Biostatistics support is available to investigators in the Brigham and Women's research community for statistical consulting on issues such as study design and data analysis for manuscripts and grant applications. Resources are limited, so planning ahead is essential. The Biostatistics Consulting Service is part of the Biostatistics Core of the Center for Clinical Investigation.
FEE STRUCTURE
Funding is required for everything except the initial half-hour phone consultation and grants. Your grant must specify no less than .05 FTE from the CCI Biostatistics Core to account for eventual analysis. All other work will incur a fee of $100/hr.
Your biostatistician will give you a time estimate after learning about the project. Historically, abstracts have averaged 15-25 hours, manuscripts have averaged 20-60 hours, and grants have averaged 15-40 hours.
CONSULT DETAILS
Send your request for statistical consulting to Dr. Hurwitz using your primary work email. Click here for a direct link to Dr. Hurwitz's email, or call 2-6467 with questions. In order for your request to be considered, you must provide ALL of the applicable information listed below in the body of your email using plain text. You may send supporting materials as attachments. We will email you back in about a week. We generally need a month's advance notice. Click here for a more detailed timeline.
Personal information:
- Name:
- Division:
- Department:
- Hospital/Institution:
- Phone number:
- Faculty rank:
- Your faculty mentor if you are not faculty:
- Type of project: Grant, Manuscript, Abstract, Design (not for grant), or Brief Consultation?
- You can call us directly for Brief Consultations after emailing the applicable information.
- Abstracts and Manuscripts will have the statistician as co-author.
- Title of the project:
- Description including the design that is detailed enough for us to ascertain the scope and the stage of the project:
- If not for a grant, then source of funds:
- If Data Analysis, where is the data and how is it arranged? Click here for recommended data format.
- If Grant or Abstract, official submission deadline:
HIPAA: Do not communicate any information that can identify patients or subjects.
BIOSTATISTICAL CONSULT SERVICE STAFF:
Click here for detailed information about the staff.
Shelley Hurwitz, PhD, Biostatistics Center Director
Jie Chen, PhD, Biostatistician
Hillary Keenan, PhD, Biostatistician
Rie Maurer, MA, Biostatistician
Maria Shubina, DSc, Biostatistician
Usha Govindarajulu, PhD, Biostatistician
BIOSTATISTICS EDUCATION PROGRAM
The Biostatistics Center offers several short courses each year. For full details please visit the CCI's Education program. Registration is required, and announcements are sent to all researchers by email in the periodic Center for Clinical Investigation email newsletter. If you aren't receiving CCI announcements, contact Program Coordinator Erica Eagan to join the list. The following are some of the recent statistical course offerings:
Winter 07: Problem-Based Biostatistics Seminar for Physiologic Investigators
Fall 06: Introductory Statistics for Medical Researchers
Spring 06: Introductory Statistics for Medical Researchers
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