Overview
As Deputy Director, Laine Thomas, PhD provides complementary leadership in strategy and development of the group and DCRI. She has an outstanding record of scientific and strategic collaboration, independent research, leadership and mentoring well known to her colleagues at the DCRI.
Thomas joined the DCRI in 2009. She serves as Associate Director for Biostatistics at DCRI and Associate Chair for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion within the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. She is a leader in developmental methods for observational and pragmatic studies. She has over 240 peer reviewed clinical and methodological publications arising from scientific collaboration in the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, uterine fibroids and SARS-CoV-2 virus. She led the statistical teams on the HERO COVID-19, ORBIT-AF I & II, ACTION-CMS, CHAMP-HF, and COMPARE-UF clinical registries and secondary analyses of the NAVIGATOR and ARISTOTLE clinical trials. She is the primary investigator of numerous methodological studies arising from these collaborations, addressing methods for causal inference in observational data, longitudinal treatment initiation, heterogeneous treatment effects and clinical trials augmented by external controls.