"Biostatistician 2"

The following position will have the flexibility to be based anywhere in the U.S., for candidates who are willing to travel to the Stanford School of Medicine campus 5%-10% of the time, as needed.

This will be a 2-year fixed-term position with a possibility for extension based on performance, the availability of funding and programmatic needs.

The Department of Emergency Medicine is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Biostatistician 2 to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and managing emergency medicine population health and health services projects, with a focus on ensuring successful completion of extramurally funded research projects with diverse teams. The position will be primarily based in Dr. Michelle Lin’s lab conducting NIH-funded research to improve emergency care delivery, outcomes, and health equity.

The successful candidate must be technically rigorous, possess exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail and have a track-record of excellence, innovation, and productivity in research. Experience independently designing and analyzing scientific studies using administrative datasets (e.g.: Medicare or commercial claims) is required.

Duties include:

• Design studies.
• Develop and implement protocols for quality control.
• Create analytic files with detailed documentation.
• Select appropriate statistical tools for addressing a given research question.
• Implement data analysis through statistical programming.
• Present results for investigators using graphs and tables.
• Summarize findings orally and in written form.
• Participate in the preparation of papers for publication.
• Consult with investigators on appropriate statistical approaches to data analyses; assist in study design and proposal development.
• Mentor collaborators in areas of experimental design, quality control, and statistical analysis.
• Develop oral and written dissemination of findings for conference presentations and peer-reviewed journal articles.
• Contribute to grant writing to support ongoing and future research initiatives.

* - Other duties may also be assigned.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience leading independent analysis and interpretation of administrative claims datasets (e.g., Medicare, Optum, MarketScan). Other types of data include electronic health records, surveys, and administrative data. The successful candidate will have expertise in data management, analysis of these types of data, and also experience with data extraction and database development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are necessary both internally and externally. The candidate will interface with collaborators and trainees, including data documentation, protocol development, advising, and drafting scientific literature and proposals as related to their statistical analyses, and also write up their own work and present at meetings.
• Proven track record of managing complex research projects from conception to completion (e.g. peer-reviewed publications and references).
• Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects; prioritize and manage multiple active projects and deadlines.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED):

Master's degree in biostatistics, statistics or related field and at least 3 years of experience.

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.

This role is open to candidates anywhere in the United States. Stanford University has five regional pay structures. The compensation for this position will be based on the location of the successful candidate. The expected pay range for this position is $115,103 to $134,261 per annum (within 10 Bay Area counties) or $93,413 to $124,983 per annum (all other regions).

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of the salary or hourly wage the university reasonably expects to pay for a position upon hire. 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.