/or DAX-based modeling to track key performance indicators (e.g., PGx testing rates, turnaround times, drug-gene interaction alert volume, result note accuracy and timeliness) and provide actionable insights to stakeholders across NPP
- Utilize SQL and potentially other programming and modeling languages, including but not limited to Python, R, JavaScript, and DAX, to extract, transform, and load data from various sources, including the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), for use in reporting, analytics, and clinical informatics workflow
- Use automated and manual methods to measure data accuracy, completeness, consistency, computability, and timeliness, with the goal of maintaining data integrity and improving the overall quality of clinical and operational data, including data that feeds directly into veteran care notes and provider result reporting
- Develop and maintain data dictionaries and metadata repositories to facilitate standardization, data understanding, and reuse
- Proven ability to communicate and collaborate with team members (e.g., the Data Informatics Team), act autonomously, be adaptable/flexible, serve as a leader, and innovate to achieve milestones and effectively convey progress to both internal and external stakeholders
Skills
- You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
- Must be proficient in written and spoken English
- Pharmacists must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), and 7407(d)
- Graduate of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited College or School of Pharmacy with a baccalaureate degree in pharmacy (BS Pharmacy) and/or a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree
- Full, current and unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in a State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States (i.e., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia. The pharmacist must maintain current registration if this is a requirement for maintaining full, current, and unrestricted licensure
- Experience. In addition to the GS-12 requirements, must have 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level
- Licensed pharmacist with at least one year of documented direct patient care experience in a clinical pharmacy practice, including patient assessment, clinical chart review, medication therapy management, lab ordering, and initiation, modification, monitoring, or discontinuation of medication therapy under an authorized/advanced scope of practice, care coordination agreement, collaborative practice agreement, or equivalent clinical practice model where the pharmacist acted autonomously with independent decision making authority
- Seeking applicants who demonstrate formal training in pharmacogenomics or active clinical PGx practice, including interpretation of patient-specific PGx results and development or communication of medication recommendations based on PGx informed results
- Critically, applicants must also demonstrate at least one year of hands-on clinical informatics experience, completion of an informatics-focused residency or fellowship, or equivalent experience designing, building, implementing, maintaining, or optimizing: clinical data extraction, transformation, and modeling (e.g., SQL, Excel Power Query, DAX, or Python); dashboards and reports (e.g., Power BI, Power BI Report Builder, or Pyramid); workflow and application automation (e.g., Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint, or other Microsoft 365 tools); and clinical decision support or population-health safety monitoring tools (e.g., medication alerts, patient registries, or automated identification of high-risk drug-gene interactions)
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