Katherine Freeman

Affiliation

Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Freeman is an expert in the design and statistical analysis of multicenter, international clinical trials, observational studies, and meta-analyses, advocating evidence-based research for over 30 years. She been the Principal or Co-Investigator on many NIH and foundation research grants involving randomized clinical trials, and clinical, educational and cost effectiveness research. For typical research projects and grants, Dr. Freeman collaborates on the design, performs all statistical analyses including interim analyses, communicates results, and drafts manuscripts or posters for publication. Collaborators have included dentists, physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, behavioral health specialists, educators, bioengineers, and attorneys. She has taught statistical methods, epidemiology, critical review of the literature, clinical trials methodology, and meta-analysis to students, faculty and other professionals. Dr. Freeman had been a member or the Institutional Review Board and has Chaired several NIH and industry Data and Safety Monitoring Boards. Her peer-reviewed publications include areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, social work, business and education, focusing primarily on health disparities and public health. Dr. Freeman is currently a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and the Biostatistics Core Leader at FAU where she collaborates with faculty from all Colleges. Recently she has been awarded a 5-year R25 from NIH/NHLBI as PI to train undergraduate and early graduate students from groups typically underrepresented in the biomedical sciences (Florida Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Data Science); the Program has successfully completed its first two years.