Biostatistics

Lisa M. Sullivan
Professor and Chair. Also, Associate Dean for Education, Associate Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University College of Arts & Sciences.
PhD, MA, Boston University.
Areas of interest: biostatistics, cardiovascular disease research, and clinical trials.
sph.bu.edu/lsull

Josée Dupuis
Professor and Associate Chair.
PhD, Stanford University.
Areas of interest: genetic linkage analysis, statistical methodologies, and mapping of complex traits.
sph.bu.edu/dupuis

Full-Time

Howard J. Cabral
Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Biostatistics Program.
PhD, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: analysis of longitudinal data, statistical computing, and effects of missing data on estimation.
sph.bu.edu/hjcab

Christine E. Chaisson
Assistant Professor. Also, Director, Data Coordinating Center.
MPH, Boston University.
sph.bu.edu/chaisson

Debbie Cheng
Associate Professor.
ScD, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: design and analysis of clinical trials, survival analysis, infectious diseases, and substance abuse research.
sph.bu.edu/dmcheng

Gerald A. Coffman
Research Assistant Professor.
MS, University of Pittsburgh; MS, Michigan State University.
Areas of interest: statistical computing, database system development, and local area networks.
sph.bu.edu/coffman

L. Adrienne Cupples
Professor. Also, Professor of Epidemiology and Executive Director of Biostatistics Program.
PhD, MA, Boston University.
Areas of interest: biostatistics, survival analysis, and genetic epidemiology.
sph.bu.edu/adrienne

Serkalem Demissie
Associate Professor and Co-Director of Biostatistics Program.
PhD, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: biostatistics, epidemiology, and statistical data analysis.
sph.bu.edu/demissie

Anita L. DeStefano
Professor and Co-Director of the Biostatistics Program. Also, Associate Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Boston University Medical Center Genome Science Institute
PhD, Cornell University; MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Areas of interest: biostatistics and statistical genetics
sph.bu.edu/adestef

Gheorghe Doros
Associate Professor. Also, Director of Biostatistics Consulting Group.
PhD, MA, Yale University; MS, University of Bucharest, Romania.
Areas of interest: censored data, data analysis, survival analysis, asymptotics, nonparametric estimation and clinical trials.
sph.bu.edu/adestef

Susan S. Fish
Professor. Also, Professor of Epidemiology. Co-Director, Master of Arts in Clinical Investigation Program (Graduate Medical Sciences, Boston University School of Medicine).
PharmD, University of Minnesota; MPH, Boston University.
sph.bu.edu/sfish

David R. Gagnon
Associate Professor. Senior Biostatistician, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC).
PhD, MPH, Boston University; MD, Tufts University.
Areas of interest: statistical computing, longitudinal data analysis, pharmacoepidemiology, survival analysis, categorical data analysis, Bayesian analysis, and MCMC methods.
sph.bu.edu/gagnon

Mayetri Gupta
Associate Professor. Areas of interest: interface of statistics and computational biology, Bayesian methodologies, clustering techniques, and statistical inference.
PhD, Harvard University; MS, Indian Statistical Institute.
sph.bu.edu/gupta

Timothy C. Heeren
Professor. Also, Professor of Epidemiology. Director of Biostatistics Master’s in Public Health Program.
PhD, Boston University.
Areas of interest: biostatistics and analysis of scaled data.
sph.bu.edu/tch

Michael LaValley
Professor.
PhD, Pennsylvania State University; MA, Ohio State University.
Areas of interest: analysis of longitudinal and correlated data, analysis of survival data, analysis of ordinal data, statistical computing, meta-analysis, correlated data, predictive modeling, and arthritis research.
sph.bu.edu/mlava

Suzette M. Levenson
Research Assistant Professor. Also Assistant Dean of Administration and Finance.
MPH, MEd, Boston University.
sph.bu.edu/sml

Ching-Ti Liu
Assistant Professor.
PhD, MS, University of California, Los Angeles.
Areas of interest: statistical genetics, bioinformatics, statistical data analysis.
sph.bu.edu/ctliu

