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Matthew Downs, M.P.H.
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Matthew Downs, M.P.H., joined Statistics Collaborative, Inc. (SCI) in 1996. A SAS certified professional, he has presented articles on data visualization and on project management in the proceedings of national and regional SAS user group conferences. He is a member of the Society for Clinical Trials, where he has co-authored presentations about dynamic allocation methods and conditional power.

At SCI Mr. Downs has managed and analyzed studies of gene therapies against HIV/AIDS infection and studies of treatments of HIV associated cachexia and Hansen’s disease. He has performed analyses of diagnostic imaging studies and a validation study of a scale measuring the severity of oral mucositis in cancer patients. He has coordinated safety monitoring reports for large, multinational trials in heart disease, sepsis, lung cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and ophthalmology. He has also assisted in the design of a multiple endpoint oncology study and a trial investigating recovery of erectile function following prostatectomy.

He received his B.A. and B.S. from the State University of New York, Geneseo (1994) and his M.P.H. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley (1996).