The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery is seeking a Ph.D. or DSc level statistician to help develop and support the evolving clinical research program. The Department is dedicated to expanding the clinical and translational research efforts related to the fields of cardiology, cardiac surgery, critical care, anesthesia, imaging, thoracic surgery, thoracic oncology, and translational science, as well as collaborations with other specialty areas. These efforts will encompass a variety of research methods, including prospective trials, case-control and further retrospective investigations, and cost-effectiveness/decision-analysis studies. Successful candidates will be experienced in biomedical research, including survival time analysis, mixed modeling techniques and general estimating equations, propensity weighting/matching methods, and competing risks analysis. Experience with cardiac or thoracic research is not necessary but will be a plus. Independent research interests and activities will be encouraged.
Responsibilities will include providing the following support to the Faculty:
- Develop and/or apply novel data curation, metadata, and analytic techniques and approaches to Medicare and/or Medicaid data.
- Providing advice on study design and development.
- Providing advice on and assistance with the development of analytic plans.
- Providing advice on and assistance with sample size and power calculations.
- Performing and assisting with data analyses.
- Assisting with the graphical presentation of data.
- Assisting with the use of statistical software by center faculty and fellows.
- Helping with database development and documentation.
- Authorship and editing of statistical methodology sections for grant applications, study proposals, and manuscripts.
- Conducting training seminars on topics of interest.
* – Other duties may also be assigned.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience working with Medicaid and Medicare data.
- The department commonly works with several data sets: OSHPD, STS, Stanford-specific EHR data, and other administrative data. The successful candidate will have expertise in health care claims data, data management, annotation, and the use of these datasets for clinical research.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are desired in order to provide feedback to members of the scientific community to facilitate the description of data, effectively provide documentation and specifications to co-workers during research development, and contribute to the drafting of scientific literature and grant applications using results from analyses.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED):
Master’s degree in biostatistics, statistics or related field and at least 5 years of experience or Ph.D. in biostatistics, statistics or related field.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (REQUIRED):
- Proficient in at least two of R, SAS, SPSS, or STATA.
- Skills in descriptive analysis, modeling of data, and graphic interfaces.
- Outstanding ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated excellence in at least one area of expertise, which may include coordinating studies; statistical methodology such as missing data, survival analysis, statistical genetics, or informatics; statistical computing; database design (e.g., expertise in RedCAP or MySQL); graphical techniques (e.g., expertise in Illustrator).
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:
- Frequently perform desk-based computer tasks, seated work and use light/ fine grasping.
- Occasionally stand, walk, and write by hand, lift, carry, push pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
* – Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
May work extended or non-standard hours based on project or business cycle needs.
WORK STANDARDS:
- Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
- Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
- Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University’s Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu.
The expected pay range for this position is $120,000 – $157,000 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.
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