Summary

This position is located within IQuESt, the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. We are the largest center for Health Services Research within the Southwest. We conduct high-quality scientific research that improves the health of patients across the nation, by helping to ensure the patient-centered delivery of scientific discoveries.

Job Duties

• Provides technical expertise as an essential member of collaborative research teams.
• Extracts, manages, and analyzes data in a cloud-computing environment (e.g., VA VINCI).
• Organizes and manipulates administrative health care data and electronic health record data to support answering health services research questions.
• Monitors changes to data sources that may affect data quality or usefulness.
• Alerts team members to potential data quality issues.
• Communicates with corporate data warehouse managers on behalf of the project team for data acquisition and troubleshooting.
• Prepares datasets in consultation with research statisticians and methodologists to support complex analyses.
• Supports team functioning through use of shared project folders and sharing code with other analysts.
• Demonstrates a commitment to quality and attention to detail.
• Provides and documents thorough validation of data so that investigators can be confident that prepared datasets are appropriate for answering research questions.
• Attends and actively participates in project team meetings.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Biostatistics or a  related field.
• Three years of relevant experience.