Pregnancy Clinician Job at Lukos
Pregnancy Clinician
Minimum Qualifications Summary
Certification & Education
- Have a clinical background (physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner) required; does not need to be a licensed physician.
- Preferred Board Certification, including but not limited to Obstetrics-Gynecology, Family Practice, and Pediatrics
Experience Required
- Medical knowledge in areas of Obstetrics-Gynecology and/or Pediatric Medicine
- Knowledge and experience with public health and/or vaccines
- Prior experience with medical abstraction and knowledge of and experience with pregnancy, maternal and infant health
Job Objective
This work will support the U.S. COVID-19, Monkeypox vaccination program’s vaccine safety programs, as well as any other vaccine used during a public health response conducted by CDC.
The V-safe Pregnancy Registry (V-safe) is a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after people receive a COVID-19 and Monkeypox vaccines. V-Safe is an active surveillance system currently established for people who received a COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy or in the periconception period (30 days within the start date of the last menstrual period).
For the Pregnancy Clinician position, personnel will provide clinician/medical officer and leadership support for the v-safe Pregnancy Registry and pregnancy related issues. This position requires access to Personally Identifying Information (PII) and personnel will be required to obtain a CDC Public Trust Level-5 background clearance.
Responsibilities
- Provide pregnancy subject matter expertise to the Immunization Safety Office (ISO).
- Maintain status updates on all ISO pregnancy-related/maternal-infant vaccine safety related activities.
- Lead and coordinate the v-safe pregnancy registry ensuring that program processes, protocols, and data management activities are maintained to provide quality data from the registry, including point of contact for clinical and non-clinical related questions related to the v-safe pregnancy registry.
- Synthesize v-safe or VAERS analyzed data and provide regular weekly updates to CDC vaccine safety leadership. Contribute to or Lead v-safe and VAERS manuscripts and presentations.
- Review protocols and other products related to pregnancy, maternal, and infant vaccine safety and provide feedback to the ISO pregnancy subject matter expert or other CDC staff
- Respond in writing to inquiries received by the public, partners, or internal to CDC related to pregnancy, maternal, and infant vaccine safety.
- Sign and return CDC VAERS Rules of Behavior (ROB) form.
- Review VAERS reports to conduct medical record abstraction, and how to enter data into the internal CDC VAERS abstraction website. CDC will provide training on VAERS VPN
- In conjunction with CDC Staff, review VAERS pregnancy related reports, but may be assigned to other adverse events of special interest. When assigned, the contract employee shall review up to 25 VAERS reports per day for review.
- Perform a review of available VAERS reports and associated medical records, if available, for each assigned report.
- Perform data entry from the assigned reviews. These reviews will be via a CDC electronic form, consisting mostly of check boxes and free text fields. The medical record review will determine if the reported AESI meets a published case definition (if available). Medical record reviews will follow CDC VAERS Standard Operating Procedures. Provide All published case definitions.
- Request medical records from health care providers/systems located in the United States on behalf of AERS.
- Conduct literature reviews on vaccine safety outcomes of concern related to reproductive and infant health. Contribute with manuscripts and presentation of data from the pregnancy registry; this will involve co-authorship of manuscripts.
- Conduct literature reviews on new vaccine safety outcomes of concern or AESI.
- Respond to inquiries received by the public, health departments, and providers. This may include reviewing the VAERS database, conducting literature reviews to
- provide published data as it pertains to the inquiry, and drafting a response to the inquiry. The response will be shared with the CDC VAERS inquiries lead and the VAERS team lead, or designee.
- Work with CDC VAERS staff to resolve any questions or concerns related to VAERS reviews
- Assist the ISO pregnancy SME on ad hoc requests related to pregnancy related, maternal, or infant vaccine safety outcomes or concerns.
- Be prepared to attend up to 15-20 meetings per week. Some of these will be regularly scheduled meetings with the team and with contracting company staff; others may be of a more urgent nature to address issues as they arise
Education & Certification
- Have a clinical background (physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner) required; does not need to be a licensed physician.
- Preferred Board Certification, including but not limited to Obstetrics-Gynecology, Family Practice, and Pediatrics
Minimum Qualifications
- Have a clinical background (physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner) required; does not need to be a licensed physician.
- Medical knowledge in areas of Obstetrics-Gynecology and/or Pediatric Medicine.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and function in a potentially fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Flexibility to work across multiple disciplines of medicine and public health.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office products is required (e.g., MS Word and Excel).
- Preferred Board Certification, including but not limited to Obstetrics-Gynecology, Family Practice, and Pediatrics
- Knowledge and experience with public health and/or vaccines
- Prior experience with medical abstraction and knowledge of and experience with pregnancy, maternal and infant health
- Comfortable working in 100% virtual environment, experience with RedCap and Microsoft Teams.
- Ability to obtain a CDC Public Trust Level-5 background clearance.
Work Location
Remote Work with the possibility of travel to Atlanta, GA.
About Lukos
Lukos delivers professional services to the Department of Defense. Lukos has been one of the most successful and most diversified support companies for US Special Operations Command and its components for over a decade. Since our founding, we have grown to support all military services and multiple federal civilian agencies.
About Our Name: Lukos is ancient Greek for “wolf”. The characteristics of the wolf match our approach to national security. The wolf is known for cunning, aggression, patience, and teamwork. An individual wolf is smart, strong, and resilient, but the true strength of wolves is their ability to work together as a wolfpack. Kipling said it best in The Law of the Jungle.
"For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."
Lukos is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or national origin.
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