Biostatistical Consultant I, Internal Medicine

WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report , we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

JOB SUMMARY
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. Internal Medicine department aims to advance UT Southwestern's research mission through SCIENCE.

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Do you enjoy working with data to translate information into insight and using research to solve pressing issues in US health care? The Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine is seeking a Biostatistical Consultant I with academic research experience for investigator-initiated research. This position requires someone with exceptional data management, analytical, critical thinking, and organizational skills. The individual in this position will join a dynamic growing research unit and support data management and analysis efforts in health policy, population health, and health services research studies. This important role is well-suited for motivated self-starters interested in working with national experts and building expertise in health care data.

This position will work with a research and analytic teams at UTSW to complete clinical, population-based and health services research for clinician investigators at UTSW under guidance from Drs. Arthur Hong and Joshua Liao. Prominent research themes include use of administrative claims and electronic health record and disease registry databases to address questions about clinical care delivery, quality, and outcomes of care. This position requires experience with SAS, STATA, R, or Python.

Projects may include:

• Developing statistical analysis plan and independently conduct analysis under guidance.
• Opportunity to gain directed experience and ultimately develop expertise answering clinically relevant questions with large health datasets for a variety of relevant research questions across a wide variety of medical specialties and scientific disciplines.
• Ability to work with interested faculty researchers to across UTSW to develop project ideas into analysis plans, using electronic health records (Epic) from several different health systems, administrative claims-like data from local and commercially-available large datasets, publicly available datasets, and disease registries.

Lab duties will include:

• Assists Clinical Scholars and CRC in: collecting data to perform analysis, creating data reports, preparing and submitting documents to NIH, monitoring compliance documents, designing and creating merge data files and warehouse data sets, performing complex analysis, identifying and interpreting trends and patterns of variations and implications for improvement initiatives.
• Will provide interpretation of data, statistical analysis and application to team for decision making to improve study outcomes.
• Responsible to create and/or utilize UTSW tools for capturing data.

BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
Required

• Education
  Master's Degree In biostatistics or related discipline, or MPH with a concentration in biostatistics

• Experience
  1 year In statistical consulting with preference given to experience working in biomedical or health care environment and
  Requires working knowledge of SAS, SPSS or other major statistical package (S+, R, etc.) and Microsoft Office (ACCESS and EXCEL)

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 portion of manuscript based on results of analysis and address manuscript revisions based on reviewer's comments.
• Assists client data organization.
• 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.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

SECURITY AND EEO STATEMENT
Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

EEO Statement
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.