Visiting Biostatistician - Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Position Summary
The Visiting Biostatistician will mainly work with the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. The Visiting Biostatistician will be involved in all states of the research process, and provides study design, data management, statistical analysis, quality assurance, and study management services to a broad array of cardiometabolic research, including multi-omics, clinical, preclinical, epidemiological, and translational studies, in addition to review of protocols and grant applications.

The Visiting Biostatistician will work under the guidance and in collaboration with Endocrinology faculty, and will provide statistical data support on design, analysis, interpretation and implementation to investigators for research/trial activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

Collaborate in the development of study designs, and specifically data processing and analytic protocols, for high dimensional multi-omics research of large epidemiologic studies. Analyses will include not only data cleaning and testing specific study hypotheses but utilizing AI/ML methods and performing sample size or power calculations.

Use statistical and medical understanding to appropriately perform and advise investigators in data collection, management and analyses for multi-omics and traditional epidemiologic studies (i.e., genome wide association studies, longitudinal cohort studies and randomized controlled trials); provide interpretation and documentation of scientific data analyses, creates summaries, and present results in written and verbal form to investigator(s).

Performs a range of activities to facilitate the design of research projects and clinical trials; Contributes data management of on-going longitudinal studies, dataset development, data analyses and interpretation for preparation and delivery of reports for peer-reviewed publication, grant proposal and application, and presentations.

Collaborate with investigator(s) to ensure that project/trial results and conclusions are presented accurately and without bias.

Clean, organizes and performs quality control of data in preparation for analyses; prepares and edits data summaries of data analyses.

Attend project meetings with faculty, principal investigators, research staff, and other relevant stakeholders; Serve on research related committees such as the Protocol Review Committee (PRC) and/or Data Safety and Management Committee (DSMC).

Retain all study data in accordance with sponsor requirements and university policies and procedures.

Partner with investigator(s) to jointly achieve objectives and timeliness.

Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.