Biostatistics and Epidemiology

About

The Biostatistics and Epidemiology Core (BEC) contributes to the mission of the Children’s Mercy Research Institute (CMRI) by carrying out original research, providing statistics education and research mentoring, and serving the scientific community locally, nationally, and internationally. Areas of expertise include Bayesian statistics, bootstrap methods, epidemiology, latent variable analysis, machine learning, methods for longitudinal and clustered data, and statistical genomics.        

BEC personnel serve as lead investigators in their own lines of research and collaborate with investigators at Children’s Mercy Kansas City and around the world. As part of the CMRI Population Health Area of Emphasis, the BEC is housed on the second floor of the CMRI building along with Data Science & Informatics.  

Faculty and Staff

Emily Cramer, PhD
Research Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Brooke Fridley, PhD
Research Faculty
Director of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Core (BEC)
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Brian Lee, PhD
Research Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Janelle Noel-MacDonnell, PhD
Research Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Ashley Sherman, MS
Biostatistician II
BEC Education Coordinator

David Williams, MPH
Biostatistician II

Hung-Wen (Henry) Yeh, PhD
Research Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City