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Matt Downs, M.P.H.
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Matthew Downs, M.P.H. has been Biostatistician at Statistics Collaborative, Inc. since 1996. He is currently a SAS Certified Professional and has presented articles on data visualization and on project management in the proceedings of national and regional SAS user group conferences. He is also a member of the Society for Clinical Trials, where he has coauthored presentations about dynamic allocation methods and conditional power.
Since joining Statistics Collaborative, Inc., he has managed and analyzed studies of gene therapies against HIV 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 data safety and 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.
As a Research Assistant with the California Department of Health Services in 1995, he participated in data management and analysis for an epidemiological investigation of worker health outcomes from an oil refinery’s chemical release. He also participated in a study examining psychosocial adjustments to HIV seropositivity at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Department of Social Work Research.
He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Geneseo (1994) and his M.P.H. in Epidemiology/Biostatistics from the University of California at Berkeley (1996). He received a New York City Health Research traineeship and a university wide award for graduate instruction of health statistics.