12/16/12 |
| Company Information:
Division of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics: The position will be housed in the EPH Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, which serves as the primary source of biostatistics expertise and collaboration at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and currently has 9 faculty members involved in research and teaching graduate students in the School of Medicine. The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health has six divisions with 51 full-time faculty members. The department is ranked first in NIH funding among departments of its type in public schools of medicine and second among all medical school departments of its type. Its grant portfolio also is ranked second in the School of Medicine, behind the research-intensive Department of Medicine. The extensive basic and laboratory research capacity of the Greenebaum Cancer Center, the Institute of Human Virology, and the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and other research centers and programs in the School of Medicine and other schools at the University of Maryland provide extensive ground for collaborative research. The planned collaborative School of Public Health and collaborations in graduate education with sister campuses in the UM system also provide many opportunities for collaboration and expansion of the division’s size and scope of activities. UMGCC Biostatistics Shared Service: The most important credential from the perspective of the UMGCC is that the new Biostatistics Shared Service Director has vision and administrative skills, and that he/she recognizes the need to continue building a group with broad expertise in the increasingly diverse field of biostatistics and bioinformatics. The primary task is to provide expertise in innovative biostatistical methods used in clinical trials and clinical research generally.
Position Title:
Director, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Director of the Biostatistics Shared Service |