JOB DESCRIPTION

The Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science embedded within the Department of Population Health Science & Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seeking a highly motivated individual for a full-time post-doctoral research position . Ideal candidates will have an interest in collaborative work as statistician focused on clinical trial and observational studies in cancer research. Other areas of interest will include Hospital epidemiology, Transgender Medicine and Surgery, Geriatrics, Nutrition, Respiratory Disease (Asthma, COPD, Lung disease, Sleep Apnea), Neurology, Psychiatry (Addiction, Aggression, etc.), Pharmacology, and Women’s health.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Duties & Responsibilities :

• Helps implement novel methodology through programming;

• Collaborates with clinical and laboratory researchers for investigator-initiated protocol development;

• Attends Protocol review committee and represents biostatistical shared resource facility group as a reviewer;

• Provides consultation to the clinical research project team on statistical issues related to the project;

• Manipulates databases to obtain and analyze variables as required;

• Identifies potential data problems from analytic queries and takes appropriate actions to guide the resolution process;

• Utilizes knowledge of statistics and medical understanding to refine questions and hypothesis;

• Prepares statistical analysis plans; performs and interprets basic analyses;

• Performs statistical programming to implement complex statistical analysis plan;

• Documents analyses, creates summaries and presents results to collaborators verbally and as a presentation;

• Writes statistical text for study reports to be incorporated in abstracts, manuscripts;

• Collaborates with principal investigators, sponsors and external representatives to ensure that project results and conclusions are presented accurately and without bias and to jointly achieve objectives and timelines;

• Performs other related duties.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications :

• PhD in Biostatistics/Statistics;

• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills;

• Ability to work independently, under minimal supervision, and as part of a team;

• Ability to coordinate the analytical aspects of multiple projects at the same time.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Background in Oncology, either by education or professional experience;

• Experience in the utilization of Bayesian design and adaptive clinical trial designs.

SPOC-UAW Local 4100 at Icahn School of Medicine (Post Docs), 811 - Population Health Science and Policy - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.?

ABOUT US

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3018550