---+Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ---++THE FACILITIES AND OTHER RESOURCES ---+++Facilities Vanderbilt University offers an ideal setting for its new Department of Biostatistics established in September 2003. The department offers a full array of biostatistical support with an emphasis on establishing long-term collaborative relationships with investigators in accomplishing the research mission of the institution. The Department currently has 33 faculty biostatisticians and 27 staff Masters-level biostatisticians, 7 computer systems analysts, and 10 administrative staff members. The department has one division, the Division of Cancer Biostatistics. See more about the division... %COMMENT{type="below"}% * Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. 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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Main.DalePlummer - 30 Oct 2014 * comment -- Main.DalePlummer - 30 Oct 2014 In addition to operating the Biostatistics Shared Resource for the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, the department operates the Design, Biostatistics, and Research Ethics Core for the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR), i.e., CTSA, the Statistics and Methodology Core for the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, and the Biostatistics Collaboration Center (BCC), a recharge center. The department also holds a walk-in Biostatistics [[Clinics][Clinic]] each day of the week from noon to 1:15pm. These clinics are for the entire Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College community members to provide assistance in study design, measurement refinement, statistical analysis, and statistical interpretation of their results and of journal articles. Clinic staff also assist investigators in navigating all the quantitative resources at Vanderbilt. The department occupies approximately 8148 square feet in Medical Center North including two conference rooms. The department operates a collaborative web site; the entire site is a wiki. We encourage department members to use the site as a repository for meeting notes, grant development, tutorials and the like. The wiki allows for rapid hosting of new content and fosters collaborative work, hosting of teaching materials, and managing clinics. We view the site as a constantly growing knowledge base that has very many contributors. ---+++Department Computing and Office Equipment %INCLUDE{"Main.ITTeamSkills"}% The department operates a number of server computers: 1 a custom built system with two 64-bit AMD Opteron 250 (2.4 GHz) processors, 16 GB main memory, 250 GB of mirrored disk storage. This system acts as a compute server. Its primary purpose is to run jobs written in the R programming language that need fast processors and/or large amounts of memory. The server's operating system is 64-bit Ubuntu Linux. (statcomp.vanderbilt.edu) 1 a custom built system with two 64-bit Intel processors, 96 GB main memory, 1 TB of mirrored disk storage. This system acts as a compute server. Its primary purpose is to run jobs written in the R programming language that need fast processors and/or large amounts of memory. The server's operating system is 64-bit Ubuntu Linux. (statcomp2.vanderbilt.edu) 1 a custom built system with two 64-bit AMD Opteron (2.0 GHz) processors, 4 GB main memory, 200 GB of mirrored disk storage. This system acts as a database and web server. The server's operating system is 64-bit Ubuntu Linux. A number of web applications are hosted on this system. (data.vanderbilt.edu) 1 The department's wiki is hosted on a virtual server provided by Vanderbilt's IT department and managed by the Biostatistic's IT Team (biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu) Files on the servers are backed up on a regular basis using a service provided by [[http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/][Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)]]. ACCRE uses the [[http://www.teradactyl.com/Products/TiBSfull.html][TiBS]] enterprise backup system that is produced by [[http://www.teradactyl.com/][Teradactyl, LLC]]. [[http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/][Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)]] also operates a High Performance Compute Cluster that department members can use. See ACCRE's [[http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/][web site]] for details. Individual Linux workstations are systems produced by [[http://www.system76.com/][System76, Inc.]]. Typically, these systems have Intel Core i5-750 processors or better, 4 or 8 GB of memory, and 350 GB of disk space. These computers are configured with Linux and a large selection of open source software. The R package for statistical computing and graphics is installed on all analysts' workstations. The department supports approximately 50 Linux desktop workstations. There are also a number of desktop computers running the Windows operating system. These computers participate in the Vanderbilt active directory domain. All computers that are connected to the Vanderbilt network are protected from insecure outside access by the Vanderbilt perimeter firewall. Access to internal computers from external locations require the use of Vanderbilt’s VPN system or the SSH network protocol for secure data communication. All computers and printers are connected to the Vanderbilt campus network that provides high speed access to e-mail and the Internet. Printing services are provided by 3 Xerox Phaser 6360DN color laser printers. VUMC provides a [[http://its.vanderbilt.edu/security/secure-file-transfer][secure file transfer web application]] produced by Accellion that gives the ability to send large files securely. The department also provides [[Data Hippo]], a web application for secure transfer of data containing confidential information. The department also has fax, scanner, and copy machines and other standard office equipment. There is a secure document disposal system in our office suite. ---+++Biostatistics Core Resource %INCLUDE{"Main.BCC"}% ---+++Scientific Environment Career development and methodologic mentoring is provided for all faculty. There is a meeting each month for all tenure-track faculty and another meeting for non-tenure-track faculty. Monthly faculty meetings are used to discuss ways to improve our research infrastructure and collaborations with biomedical researchers. These meetings are also used to seek opportunities for between-faculty methodologic collaboration. The department has a weekly seminar, daily biostatistics clinics, and weekly clinics for the R statistical computing language. Frequently, collaborators and former mentors are brought in to make presentations in the seminar series. The daily clinics, which are intended primarily for biomedical researchers and are staffed by an average of five biostatisticians per day, have also provided a significant amount of methodologic assistance for biostatisticians, in two ways: by allowing them to witness how other, often more senior, biostatisticians solve problems in biomedical research, and by providing time for biostatisticians to ask each other questions. In addition to these opportunities, the faculty have an informal luncheon two days per week to discuss statistical philosophy and theory and career development. ---+++Early Stage Investigators For early stage investigators, the department provides protected time for developing their research programs including the development of methodologic grant proposals. Especially for these early stage faculty, the department also provides funds for professional travel, collaboration with faculty at other institutions, and for books, journals, and professional fees.
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