TTUHSC Paul L. Foster School of Medicine
Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Border Health Research

Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology

Faculty

Patrick Tarwater, Ph.D

Professor and Chief COS

915-545-5701

Education:

Ph.D 1999 Biometry- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

M.S. 1992 Mathematics- Texas Tech University

B.A. 1990 Mathematics- Texas Tech University

Research Interests:

Biostatistics

Analytic Methods for Cohort Studies

Survival Analysis

Longitudinal Data Analysis

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Memberships:

American Statistical Association

American College of Epidemiology

Melchor Ortiz, Ph.D

Professor COS

915-545-5701

 Education:

Ph.D 1975 Statistics- Texas A M University

M.S. 1971 Mathematics- Texas A i University

B.S. 1970 Mathematics- Texas A I University

Research Interests:

Research Support

Experimental Design

Analysis of Designed Experiments

Multiple Regression

Memberships:

American Statistical Association

Sigma Xi