Quantitative Research Specialist

Provide technical assistance to research teams and perform statistical programming, analysis, and data management of large administrative claims datasets for Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy (CHOP). Assist clinicians and other clinical researchers in determining the appropriate analytical methodology to meet their needs, use various statistical packages, and summarize and interpret statistical results. Clean large datasets and create cohort files. Manage very large data sets, including Medicare, MarketScan, BCBSM, registries and other data sets, and perform statistical analysis. Work closely with faculty, fellows, biostatisticians and database administrators to: understand research project and proposal designs and requirements; write, test and implement programs based on the analytic design of the project or proposal using STATA, SAS or R to clean, manage, merge, and analyze data; develop statistical analyses for presentation and discussion with the principal investigator and others; contribute to study reports or manuscripts by preparing tables, graphs and other data displays; create and maintain technical documentation; contribute to the development of methods to evaluate progress of data collection on new projects; participate as a team member in discussions on analysis and improvement of data collection, quality of data analyses, programming and documentation. Remote work up to 80% permitted.