Biostatistician, Sr. - University of Massachusetts Medical School

GENERAL SUMMARY OF POSITION: 

Be a part of the exciting research team in Emergency Medicine! You can do this by working with several NIH-funded investigators, having a targeted range of significant domains, including substance abuse, toxicology, suicide prevention, bio-behavioral informatics, industrial engineering and process improvement, emergency ultrasound, emergency cardiology, critical care, and sepsis. 

Under the general direction of the department head or designee, the Senior Biostatistician will oversee the planning, design, review, programming and implementation of special information systems activities. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS                                                

Data Collection                                               

• Develop plan, and write statistical design, methods, and analysis for research proposals. Oversee quantitative evaluation of the resulting data.
• Collaborate independently or as co-investigator with other biomedical investigators and assists in developing objectives, designing sampling and randomization schemes, and data collection procedures to achieve study objectives
• Analyze data in collaboration with statistical faculty beginning with univariate and multivariate analyses such as logistic regression and factor analysis for research studies.

Leadership                                                         

• Assume leadership responsibilities on assigned project teams, committees, working groups, and research project teams including directing and/or supervising project personnel, coordinating quality control efforts, and serving on writing teams
• Participate the teaching of statistics topics within graduate programs
• Serve as a scientific consultant and instructor to the Medical School in the areas of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
• Instruct and supervise other personnel (data entry clerks, research assistants) in data management including merging and updating existing databases.

Analysis/Research

• Design statistical analysis and report generation procedures for specific research studies, and write statistical methods and results sections of reports and publications                                              
• Prepare scientific manuscripts and abstracts including primary authorship of research papers

Studies                                                

• Collaborate independently with biomedical researchers in designing and implementing studies, analyzing data, and publishing results from research projects
• Interpret and present study results in collaboration with faculty members, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and project team members.

Communication                                               

• Provide oral presentations at professional/scientific meetings, workshops, and seminar series
• Provide tabular and written summaries of analyses in a form suitable for inclusion in project deliverables as well as media for presentation at project meetings.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other biostatistics and information technology professionals.
• Responsible For content expertise and writing selected sections of project final reports; participates in the editing of reports; responsible for the execution and production of presentation-ready final project deliverables.
• Participate in the oral presentation of all project findings and abstracts including participation in periodic project status meetings and presentation of final project deliverables.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Epidemiology, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years health-related research experience (preferably in biostatistics or epidemilogy,) participating in project management and/or relevant experience in research and evaluation projects.  This experience may be concurrent with satisfying degree requirements, but must include scientific research data analysis and database management.
• Knowledge of PC database construction, especially MS Access Database Programming.
• Working knowledge of current statistical packages ex. SAS, STATA, R etc.
• Strong communication skills, both the oral and written necessary to interact with state and national counterparts, internal and external senior management, project team members and study participants.
• Demonstrated ability to direct projects.
• Ability to travel to off-site locations