John Dawson, Ph.D.
Personal Information
My position as a biostatistician requires me to be a jack-of-all-trades, so I have experience with design of experiments, analysis of mRNA and sequence data, and cancer and obesity research, to name a few areas. My research interests are in the proper measurement of nutritional outcomes, especially outcomes that are primarily obtained via self-report and hence may be invalid, unreliable, or both. I have a joint appointment with the Center for Biotechnology & Genomics and collaborate within and beyond the College of Human Sciences.
Education
BS in Mathematics from the University of Iowa (2005); PhD in Statistics with emphasis in Biostatistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012); Post-doctoral traineeship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (2014)
Courses
NS 4220 – Medical Terminology
NS 5330 - Introduction to Nutritional Sciences Research
NS 5342 – Biostatistics in Nutrition
CV
Research Interests
I am a biostatistician with additional expertise in nutrition research, obesity research, misreporting and data fidelity and statistical genetics. In addition to my own research, must of which involves secondary data analysis, I am involved in the planning, design, execution and analysis of most of the project.Future Research Collaboration Interests
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Clinical nutrition/obesity
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Community nutrition/obesity
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Genetics
Center of Excellence in Obesity and Cardiometabolic Research
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Email
cocr@ttu.edu