Biostatistics
The Division of Biostatistics is the primary unit in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University that provides statistical collaboration, training, and consulting. The division members maintain active methodology research in biostatistics and broad interdisciplinary research through collaborations with other investigators.
Biostatistical research topics include Bayesian analysis, categorical data analysis, complex sampling, clinical trial design, spatial-temporal modeling, statistical computing, statistical genetics and survival analysis.
The division offers a MS/MBST and the Graduate Certificate in Biostatistics and contributes significantly contributes significantly to education and training programs such as the Oregon MPH Epidemiology/Biostatistics program, the Human Investigators Program, the Summer Research Training Institute for American Indian and Alaska Native Health Professionals, and the Native Researchers' Cancer Control Training Program.
Our mission
The mission of the Division of Biostatistics are to improve the health of the public by incorporating Biostatistics into public health, clinical medicine and basic sciences by:
- providing biostatistics leadership and expertise in interdisciplinary research;
- educating students in theory, methods, and applications in Biostatistics;
- advancing statistical methodology in biomedical research, and;
- training a board range of biomedical researchers in biostatistical concepts and applications.
Primary Faculty
| Name | Title | Current interests | Main collaborations |
| Yiyi Chen, PhD | Assistant Professor | Design and analysis of clinical trials | Knight Cancer Institute |
| Bayesian Statistics | OCTRI | ||
| Dongseok Choi, PhD | Associate Professor | Spatial Statistics/GIS | Casey Eye Institute |
| Time Series | CME/GME, SOM | ||
| High Dimensional Data | Health Services & Outcomes Research Div., PHPM | ||
| Rochelle Fu, PhD | Associate Professor | Bayesian methods | Emergency Medicine |
| Meta analysis | Evidence-based Practice Center | ||
| Analysis of Medicare/Medicaid data | Anesthesiology | ||
| Kenneth E. James, PhD | Professor | Design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials | VA |
| Jodi A. Lapidus, PhD | Professor | Categorical data | Child Development and Rehabilitation Center |
| Proteomics | Center for Biomarker Discovery, Pediatrics | ||
| Design of community intervention trials | CHR at Kaiser | ||
| Native health |
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board | ||
| Eun Sul Lee, PhD | Clinical Professor | Complex survey design/analysis | OCTRI |
| Mental health research | |||
| Shannon McWeeney, PhD | Associate Professor | Statistical Genetics | Knight Cancer Institute |
| Bioinformatics | OCTRI | ||
| Portland Alcohol Research Center | |||
| Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute | |||
| Vollum Institute | |||
| Motomi Mori, PhD | Professor | Oncology Clinical Trials | Knight Cancer Institute |
| Division Head | Biomarker Studies | OCTRI | |
| Analysis of High-Throughput Genetics/Genomics Data | |||
| Thuan Nguyen, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor | Mixed Effects Models | Pediatrics |
| Model Selection | OCTRI | ||
| Longitudinal Data | |||
| Byung S. Park, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | General Linear Models | Knight Cancer Institute |
| Microarrays | OCTRI | ||
| Dawn Peters, PhD | Associate Professor | Clinical trial methodology | Casey Eye Institute |
| Randomization | Division of Cardiology | ||
| Veterans Administration | |||
| Donald Pierce, PhD | Adjunct Professor | Biostatistics theory | OCTRI |
| Radiation research | |||
| Cohort study | |||
| Epidemiology statistics | |||
Other Key Faculty
| Name | Title | Current interests | Primary Appointment |
| Christina Gullion, PhD | Affiliate Professor | Longitudinal data anlaysis | CHR at Kaiser |
| Missing data | |||
| Psycholsocial measurements | |||
| Lori Lambert, MA | Senior Instructor | Cohort study | Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation |
| Epidemiological statistics | |||
| Mike Lasarev, MS | Senior Instructor | Statistical computing | CROET |
| Simulation | |||
| Bootstrapping | |||
| Mary Ann McBurnie, PhD | Affiliate Associate Professor | Multi-center clinical trials | CHR at Kaiser |
| Coordinating Center | OCTRI | ||
| Mara Tableman PhD | Adjunct Professor | Survival Analysis | Dept. of Math & Stat Portland State U |
| Nonparametric methods |
Links of Interest - Statistical Association/Societies
Resources for statistical computation
Grand rounds and seminar series
