Biostatistics
Cardiology
Obesity
Longitudinal Imaging Data
Cluster Randomized Trials
Statistical Pedagogy
Survival Analysis
Scientific Rigor and Reproducibility
Brandon J. George, PhD, MS
Associate Professor, Public Health
Research Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Cancer Biology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Contact Information
901 Walnut Street
10th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-503-3852
215-923-7583 fax
Associate Professor, Public Health
Research Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Cancer Biology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Research & Practice Interests
Education
PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
MS, Washington University
BS, Washington University
Publications
- Design, analysis, and interpretation of treatment response heterogeneity in personalized nutrition and obesity treatment research
- The prescription drug monitoring program in a multifactorial approach to the opioid crisis: PDMP data, Pennsylvania, 2016–2020
- Mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit in the United States with or without respiratory failure secondary to COVID-19 pneumonia: a retrospective comparison of characteristics and outcomes
- Making the Switch: Experiences and Results from Converting a Biostatistics Course to Flipped and Online Formats for Public Health Students
- Characteristics of Moyamoya Syndrome in Pediatric Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
Teaching
Fundamentals of Health Statistics for Research
Advanced Helalth Statistics
Essentials of Research for Public Health
Biography
Dr. Brandon George is Associate Professor in the Jefferson College of Population Health., and Research Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Cancer Biology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College.
Under the mentorship of Dr. Inmaculada Aban, he received his PhD in Biostatistics in 2014 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). His dissertation considered a separable parametric spatiotemporal correlation structure for the analysis of longitudinal imaging data, inspired by a clinical trial at UAB that examined left ventricular remodeling in patients with mitral regurgitation. After finishing his dissertation, Dr. George worked in the Office of Energetics at UAB under Dr. David Allison, where he worked in the field of obesity and nutrition research both assisting with in-house projects and attempting to improve the caliber of statistics in that field to enhance scientific rigor and reproducibility. He also received a BS and MS in biomedical engineering in 2009 from Washington University in St. Louis, where he specialized in artificial surfaces for blood-contacting devices.
At Thomas Jefferson University, Dr. George’s research has been focused on collaborative projects and pedagogy. Although the collaborations have been in a wide variety of fields (the famous statistician John Tukey is quoted as saying that “The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard.”), they have often been in promotion of research into health disparities. Some areas include racial disparities in breast cancer screening and treatment; examination of treatment patterns and health outcomes in COVID-19 patients; patient outreach during the telehealth era of the COVID-19 pandemic; and safety markers in obstetrics. Dr. George’s pedagogical work has focused on the teaching of statistics in public health, with a particular interest in student engagement and active learning in online spaces.