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Member Information
J. Richard Landis, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Professor of Statistics, Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Office Phone: 215-573-4922
Office Fax: 215-573-4865
Email: jrlandis@cceb.upenn.edu
Website(s): http://www.cceb.upenn.edu/main/people/landis.html
Education: PhD 1975, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
Data coordination and statistical design and analysis aspects of multi-center clinical research networks in interstitial cystitis, chronic prostatitis, and acute lung injury.
Summary:
J. Richard Landis is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Statistics in the
Wharton School . Dr. Landis serves as Director of the Division of Biostatistics and Vice-Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Within the Center for
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB) he serves as Director of the Biostatistics Unit which includes 21 faculty and more than 60 staff.
Dr. Landis earned the M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1975) in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He was Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he served on the faculty for 13 years (1975-1988). In 1988, he founded the Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center (HMC) of the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), and served as its Director for 9 years until 1997.
For more than 20 years, he has been actively involved in collaborative biomedical research and the development and evaluation of methods for the analysis of categorical data, resulting in more than 100 co-authored articles in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Dr. Landis' publications are in the areas of statistical methods for repeated measurement and longitudinal categorical data, epidemiological studies, complex sample surveys and applications to cardiovascular and urological research. He served on the Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section for NIH for two terms (1984-88, 1993-97). Currently he is PI of two NIDDK-funded, multi-institutional Data Coordinating Centers - the Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network (CPCRN) and the Interstitial Cystitis Clinical Trials Group (ICCTG).
His honors include Fulbright Senior Scholar (University of Newcastle, Australia, 1981-82), Fellow of the American Statistical Association, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, recipient of the Mortimer Spiegelman Gold Medal Award (1984) and recipient of an Environmental Protection Agency Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (1987).
Representative Publications:
Landis, J.R., Sharp, T.J., Kuritz, S.J., Koch, G.G. Mantel-Haenszel Methods. In Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, Armitage P, Colton JT, eds. Wiley & Sons: London , 3:2378-2391, 1998.
Kumanyika, S.K., Landis, J.R., Matthews-Cook, Y.L., Almy, S.L., Boehmer, S. Systolic blood pressure trends in US adults between 1960 and 1980: Influence of antihypertensive drug therapy. American Journal of Epidemiology 148:528-538, 1998.
Pulkstenis, E., Ten Have, T.R., Landis, J.R. A mixed effects model for the analysis of ordinal longitudinal pain data subject to informative dropout. Statistics in Medicine 20:601-622, 2001.
Schaeffer, A.J., Landis, J.R., Knauss, J.S., Propert, K.J., Alexander, R.B., Litwin, M.S., Nickel, J.C., O'Leary, M.P., Nadler, R.B., Pontari, M.A., Shoskes, D.A., Zeitlin, S.I., Mazurick, C.A., Kishel, L., Kusek, J.W., Nyberg, L.M., and the CPCRN Study Group. Demographic and clinical characteristics of men with chronic prostatitis: The NIH Chronic Prostatitis Cohort (CPC) Study. Journal of Urology 168:593-598, 2002.
Landis, J.R., Kaplan, S., Swift, S., Versi, E. Efficacy of antimuscarinic therapy in overactive bladder patients with varying degrees of incontinence severity. Submitted to Journal of Urology, 2003.
