Christopher H. Schmid is a Professor of Biostatistics and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health. Schmid was a founding member formerly Co-Director of Brown's Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health.[1]

Schmid grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.[2] He earned a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University.[3] After receiving his doctorate, he joined Tufts-New England Medical Center where he worked on predictive models for patients who had heart attacks and were candidates for thrombolysis.[2] Schmid remained at Tufts from 1991 to 2012 ultimately directing the Biostatistics Research Center, at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies.[1] In 2012, he moved to Brown University, where he co-founded the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health with Joseph Lau and Tom Trikalinos.[2]

Schmid has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 2010 and chaired the Health Policy Statistics Section of the ASA in 2013.[2] He served as president of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology from 2018 to 2019.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Christopher Schmid | Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Christopher Schmid Talks Health Statistics | Amstat News". 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  3. ↑ "Schmid, Christopher". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  4. ↑ "Officers". Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
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