Todd Schwartz, DrPH

About

Dr. Todd Schwartz, professor and associate chair of biostatistics, works collaboratively with the UNC School of Nursing (joint faculty appointment), the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center (Co-Director of the NIAMS-funded Methodology Core) and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (adjunct faculty appointment). 

Much of Dr. Schwartz’s efforts are focused on supporting various projects across these units with regard to their biostatistical aspects, including consultation on design, conduct, analysis and dissemination. He also has published on innovative pedagogical methods, including the ‘flipped’ classroom.

Honors and Awards

Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award
2020, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentorship and Education
2009, 2015, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing

Scientific Teaching Fellow
Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching National Science Foundation & Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society

Teaching Interests

ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA (BIOS 665)

INTERMEDIATE STATISTICS: REGRESSION ANALYSIS (NURS 918)

Dr. Schwartz has also previously taught:

Advanced Statistics I: Principles of Regression and Correlation (NURS 970)

Advanced Statistics II: Principles of Analysis of Variance (NURS 971)

Statistical Models for Health Research (NURS 972)

Various guest lectures in the Schools of Public Health, Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy

Research Activities

Categorical data, clinical trials, statistical education, statistical translation to other disciplines, data monitoring committees

Service Activities

JOURNAL REVIEW

Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials (Sage)                   

Studies in Higher Education (Society for Research into Higher Education) (Taylor & Francis)                            

Statistics in Medicine (Wiley)                                                                          

Contemporary Clinical Trials (Elsevier)                                                         

Journal of Statistics Education (American Statistical Association)                

BMC Medical Education (BioMed Central)                                                   

Pharmaceutical Statistics (Wiley)                                                                   

Research in Nursing & Health (Wiley)                                                           

BMC Geriatrics (BioMed Central)                                                                 

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (OsteoArthritis Research Society International)

Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials (Sage)                   

JAMA Surgery (Statistical Editor)

EXTERNAL SERVICE

Grant Proposal Review, US Department of Defense

Statistics in Nursing Listserv, Moderator 

Data and Safety Monitoring Board

Independent Data Monitoring Committee

Occupational Information Network (O*NET)

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE SERVICE

Alumni Activities and Social Committee (Chair) 

UNC Department of Biostatistics

Doctoral Examinations Committee (Member) Applied Exam Subcommittee, UNC Department of Biostatistics

PhD Admissions Committee (Member) UNC School of Nursing

Faculty Search Committees

Key Publications

Findings from a Survey of Statistics and Biostatistics Instructors in the Health Sciences Who Teach Using an Online or Flipped Format. Schwartz T.A., Ajazi E., and Monaco J. (2018). Journal of Statistics Education (An International Journal on the Teaching and Learning of Statistics), 26.

GEEORD: A SAS Macro for Analyzing Ordinal Response Variables with Repeated Measures through Proportional Odds, Partial Proportional Odds, or Non-Proportional Odds Models. Gao X., Schwartz T.A.*, Preisser J.S., and Perin J. (2017). Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 150.

Flipping the Statistics Classroom in Nursing Education. Schwartz, T.A. (2014). Journal of Nursing Education, 53.

Staff/Administrative Duties

Biostatistics Section (President)

Alumni Association

Gillings School of Global Public Health

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Advisory Board (Member)

Alumni Association

Gillings School of Global Public Health

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Education