Epidemiology and Biostatistics
The new Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics was created in 2006 within the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences in conjunction with the merger of the Department of Community Medicine and the Center for Healthcare Effectiveness Research with Family Medicine. One mission of our Division is to provide methodological support for the planning and execution of federal, state, and other funded research both within the department and for other departments in the School of Medicine, particularly those currently underserved in this area. We also support other departments by providing methodological expertise to residents, fellows and faculty with their research projects. Members of the Division are also expected to pursue their own research projects in either methodology or other substantive areas of interest.
The current faculty of the division are Joel Ager, PhD, interim director, Rick Severson, PhD, James Janisse, PhD, and Kimberly Campbell-Voytal, PhD. Dr. Severson is an epidemiologist with a particular interest in cancer epidemiology. Drs. Ager and Janisse both have backgrounds in behavioral measurement and statistics. Dr. Ager has special interests in the specification of control variables in regression analyses, and in rank order analogues to ANOVA. Dr. Janisse’s main methodological interests are in multi-level models, structural equation modeling, non-linear regression modeling and simulation methods. Dr. Campbell-Voytal has an anthropology background and is interested in qualitative methods particularly as they can be integrated within quantitative analyses.
We expect to substantially increase the size of the Division in the near future. The process for recruiting a permanent director is underway, and in conjunction with this recruitment, we also plan to fill at least two other faculty positions in the area of biostatistics/epidemiology. Beyond those near term additions, further expansion of the Division is planned over the next few years. |
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