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June 21, 2006
Economist / Statistician: Wolters Kluwer Health / Pharma Solutions Business Unit
Location: USA
Accept the challenge of this critical support position in our growing Health Economics and Outcomes Research Business unit. As a technical specialist in the areas of Health Economics, Econometric Methods and/or Statistics, you will work closely with lead researchers to ensure the development of appropriate and state-of-the-art methodologies to address client questions. We will expect you to develop a national reputation as a methodologist in the areas of Health Economics and Outcomes Research.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing technical oversight, and services for Outcomes Research projects
- Developing and expanding methodologies
- Working directly with methodology sophisticated external clients
- Training and supporting research staff in the appropriate application of methodologies to business problems
- Continually reviewing literature and evaluating outcomes research studies in order to maintain up-to-date with current methods and improving the quality of solutions provided to clients
- Educating other staff members
- Sharing clinical and economic expertise within outcomes research and patients studies
Consideration for this exciting and challenging opportunity demands:
- Professional degree in healthcare or equivalent
- Ph.D. degree required
- At least 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industries, preferably in a consulting role
- At least 5 years of experience in the health outcomes, pharmacoeconomics and economics arena
- Proficiency in SAS, STATA, Excel, Access and PowerPoint
About Wolters Kluwer Health: Wolters Kluwer is a $3 billion operating company with over 20 business units providing information/content, tools and solutions used by professionals in the core areas of: Tax, Accounting & Legal, Health, Education and Corporate Financial Services. Across all of our markets, we own strong enduring brands such as Adis, Bankers Systems, CCH, Croner, CT Corp, Loislaw, Aspen Publishers, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and Ovid. The Pharma Solutions business unit of Wolters Kluwer Health supports the pharmaceutical industry with quality information, delivered from the early stages of target identification, discovery, research and development through the final process of bringing a drug to market.
Pharmaceutical professionals look to Pharma Solutions for exact, current, and actionable information to help them better understand diseases and conditions as well as treatments, market trends, and measurements of promotional effectiveness.
With more than 300 years of cumulative experience across our brands, we have earned a reputation for providing unbiased, objective insight. We are a global enterprise, with products covering every world region and offices in Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim, North America, and Latin America. Through the combined resources of Adis, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, IFI Patent Intelligence, and Source®, Pharma Solutions helps the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies efficiently deliver the best product to the right consumer, and realize a better return on their investment. http://www.wolterskluwer.com/; http://www.pharma.wkhealth.com/
If you are interested in this opportunity, please note that we will be interviewing via the PRAP Center at the upcoming Philadelphia ISPOR Conference. If you are attending the conference and would like to explore this position, please submit your resume or CV to emily.meader@wolterskluwer.com. If you are not attending the conference, you may still submit your resume or CV to emily.meader@wolterskluwer.com for consideration.
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