Kathryn Lunetta
Professor.
PhD, MS, University of Michigan.
Areas of interest: statistical genetics and mapping of complex traits.
sph.bu.edu/klunetta

Joseph Massaro
Associate Professor.
PhD, MA, Boston University.
Areas of interest: clinical trials, cardiovascular disease, psychiatric rehabilitation, goodness-of-fit, and periodontal disease.
sph.bu.edu/jmm

Michael J. Pencina
Associate Professor.
PhD, Boston University; MA, Warsaw University.
Areas of interest: risk prediction models with particular focus on measures of model performance, transportability, effect of new markers and competing risk analysis and statistical issues in the design and conduct of clinical and device trials.
sph.bu.edu/mpencina

Paola Sebastiani
Professor.
PhD, University of Rome, Italy; MA, University College, London.
Areas of interest: Bayesian statistical methods, biomedical informatics, artificial intelligence, decision theoretic foundations of statistical methods, graphical modeling and statistical experimental design.
sph.bu.edu/sebas

Georgios Tripodis
Assistant Professor.
PhD, MSc, London School of Economics; MPhil, University of Cambridge.
Areas of interest: time series, Kalman filter and measurement error models.
sph.bu.edu/yorghos

Janice M. Weinberg
Associate Professor.
ScD, Harvard University; MS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Areas of interest: correlated data analysis and statistical methods for environmental epidemiology.
sph.bu.edu/janicew

Laura F. White
Assistant Professor. Area of interest: spatiotemporal analysis, statistical modeling of disease outbreaks, and public health surveillance.
PhD, MSci, Harvard University.
sph.bu.edu/lfwhite

Qiong Yang
Associate Professor.
PhD, MA, Columbia University.
Areas of interest: biostatistics and statistical genetics.
sph.bu.edu/qyang

Part-Time

Arlene S. Ash
Research Professor.
PhD, University of Illinois; MS, Washington University.
Also, Research Professor of Mathematics in Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.

Larry D. Atwood
Professor.
PhD, University of North Texas.
Also, Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine.

Alexa Beiser
Professor. Also, Professor of Neurology.
PhD, Boston University; MA, University of California, San Diego.

Ralph B. D’Agostino
Professor. Also, Professor of Epidemiology. Professor of Mathematics & Statistics and Executive Director of Biostatistics Program, Boston University College of Arts & Sciences. Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
PhD, Harvard University; AM, Boston University.

Kimberly Dukes
Adjunct Assistant Professor. President and CEO, DM-STAT.
PhD, MA, Boston University.

Robert J. Glynn
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School.
ScD, SM, Harvard University; PhD, MA, Brandeis University; MA, Boston College.

Nicholas Horton
Adjunct Associate Professor.
ScD, Harvard University.

Shih-Jen Hwang
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor. Epidemiologist/Statistician, Framingham Heart Study.
PhD, MHS, Johns Hopkins University; MPH, Taiwan University.

Gyungah Jun
Research Assistant Professor. Also Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
PhD, Case Western Reserve University; MSc, Seoul National University.

Martin Larson
Research Professor. Also, Research Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences, Boston University and Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
SD, SM, Harvard University.

Robert A. Lew
Associate Professor.
PhD, MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mark Logue
Research Assistant Professor. Also Research Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
PhD, MS, University of Iowa.

Elena Losina
Adjunct Associate Professor.
PhD, Boston University; MSc, Odessa University.

Al Ozonoff
Associate Professor.
PhD, MA, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Areas of interest: public health surveillance and time series analysis.
sph.bu.edu/aozonoff

Soe Soe Thwin
Adjunct Assistant Professor.
PhD, Boston University; MS University of Washington, Seattle.

P. K. Tandon
Adjunct Associate Professor. Vice President, Genzyme Corporation.
PhD, Ohio State University.

Bin Zhang
Research Assistant Professor.
DSc, Harvard University; MA, University of Michigan.