K

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Health Systems Science Faculty

Medical ResearchConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePasadena, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A medical degree, doctoral degree, or comparable degree is required.
  • Demonstrated health-related research experience in clinical or health services research, including comparative effectiveness and outcomes research, delivery system or implementation science, artificial intelligence or machine learning, advanced analytics, personalized medicine including genomics, proteomics and related data, clinical informatics, health economics, embedded research, health equity, health policy, improvement science, management science, public health, sociology, statistics, or systems engineering.
  • Demonstrated ability or potential to obtain funding from diverse sources, including the National Institutes of Health, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, private foundations, or industry.
  • A confirmed track record of first- and senior-author publications in journals of clinical medicine, population health, and health care research.
  • Demonstrated teaching and mentoring abilities and commitment to teaching.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills.
  • Strong critical-thinking, leadership, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

  • Expand a program of externally funded research in one or more core domains of clinical effectiveness and value, access to care, innovation in health care delivery, and population health.
  • Establish productive collaborations with current faculty members to expand externally funded research at the School of Medicine.
  • Identify opportunities to partner with health system leaders to address health system priorities using diverse research methods and approaches.
  • Engage in scholarly activities that may include clinical effectiveness research; health services and health systems research; improvement and implementation research; personalized medicine, including implementing innovations using genomics and related data; artificial intelligence and large data models in health care; and health-related program and policy development and evaluation.
  • Support and mentor students as they pursue required and additional scholarly projects.
  • Serve as a presenter and facilitator in large, medium, and small group learning sessions.
  • Develop scholarly and pedagogical duties, expectations, and resources individually based on evolving faculty interests, skills, departmental priorities, and needs.
  • Develop a portfolio of external grant support that expands and complements the department's current program.
  • Collaborate with researchers and clinical and operational leaders to access health system data sources, including data warehouses and the research bank, to support health system innovation and improvement.
  • Expand externally funded research that advances health, health care, and health equity through systems transformation and redesign.

Desired Qualifications

  • Expertise in one or more clinical domains that complement the current research portfolio, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or surgical outcomes.

About the Company

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Kaiser Permanente runs an integrated healthcare platform that lets members manage and pay medical, premium, and pharmacy bills online. It serves Medicare Advantage, Individual and Family, and non-employer plans, offering options to pay as a guest or set up payment plans. The platform works by presenting a centralized online portal where users can view bills, choose how to pay, and handle multiple types of charges in one place. Revenue comes from premiums and medical services fees, while the service aims to reduce administrative work for both providers and patients and encourage on-time payments. What sets Kaiser Permanente apart is its combination of healthcare services with a single billing experience across multiple plan types, focusing on a user-friendly, centralized payment process rather than handling billing through separate systems. Its goal is to provide a straightforward, reliable way for members to manage and pay their bills, improving convenience and payment timeliness.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$7.5M
Headquarters
Oakland, CA
Founded
1945

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Kaiser Permanente

See more jobs