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The Quantitative Sciences Unit in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University is seeking a highly motivated, hard-working and professional biostatistician to join their team. The successful candidate will join a vibrant team of academic statisticians working on a wide variety of collaborative projects in medicine. This position holds excellent career development opportunities.
Duties include:
- Taking the statistical lead on studies including; designing the study, the analysis plan and carrying out the statistical programming and data management to implement the plan.
- Overseeing junior-level biostatisticians on data cleaning and creation of analytic files and mentoring junior-level biostatisticians in the area of conducting collaborative research.
- Leading statistical projects related to collaborations on topics including the evaluation of statistical software or methods as well as the development of novel methods, as is relevant and necessary for QSU collaborative projects.
- Consulting with investigators in the Department of Medicine to independently design studies and develop analysis plans. More specifically, the incumbent will meet one-on-one with the collaborator to gain background on the study and the research questions and help to refine the questions and formulate the hypotheses. The incumbent will also extract necessary information to design the study with optimal operating characteristics and to develop a sound statistical plan.
- Developing oral and written dissemination of findings for meetings with collaborators or for medical and/or statistical journal articles. The incumbent is also expected to develop lectures on statistical methods or statistical programming for the training of clinical investigators as needed and for the training of junior biostatisticians.
- Developing and writing grant proposals.
QUALIFICATIONS:
REQUIRED:
- Ph.D. in Biostatistics, Statistics, or related field
- Capable of functioning independently and collaboratively at an advanced level under the overall direction of the QSU Director.
- Experience with multiple statistical programming languages such as SAS and R
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to all audiences
- Skilled in descriptive analysis, modeling of data, and graphic interfaces
- Demonstrated expertise in statistical methodology
DESIRED:
- At least two years of experience collaborating as a biostatistician is desirable.
- Experience supervising technical staff including training, mentoring and coaching.
- Experience developing and writing grant proposals.
Please apply on-line at https://stanford.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=63121&lang=en&sns_id=addthis-service-code
For those attending the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston in August and who may be interested in learning more about this position at JSM, please email Manisha Desai at manishad@stanford.edu.
Manisha Desai
Associate Professor
Director of the Quantitative Sciences Unit
Stanford University