Derek Blankenship Email & Phone Number

Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, DE

• Reports to Vice President of Clinical Advanced Analytics.
• Design and conduct analyses to understand and improve patient care and business operations.
• Provides biostatistical, epidemiology, and economic consultation to global departments.
• Present and publish key findings to stakeholders, conferences, and journals.

Nacogdoches, TX, US

• In collaboration with faculty and students, research and develop program evaluation statistical methodology.
• Graduate student thesis advisor and committee member.

Plan and conduct the study design, as well as statistical methods, analyses, and reports for biotech and academic researchers’ clinical trial projects.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Reports to Founder and Chairman of Averify.
• Plans, develops, analyzes, and reports statistical utilization and performance analyses insuring rigorous and unbiased assessment of employers’ health care benefits.

Chicago, IL, US

• Reports to Vice President of Provider Payment Innovation and Analytics.
• Leads statistically rigorous evaluations and reports of HCSC's Value Based Care and Alternative Payment Model initiatives.
• Hire, train, and mentor diverse analytical team to ensure modern statistical and reporting methods are applied accurately, consistently, and timely.
• Develop Value Based Care Programs and Portfolios using advanced optimization and statistical techniques.

Chicago, IL, US

Dallas, US

Dallas, Texas, US

• Dedicated Biostatistician and Director with extensive analytical and data science skills that produce innovative and high-quality medical research, positively impacting health outcomes in real-time patient settings.
• Determines and applies statistical methods used to acquire and support funded clinical trials and observational studies totaling more than $33 million of direct costs.
• Manages staff of seven, facilitating interactions between the Unit of Biostatistics and 57 executive sponsors.
• Builds strong and productive relationships with research teams of varied educational and cultural backgrounds, applying excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Reports to Vice President of Quantitative Sciences for cohesive collaborations with the units of Survey Research and Clinical Trials, and Research Development and Operations.
• Develops and manages a $750,000 annual budget, assuring a fiscally responsible unit.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Developed and analyzed variety of clinical trial and research data, performed statistical and graphical analysis, composed and distributed reports assuring BHCS met research objectives.
• Advised investigators on research questionnaires, data gathering techniques, and data reduction to decrease bias and error in data.
• Provided statistical reviews of submitted research papers from varied journals, assuring a high level of statistical methodology in published literature.
• Worked with Data Coordination and Survey Research Unit and Clinical Trials Unit to ensure valid, reliable, and accessible clinical data.

Dallas, TX, US

• Designed, conducted, and communicated analyses of OUHSC clinical research studies, reporting to the Director of the Bioinformatics and Data Management Center.
• Developed and implemented regular reports for the Oklahoma Birth Defects Registry and the Oklahoma Cancer Registry.
• Created and executed innovative matching algorithm for the Oklahoma Youth Tobacco Survey monthly subject selection.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics

Master Of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology