Design & Statistics Core (DSC)

Link to Taljaard, Monica profile page.
Full Name
Monica Taljaard, PhD
Credentials
PhD
Role

Executive Committee, Design & Statistics Core (DSC)

Primary title
Senior Scientist
Primary Institution
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Complete Titles

Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Full Professor, University of Ottawa

Bio
Monica Taljaard, PhD, is a biostatistician specializing in the design, analysis, and ethics of pragmatic cluster randomized and stepped wedge trials. As a member of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) Methods Center, she regularly provides biostatistical assistance to investigators in the design, conduct, and analysis of pragmatic trials, pilot trials, quality improvement interventions and health system projects. Since Dr. Taljaard’s academic appointment in 2006, she has published over 440 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has received over $19M in peer-reviewed research grants as principal investigator in addition to >$145 million in peer-reviewed research funding as co-investigator. She has collaborated with investigators in the design and analysis of a large-scale pragmatic cluster randomized trials in US nursing homes, and studies in palliative and end-of-life care, dementia, long-term care, perioperative care of the frail elderly, as well as health care system quality improvement in nursing homes.
Core/Team Associations
Link to Travison, Thomas profile page.
Full Name
Thomas Travison, PhD
Credentials
PhD
Role

Associate Core Leader, Design & Statistics Core (DSC)

Primary title
Senior Scientist; Director of Biostatistics; Associate Professor
Primary Institution
Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife
Complete Titles

Senior Scientist, Director of Biostatistics, Co-Director of the Interventional Studies in Aging Center, Hebrew SeniorLife’s Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Faculty, Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Bio
Thomas Travison, PhD, is a biostatistician and clinical trialist. His work is focused on observational and interventional science intended to promote functional independence and to prevent the development and progression of frailty. Dr. Travison is an internationally recognized expert in the epidemiology of age-associated changes in circulating sex steroid concentrations and their contribution to functional and cognitive aging. He has designed and analyzed numerous clinical trials of multimodal interventions in complex older populations. His laboratory focuses on the development and dissemination of tools and methodologies promoting reproducible quantitative and biomedical science.
Core/Team Associations