Leah J Welty, PhD: Faculty Profile: Feinberg School of Medicine: Northwestern University

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Dr. Welty's research interests include the application of biostatistics to psychiatry and environmental research and the development of software tools for reproducible research. She leads the development team for StatTag (stattag.org) - free, open-source software connecting Microsoft Word to R, SAS and Stata. She is also the lead biostatistician for the Northwestern Juvenile Project, a large-scale longitudinal study of psychiatric disorders and risky behaviors in delinquent youth, as well as N...[Read full text]Dr. Welty's research interests include the application of biostatistics to psychiatry and environmental research and the development of software tools for reproducible research. She leads the development team for StatTag (stattag.org) - free, open-source software connecting Microsoft Word to R, SAS and Stata. She is also the lead biostatistician for the Northwestern Juvenile Project, a large-scale longitudinal study of psychiatric disorders and risky behaviors in delinquent youth, as well as NJP: NextGen, a study of the children of the original Northwestern Juvenile Project participants. She directs the Biostatistics Collaboration Center, Feinberg's core biostatistics resource for non-cancer research.[Shorten text]

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Biostatistics Epidemiology Psychiatry Health Disparities Environmental Health HIV Infection

Education and Certification

PhD: University of Chicago, Statistics (2003)

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312-503-4710

680 N Lake Shore Drive, Suite Suite 1400
Chicago IL 60611

lwelty( at )northwestern.edu

Leah J Welty, PhD

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