Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
McMaster University
BIOSTATISTICIAN AND DIRECTOR, BIOSTATISTICS UNIT
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Biostatistics/FSORC
Phone: 905-522-1155 x33720
email: thabanl@mcmaster.ca
Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre
Centre for Evaluation of Medicines
St. Joseph's Healthcare
3rd Floor Martha, Room H-325
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
HAMILTON ON L8N 4A6 CANADA
Fax: 905-308-7212
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Lehana Thabane is Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Biostatistician and Director of the Biostatistics Unit at the Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre (FSORC), St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton. Dr. Thabane did his PhD studies in Statistics (1994 -1998) in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and MSc in Statistics (1992-1993) in the Department of Probability and Statistics at Sheffield University, England. He obtained his BSc (1986-1990) from the National University of Lesotho.
In broad terms, Dr Thabane is a research methodologist with research interests in the development and application of statistical methods health research. His specific areas of statistics research interests include regression models, multivariate analysis, clinical trials, Bayesian and non-Bayesian inference, decision analysis, meta-analysis, data-mining techniques and statistical consulting. He collaborates with researchers in cardiology, internal medicine, nephrology, HIV-AIDS, palliative care services, evidence-based medicine and health technology assessment. He provides statistical leadership in studies in various areas of population health research, clinical research and health services and outcomes research. His Bayesian research involves development of Bayesian methods to better estimate the Number Needed to Treat (NNT). He also has research interests in design and analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) designs based on multiple outcomes, inspired by the need for efficient use of available resources. As research methodologist, his research interests cover a wide spectrum of research areas including research ethics, conjoint analysis of patient preferences for colorectal cancer screening, the applications of Bayesian hierarchical methods to model medical data, systematic reviews and meta-analysis of RCTs using both Bayesian and classical approaches, and applications of data-mining techniques in pharmacosurveillance using the electronic medical records/ databases to explore patterns, associations, or dissimilarities within the patient records, diagnoses and treatments.
Dr Thabane is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and also a member of the Statistical Society of Canada, the International Biometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and the Society for Clinical Trials. He is also a Scientific Officer of the Randomized Clinical Trials Committee for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Dr Thabane is a member of the PhD Comprehensive Examinations Chairs Committee in the Health Research Methodology (HRM) programme, and coordinator of HRM-733 Statistical and Methodological Issues in Randomized Clinical Trials and HRM-739 Biostatistical Collaboration.