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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST SOUGHT SENIOR BIOSTATISTICIAN/SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES, SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA [BASED IN PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA] Initial 1 year appointment – ongoing appointment is possible, dependent on funding and satisfactory perfomance Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) is one of Australia 's leading teaching tertiary hospitals. The Hospital has over 600 beds and employs approximately 5,000 staff who treat over 420,000 patients every year. SCGH has an international reputation for ground-breaking medical research and is home to Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2005 for his groundbreaking work demonstrating that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria and not stress. The Hospital has strong links with all major universities in WA. It is a teaching hospital for medical graduates from the University of Western Australia and the University of Notre Dame Australia and is the employer of choice for new nursing graduates. The Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the University of Westenr Australia is a multidisciplinary team of genetic statisticians, genetic epidemiologists, mathematicians, bioinformaticists, clinicians, molecular biologists and social scientists. The Centre is committed to developing ways of investigating the determinants of complex human disease and exploring ways of using genetic information to improve human health. The group is tightly integrated with numerous clinical and basic science groups in Australia and internationally, and with industry. We are seeking experienced statistical consultants to work jointly at SCGH and at the Centre of Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the University of Western Australia, based in Perth, Australia. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a strong background in medical statistics, genetic statistics or epidemiology to manage a team of analysts dedicated to supporting medical and genetic research within Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and more broadly across the University of Western Australia. The successful applicant will work within a major teaching hospital to statistically analyse human medical research data and apply their experience in study design, data manipulation, data management and analysis to important clinical, epidemiological and genetic problems. The appointee will also have an adjunct appointment at the University of Western Australia within the Centre for Genetic Epidemiolgy and Biostatistics. The appointee will have the opportunity to collaborate with internationally recognised experts in epidemiology, genetic epidemiology and statistics, and will be joining a large team with outstanding computational, statistical, and informatics support. This senior role will involve the supervision of junior statisticians. To discuss or clarify any aspects of the position please contact Clinical Professor Peter Thompson on (08) 9346 4534 or email [log in to unmask] or Wintrhop Professor Lyle Palmer on (08) 9346 1061 or email [log in to unmask]