Work with Us

Consultation on grant proposals, research projects, and investigator-initiated studies with funding support can be scheduled through our intake form. We will schedule an initial meeting after we review the request. Before scheduling a request, please first read through the scope of our service and requirements.

Major service categories include grant application, data analytics, and others (non-grant, non-analytical related consultation, e.g., a group has its own biostatistician and wants to consult the best methods for analysis or data sources).

• If grant applications, the investigator needs to provide the following:
  • Stage of preparation
  • Grant submission deadline (All projects require at least one month’s notice before the application deadline to provide a written plan. Larger studies (e.g., program project grants, multicenter studies, data coordinating centers) may require more time.)
  • Potential funding period
  • Major statistical needs in the grant: data cleaning, data analytics, clinical trial-related support (e.g., DSMB reports)
• If data analytics, the investigator needs to provide the following:
  • Amount of funding support
  • Expected timeline for analysis
  • Data source, if ready
  • Research question
  • Type of study (e.g., clinical trials or observation studies)
  • Data quality, if any data cleaning is needed
  • Codebook for variables
  • Statistical methods and models, if any
  • Journal requirements for manuscript writing, if any
  • Other requests (e.g., data visualization, open source programs)
• If other:
  • We provide consulting for anyone in the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine who need statistical help but would generally not work on any data operation or writing for unfunded projects.
  • Unfunded research, to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Based in part on the criteria set forth by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE):

There is a general recognition for what constitutes a “scientific contribution” in the field of biostatistics. These include, but are not limited to the following:

• The statistician has developed new statistical methods to meet the project's needs, and/or has combined existing techniques in a novel manner.
• The statistician has participated in designing the study.
• The statistician writes part of the manuscript describing which statistical methods were used and/or assists in writing other sections of the manuscript—including revisions.
• The statistician is asked to review/critique an initial draft and spends time suggesting alternative wording and presentation of results.
• The statistician provides data analysis along with interpretation of results.

Our policy is that MS and PhD biostatisticians (including the reproducibility biostatisticians) should not just be listed under acknowledgments if any of the above criteria have been met but should be appropriately recognized with authorship.