Investigator/Senior Investigator

Biostatistician

Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (CHR) seeks a highly skilled, collaborative researcher with expertise in research design and biostatistics. As a CHR Investigator or Senior Investigator, you will contribute to the writing of grant proposals, work with our data management team to ensure data integrity, conduct or guide statistical analyses, co-author manuscripts for publication, and present your work to scientific and professional organizations. In addition, you’ll be supported to initiate and carry out your own line of research to help advance CHR’s research agenda. 

The successful applicant will have a mix of the following qualifications:

· A minimum of 2 years’ experience as lead biostatistics co-investigator or principal investigator of research projects.

· Doctoral degree in statistics or other field with emphasis on research methods and statistics.

· Comprehensive knowledge of quantitative methods (from mathematics and statistics) and research methodology in various research contexts (e.g., naturalistic studies, clinic trials, observational studies).

· Working knowledge of health care organization, policy, practice, and management (to facilitate application of research to medical and health care phenomena).

· Outstanding demonstrated ability to write and communicate effectively to scientific or technical audiences and to communicate statistical concepts to non-statisticians.

· Experience working on multisite studies.

· Demonstrated experience in a variety of methods:

   o Individual and cluster-randomized trials, pragmatic trials, and adaptive trials

   o Assessment of treatment effects analysis from observational data (e.g., propensity scores, instrumental variables, inverse probability of treatment weighting, marginal structural models, interrupted time series)

   o Statistical power analysis techniques for sample size justification and minimum detectable effect size

Since 1964, the Center for Health Research has pursued a vigorous agenda of public health research from our headquarters in Portland, Oregon, with a sister location in Hawaii. Our close association with Kaiser Permanente affords us access to large, diverse member populations, and we also collaborate across health systems through our participation in several large research networks. We currently employ more than 40 research scientists and 240 research staff. Our new Investigator/Senior Investigator will join the four biostatistics investigators and three senior biostatisticians who make up our Biostatistics Core, which works with our Research Analysts group to build and analyze datasets extracted from Kaiser Permanente’s EMR data or primary data collection. Our centralized departments provide the infrastructure and expertise necessary to support investigators as they write grant proposals, conduct studies, and publish their findings. For more information about CHR, please visit www.kpchr.org. 

Information on applying for this position can be found at www.kaiserpermanentejobs.org  (enter keyword 609743 for Investigator or 609747 for Senior Investigator level position) or the Search Committee Chair, John Dickerson at John.F.Dickerson@kpchr.org.