About

The mission of the Biostatistics Consulting Center (BCC) is to support study design and data analysis for research in health, medicine, and life-sciences.

We are a cost-recovery service with professional biostatisticians available for collaborating on research projects through grant-funded research or hourly billing.

We serve faculty and graduate students at Indiana University as well as external non-profits and industry.

Meet our team

Our diverse team of professional biostatisticians and data managers are skilled in a range of statistical tools and methods. We are passionate about partnering with research teams to advance knowledge and make the world a better place.

Erin Ables

Research Associate
Data Manager/Analyst II

Phone:: 812-855-1237
Email:: eables@indiana.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0001-8617-6768

Research Interests

Clinical Trial Management
Research Methodology
Program Evaluation
Survey Development
Data Management
Dashboards, Tableau
REDCap, SAS programming

Sumayyah Ali

Research Associate
Data Manager/Analyst I

Email:: sumali@iu.edu

Research Interests

Python and R programming
Technical Writing and Editing
Data Processing and Organization
Genomics
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning

Xiwei Chen

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: 812-855-2781
Email:: xiwechen@indiana.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0003-1868-8387

Research Interests

Big data
High-dimensional data analysis
Machine learning (ML)
High-performance computing (HPC)
Genomics
Linear and generalized linear mixed models
Survival analysis
R, SQL, Python, SAS, Mplus

Aaron Cohen

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Email:: cohenaa@indiana.edu

Research Interests

Data visualization
High Performance Computing
R and Python programming
Lasso regression, Sparse Group Lasso
Mathematical modelling

Stephanie Dickinson

Academic Specialist
Executive Director, Biostatistics Consulting Center

Phone:: 812-856-9010
Email:: sd3@indiana.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0002-2998-4467

Research Interests

Research design
Clinical Trials
Project management
Grant proposal preparation
Rigor, Reproducibility, Transparency (RRT)
Technical communication

Nicolas Escobar Velasquez

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Phone:: 812 855 9202
Email:: nescoba@iu.edu

Research Interests

R programming
High-dimensional data
Multivariate data analysis
Statistical theory
Bayesian Statistics

Lilian Golzarri Arroyo

Research Associate
Associate Director BCC & Biostatistician II

Phone:: 812-855-3891
Email:: lgolzarr@indiana.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0002-1221-6701

Research Interests

Linear mixed models
Metabolomics
High-dimensional data
Cluster Randomized Trials (cRCT)
Study Design
Grant proposal preparation
R programming

Beate Henschel

Research Associate
Biostatistician II

Phone:: 812-855-3994
Email:: bhensche@indiana.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0003-0708-5660

Research Interests

Epidemiology
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Linear Mixed Models
Nutrition, NHANES data
Dyadic Social Network data
SAS programming

Jharna Katara

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Email:: jkatara@iu.edu

Research Interests

Longitudinal Data Analysis
Survival Data Analysis
Clinical Trials
Logistic and Linear Regression
SAS, SPSS, STATA, R programming

Anna Macagno

Research Associate
Data Manager/Analyst I

Phone:: 812-855-9201
Email:: amacagno@iu.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0003-4133-2098

Research Interests

Biology
Linear and generalized linear mixed models
Scientific writing
Project Management
Data management
Research Design

Erik Parker

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Email:: erikpark@indiana.edu
ORCID:: 0000-0002-5537-7900

Research Interests

Linear and generalized linear mixed models
R programming
High-throughput sequencing data
Genomics
Microbiome
Bioinformatics
Data visualization

Chelsie Parker

Research Associate
Biostatistician I

Email:: chelsiep@iu.edu

Research Interests

R programming
Scientific writing
Data visualization
High-dimensional data
Linear and generalized linear mixed models

Consulting Associates

Our part-time, remote staff:

Jocelyn Mineo, MS

MS in Biostatistics from University of Pittsburgh
Skills and interests: research coordination, project management, biostatistics, R programming, data visualization, scientific writing.

Carlos Serrano, MS

MS in Biostatistics from University of Minnesota
Skills and interests: biostatistics, linear mixed models, randomized clinical trials, hierarchical bayes, MC markov chain sampling, data wrangling in R.

Kurt White, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Indiana University
Skills and interests: population differences in disease prevalence, health promotion, data management and analysis, and applied biostatistics.

Xingsheng Li, Ph.D. MSPH

Ph.D. in Physiology, MSPH in Biostatistics from University of Alabama Birmingham
Skills and interests: clinical research, metabolism, generalized linear mixed models, survival, meta-analysis, categorical, survey data. SAS, Stata, SPSS, R.

Graduate students

Research Interns

Rui Li, PhD Epidemiology student
Annie Yu, PhD Biostatistics student
Kevin Naaman, PhD Epidemiology student
Bailey Ortyl, MS Biostatistics student
Justin Lin, PhD Mathematics student

Faculty

Faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics offer specialized expertise in a wide variety of research methods and contexts. Consider collaborating with an Epi-Bio faculty as a Co-Investigator on your next grant along with BCC staff to support. Browse the profiles in the faculty directory to identify a collaborator for your next project.

The BCC is housed in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health – Bloomington at Indiana University.

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics is part of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) program in the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) . The BCC is a service core providing professional service to facilitate research in translational sciences.

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