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The Department of Biostatistics & Data Science at The University of Kansas Medical Center, commonly referred to as KU Med or KUMC within the University of Kansas School of Medicine located in Kansas City, Kansas. The department supports the education, research and service mission of KUMC. Currently, the department houses four graduate programs and five graduate certificate options.

History
The Department of Biostatistics was created under the University of Kansas School of Medicine by Dr. Matthew Mayo, Ph.D., MBA, in 2007 and its name was changed to the Department of Biostatistics & Data Science in 2019, reflecting its growing diversity in research and educational expertise. The first graduate programs of the Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics and Master of Science in Biostatistics were created in 2010. The Master of Science in Applied Statistics, Analytics & Data Science graduate program was created in 2015 in partnership with the University of Kansas Edwards Campus in Overland Park, Kansas. The Master of Science in Health Data Science is the newest graduate program in the department and started in 2022.

Mission
The Department of Biostatistics & Data Science’s mission is to provide an infrastructure of biostatistical and informatics expertise to support and enhance the research, service, and educational needs of KUMC and its affiliates. The global objectives of the department are as follows:


 * To provide a leadership role in biostatistical and informatics research initiatives across the medical center.
 * To provide the biostatistics and informatics cores for major initiatives.
 * To ensure that researchers have ready access to biostatistical and informatics resources and support.
 * To provide the infrastructure and expertise for centralized and project specific database development, management and analysis.
 * To consolidate resources pertaining to biostatistics and informatics.

Research
The department provides core support to these National Institutes of Health (NIH):
 * The University of Kansas Cancer Center
 * KU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
 * Kansas-INBRE
 * Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine COBRE
 * Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)

Graduate Program Offerings

 * Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics
 * Master of Science in Biostatistics
 * Master of Science in Applied Statistics, Analytics & Data Science
 * Master of Health Data Science

Graduate Certificate Offerings

 * Applied Data Science Graduate Certificate
 * Applied Statistics Graduate Certificate
 * Biostatistical Applications Graduate Certificate
 * Biostatistics Graduate Certificate
 * Health Data Science Graduate Certificate

Academic Faculty & Staff
Currently there are 28 faculty and 30 staff within the department. Our faculty members are active researchers collaborating and consulting in research projects and initiatives throughout the Medical Center, in addition to pursuit of their own research agendas and participation in curricular instruction. Expertise in the department includes linear, nonlinear, and longitudinal modeling, clinical trial and experimental design, survival analysis, categorical data analysis, robust statistics, psychometric methods, Bayesian methodology, data science, and machine learning.


 * Francisco Diaz-Ceballos, Ph.D., Professor
 * Bryon Gajewski, Ph.D., Professor
 * Jianghua He, Ph.D., Professor
 * Devin Koestler, Ph.D., Professor
 * Jonathan Mahnken, Ph.D., Professor
 * Matthew Mayo, Ph.D., MBA, Department Chair, Founding Chair, Professor
 * Jo Wick, Ph.D. Professor

For a full listing of faculty and staff: Faculty.