Stuart Lipsitz, ScD
Biostatistician
Stuart Lipsitz, ScD, is the head of Biostatistical Services at the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH) at Brigham and Women's Hospital. A position he assumed in 2005.
In addition to serving as the head of Biostatistical Services at CSPH, Lipsitz is also an instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health, with active research interests including cardiotoxicity from cancer clinical trials and extending this collaborative effort to AIDS studies, in which patients may develop cardiac problems from the AIDS virus and/or AIDS treatments.
Lipsitz has published well over 100 original articles in peer-reviewed national journals on a wide variety of statistical methodology, including repeated measures studies, methods of analysis with missing data, survival analysis and clinical trials, complex sample survey data analysis, and methods of analysis with ordinal categorical responses.
Lipsitz received his ScD degree at Harvard University, and completed two Post Doctoral Fellowships at Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He has held faculty appointments at the Medical University of South Carolina and currently with Harvard University and serves on the Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD) Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Lipsitz is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association.