ABOUT ME
As a professional research scientist, I have worked in academia, in the federal government, in private industry, and as a professional consultant. My technical education and research have resulted in my recognition by the American Statistical Association as an Accredited Professional Statistician™. I am also a DITA Certified Medicolegal Death Investigator. I have been part of the medical and scientific research community for over 25 years.


James Gathany, CDC
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Applications of statistics and epidemiological principles to problems in medicine and the health sciences - for example clinical trials, multivariate models, and population sampling strategies
PhD
Old Dominion University
Ecological Sciences - Statistics
Environmetrics & Ecology
Applications of statistics to problems in the environmental and ecological sciences - for example Bayesian models for estimating avian fatality around wind turbines and mark-recapture sampling
Psychometrics
Applications of statistics to problems in the psychological sciences - for example randomized controlled trials for interventions and pattern recognition for finding clusters of patients with shared pathology
Medical Entomology & Parasitology
Applied research and field work in arthropod-borne and parasitic diseases, including population-based estimation of disease burden and the intersection of medical entomology and forensic science
MS
Old Dominion University
Mathematics - Computational and Applied Statistics
BS
Purdue University
Biological Sciences
MS
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Counseling - Systems Therapy
BS
Purdue University
Wildlife Science
Medicine
Clinical and translational research in many areas of clinical medicine, including oncology, surgery, trauma, and vector-borne diseases
LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS
PStat(R): American Statistical Association
C-MDI: Death Investigation Training Academy (#1078)
MFT: State of Nevada (#1117)