Women on the Go Master's Intern

Note: THIS POSITION MUST BE REVIEWED WITH TOTAL COMPENSATION BEFORE POSTING. This position provides analytical support to a project or department. Under the guidance of a Project Manager/ Director, responsible for collecting and researching data, performing analysis, providing recommendations and presenting results.

Department Description:

The Department of Research & Evaluation has an integral role in the success of Kaiser Permanente Southern California by conducting high-quality, innovative translational research that benefits the health of its members and the communities from which they come. Our mission is to initiate and conduct high-quality, public-sector health services, epidemiologic, behavioral, and clinical research that has a demonstrable positive impact on the health and well-being of Kaiser Permanente Southern California members and the general population.

Project Description:

Choose your own adventure by working on one or more of these women's health research projects. Your co-mentors are an implementation scientist and urogynecologist, Heidi Brown, MD, and an epidemiologist in the KP Medical Device Surveillance and Assessment Program with experience using Python and R.

Women on the Go:This randomized trial compared two versions of an online program to support behavior change to prevent or improve incontinence symptoms, with the hypothesis that a tailored program would promote more regular engagement than a generic program. We also sought to compare rates of behavior change in each treatment arm and to determine whether engagement with the program mediated other behavior change.

Feasibility of Salpingectomy in General Surgery: This study seeks to demonstrate feasibility and safety of colorectal surgeons performing a gynecologic surgery to reduce ovarian cancer risk at the time of planned colorectal surgery through retrospective EHR data abstraction and analyses. Through this project you will gain familiarity with our electronic health record data resources, generation of HARM scores to compare risk among patients who underwent comparable colorectal surgeries with or without salpingectomy, and the experience collaborating with surgeons who will perform the minimal required chart review.

Updating a Registry of Urogynecologic Mesh: This study seeks to expand a prior KP registry that contains over 20,000 patients from multiple KP regions who underwent mid-urethral sling to treat stress urinary incontinence between 2009 and 2021. Our existing registry only contains data about retreatment in the operating room; this project expands the KPSC cohort in the existing registry to (1) include information about retreatment in the outpatient clinic setting; and (2) include patients who underwent other urogynecologic mesh implants. Through this project you will gain experience working with the national KP Medical Device Surveillance and Assessment Program and with the clinical data warehouse within KPSC.

Desired Majors:

MS or MPH degree in Biostatistics.

Desired Skillsets:

Enrolled in or recent graduate of a MS or MPH program in Biostatistics.

Experience in Python, R, and Databricks to serve in programmer and analyst roles.

Experience with longitudinal analyses, patient-reported outcome measures, or distributed data networks are a plus but not required.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for contributing high level analytical support to a project or department requiring application of knowledge in marketing, information management, finance, management, economics or statistics.
• This position contributes to a full range of project components.
• Assigned to at least one project and expected to produce results and report out as a member of a project team.
• Organizes assigned project tasks, identifies and structures information collection activities, and sets timelines for completion of required tasks as directed.
• Develops tools to identify and to document best practices.
• Prepares various excel, word or PowerPoint reports, and works with access database software (or similar tool) to develop data extracts and management information reports.
• May be asked to produce graphic information using excel or PowerPoint or similar software.
• Contributes to development of management information and analysis conducted, provides recommendations and assists with preparation of formal presentations to communicate results to various management levels.  Identifies alternative solutions to project issues.
• Contributes to development project plans to ensure timely deliverables and successful completion of project and demonstrates an understanding of various business intersections.
• Assists with identification and development of training information.
• Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis. At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to re-evaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status. Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.