Biostatistics Consultants by Institution

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

• Roger Davis, ScD; Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS; Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH; Principal Biostatistician in the Division of General Medicine, BIDMC
  Areas of expertise: Clinical trials; health services research; clinical epidemiology in a wide variety of clinical areas
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• Shiva Gautam, PhD; Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS; BIDMC Biostatistics Director
  Areas of expertise: Categorical data analysis; statistical methods in medical research, including cancer and obstructive sleep apnea
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• Michele Hacker, MSPH, ScD; Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, HMS; Instructor of Epidemiology, HSPH; Director, Program in Epidemiologic Research, BIDMC
  Areas of expertise: Obstetrics and gynecology, with an emphasis on pregnancy outcomes; assisted reproductive technology; antepartum and intrapartum complications and medical education; bleeding and clotting disorders, especially hemophilia and inherited thrombophilias
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• Murray Mittleman, MDCM, MPH, DPH; Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
  Areas of expertise: Observational study design; epidemiologic methods; statistical methods for highly stratified designs; studies of cardiovascular disease incidence and prognosis; environmental and lifestyle exposures; cardiovascular health
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• Long Ngo, PhD; Assistant Professor, HMS
  Areas of expertise:  Longitudinal analysis; model selection; semiparametric models; air pollution studies; competing risks; biomarker studies in delirium research and sepsis studies; diagnostic accuracy problems in radiology; analysis of large secondary databases
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Brigham and Women's Hospital

• Robert Glynn, PhD, ScD; Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS; Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
  Areas of expertise:  Clinical trials; aging; cardiovascular disease; pharmacoepidemiology
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• Shelley Hurwitz, PhD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS; Director of Biostatistics, BWH Center for Clinical Investigation
  Areas of expertise: Endocrinology research; behavioral and psychosocial research; patient-oriented physiologic research; research on AIDS and cancer; grant writing; clinical trials; power analysis; survival analysis; longitudinal analysis
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• Rie Maurer, MS; Research Associate in Medicine, HMS; Biostatistician, BWH Center for Clinical Investigation
  Areas of expertise: Gastroenterology and hepatology research; clinical trials; study design; survival analysis
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• Bernard Rosner, PhD; Professor of Medicine, HMS; Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH; Professor, Department of Medicine, BWH
  Areas of expertise: Statistical modeling of longitudinal data with emphasis on cardiovascular and pulmonary outcome variables; analysis of clustered data problems with emphasis on ophthalmologic applications; measurement error problems with emphasis on cancer and nutritional epidemiology; models for cancer incidence
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• Wei Wang, PhD; Lecturer in Medicine, HMS; Associate Mathematician, BWH
  Areas of expertise: Clinical trials; survival analysis; longitudinal data analysis; functional data analysis
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Children's Hospital Boston

• Henry Feldman, PhD; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, HMS; Principal Biostatistician, Biostatistics Core, CHB Clinical Research Program
  Areas of expertise: Clinical and community trials; epidemiological surveys; experiments in human and animal physiology; studies in cellular and biochemical kinetics; methods for experimental design, data analysis, and mathematical modeling
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• Peter Forbes, MA; Senior Biostatistician, Biostatistics Core, CHB Clinical Research Program
  Areas of expertise: Analysis of longitudinal data; sample design; statistical graphics
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• Leslie Kalish, ScD; Associate Professor of Pediatrics; HMS; Director, Biostatistics Core, CHB Clinical Research Program
  Areas of expertise: Design, implementation, and analysis of clinical investigations, primarily in transfusion medicine; pediatric diseases, including HIV and other infectious diseases, and cystic fibrosis; hematology; emergency and alternative medicine
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• Paul Mitchell, MS; Senior Biostatistician, Biostatistics Core, CHB Clinical Research Program
  Areas of expertise: Clinical trials, multicenter longitudinal studies, and survey research, with a current focus on nutrition and gastroenterology
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• Al Ozonoff, PhD; Director of Biostatistics, Clinical Research Program, Children's Hospital Boston; Lecturer, HMS; Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics, HSPH
  Areas of expertise: Quantitative methods for public health surveillance; statistical methods for clinical research in a wide variety of areas
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• Caterina Stamoulis, PhD, MS, SB; Instructor in Neurology, HMS
  Areas of expertise: Neurodegenerative diseases, ALS, epilepsy, and MS; autism with an emphasis on the motor system; quantitative signal and image analysis methods and modeling of propagation of neuronal activity in the brain; quantitative methods for analysis of genome-wide data in brain cancers, ALS, and autism
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

