Professor and Vice Chair
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Worcester, Massachusetts
Dr. Sharina Person is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMMS). Before joining UMMS in 2011, she was an Associate Professor of Medicine, Biostatistics, and Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. There she served as the Director of the CARDIA Coordinating Center and the Director of the Methodology Units of both the Center for Outcomes Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE) and the Center for Education and Research Therapeutics (CERTs) of Musculoskeletal Disorders. She also directed her division’s statistical, data management, and information systems infrastructure. She previously served as a quality control consultant to the NHLBI funded Jackson Heart Study. She has expertise in randomized controlled trials, coordinating center operations and methods, quality assurance, and statistical modeling, particularly in large-scale collaborative research studies. Additionally, she has extensive experience with cluster randomization and hierarchical models, mixed-model methodology, and longitudinal studies. She is currently a senior faculty member and Associate Director of the Quantitative Methods Core, which provides consultative services to UMMS investigators in study design, sample size, power calculations, statistical analysis plans, statistical programming, data entry, and management and project coordination. In addition to her research pursuits, Dr. Person has a strong commitment to training and mentoring of learners of all levels.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
