Job No. 154578
- Job Title:
- Statistician Senior
- Employer:
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University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Location:
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Ann Arbor , MI
- Posting Date:
- 08-Jan-2025
- Description:
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Job Summary
Actively participate as a co-investigator to cultivate testable research hypotheses aimed at expanding the evidence-based research in the field of bariatric surgery and obesity medicine. Independently develop statistical methodology for internal single-center, multi-center and externally funded research projects.
Responsibilities*
Execute the proper study design and statistical plan to adequately address study hypotheses
Gather, manage, and analyze various clinical and public-reporting datasets for analysis according to established statistical methods
Interpret statistical results and present information to investigating researchers
Write technical methodology and results sections - including text, charts, graphs, and figures - for manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals
Project management for research projects, including but not limited to, grant negotiations, development of data collection tools, teaching collaborators on extraction techniques and weekly teleconferences with collaborators and stakeholders
Complete mandatory study-specific paperwork, such as Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications, budgets and timelines
Work with physicians, nurses and programmers to adequately extract clinical data for reporting rare events in quality assurance measures
Develop risk-adjustment strategies to report quality assurance metrics to minimize patient harm
Determine the most effective presentation techniques to disseminate quality assurance reporting to providers on how they rank compared to their peers
Foster communication with investigators from other fields of medicine to nurture cross-disciplinary research utilizing institutional electronic health record data
Mentor junior level department analysts in statistical techniques and methodology
Required Qualifications*
Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Public Health (MPH) or Statistics (MS) or recognized field of science directly related to the duties of this position.
3 - 5 years of experience working directly with statistical methodology and research design
Must be able to work independently to develop and execute all aspects of a research project.
Must be comfortable working as a co-investigator within a larger research network.
Coding and analysis experience with SAS, SPSS, R, Stata programming languages.
Desired Qualifications*
Experience publishing in peer-reviewed journals.
Master's degree preferred.
Work Schedule
40 hours/week
Hybrid (in-person/remote)
- Contact information:
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- United States
- Employer's Website:
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