The ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians will sponsor a topic-contributed session for the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in San Diego, California. The session is titled Strategic Career Planning for the Academic Statistical Scientist: Another Kind of ‘Survival Analysis.’
The focus of the session is on career development for master’s and PhD 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 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 the entire institution; and criteria for promotion, and, if applicable, tenure.
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