• Paul Catalano, ScD; Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics, HSPH; Director, DFCI Biostatistics Core
  Areas of expertise: Cancer-related clinical translational research
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Forsyth Institute

• Jacqueline R. Starr, PhD, MS, MPH; Associate Member and Director of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Core, The Forsyth Institute; Lecturer in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, HSDM; Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA.
  Areas of expertise: Craniofacial malformations; pediatric specialties bearing on children with craniofacial malformations (otolaryngology, sleep medicine, plastic surgery, early childhood development, speech pathology); congenital malformations; in utero exposures; oral and dental health; testicular germ cell tumors; maternal genetics; genetic association studies; clinical epidemiologic methods.
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Harvard School of Public Health

• Rebecca Betensky, PhD; Professor of Biostatistics
  Areas of expertise: Analysis of censored and truncated time to event data; design and analysis of studies with complex sampling; model-based clustering of high-dimensional data
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• James Ware, PhD; Frederick Mosteller Professor of Biostatistics
  Areas of expertise: Statistical methods for the design and analysis of longitudinal studies and clinical trials; cardiology, asthma, and, more broadly, chronic disease research
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Joslin Diabetes Center

• Hillary Keenan, MS, PhD; Instructor in Medicine, HMS; Research Associate, Joslin Diabetes Center
  Areas of expertise: Design of observational studies; statistical approaches to identifying genetic polymorphisms associated with disease; special interest in the genetics and longevity of individuals with long-term diabetes and its epidemiology; epidemiology of women's health
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Massachusetts General Hospital

• Dianne Finkelstein, PhD; Professor of Medicine, HMS; Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH; Director of Biostatistics, MGH Cancer Center
  Areas of expertise: Development of semiparametric methodology for analyzing the effect of covariates on failure time distributions arising in cancer and AIDS epidemiologic studies and clinical trials; methods for analyzing longitudinal and survival outcomes; animal carcinogenicity experiments
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• Douglas Hayden, PhD; Biostatistician, MGH Biostatistics Center
  Areas of expertise: Extensions of frequentist inference and methods for microarray gene expression analysis
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• Brian Healy, PhD; Instructor of Neurology, HMS; Biostatistician, MGH Biostatistics Center
  Areas of expertise: Design and analysis of categorical data; analysis of neurological diseases
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• Hang Lee, PhD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS; Biostatistician, MGH Biostatistics Center
  Areas of expertise: Design, conduct, and analysis of cancer clinical trials, vaccine clinical trials, physiologic clinical trials, and genetic epidemiology; analysis of longitudinal data and correlated outcomes
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• Joseph J. Locascio, PhD, Instructor in Neurology, HMS; Biostatistician, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Dept. of Neurology, MGH.
  Areas of Expertise: Biomedical-Behavioral Science Applied Statistical Methods, Structural Equation Modeling, Path Analysis, Causal Modeling, Time Series Analysis, Quasi-Experimental Research Methodology, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, and Longitudinal Data Analysis.
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• Eric Macklin, PhD; Instructor in Medicine, HMS; Biostatistician, MGH Department of Medicine
  Areas of expertise: Design and analysis of clinical trials, particularly of rare diseases; analysis of longitudinal and categorical data
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• David Schoenfeld, PhD; Professor of Medicine, HMS; Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, HSPH; Director, Biostatistics Center, MGH
  Areas of expertise: Design and conduct of clinical trials of new drugs and devices; studies involving the use of gene arrays to predict patient's outcome after trauma
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• Mark Vangel, PhD; Assistant Professor of Radiology, HMS; Biomedical Imaging Core, MGH
  Areas of expertise: Statistical methods for neuroimaging
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• Rui Wang, PhD; Instructor in Medicine, HMS; Biostatistician, MGH Biostatistics Center; Research Associate, HSPH
  Areas of expertise: Design and analysis of longitudinal studies and clinical trials; HIV; cancer; analysis of failure time data; meta-analysis
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• Hui Zheng, PhD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS; Biostatistician, MGH Biostatistics Center
  Areas of expertise: Clinical/epidemiological: Diabetes; GI cancer; anesthesia; HIV/AIDS; quality-of-care outcomes research. Statistical: Design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials; Bayesian hierarchical modeling; survey sampling; longitudinal and survival data analysis; missing data
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McLean Hospital

• Caitlin Ravichandran, PhD; Instructor in Psychiatry, HMS; Biostatistician, Laboratory for Psychiatric Biostatistics, McLean Hospital
  Areas of expertise: Longitudinal data analysis; psychiatric research; statistical methods for MRS studies
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