Biography

Dr. Edlavitch is a professor of epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at the UMKC School of Medicine. He is also an adjunct professor of infectious disease at the University of Kansas Medical Center and adjunct professor of epidemiology at Tianjin Medical University in Tianjin, China. Dr. Edlavitch served as graduate training director for the Department of Informatic Medicine and Personalized Health from 2006 to 2008.

Before joining the School of Medicine in 2002, Dr. Edlavitch was an adjunct professor of dental health at the School of Dentistry. He worked at the University of Kansas Medical Center from 1991 to 2004 as professor of preventive medicine, a member of the Institutional Review Board and director of the Master of Public Health program.

In 1984, Dr. Edlavitch founded the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and served as its executive director through 1997. He serves on multiple advisory and editorial boards and is a contributing editor for the Chinese Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology and the senior editor of the Pharmacoepidemiology Newsletter.

Dr. Edlavitch received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland in 1962. He went on to earn a Master of Public Health in 1966 and a master’s degree in mathematical statistics in 1968 from the University of Missouri-Columbia. In 1974, he received his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California-Berkeley.