Research Director

About the role:

For more than a decade, Private Health Management (PHM) has helped our clients navigate the fragmented healthcare system to achieve best care and outcomes when it matters most. As a Research Director at PHM you’ll join a team of compassionate and dedicated professionals focusing solely on the best interest of the patient and establishing a new standard of excellence in precision medicine. In the role, you’ll lead the research efforts on complex cancer cases. You’ll review client medical records and clinical history, identify and evaluate diagnostic and treatment options including clinical trials and innovative, evidence-based therapies around the world, and develop and prioritize treatment strategies based on data in the medical literature and input from world leading experts.

How You’ll Spend Your Days

• Client-Facing Engagement: Participate in client calls alongside clinicians to communicate the latest research findings, support shared decision-making, and ensure understanding of available options.
• Clinical History Analysis: Analyze patient medical records, including data extraction and tracking of lab values, symptoms, medication histories, or clinical outcomes.
• Medical Literature Review: Identify, review, and analyze literature across a wide range of clinical and research topics. Summarize articles and compare findings of clinical studies and present that information in a patient-friendly manner.
• Molecular Diagnostics Interpretation: Identify, analyze, and interpret molecular diagnostics and laboratory tests, ensuring accurate and insightful assessments. Provide insights to support patient care decisions.
• Treatment Options Research: Research, evaluate, and prioritize treatment options for individual cases. This includes review, analysis, and interpretation of the accepted standard of care, the most recent professional guidelines, and the most current investigational approaches, as well as identifying and connecting with key opinion leaders and other experts in the field of interest, to help guide decision making.
• Clinical Trials Identification: Identify and evaluate potential clinical trials. This includes spreadsheet creation, database searching, identification of supporting evidence, and calling trial sites to help find appropriate clinical trials for our clients.
• Content Creation: Create patient education documents (written reports, presentations, spreadsheets, graphs, charts, etc.) that provide pertinent information related to clinical history, diagnosis, and treatment options.

What you bring to the table:

• Academic & Professional Experience: A PhD in a science or healthcare field is required, with early- to mid-career professional experience in oncology , including research, clinical, or translational work across any cancer type.
• Excellent Research Abilities: Knowledge of best practices and well-developed research capabilities exploring the medical literature (e.g., PubMed, Google Scholar ).
• Client Readiness: Exceptional interpersonal skills, service orientation, written and verbal communication abilities to serve as a trusted advisor to clients.
• Adaptable Doer Attitude: Efficient, resourceful, creative, and able to make rapid decisions in the face of ambiguity & deadlines.
• Great Team Member: Equally comfortable delivering as an individual or collaborating across peers, co-workers, and external experts to deliver the best results for clients.