The ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians has collaborated on a topic-contributed session, titled “Strategic Career Planning for the Academic Statistical Scientist: Another Kind of “Survival Analysis,” for the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in San Diego, California.
The session will focus on career development for master’s- and PhD-level biostatisticians who are recruited by academic institutions to be primarily involved in consulting and collaborating. This panel and floor discussion will focus on how collaborating biostatisticians and their units can survive and thrive in academia today. The panel members will cover two perspectives: that of the individual biostatistician and that of the leader of the biostatistics unit.
Issues to be addressed include the following:
- Mutual expectations and responsibilities by the individual and the institution to ensure career-long, on-the-job learning and general professional growth (in spite of limited resources)
- Sound, but not burdensome, documentation of consulting and collaborative successes, goals set and met, and how the individual adds general value to the academic unit, key research teams, and entire institution
- Criteria for promotion, and, if applicable, tenure
To register for JSM, visit the JSM website.
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