Johns Hopkins University: School of Medicine: Department of Medicine: Rheumatology
Location
Baltimore, MD, 21205
Open Date
Nov 06, 2026
Salary Range or Pay Grade
$70,000 - $75,000
Description
General summary/purpose:
The Johns Hopkins inHealth Precision Medicine Initiative (Hopkins inHealth) is a partnership of John Hopkins University, Medicine, and Applied Physics Laboratory strategic initiative to turn precision medicine into reality, leveraging the partners' multi-disciplinary expertise as well as its best-in-class data analytics infrastructure. The Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine is an inHealth leader. We develop statistical tools to enhance medical care including personalized risk predictions of critical events for patients with rheumatic diseases. We are seeking a research data scientist/biostatistician to improve data wrangling and analysis processes that create, test, and implement data science tools into the discovery and delivery of improved medical services.
Specific duties & responsibilities:
- Collaborate with statisticians and clinicians to wrangle raw clinical data into cohort datasets for research and conduct statistical analyses that address scientific questions.
- Continuously create and integrate state-of-the-art statistical tools and new statistical methodologies into a wrangling and analysis stack for deployment across Rheumatology and ultimately Johns Hopkins Medicine.
- Participate as a key member of the Rheumatology P30 Data Science Core led by Dr. Scott Zeger.
- Participates in regularly scheduled meetings with investigators and teams that require statistical input.
- Design statistical procedures for specific research endeavors and prepare written reports.
- Assist with writing statistical design, methods, and analysis for manuscripts and research proposals.
- Analyze data and prepare tables and figures for interim and final reports.
- Ensure data integrity and compliance with security policies governed by HIPAA and the Johns Hopkins IRB.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications (mandatory):
- Master's Degree in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, or related quantitative field.
- One-year related experience.
- Demonstrated ability via a significant graduate project or additional doctoral education may substitute for experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred qualifications:
- Basic data science skills such as using: Unix tools, version control systems (e.g. git and Github), and virtualization (e.g. Docker);
- Proficiency in software package development, especially in R and/or Python
- Proficiency in or ability to learn basic SQL
- Proficiency in or ability to learn artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies, including large language models (LLM) and their applications;
- Training or equivalent experience analyzing data;
- Willingness to stay current with emerging data science tools and to learn new statistical techniques;
- Commitment to translating data science research into real-world impact.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Salary Range
The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.
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