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Naihua Duan, PhD

Naihua Duan, PhD, is the Director of the Division of Biostatistics and Data Coordination in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), Professor of Biostatistics (in Psychiatry) with tenure in the Departments of Psychiatry and Biostatistics at CUMC, and a senior research scientist at NYSPI.

Dr. Duan received a B.S. in mathematics from National Taiwan University, an M.A. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. He is an accomplished practicing biostatistician with research interests in health services research, prevention research, sample design and experimental design, model robustness, transformation models, multilevel modeling, nonparametric and semi-parametric regression methods, and environmental exposure assessment.

Dr. Duan is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has also served as a member of the editorial board for Statistica Sinica and Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology and associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association. In addition, he served on a number of national and international panels, such as:
 * the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
 * the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy and Committee on Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research
 * the National Research Council’s Committee on Carbon Monoxide Episodes in Meteorological and Topological Problems Areas
 * the National Institute of Mental Health’s Behavioral Sciences Workgroup.

Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia University and NYSPI in May 2007, he was a Professor in Residence at UCLA and served as the Director of the Methods Core in Dr. Kenneth Wells’ Health Services Research Center at UCLA.

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Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

New York State Psychiatric Institute

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