Clinical Scientist, Glaucoma

For over 90 years, Topcon’s vision has been to solve societal challenges around the globe. In healthcare, we are developing innovations that improve patients’ health and quality of life. 

We empower eye care providers with advanced imaging, diagnostic solutions, and intelligent data technology. Our robotic devices deliver simplicity without compromise, by capturing clear images with the push of a button. 

By joining Topcon Healthcare, you become part of a growing, diverse, global team. With office locations throughout North America, whether you are on-site, remote, or hybrid, our culture empowers you to contribute to company and personal success each day. At Topcon Healthcare, you can grow your career, gain new perspectives, and help address society’s most pressing challenges.  If you have drive, passion, and a desire to be part of a collaborative team, we want to hear from you.

At Topcon Healthcare, we don’t wait for the future. We invent it. Join us.

The Clinical Scientist, Glaucoma will work closely with Product Management and the Clinical Incubator to design data collection strategies and studies to support development and evaluation of decision support tools for glaucoma management via Topcon’s digital health solutions as well as those of current and future business partners.

Demands for medical device evidence development addressing patient safety, therapeutic efficacy, quality design and performance, risk management, and benefit-cost determinations are increasing. In accordance with the THINC mission to advance healthcare solutions via data science, this candidate will support THINC’s initiatives to launch methods, tools, and resources aimed at improving patient access to cutting-edge medical device and digital health innovations.

Overall Responsibilities:

• Identify global and regional key opinion leaders and develop peer to peer scientific relationships with KOLs and decision makers.
• Create and manage a network of clinical partners focused on prospective evaluation of clinical decision support for glaucoma.
• Serve as a scientific resource and provide up to date information on products, therapeutic areas, and relevant clinical studies.
• Partner product management to understand pain points in the patient pathway for glaucoma that would benefit from decision support and help identify studies that would demonstrate the benefits (value, patient outcomes, workflow) of decision support in these pathways.
• Create a framework of devices and data used in glaucoma management to evaluate the value of new digital solutions against existing workflows.
• Develop a process to evaluate decision support and artificial intelligence solutions, including creation of a retrospective dataset for rapid testing, rubrics for evaluating fit for clinical purpose and usability, and annotation and labeling processes for method extension.
• Report on clinical findings, from data collected from retrospective and prospective studies, post-hoc analyses of existing data, or literature reviews.
• Actively participate in and support the Medical Affairs team in strategic planning and growth of Clinical Science & Advisory Committees to advise the organization.

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Create Clinical Plans, Protocols and Reports to guide the clinical and technical evaluation of software as a medical device, with a focus on data driven innovations such as decision support and artificial intelligence.
• Create and execute annotation plans to improve data utility.
• Work with Medical Affairs to establish a partner network of sites that can contribute data, annotations, and act as external sites for retrospective and prospective evaluation of decision support and AI solutions.
• Support Business Development activities from a clinical development perspective, with a focus on glaucoma and decision support opportunities.
• Develop innovative, efficient, effective clinical development plans and trial designs to support the development of products in early stages, with a focus on AI and decision support opportunities.
• Support clinical validation studies, interpretation of clinical data, and literature reviews.
• Ensure application of state-of-the-art scientific and ethical methods and budgets/timelines are met.
• In partnership with Medical Affairs, represent the organization externally with KOLs, healthcare professionals, regulatory agencies, and professional groups.
• Work closely with Clinical Affairs and Regulatory Affairs to ensure effective transfer of knowledge from clinical development activities to clinical validation of technologies.
• Stay abreast of all external environmental compliance and regulatory issues to ensure that all clinical development activities are translatable to validation trials and commercialization.
• Stay current and forward looking by attending relevant conferences and gathering competitive intelligence through publications, press releases, etc.
• Author abstracts, posters, and presentations for scientific and clinical conferences.

Education & Experience:

• Eye care experience required.
• Experience managing glaucoma in a clinical setting, or performing clinical studies related to glaucoma highly desired.
• Proven track record of successful design and execution of clinical studies.
• Ability to work independently, be self-motivated, set priorities, handle multiple tasks and projects with a high degree of efficiency and comfort with ambiguity.
• Proven experience developing robust evidence strategies across the lifecycle of medical devices (i.e., from bench to clinical development, and post-market).

Reporting Relationships:

• The Clinical Scientist, Glaucoma will report to the VP Clinical Science.

Base Pay:

Expected Base Pay Range: $135,000 to $150,000 Annualized

The base pay range included is a projected hiring range for a position, level and potential work location(s) listed.  Topcon provides the compensation range that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full-time schedule.   

Bonus eligible:

 In addition to base pay, compensation for this position includes eligibility for a 10% annual bonus.

Benefits*:

Topcon offers a comprehensive benefit package for this position including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, tax saving spending accounts a 401(k) plan with employer match, tuition reimbursement in addition to other perks and benefits.  We also offer time off for our employees to recharge.  Our employees are eligible for paid company holidays, paid personal time off, and paid sick time that meets or exceeds state/local requirements. 

Topcon reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation; individual candidate compensation may be determined based on individual skills, experience, training, certifications, education, final work location and other factors not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law. Changes in the position level, location or other factors associated with the role may change the final determined compensation.  The recruiter can provide additional information during the hiring process.

*Topcon time off policies can vary between roles which are exempt or non-exempt.  For hourly (“non-exempt”) employees, we offer personal paid time off which accrues in accordance with local standards.  For salaried (“exempt”) employees, we offer a flexible paid time off policy giving you flexibility to take time when needed, while supporting business needs.  All paid time off policies are in accordance with or exceeding local law.  Employees working at least 30 hours per week are eligible for our Health and Welfare benefit package.

EEO Statement:

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.