Biostatistical Consultant I, Internal Medicine

Biostatistical Consultant I, General Internal Medicine

Why UT Southwestern Medical Center?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. At UT Southwestern, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development that align with your future goals and help to provide security for you and your family. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more that are all available on the day you start work. UT Southwestern is honored to be a Veteran Friendly work environment that is home to approximately 800 veterans. We value your integrity, dedication, and the commitment you’ve made to our country. We’re proud to support your next mission. Ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 10 National Employers, we invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth.

Why join the Internal Medicine Department?

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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Job Summary 

Do you enjoy working with data to translate information into insight and using research to solve pressing issues in US health care? UTSW is seeking an individual with these interests – along with exceptional data management, analytical, critical thinking, and organizational skills – to join the Division of General Internal Medicine as a Biostatistical Consultant I. 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.

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.

Experience and Education 

• Master’s degree in biostatistics or related discipline, or MPH with a concentration in biostatistics.
• Minimum one (1) year experience in statistical consulting with preference given to experience working in biomedical or health care environment.
• Requires working knowledge of SAS, SPSS or other major statistical package (S+, R, etc.) and Microsoft Office (ACCESS and EXCEL).

Lab Duties

• 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.

Job Duties

• Collaborates with investigators to identify problems and provide statistical consultation including design of experiments, analysis of data and interpretation of results.
• Writes statistical portion on 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-statitical components of consulting such as providing analgous 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 become familiar with and interested in client\’s research and data.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

To learn more about the benefits UT Southwestern offers, visit https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/employees/hr-resources/

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