Data Scientist, 40Hrs, Cardiovascular Medicine-One Brave Ide

Company: CTI Education Group
Location: Brookline
Posted on: April 4, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description - Data Scientist, 40Hrs, Cardiovascular Medicine-One Brave Idea (3150031) Data Scientist, 40Hrs, Cardiovascular Medicine-One Brave Idea - ( 3150031 ) One Brave Idea (OBI) is a unique $75 million investment focused on combating coronary heart disease, enabled by a collaboration between the American Heart Association, Verily, AstraZeneca, and Quest Diagnostics. The goal of the investment is to combine innovative participant phenotyping, large scale genetic, genomic and proteomic characterization, and mechanistic cell biology to enable novel discoveries and drive their application to clinical practice. OBI's current activities include work in data analytics, genomics, genetics, cell biology, care redesign, and machine learning. The organization is composed of approximately 40 individuals including faculty, staff, and research and clinical fellows and associates. OBI operates with a startup mentality - as such, the biostatistician must be able to adapt to evolving goals and priorities. The Data Scientist I position described here involves scalable database queries and statistical and machine learning analyses of clinical trial, cohort and electronic health record data, with a focus on identifying and following in silico patient cohorts, making inferences from observational data and training predictive models. Qualified candidates will have advanced formal training in statistics or biostatistics including design and analysis of observational and experimental studies, and strong statistical computing and programming skills, including version control and parallel computing. Comfort with a broad range of data types, including clinical, sensor, text, and imaging data is ideal. The candidate will work in collaboration with the Chief Data Scientist and Data Analysis Group at One Brave Idea. There will be the opportunity for career development with respect to authorship opportunities for journal manuscripts and abstracts/posters for professional scientific meetings PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Explore large (> 5,000,000 patients) databases of observational data to define and test hypotheses related to predictors of health and disease and clinical trajectories.
• Building machine learning predictive models using a variety of inputs - but mainly focused on text models.
• Collaborate with other Data Analysis Group members to develop and perform statistical analyses (including planning, programming, analysis, interpretation, visualization and writing of results) for investigational protocols, subgroup and post-hoc projects and registry databases ending with preparation of manuscripts, abstracts and presentations at scientific meetings.
• Organize analyses in a reproducible research workflow
• Write code using a collaborative version control system, ensuring proper documentation and periodic refactoring.
• Possess a solid understanding of the purpose, objectives and goals of each study - including studies that are interdisciplinary.
• Rearranges data in a format that allows for accurate use as well as possible integration and pooling across data sets.
• Maintain department service standards as outlined in the BWH Code of Conduct
• Performs other duties as required and as appropriate. SKILLS/ ABILITIES/ COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:
  • Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
  • Possess strong analytical skills
  • Ability to prioritize assignments, multi-task, make decisions based upon sound principles, and independently problem solve.
  • Ability to draft plans to resolve inaccuracies or other problematic situations.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Detail and process oriented
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, including both long-term and short-term projects
  • Ability to make decisions related to issues in the statistical group pending final approval from the Chief Data Scientist.
  • Ability to develop novel ways to coordinate, manage and report data if required by new trials.
  • Demonstrated sound independent judgment and competencies in clinical research. QUALIFICATIONS:
    • Bachelor's degree in biostatistics or statistics or computer science - Master's degree preferred
    • Strong expertise in Python
    • Excellent coding practices including version control, refactoring, and running tests
    • Expertise in training predictive models using complex multi-dimensional data
    • Experience dealing with statistical adjustment procedures for confounding, selection bias, data missingness, and measurement error.
    • 2 years of related experience Brigham and Women's Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, veteran status, disability unrelated to job requirements, genetic information, military service, or other protected status. Primary Location MA-Brookline-BWH Brookline Hills BWPO Administration Work Locations BWH Brookline Hills BWPO Administration 111 Cypress St Brookline 02447 Job IT/Health IT/Informatics - Other Organization Brigham & Women's Hospital(BWH) Schedule Full-time Standard Hours 40 Shift Day Job Employee Status Regular

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