Christopher H. Schmid is a Professor of

Biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experime ...

and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the

Brown University School of Public Health The Brown University School of Public Health is the public health school of Brown University, a private research university in Rhode Island. It is located along the Providence River, down the hill and about a quarter mile from Brown's central ...

. Schmid was a founding member formerly Co-Director of Brown's Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health. Schmid grew up in

Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda () is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which ...

. He earned a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in statistics from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. After receiving his doctorate, he joined

Tufts-New England Medical Center Tufts Medical Center (until 2008 Tufts-New England Medical Center) in Boston, Massachusetts is a downtown Boston hospital midway between Chinatown and the Boston Theater District. The hospital is a community based medical center for biomedical ...

where he worked on

predictive models Predictive modelling uses statistics to predict outcomes. Most often the event one wants to predict is in the future, but predictive modelling can be applied to any type of unknown event, regardless of when it occurred. For example, predictive mod ...

for patients who had heart attacks and were candidates for

thrombolysis Thrombolysis, also called fibrinolytic therapy, is the breakdown (lysis) of blood clots formed in blood vessels, using medication. It is used in ST elevation myocardial infarction, stroke, and in cases of severe venous thromboembolism (massive ...

. Schmid remained at Tufts from 1991 to 2012 ultimately directing the Biostatistics Research Center, at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies. He moved to Brown University in 2012 where he co-founded the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health with

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and Tom Trikalinos. Schmid has been a fellow of the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuous ...

since 2010 and chaired the Health Policy Statistics Section of the ASA in 2013. He served as president of the

Society for Research Synthesis Methodology The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (abbreviated SRSM) is an international, interdisciplinary learned society dedicated to promoting and fostering the study of research synthesis: the process whereby the results of multiple scientific s ...

from 2018 to 2019.

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