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The Statistical Consultation and Research Center (SCRC) is an Organized Research Unit at the University of Southern California. It integrates statistical, epidemiological and computing resources and offers them to professionals conducting clinical and biomedical research. The SCRC consists of a team of statisticians, epidemiologists, programmers, project coordinators and data managers that provides an optimal structure to assist both the public and private sectors in carrying out clinical and prevention trials, observational and retrospective studies, and cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys. Members of the SCRC are co-investigators on a range of studies in atherosclerosis, cancer, diabetes, neuroscience, ophthalmology and alternative medicine.
| Data Entry | $51/hour | $75/hr |
| Data Management | $51/hour | $75/hr |
| Ph.D. Consultation | $124/hr | $175/hr |
| Programming/M.S. Consultation | $60/hr | $75/hr |
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The SCRC consolidates professionals in the areas of study coordination, medical database development and management, and biostatistics and epidemiology into a unified center with the purpose of efficiently and effectively coordinating both single and multicentered clinical research. Research (typically clinical trials or natural history studies) is funded either by the National Institutes of Health, other governmental agencies, or organizations in the private sector (e.g., pharmaceutical companies).
The SCRC provides consultation services to biomedical researchers on issues related to design, database management and statistical analysis. Faculty and staff members of the SCRC actively consult with researchers at the USC Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Social Work, as well as researchers at Barlow Hospital, City of Hope National Cancer Center, St. Barnabas Hospital, Los Angeles Children's Hospital and the Shiley Eye Institute at the University of California, San Diego. Consultation is also provided to researchers in the private sector Clients include Alcon, Cell-Sci Inc., Guidant Corp., Janssen Pharmaceutical, Nutro Products and Richard-James Development Corp.
In many situations, biostatistical methodology has been developed because of the unique characteristics of the designs and/or data arising from a medical research project. The Statistical Consultation and Research Center (SCRC) provides opportunities for faculty and graduate students to develop independent research that expands biostatistical knowledge, including such projects as:
EVALUATING CORONARY LESIONS USING NEURAL NETWORKS (NIH R03-HL-55150) employs and evaluates the ability of neural networks to serve as clinical tools for predicting clinical coronary events.
CORRELATES OF ANGIOGRAPHIC CHANGES AND CORONARY EVENTS (NIH R03-HL-54532) evaluates invasive (coronary angiography) and non-invasive (common carotid artery IMT) surrogate outcome measures for clinical coronary events by comparing two independent clinical trials with different modes of lipid-lowering therapy, comparably conducted, with similar outcome measures and analyzes the predictive power of all three of the 2-year surrogate endpoints for clinical coronary events.
FULLY INTEGRATIVE RESEARCH SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (FIRST, NIH M01-RR-00043) is a supplemental grant to the GCRC to develop a multi-centered, Web-based, data management, analysis and reporting system appropriate for General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) and SCRC investigations.
1540 Alcazar Street
CHP 222
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9010
Telephone: (323) 442-1810
Fax: (323) 442-2993
Director
Wendy Mack Ph.D.,
Associate Director
Anny Xiang Ph.D.,
Assistant Director
Alodia Batista
Budget Administrator
Biostatistical Consultant: Terri Kang, M.S. at tkang@usc.edu