Biostatistician IV - Smidt Heart Institute; Albert Group

Biostatistician IV - Smidt Heart Institute (Albert Group)

Full-time

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Company Name: CEDARS‑SINAI

Grow your career at Cedars‑Sinai!
The Smidt Heart Institute reflects Cedars‑Sinai's steadfast dedication to heart disease and research innovation, providing patients access to the highest level of care. Year after year, thousands of people trust their hearts to the Smidt Heart Institute. Our cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and niche care teams treat the full spectrum of heart disease and disorders while our investigators continue to advance the field with groundbreaking, life‑saving research.

From genetic counseling and targeted drug therapies to a growing array of minimally invasive procedures, Cedars‑Sinai stands at the forefront of technology, innovation and discovery improving patient outcomes.

Join our team and use your skills with an organization known nationally for excellence in research!

• Collaborate with and provide statistical services to Principal Investigators, Research Scientists, Research Nurses, and other related research staff, applying biostatistics to sophisticated research projects.
• Apply theoretical knowledge to solve unusual or highly sophisticated problems.
• Develop and implement a variety of sophisticated biostatistics applications.
• Provide reporting to internal customers, external customers, and public reporting agencies; interact with research scientists, database managers, study coordinators and data entry clerks in analyzing sophisticated results, interpreting biostatistical findings, and gathering information for program formulation.
• Provide statistical analysis and programming support for the medical research area.
• Analyze medical research data: meet with investigators, define scope of work, estimate time, develop an analysis plan, implement appropriate statistical methods using statistical software, report and interpret findings, review study design, and determine sample size and power.
• Offer statistical services including data management, data analysis, and database design.
• Serve as a statistical consultant to the Institutional Review Board.

• Provide statistical and analytical services, and programming support to researchers, clinicians, management, clinical areas, and for medical research.
• Interact and advise investigators in translating scientific questions into meaningful, statistically testable hypotheses.
• Define the scope of work and propose an analytical plan with a time estimate.
• Provide statistical expertise in the design of sophisticated experiments and studies, research proposal development, sample size determination, randomization procedures, and plans for interim and final analysis.
• Recommend appropriate statistical analyses for clinical outcomes and research questions.
• Execute a variety of highly sophisticated statistical analyses for projects using appropriate statistical and computing methodologies, and present results clearly.
• Summarize and interpret analysis findings for written reports and participate in writing statistical sections of manuscripts, publications, presentations, grant applications, and protocols.
• Provide monthly statistical reviews for all projects submitted to the General Clinical Research Center Scientific Advisory Committee.
• Review the integrity and statistical soundness of all studies involving human subjects or animals by participating in Research Review Committees and Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees.
• Offer ex officio service on IRB committees and review IRB submissions for acceptability of sample size justifications.
• Collaborate with the Clinical Research Office in…