The Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan is committed to creating a positive, substantive impact on human health, through collaboration among clinicians, scientists, medical and business professionals to achieve innovative science and meaningful discovery.
The individual in this position will work under the direction of Dr. Ryan Howard. Dr. Howard is a minimally invasive surgeon and health services researcher at Michigan Medicine. His research focuses on studying the quality and safety of surgical care. To do this, he uses large healthcare datasets to analyze trends in care delivery, the costs of care, and patient outcomes. Some of his specific areas of interest include long-term patient outcomes after hernia and bariatric surgery, the comparative effectiveness of medical and surgical treatment of obesity, and postoperative opioid prescribing.
The statistician in this position will be integral to executing research projects by performing organization and maintenance of large administrative datasets, statistical programming (i.e., coding), data analysis, and summarization and interpretation of the results. The individual in this position will also help determine the appropriate analytic methodologies for specific projects. In this role, this individual will support and work alongside Dr. Howard, his research collaborators, and various trainees working on these research projects.
The statistician in this position should be comfortable cleaning large datasets and creating cohort files. This position requires management of very large data sets including Medicare, Medicaid, MarketScan, Truven, regional insurance claims, and patient registries.