The School of Medicine has announced the appointment of An-Lin Cheng, Ph.D., as director of the Research and Statistical Consult Service in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
A tenured faculty member in the UMKC School of Nursing and Health Studies for the past 10 years, Cheng has also held a joint appointment at the School of Medicine in Biomedical and Health Informatics since 2011.
Her primary roles will be to lead the Research and Statistical Consult Service and collaborate with researchers on the UMKC Hospital Hill Campus. She will provide expertise and advice on proper research design and assistance to researchers in ethical and accepted methods of data analysis and interpretation.
Cheng has extensive experience handling large data sets and conducting secondary data analyses. Her primary research interests have involved the development of statistical methods for the design and analysis of data in clinical trial studies. She has collaborated with researchers from a wide range of disciplines including medicine, dentistry, nursing, biomedical engineering, environmental sciences, statistics and biostatistics.
Faculty, residents, fellows and students are invited to contact Cheng early in their research process to request support. Guidelines and an application for the Research and Statistical Consult Service can be found on the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics website at https://med.umkc.edu/dbhi/consultation/.
