Robert Gibbons, Ph.D.

Robert D. Gibbons is the Blum-Riese Professor and a Pritzker Scholar at the University of Chicago.  He has appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences.  He also directs the Center for Health Statistics.  Professor Gibbons is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a member of the International Statistical Institute, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.  He has authored more than 275 peer-reviewed scientific papers and five books.   His statistical work spans the areas of longitudinal data analysis, item response theory, environmental statistics and drug safety and has led to thousands of applications in the biological and social sciences.  Professor Gibbons has received life-time achievement awards from the American Statistical Association, the American Public Health Association and Harvard University.  He is a founder of the Mental Health Statistics section of the American Statistical Association.