Research Director - Oncology

About Private Health Management 

Private Health Management (PHM), a clinically sophisticated healthcare navigation firm, specializes in assisting clients to obtain the best care and outcomes when facing serious and complex medical conditions. Individuals and businesses who make health a priority rely on PHM to achieve the best of what's possible in medicine. We believe everyone should benefit from the latest science-backed insights, have access to the best diagnostics, specialists, and treatments, and receive independent guidance to make informed health decisions with confidence. 

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 + early-mid to mid career professional experience in cancer disorders. A preference is given to candidates with hematologic, gynecologic, pediatric and/or soft tissue cancer experience. 

• 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 

Read what current Team Members say about working at PHM!  

Compensation: The target base salary for this position is $125,000 - $140,000. 

This base salary is part of a total rewards package that includes: health/dental/vision benefits, annual cash incentive, 401k with match, stock options, flexible PTO, and access to PHM’s services for you and your dependents. Actual pay may vary based on experience, location, and other factors.

This is a fully remote position requiring that you live in the United States. 

Next steps 

Private Health Management is a remote company with employees around the United States. We’re committed to providing you with the best possible interview experience and opportunities to spend meaningful time getting to know our company, mission, and wonderful teammates in our fully remote interviews. If your application is selected for interviews, you’ll hear from a member of our recruiting team to schedule next steps. Interviews will also include: the hiring manager, peers, and often an executive from the department. We have lots of questions for you, but we’re also excited to answer your questions about us. We appreciate your help in achieving an interview process that allows us to truly know each other and welcome your feedback and requests on how we can make this a reality for yourself & future candidates. 

Have a quick question about the role? Email careers@privatehealth.com or simply apply here.