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Abstract:
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The foremost role of statisticians in our academic medical center has been to provide collaborative support to the research enterprise. Over the past few years, many of the statisticians on campus were affiliated with a consulting unit within the Dept. of Preventive Medicine. Very recently, this unit has grown to a campus-wide center and, in 2007, to a Dept. of Biostatistics within our School of Medicine. Tracking support provided to grants and projects played a key role in providing metrics of productivity to our campus administrators to justify a Dept. of Biostatistics. This talk will present the types of support provided throughout our medical center, the means of obtaining support, payment options for investigators, metrics used to evaluate our collaborative productivity, and time allocation between consulting and other responsibilities of faculty biostatisticians in our department.
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