Jason Machan, PhD

Jason T. Machan, ScM, PhD

Director, Lifespan Biostatistics Core

Jason T. Machan, ScM, PhD, is the director of the Lifespan BERD Core and supplies methodological and biostatistical consulting for COBRE Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Therapeutic Discovery as a member of the Administrative Core.

He is an assistant professor of orthopaedics and surgery at The Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He is also adjunct assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rhode Island, through which he directs a biostatistics externship. He has extensive training and experience in experimental methodology and statistics.

As director of BERD Core, Dr. Machan has collaborated with researchers on a broad array of basic, clinical and translational projects, ranging from large-scale clinical trials to retrospective chart reviews and basic science; from quality of life metrics to gene expression. He assists in study design and methodology, instrument selection, statistical analysis planning, sample size selection and power analysis, grantsmanship, data visualization, results write-up, and contextualized interpretation.

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