Christopher H. Schmid

Christopher Schmid is Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at Brown University School of Public Health. He has a degree in mathematics from Haverford College and a PhD in Statistics from Harvard University. From 1991 to 2012 he worked at Tufts Medical Center as a collaborative statistician on many different clinical research projects including developing the most widely used formula to predict kidney function. In 2012 he moved to Brown University to co-found the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health. Currently, he directs the Clinical Study Design, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Core of the Rhode Island Center to Advance Translational Science and the Evidence Synthesis Academy, a federally funded educational program for mid-career professionals and users of healthcare evidence. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, founding Editor of the journal Research Synthesis Methods and long-time statistical editor of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. He lives in Providence RI.