Course instructor - Bradley P. Carlin, Ph.D.

Brad Carlin is Mayo Professor of Public Health and Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include statistical applications in AIDS research, spatial disease mapping, longitudinal studies, and the development of hierarchical Bayes methods for such projects, especially techniques which take advantage of modern computing power. In addition to his two textbooks (Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis, coauthored with Tom Louis, and Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data, coauthored with Sudipto Banerjee and Alan Gelfand) he has published more than 80 papers in refereed books and journals. In 2000, he was presented with the American Public Health Association's Mortimer Speigelman Award, awarded for outstanding contributions in health statistics by a statistician under age 40. He was also the 2001-02 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer, which recognizes statistical contributions to medicine or health and excellence in teaching, and the 2002 (inaugural) winner of the International Environmetric Society (TIES) Abdel El-Shaarawi Young Researcher's Award, given to an environmental statistician under age 40. For more information on Professor Carlin, please visit www.biostat.umn.edu/~brad/ .