Job Erasmus MC - Scientific programmer/statistician

• Maintain and further develop our code library for performing statistical analyses on clinical data in a distributed fashion;
• Build applications that can be run locally at our partner’s sites across Europe to facilitate data manipulation for active product surveillance;
• Collaborate with epidemiology researchers in defining statistical analyses plans, and running the statistical analyses locally;
• Provide support in developing remote research environments;
• Develop, implement and test novel data mining techniques in the area of pediatric research;
• Support teaching statistics in the quantitative risk quantification track of the EU2P e-learning programs (www.eu2p.org).

We are looking for a (bio)statistician with proven experience in programming, preferably in Java, SAS and R to support and potentially guide our epidemiological researchers in several international projects that require distributed approaches to data linkage and analyses of large healthcare databases. The candidate holds a Master’s or Ph.D. degree in (bio)statistics, (bio)informatics or related field with experience in programming. Experience with software engineering tools and approaches is an advantage. Entering a Ph.D. program is a possibility. You should be dedicated, flexible, precise, creative, communicative, cooperative, fluent in English and able to work both independently as well as collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.

Our institute is internationally at the forefront of pharmacoepidemiology and medical informatics and offers a dynamic, challenging, and cooperative research environment. As a scientific programmer you will get a temporary position for a period of two years (full-time). The gross monthly salary depends on previous experience and will be in line with scale 10. The terms of employment are in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Medical Centers (CAO UMC).

Erasmus MC inspires and is challenging. You create your own opportunities in this University Medical Center. Whether it concerns learning and work or work and learning/continued learning. Each and every day our enthusiastic staff devote themselves to excellent, dedicated patient care, pioneering medical research and valued education. A conscious choice for work that matters, both nationally and internationally, at the heart of our multicultural home base ofRotterdam. Where attention to individual staff member comes naturally. Working from the heart. Together with people, for people: ‘patient-centered care’!

The department of Medical Informatics is specialized in using routine healthcare data to study the effects of drugs. Large expertise has been built in using GP medical record data on more than a million patients in the Netherlands (the IPCI database: www.ipci.nl). Currently the department is collaborating in and coordinating several projects that aim at building EU and global wide linkage of database to increase the scale of drug and vaccine safety investigations (www.euadr-project.org; www.sos-nsaids-projetc.org; www.aritmo-project.org; www.vaesco.net). Within the context of these projects, we aim at building and using infrastructure to study the effects of drugs by secondary use of data generated in routine care.

Requests for information should be directed to Desiree de Jong, e-mail: d.i.m.dejong@erasmusmc.nl.