Ayumi Shintani, PhD, MPH

Dr. Shintani is an associate professor of biostatistics at Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a leading biostatistician for the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health in May 2000. Her dissertational work involved development of mathematical models to describe the emergence of drug-resistant mutants of HIV with implications for treatment strategies. Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, she was an instructor at Yale Nursing School teaching advanced statistics to doctoral students. She also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CT. Dr. Shintani is currently co-investigator of variety of NIH supported projects mainly for the area of health services and outcome research. Her research interest is in advancing methodology to analyze data from critically ill patients. She also received a teaching award from Vanderbilt Master of Science Clinical Investigation Program (MSCI) for the academic year of 2004-2005. Upon the invitation from the Japanese government, she is currently teaching basic and advanced biostatistics to a newly established nation's first MSCI program hosted by Tokai University Hospital, Isehara, Japan.