Biostatistician (Ophthalmology)
About The Position
The Biostatistician analyzes large-scale longitudinal data abstracted or extracted from electronic health records, laboratory and pharmacy databases, and patient-reported outcome surveys. The role provides statistical expertise in study design, data management and quality control, and analyses of observational and longitudinal data. The Biostatistician contributes as a coauthor to manuscripts and presentations reporting study results. In the Wilmer Eye Institute’s Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, this position serves as the biostatistician for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Vision Initiative evaluation and the team’s funded research projects. The work includes designing and analyzing program outcome evaluations and longitudinal clinical and patient-reported data, preparing statistical content for reports and publications, and contributing to Phase II design and analysis plans.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, or a related quantitative field.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma or equivalent, subject to the JHU equivalency formula.
Responsibilities
- Use and expand existing SAS and R programs to clean and organize incoming JHHCC and CNICS data.
- Identify potential problems with study data and collaborate with data managers to resolve them.
- Review concept sheets and draft statistical analysis plans aligned with research objectives.
- Generate analytic datasets, codebooks, and other documentation.
- Analyze individual-level data to address scientific questions.
- Prepare data tables and figures for publications and scientific presentations.
- Contribute to technical and scientific writing and review concept sheets, reports, posters, and manuscripts, particularly statistical methods and interpretation of results.
- Document study decisions and archive code to support reproducibility of research findings.
- Navigate and contribute to shared files to support a transparent research workspace.
- Assist with writing the approach section of research proposals.
- Attend meetings and provide status updates on data processing and research projects.
- Use professional judgment in handling sensitive information.
- Define analytic approaches, specify outcome measures and comparison strategies, and analyze program outcomes using large program datasets for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Vision Initiative evaluation.
- Contribute to the statistical design of Phase II of the Initiative, including specification of individual-level longitudinal data elements and analysis plans.
- Design and conduct analyses of longitudinal clinical and patient-reported outcome data from electronic health records and study databases.
- Prepare interim and final analyses and statistical content for sponsor reports, manuscripts, abstracts, and research proposals.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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Job Type
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