Note: a large number of people listed here have moved on.
I get lots of questions about where to go for help with Statistics for someone outside of Children’s Mercy Hospital. If you are a student or work at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC) or at Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC), there are a lot of resources you can investigate.
The UMKC Department of Mathematics and Statistics has five PhD level statisticians:
- Jie Chen,
- Mark Gamalo,
- Kamel Rekab,
- Xin Yan,
- Yong Zeng,
The UMKC School of Medicine has a new department, Informatic Medicine & Personalized Health. There is no web site available yet for this department, but this group has a PhD level statistician, Jian Li, and a Masters level statistician, Aaron Bonham. The primary contact for someone looking for consulting help is Aaron Bonham (816-235-6688).
The UMKC School of Nursing also has a PhD level statistician:
- An-Lin Cheng,
The UMKC School of Computing and Engineering has several PhD level computer scientists who are familiar with bioinformatics, data mining, machine learning, and/or signal processing.
At KUMC, you should contact the KU Center for Biostatistics & Advanced Informatics. The group consolidates the work of statisticians at the various departments at KUMC. THere is a nice page that list key faculty and staff members.
Currently, there are 7/8 PhD level and 7/8 Bachelors/Masters level staff members in this group. Most have a background in Statistics or in a closely related area. This website also has a nice page
Additional support for research at KUMC is provided by the General Clinical Research Center.
I am familiar with many of the statisticians at UMKC and KUMC. They are all excellent people to work with.
You can find an earlier version of this page on my old website.