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Center for Research on Health Care
Suite 600
230 McKee Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-692-4853
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James E. Bost, MS, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine Associate Professor of Clinical and Translational Science Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Office:	200 Meyran Ave, Suite 200
	Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone:	412-246-6932
Fax:	412-586-9672
E-mail:	bostje@upmc.edu

Education
	BS in Industrial Administration and Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1983

	MS in Statistics, Ohio State University, 1988

	PhD in Research Methods, University of Pittsburgh, 1993

Content Areas
	Cardiovascular Disease, Children and Adolescent Health Services, Health Care Policy, Managed Care, Obesity and Nutrition, Prevention and Screening, Quality of Care and Quality Improvement


Method Areas
	Analysis of Large Databases

Area of Specialization/Research Interest
	Health services reseach
	Performance measurement
	Psychometrics
	Nonparametric statistics
	Survey design and analysis
	Clinical trials

Profile
	Dr. Bost joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 2006 as an associate professor of medicine. He works in the Center for Research on Health Care (CRHC) Data Center, where he provides management and statistical support for large clinical trials and provides statistical and grant-writing support for investigators through the Clinical and Science Training Institute. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Bost was an associate professor of biostatistics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and was the associate director of health data and statistics at the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. He also served for 5 years as the assistant vice president of research and analysis for the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a managed care watchdog organization.

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