Clinical Informatics Specialist
Los Angeles, CAJob$100–219K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
UCLA Health’s Department of Medicine seeks a Clinical Informatics Specialist for the Program in Pharmacoepidemiology within General Internal Medicine. The role supports research on medication safety, effectiveness, and healthcare outcomes using claims and electronic health record data. The specialist manages and analyzes datasets, develops analytic files, supports statistical analyses, and collaborates with multidisciplinary research teams.
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Description
The Department of Medicine is seeking a highly motivated and collaborative Clinical Informatics Specialist to join the Program in Pharmacoepidemiology within the Division of General Internal Medicine. This exciting opportunity offers the chance to contribute to innovative, high-impact research focused on medication safety, effectiveness, and healthcare outcomes using large-scale healthcare claims and electronic health record data.
The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical and programming skills, experience working with complex healthcare datasets, and a passion for leveraging real-world data to improve patient care and inform healthcare decision-making. Responsibilities include managing and analyzing large datasets, developing analytic files for observational research studies, supporting advanced statistical analyses, and collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and researchers to generate evidence that shapes healthcare policy, regulatory decisions, and clinical practice.
Annual range: $100,161.36-$218,718.00
Qualifications
Required:
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Master's degree (PhD preferred) In Biostatistics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, or related field.
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Experience with administrative health care claims data required, i.e., data management, cleaning, and linkage of large healthcare datasets (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance datasets)
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Highly proficient in data management and statistical programming languages (SAS, SQL, R, STATA, or Python)
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Solid understanding of pharmacoepidemiologic study designs and causal inference methods for observational data analysis
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Familiarity with drug coding systems (NDC, ATC), diagnosis and procedure codes (ICD, CPT)
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Exceptional written and verbal communications skills for scientific reporting and collaboration
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3 years demonstrated experience with statistical analysis and programming for research. At least three years of experience required.
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Ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary research team
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Ability to collaborate effectively with other programmers/analysts working with other programming languages
Preferred:
- More than 5yrs of experience with programming in a health care environment preferred.
UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person’s unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.
How this job compares
Set against the 522 open Clinical Informatics jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100–219K/yr
- US median$98–210K/yr436 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $159K, is 4% above the US median midpoint ($154K) — in the middle half of Clinical Informatics salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 29 open Clinical Informatics jobs in California and 522 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health10 open
- Oracle9 open
- Dignity Health3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Clinical Informatics postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 331 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 65 of the 522 open Clinical Informatics jobs (12%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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