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The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) is one of six research laboratories within the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command of the U.S. Army Futures Command. The Institute is the Army's lead research laboratory for improving the care of combat casualties. The mission of the Institute is to "Optimize Combat Casualty Care". For more information about USAISR: https://www.usaisr.amedd.army.mil
This is a training opportunity for an applied statistician/data scientist to learn principles of study design, data analysis, and clinical inference specific to conducting combat casualty care research. The participant will collaborate with scientists and clinicians to develop relevant and testable trauma-related research questions and hypotheses, design both animal and human studies, conduct statistical analyses in SAS, learn to analyze data using a variety of other statistical software programs (including but not limited to JMP, SigmaPlot, and GraphPad), apply advanced statistical theories, techniques, and methods to research data, and interpret statistical and clinical findings. The participant will also collaborate with researchers to prepare a variety of products including study protocols, abstracts, and peer-reviewed publications.
Appointment Length
This appointment is a twelve month research appointment, with the possibility to be renewed for additional research periods. Appointments may be extended depending on funding availability, project assignment, program rules, and availability of the participant.
Participant Benefits
Participants will receive a stipend to be determined by USAISR. Stipends are typically based on the participant’s academic standing, discipline, experience, and research facility location. Other benefits may include the following:
Health Insurance Supplement. Participants are eligible to purchase health insurance through ORISE.
Relocation Allowance
Training and Travel Allowance
Nature of Appointment
The participant will not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, DOD, or any other office or agency. Instead, the participant will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE appointment letter and Terms of Appointment.
The participant should be a scientist with a graduate degree in statistics, applied mathematics, or data science and 5+ years of work experience (MS) or 3+ years of work experience (PhD). Skills and experience that are favorable include teaching advanced statistics or data science classes, calculating sample size/power, and preparing publication quality tables and figures. A thorough knowledge of the theory and techniques of applied statistical methods such as linear mixed models, generalized estimating equations, analysis of non-parametric data, and survival analysis are preferred. Strong data management skills as well as knowledge of SAS programming language are highly desirable.
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