The Senior Statistician will be a highly motivated scientific researcher with advanced statistical programming and data management skills using STATA, SAS, R, and other data science tools.  The Senior Statistician will work with a group of collegial, innovative, and productive epidemiology and health outcomes researchers and clinicians at the University of California, San Francisco, who are focused on improving the health of older persons.  Members of the research group have joint appointments between UCSF and the San Francisco VA Medical Center.  The research group highly values mutual respect and collegiality and the Senior Statistician is an essential and highly respected part of our team.  The ideal candidate will execute, manage, and coordinate research protocols, data collection and operations of several concurrent clinical research studies under the guidelines of research protocols, UCSF/SFVAMC and regulating agency policies.

The incumbent’s duties will include, but will not be limited to working in a largely independent manner with large, complex databases to derive analytic datasets; determining the optimal statistical approaches for assessing research aims; perform and interpret statistical analyses and assist with the presentation of findings; prepare the statistical sections of manuscripts and preliminary data sections for extramural grants; provide statistical programming and analysis consultation for geriatrics fellows and for junior faculty; develop study protocols and write study documentation procedures (including analysis plans, protocols and standard operating procedures); design, develop, and document quality control systems for data validation; interact with data warehouse support, research study data help desks, and extramural investigators to resolve data discrepancies and data quality questions; and perform other duties as assigned.

Essential Functions:

• Make independent decisions both broad and detailed about data management.  Perform data management on large, complex datasets.  Acquire substantive understanding of data variables (e.g. which ICD-10 codes are typically recorded for patients with specific diagnoses; what are the formulas giving the inter-relationships of various measures of blood pressure).
• Independently determine optimal statistical approaches to perform analyses and apply statistical approaches to large, complex analytic datasets for geriatrics faculty. 
• Respond rapidly to statistical requests from manuscript reviewers in an independent manner.
• Write new computer programs as necessary to implement statistical approaches used. 
• Independently write statistical methods sections of manuscripts and data analysis sections for extramural grants.  Prepare tables and graphs for manuscripts and grant.  Assist in writing results sections of manuscripts and preliminary findings sections of grants.
• Provide statistical consultation to geriatrics research fellows and to junior faculty.
• Research and understand details of complex statistical modeling.  Adapt mathematical and statistical models for novel analyses of complex medical data.
• Play a leadership role in guiding the analytic functions of the research projects in the research group.  Advise principal investigators on appropriate experimental designs and statistical tests in order that valid conclusions can be obtained.
• Advise on database design and data input screens for primary data collection.
• Independently develop study protocols and documentation procedures, and design, develop, and document quality control systems for data validation.
• Serve as a liaison between the research group and data warehouse support centers, research study help desks, and extramural investigators in resolving questions about data quality, data definitions, and data discrepancies.
• May serve as first- or co-author on publications in major medical journals, and may be required to travel to conferences for presentations/research dissemination purposes.