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UCSF
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Division of Biostatistics

Faculty

Primary Appointment

Links to Profile Principal Research Interests
Peter Bacchetti PhD
Professor
Promoting good statistical practices; survival analysis methods; statistical methods for HIV and liver disease
Henrik Bengtsson PhD
Assistant Professor
Cancer genomics; copy-number analysis; computational biology; reproducible research; bioinformatics; large-scale statistical analysis; development of computational tools
David Glidden PhD
Professor
Biostatistical methods; relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to chronic diseases
Joan F. Hilton ScD, MPH
Professor
Inference based on exact permutation tests; randomized controlled trials; categorical data
Thomas J. Hoffmann PhD
Assistant Professor
Statistical genetics, human genetics, statistical computing, biostatistics
John Kornak PhD
Associate Professor
Medical image analysis and reconstruction, Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics, statistical consulting
Charles E. McCulloch PhD
Professor, Division Head and Department Vice-Chair
Longitudinal data analysis; correlated, non-normal data models; latent class models
John M. Neuhaus PhD
Professor
Statistical methods for complex dependent data; assessment of the effects of model misspecification
Adam B. Olshen PhD, MA
Associate Professor
High-throughput genomics, including microarrays and sequencing; applied statistics
Katherine Pollard PhD
Associate Professor
Bioinformatics, stochastic processes, and multivariate statistics with applications to comparative and population genomics
Neil Risch PhD
Professor and Director, Institute for Human Genetics
Human genetics, population genetics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology
Mark R. Segal PhD
Professor, CBMB Director
Bioinformatics; modern regression techniques
Saunak Sen PhD
Associate Professor
Genetic analysis of complex traits in model systems; statistical genetics/genomics; Bayesian statistics; statistical computing
Stephen Shiboski PhD
Professor  
Statistical methods for infectious disease research; survival analysis; stochastic processes
Jun S. Song PhD
Assistant Professor  
Computational and systems biology; epigenetics; cancer genomics
Eric Vittinghoff PhD
Professor
Methods for analysis of epidemiological data and clinical trials; women's health; heart disease; HIV and AIDS
Jeff Wall PhD
Assistant Professor
Evolutionary genetics; human genetics
Yuanyuan Xiao PhD
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics; high-throughput biological data analysis

Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated faculty whose salaried appointment is in another UCSF department:

Contact Info Affiliation Principal Research Interests
W. John Boscardin PhD
UCSF Medicine Bayesian statistical methodology; missing data problems
Kevin L. Delucchi PhD UCSF Psychiatry Statistics, drug abuse, alcohol, clinical trials
Annette M. Molinaro PhD UCSF Neurological Surgery Prediction, survival analysis, classification
Steven Paul PhD UCSF School of Nursing Instruction in biostatistics; pain
Davide Verotta PhD UCSF Biopharma­ceutical Sciences Biomathematical and biostatistical methods

Affiliated faculty whose salaried appointment is in another institution:

Jane Fridlyand PhD
Genentech, Inc Application of statistics to problems in genomics and cancer
John Hollingswoth DPH SFDPH Quality improvement; population health
Nicholas Jewell PhD UC Berkeley Biostatistical methods
Dan H. Moore PhD Lawrence Livermore Labs Statistical research

Emeritus Faculty

Richard J. Brand PhD Biostatistical methods