Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD, is Chief Executive Officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering, the Van Dusen Endowed Chair in Academic Medicine and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Matthew J. Cook, MPH is the CICATS webmaster and a research associate 2 in the Biomedical Informatics Division. He also maintains the CICATS social media accounts and CICATS Profiles.
CICATS Biostatistics Speaker set to Visit UConn Health Center
Martin L. Lesser, PhD, is Director and Investigator, Biostatistics Unit at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research on the campus of the North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY will be giving a talk entitled “The Evolution of Biostatistics: 1985-2010″ on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at the University of CT Health Center, Low Auditorium from 12-1 PM. Dr. Lesser is also Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Hofstra University School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Public Health, Weill-Cornell Medical College. Dr. Lesser serves as Chair of both the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the Human Subjects Protection Advisory Committee for the North Shore LIJ Health System and has served on numerous research grant study sections for the National Institutes of Health. He has also been a reviewer for many statistics and medical journals and serves as Senior Faculty Advisor for Research Affairs and Director of Biostatistics for the North Shore-LIJ Health System. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific publications or book chapters in the biomedical literature. Dr Lesser’s areas of statistical interest are design and analysis of clinical trials, clinical epidemiology, longitudinal data, non-parametric and robust methods, diagnostic testing and screening, and classification problems. Much of his career has been devoted to research problems in oncology, HIV/AIDS, OB/GYN, and cardiovascular disease. In addition to his work in human health, during the 1980s he was a consultant, advisor, and teacher for research investigators at the Animal Medical Center (New York) and, since 2006, has served in that same capacity for Long Island Veterinary Specialists.