VP Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research-Lewin Group

Company:	UnitedHealth Group Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (53)
Job Location(s):	Falls Church
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Start Date:	As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:	Not Provided
Required Education:	Graduate Degree
Required Experience:	Open
Related Categories:	Consulting Services, Management and Supervision, Research and Development

Position Description

VP Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research-Lewin Group-318240

Description

The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting and policy analysis firm with more than 35 years of experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. Lewin's strategic and analytical services aim to help clients:

Improve policy and expand knowledge of health care and human service systems
Enact, run, and evaluate programs to enhance delivery and financing of health care and family services
Deal with shifts in health care practice, technology, and regulation
Optimize performance, quality, coverage, and health outcomes
Create strategies for institutions, communities, associations, foundations governments, and people to make health care and human services systems more effective

We are currently in search of a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research Director to join our advisory group.

The newly formed Center combines Lewin's expertise in the U.S. health care system with key capabilities and assets from within Ingenix, The Lewin Group's parent company. It will bring together distinct competence and capability in conducting and supporting CER, including:

The Lewin Group's broad, respected record and independent point-of-view in health technology assessment, evidence-based medicine and evidence synthesis;
The expertise of i3 in clinical, health economics and outcomes research that helps develop better patient care; and
Through Ingenix, access to one of the world's largest patient databases containing de-identified integrated diagnosis, medical, and pharmacy claims data on millions of individuals. These data set types include administrative, pharmacy claims, physician and facility claims, laboratory test results and socio-economic data.

Comparative effectiveness research compares the safety, effectiveness, cost and other clinical and economic outcomes of health care interventions used to prevent, diagnose or treat diseases, disorders and other health conditions. CER findings can be used to support decisions and policies of clinicians, patients, regulatory agencies, third-party payers, health care facilities, public health programs, federal and state policy makers and others. The Lewin Group Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research will provide analysis of data and policy, and related consulting to support the identification and implementation of CER priorities and advance the state of comparative effectiveness research.

In particular, the Center will offer:

Provision of data sets and registries
Data analysis, including of linked data sets and electronic health records
Tools for analysis of longitudinal health outcomes for treatment effectiveness
Services to conduct and manage Institutional Review Board approved comparative trials
CER technical assistance, CER knowledge transfer and consulting on CER methods and policies

In this role, you can expect to work with federal agencies such as AHRQ, NIH, CMS, FDA, and other agencies and offices in DHHS, DoD, and VA, as well as federal contractors, academic health centers, non-profit advocacy groups, state government agencies and pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device manufacturers.

Responsibilities will include the following:

Team Leadership:

Serve as point person for external and internal communications. Internal communications include those within Lewin and across Ingenix and UHG as appropriate
Recruit, motivate and retain Center-assigned staff and others across Lewin and Ingenix who participate in the Center's activities.
Develop Center staff
Manage performance

Delivery and Implementation:

Develop and oversee management of proposals
Insure quality and timeliness of projects
Drive innovation in delivery
Develop opportunities within existing projects (additional work for client, areas where tools, techniques or work projects could be redeveloped for other clients)
"Visibility" management (marketing, PR, press coverage, conferences, etc.)
Identify and field appropriate resources (Lewin, i3, Ingenix Consulting, Ingenix, external) on projects

Metrics and Measurement:

Management of P&L to meet targets
Project financial performance targets
Utilization of staff
Reporting

Lewin is part of the Ingenix family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

If you get excited about the life transforming potential of bringing health care information to the right place, at the right time, to support crucial decisions, welcome to Lewin/Ingenix.

We're one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies and the only organization in our industry with the information, technology and consulting expertise to solve the most significant challenges in health and human services.

Bring your talent to an industry leader of consulting expertise to help transform Health and Human Services. No matter what your role is where you join the organization you'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions and help make the healthcare system greater than ever.

Qualifications

Advanced degree (PhD or MD preferred) and 7 - 10 years (post doctoral) experience, OR advanced degree (e.g., masters in public health, health services research, or related field) and 10 - 12 years experience, in fields related to comparative effectiveness research, (e.g., health technology assessment, outcomes research, evidence-based medicine, health economics). Experience required in more than one of such areas as managing systematic reviews; health technology assessment reports; cost-effectiveness analyses; evidence-based practice guidelines and/or quality measures; priority-setting for biomedical research; analyses of claims data, registries, and other health care databases; managing government and private sector grants and/or contracts. Superb writing and verbal communication skills required.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

Job Health & Human Svcs Cnsltng

Primary LocationUS-VA-Falls Church

Organization The Lewin Group

Schedule Full-time

Number of Openings 1