Biostatistical Consultant II, Internal Medicine, Cardiology
Why join the Internal Medicine Department?
The Department of Internal Medicine is an ideal environment for basic research and seeks to set the standard of excellence in service to their stakeholders by supporting research that leads to organizational success. The department takes a multidisciplinary approach to basic research allowing the department to deliver the future of medicine, today.
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The Cardiometabolic Research Unit, under the direction of Drs. Thomas J. Wang, M.D. and Ambarish Pandey, M.D., M.S.C.S., has an opening for a Biostatistical Consultant II. The CMRU uses big-data approaches to predict risk of heart failure that can be used to identify who may benefit from effective preventive therapies. We have also developed novel risk-prediction models to better predict risk of cardiovascular diseases.
Experience and Education
- Master’s degree in biostatistics or related discipline, or MPH with a concentration in biostatistics.
- Minimum three (3) years experience in statistical consulting with preference given to experience working in biomedical or health care environment.
- Requires working knowledge of SAS, SPSS or other major statistical package (S+, R, etc.) and Microsoft Office (ACCESS and EXCEL)
Preferred Requirements
- Experience working with claims-based datasets (Medicare, Optum, MarketScan) or electronic health record data-based datasets in biomedical or health care environment.
- Experience with large data analysis with prior experience with administrative and electronic health record data, multilevel regression modelling, and longitudinal data analysis.
- Well versed in SAS, R, and Microsoft products.
Job Duties
- Collaborates with investigators to identify problems and provide statistical consultation including design of experiments of survey, analysis of data, interpretation of results and preparation of reports.
- Writes statistical portions of manuscript based on results of analysis and address manuscript revisions based on reviewer’s comments.
- Assists client data organizations.
- Performs statistical computations.
- Provides graphical and tabular representations.
- Develops, maintains and modifies programs for in-house use.
- Collaborates with investigators in grant development including statistical design of studies and preparation of statistical portion of grant proposal. Performs non-statistical components of consulting such as providing analogous examples and explanations using non-technical terminology and helping researchers formulate and clarify research issues.
- Visits client’s work field whenever possible to establish rapport and to become familiar with and interested in client’s research and data.
- May supervise biostatistical consultants and/or data entry operators.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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