Bruce Levin

Dr. Bruce Levin has a long-standing interest in the application of statistics in the law and the use of innovative statistical methods for clinical trials. With respect to statistics in the law, Dr. Levin has served as an expert statistical witness in many cases, including administrative hearings and equal employment opportunity lawsuits. He is the co-author with the lawyer Michael O. Finkelstein of the textbook, Statistics for Lawyers, now in its 3rd Edition.  With respect to clinical trials, using sequential statistical methods, Dr. Levin has published on innovative trial designs that minimize ethical costs, and has been involved in the design of many clinical trials.  As the senior statistical design consultant to the Statistical Analysis Center, within the Department of Biostatistics, Dr. Levin helped design the Warfarin and Aspirin in Reduced Cardiac Ejection Fraction (WARCEF) trial, the Co-enzyme Q10 in ALS (QALS) trial, and other trials in cardiology and neurology. Dr. Levin is also the Director of the Statistics, Epidemiology, and Data Management Core of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, a joint center of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.  In this role he oversees the statistical design, analysis, and, together with the Center's Performance and Safety Monitoring Board, oversees the conduct of the trials.  He is an expert in the analysis of categorical data and co-authored the classic textbook, Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions, 3rd Edition, Myunghee Cho Paik and the late Joseph L. Fleiss.  He also published The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness with Gilberto Levy.