Post-Doc Research Associate at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in chapel hill, North Carolina
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Job Description:
Department:
Surgery - 414001
Posting Open Date:
10/22/2024
Application Deadline:
10/29/2024
Open Until Filled:
No
Position Type:
Postdoctoral Scholar
Position Title:
Post-Doc Research Associate
Vacancy ID:
PDS004361
Full-time/Part-time:
Full-Time Temporary
Hours per week:
40
FTE:
1
Work Location:
Chapel Hill, NC
Position Location:
North Carolina, US
Estimated Duration of Appointment:
12 Months
Be a Tar Heel!:
A global higher education leader in innovative teaching, research and public service, the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consistently ranks as
one of the nation's top public universities and is among is the top ten research universities in the nation for federal research expenditures as well as for federally funded social and behavioral sciences research and development.Here at Carolina, our highly skilled postdocs play a vital role in our research enterprise and towards our overall commitment to research excellence. Across many disciplines, postdocs contribute to the intellectual vitality of the University. They provide innovative ideas and perspectives, foster a stimulating research environment and advance knowledge within their fields. Postdocs are crucial members of our scientific research workforce, contributors to our research outputs and an important reason why Carolina is one of the leading public research institutions in the country.UNC-Chapel Hill offers postdocs comprehensive
medical and vision coverage, paid leave, and
benefits and services that support professional development and a healthy work/life balance. Chapel Hill regularly ranks as one of the best college towns and best places to live in the United States, a reputation guided by the diverse social, cultural, recreation and professional opportunities that span the campus and community.
Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:
The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation's leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.
Position Summary:
The applied biostatistics and database management post-doc will work closely with the biostatistician/epidemiologist and principal investigators to support ongoing and new research projects within the department using exisiting secondary data, data from ongoing studies or new studies actively enrolling participants. The current priorities of the unit are (1) to provide research support to all clients (faculty, fellows, residents and students) in the department; (2) to collaborate with researchers conducting primary data collection in their clinics; (3) to conduct trainings and workshops at the residents' conference on topics in biostatistics and evaluation of scientific evidence; (4) research project management to improve quality of services and timeliness in delivery of research project deliverables and outputs; and (5) mentoring research trainees. The post-doc role will contribute to the five priorities above and develop their own research projects which focus on three priority and important statistical challenges in using the various observational data we use for surgical research and identify solutions for application and training purposes. Specifically, the post-doc role will develop and implement innovative research and statistical methods that address common statistical challenges including statistical bias, missing data, and causal inference using health insurance claims, survey, registry and other healthcare data.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
PhD, MD or equivalent in related field
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:
Statistical analysis and programming:
* Proficiency in the application of a broad array of analytical and statistical methods such as descriptive and inferential statistics, causal inference such as propensity score methods, trial emulation, multivariate regression, g-computation, clustering, predictive modeling, forecasting, text analysis and machine learning.
* Experience and expertise in modern analytical programming languages including SAS, R, Stata, Python for statistical analysis and programming.
* Experience in research data archiving, code maintenance and sharing.
* Development of complex data visualizations.
* Demonstrated skill in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, statistical analysis, natural language processing and text analysis.
* Experience designing and implementing prospective and retrospective quantitative and qualitative studies.
* Ability to work independently and collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams.
Research Collaboration:
* Work collaboratively as a co-investigator or collaborator on funded research contributing to research and statistical methods, data analysis, scientific writing, results and code dissemination and data archiving as part of funded and non-funded research projects.
* Develop research projects for publication using existing data to demonstrate statistical solutions for statistical bias, missing data and causal inference.
* Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of residents' conference course material and presentation of the material at regular meetings and workshops.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Experience working in a team-based, interdisciplinary environment and clinical research
Research project management skills.
Experience with an electronic/digital project management tool, such as Smartsheet.
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