Japan Clinician
Job Description
Flatiron Health K.K. is hiring a Japan Clinician to serve as a clinical and scientific specialist for the Flatiron Health K.K. team and our external stakeholders. Flatiron generates RWE by extracting, organizing and processing (through data harmonization and technology-enabled chart abstraction) raw information from hospitals’ clinical information systems (e.g., electronic health record systems). Flatiron clinicians are critical to this process, working with research partners to define scientific questions and the design of real-world datasets, advising Flatiron’s cross-disciplinary teams on how to process high-quality data from cancer patient records, and developing novel analyses and analytic methods. This Clinical Oncologist will closely work with the Japan Clinical Lead and collaborate with other Flatiron clinicians in the US and Europe, and will engage with scientific leaders in the field of oncology real-world data in Japan and globally, including participating in collaboration discussions, creating documents related to clinical studies, authoring publications, and speaking at conferences.
Responsibilities
- Closely work with the Japan Clinical lead and serve as a clinical and scientific specialist for the Flatiron Health K.K. team and its oncology RWE solutions.
- Prepare and manage protocols, informed consent forms and IRB documents, and other documents related to collaborative clinical research studies.
- Engage with clinical stakeholders at Flatiron Health K.K.’s Japanese hospital partners and across the Japanese oncology community to help them understand the value of real-world data and develop research ideas and other applications.
- Advise on RWE product scoping, data processing/collection methods, quality assurance, and analysis.
- Support the engineering team to handle Flatiron Health K.K.’s data models (the data elements we collect, and how they are organized) based on Japanese clinical practice.
- Support the Japanese clinical abstractor team (the people at Flatiron who collect information from unstructured data sources in medical records), adapting Flatiron’s US approach to Japan.
- Support development of data processing rules/instructions for Japanese abstractors to follow when collecting data from unstructured data sources.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional Flatiron Health K.K. team including clinical professionals, engineers, biostatisticians, project managers, and business development members.
- Work with Flatiron’s US and European clinical members to develop new research ideas and embed Flatiron US best practices in Japan.
- Help build a Japan-based team and company culture as Flatiron K.K. grows.
Job Requirements
- You are a certified oncologist with 5+ years of significant clinical oncology experience
- You have demonstrated experience in one or more oncology-relevant methodological research areas (e.g., clinical trials, real world evidence, outcomes research, patient-reported outcomes, health services research, quality improvement science, etc.)
- You have experience with health records and electronic clinical systems
- You have experience with how clinical data are represented in Japan
- You are familiar with clinical research methodology, clinical research ethics guidelines, and privacy protection laws and regulations..
- You have experience with public speaking (e.g., at conferences) and collaborating with clinicians/researchers from other institutions
- You are excited about working in a passionate, fast-paced, technology-driven culture
- You can collaborate and easily explain scientific terms to a non-medical, highly sophisticated audience; you have superior communication skills
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and a willingness to teach and learn
- You are fluent in both Japanese and English
Extra Credit
- You have studied or worked in the United States or Europe
- You have experience in oncology translational/basic research.
- You have experience working in drug development in the pharmaceutical industries
