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Biostatistician II - Smidt Heart Institute - Dr. Joanna Chikwe's Laboratory
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Biostatistician II - Smidt Heart Institute - Dr. Joanna Chikwe's Laboratory

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Posted:
January 23, 2021
Location:
Los Angeles, California
Salary:
Open
Category:
Staff/Administrative
Under the leadership of Cardiac Surgery Chair, Dr. Joanna Chikwe, as a Research Biostatistician II, you will perform general biostatistical analysis and provides analytical support for projects and interacts with investigators to identify research problems and apply appropriate programming methods. You will manage and analyze clinical and outcomes data including loading and querying data from various surgery databases and transform and merge multilevel data into user-friendly formats. He/she will provide data analysis, preliminary interpretation of the data, and reports of the results for possible publications. You will also work with biostatistical and bioinformatics personnel and resources to determine future needs and help to develop tools and pipelines as necessary to keep pace with rapid advances in technology.

Will demonstrate initiative and continuous self-improvement, make effective contributions to the Smidt Heart Institute, and adhere to the Cedars-Sinai compliance plan, code of conduct, and hospital and departmental policies and procedures. He/she may serve as a preceptor for students and should have experience in data analyses, statistical programming, and data management, and be highly motivated and able to learn new analytical skills. May be responsible for the following activities: cleaning and analyzing large databases of patient data; contributing to the preparation and presentation of research results in the form of oral presentation at meetings and conferences and in the form of publications; and, coordinating collaborative research activities with investigators within other departments and at other institutions across the U.S. and other countries around the world.

Essential job duties and responsibilities:
  • Provides general bioinformatics analysis support for clinical data analysis as well as analysis of omics data.
  • Summarizes data analyses results in the form suitable as the basis for the first draft of written reports, and makes preliminary interpretations of the data.
  • Develop, test, and maintain modular programming pipelines for clinical, biomarker, and outcomes data.
  • Manages data including loading and querying data from database systems, and transforming data to the necessary formats.
  • Familiar with medical terminologies and biostatistical and bioinformatics resources.
  • Ready to provide solutions for investigator's problems through data mining, extraction, and analyses.
  • Identify, evaluate, and incorporate relevant analytical methods by reviewing pertinent literature.
  • Assists or collaborate in preparation of grant proposals, publications, and presentations.
  • Educates others about biostatistics through mentoring of and teaching colleagues, investigators, fellows, and graduate students.

Internal Number: 20000380
About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major t...eaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
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