James Bost, PhD

Dr. Bost is a biostatistician and Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science and Biostatistics in the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh.  He has extensive experience with clinical trials research, observational studies, analysis of large datasets, the creation and psychometric assessment of new instruments and large scale data collection efforts.  Since joining the faculty in July of 2006, Dr. Bost has been the primary analyst on several grants and published several manuscripts with investigators from various disciplines.   He has supported dozens of grant applications with analysis plans and sample size calculations.  From its onset, he has provided statistical support to investigators as part of the University of Pittsburgh’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.  He has worked with several obesity researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.  As Associate Director of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement he led the effort to collect the BMI data on the 450,000 students in the state. Currently he is the Principal Investigator of the Coordinating Center of the HALT/Polycystic Kidney Disease treatment network.  The network consists of seven sites and is part of two ongoing clinical trials.   He also oversees data management of the CRISP II grant, is the lead project statistician and serves on the Steering Committee.