Spotlight on: Sabina Masinovic

Every other week, the Thematic DCCs and the Data Steward Interest Group (DSIG) put the spotlight on one research data steward working in the Netherlands to stimulate knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer learning.

What drew you towards the research data management field?

I had a bachelor and master focused on biomedical sciences and then did data management consulting for a few years. This field looked like an awesome opportunity to both be involved with medical research again and keep on working with data management.

What is an activity/task of your role that you find yourself looking forward to?

Rolling out the first official RDM policies! We've talked about developing it when I started and I look forward to have a policy approved and published within the hospital.

What is something unexpected that you can offer help with, if a colleague reaches out to you?

Differences between commercial data management and health/research data management.

What do you think your community of research data professionals is missing?

A clear pathway for how to start this function in a large organization. I'm the person in this hospital that has the function of data steward and trying to pioneer a lot and look for collaborations with similar functions in other hospitals. Working and learning together is needed to further develop non-academic research data stewardship.

What is a topic you would want to collaborate on with others?

Improving Data Quality of Healthcare Data.

How would you like to see your current field of work evolve in the next 5 years?

The EHDS means that research data in regional hospital will need to be managed in some way in the next few years. I look forward to welcoming more research data stewards in regional hospitals.

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