Senior Research Biostatistician

The TSET Health Promotion Tobacco Research Center (formerly the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center) of the Stephenson Cancer Center at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (Oklahoma City, OK) has an immediate opening for a fulltime master’s or doctoral-level Senior Research Biostatistician to collaborate with medical and scientific researchers in study design, management and analysis of data, interpretation of results, and publication of research. Areas of research include substance and tobacco use prevention and treatment, tobacco regulatory science, obesity, physical activity/sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, alcohol use, vaccination, and cancer prevention and control. The Senior Research Biostatistician will have the opportunity to be involved in ongoing NIH-funded clinical trials, submission of new NIH grant proposals, submission of co-authored manuscripts, ecological momentary assessment and mHealth data collection and analysis, as well as secondary analysis of completed NIH studies and large population-based datasets. Further, opportunities exist for data management, database creation and analysis of the ongoing participant recruitment and clinical trials in the Tobacco Treatment Research Program (TTRP) at HPRC. The TTRP offers free tobacco cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy to adults from campus and the community. For more information, please visit the HPRC website: (http://otrc.stephensoncancercenter.org/home.aspx).
Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
? Managing and assuring quality of datasets for multiple studies;
? Conducting primary and secondary analysis and interpretation of large population-based datasets (like the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study) and existing NIH datasets of HPRC investigators;
? Developing graphs, manuscripts, and presentations to summarize key results;
? Assisting with developing methodology for collecting, analyzing, presenting data and data flow diagramming for studies;
? Assisting in the preparation of manuscripts, grants, and conference presentations.
? Ample training and supports are provided to fulfill these functions.
The position works with several full-time faculty at the HPRC on federally-funded and pilot-funded studies in tobacco use in youth and young adults using laboratory paradigms, tobacco and cannabis use prevention and cessation, and smoking cessation treatment in disadvantaged populations using ecological momentary assessment and MHealth approaches.