Chief Research Informatics Officer

Job ID: 55959Location: Birmingham, Alabama, United StatesPosted: 2025-09-29Company: University of Alabama at BirminghamContact: Hillary Ross, Zachary Durst, Valerie Weber, Scott DethloffThe University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) seeks an innovative, experienced, and visionary leader to serve as its inaugural Chief Research Informatics Officer (CRIO). This dual-role position offers an exceptional opportunity to lead the development and integration of research information systems across UAB Medicine and the Heersink School of Medicine, advancing UAB’s commitment to excellence in clinical care, research, education, and operations, fulfilling a vision of seamless knowledge management across the enterprise.UAB is an internationally renowned public doctoral research university and academic health center. UAB's reach stretches across classes, cultures, and continents into inner-city classrooms, rural clinics, and far corners of the globe. UAB currently is experiencing major and sustained investment and growth due to its exceptional research faculty and its culture of collaboration embodied in a matrix organization. UAB, through concerted and strategic investments in its clinical and research enterprise, has undergone an amazing transformation in the past five years and has strengthened its status and reputation as a leader in medical training, biomedical discovery, innovation, and patient care.Reporting to both the Chief Information Officer of UAB Medicine and the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, the CRIO will serve as the senior leader responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive strategic plan, with a focus on integrating and extracting data, leveraging digital tools and computing platforms across the research and administrative functions. The CRIO will be a core leader in clinical research informatics, supporting the continued evolution of the Epic EHR system. The CRIO will help define the future data environment, ensuring Epic is leveraged as a strategic platform for embedded clinical trials, research patient portals, and advanced analytics for trial recruitment and outcomes monitoring. This critical leadership role will provide strategy and vision in the areas of clinical informatics, research computing, data warehousing and extraction, informatics education, grant writing, and technology innovation to directly support the clinical, basic science, and academic needs of the UAB research community.The CRIO will hold a faculty appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level and participate in the scholarly, service, and educational missions of the Heersink School of Medicine. This role has high visibility across the organization, including through informal partnerships, research initiatives, governance groups, and other means.The ideal candidate will have research informatics technology and data management experience in healthcare, clinical research, or research laboratory settings as well as a proven ability to use data to inform research design and clinical decision support. They will bring a deep understanding of data acquisition, interoperability, and extraction across domains, enabling enterprise-wide synergy that drives innovation and improves clinical outcomes. They will be a collaborator and bridge builder, an outstanding communicator, and an adept team- and program-builder.Inquiries, nominations and applications are invited. Please direct all application materials to Hillary Ross, Zachary Durst, Valerie Weber, Scott Dethloff via the buttons below.University of Alabama at Birmingham values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity for all persons regardless of age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.