BBMC Leadership
David Bard, PhD - Director
William Beasley, PhD - Director of Informatics
BBMC Faculty
BBMC Staff and Operations
Thomas Wilson, MS - Database Manager, REDCap Guru
Andrew Peters, MS - Biostatistician
Lise DeShea, PhD - Research Biostatistician
Lisa Tunley - Administrative Assistant/Reseach Technician
BBMC Affiliates
Maleeha Shahid, MD, MPH, MSHR - Student Affiliate, Research Analyst
Kaitlin Owen, BA - Former BBMC Administrative Support
Clinical Research Data Warehouse
William Beasley, PhD - Director of Informatics
Ashley Thumann, MHA- EMR Liaison
Lise DeShea, PhD- Research Biostatistician
Geneva Marshall, MS, MHR- Sr. Data Scientist
Arnold Kanagwa, MS, MHR- Sr. Data Scientist
EmBRACER Center Team
David Bard, PhD - Director
Helen Milojevich, PhD - Field Research & Evaluation Lead
Erin Maher, PhD - Field Research & Evaluation Lead
Lauren Ethridge, PhD -Cognitive Neuroscience Lead
Amy Treat, PhD - Project Support
Mallory Ford, MEd - Project Coordinator
Lana Beasley, PhD - Qualitative Research Lead
Yutian Tang, PhD - Statistician
Graduate Research Assistants
Former Members
Som Bohora, MPH
Nicole Voss
Mike Hunter, PhD
Sreeharsha Mandem, MS
Mike Hunter, PhD
David Bard, PhD
BBMC Director
David Bard, Professor of Pediatrics and is the BBMC Director. He received his BA from Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS and his MS and PhD in psychology from the University of Oklahoma. In addition to his BBMC directorship, he also is principal investigator for a number of pediatric research studies and serves as the Chief Research Information Officer for the University. He also holds the Walmart and Sam’s Club Endowed Research Chair for the Department of Pediatrics.
Dr. Bard's areas of expertise include quantitative statistical analysis and methodology, pediatric epidemiology, child maltreatment prevention, judgment and decision making, and programs evaluation. He is a founder of the REDCap Governance Body, and his team has contributed to the development of REDCapR, a package of utilities integrating REDCap with R statistical computing software.
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William Beasley, PhD
Director of Informatics
Will Beasley is a Professor of Pediatrics and leads the Clinical Research Data Warehouse. He received his PhD in quantitative psychology from University of Oklahoma. In addition to his role in BBMC and the CRDW, he provides statistical analysis and software development to research studies at OUHSC.
Dr. Beasley's areas of expertise and interest include Bayesian and Frequentist statistics, bioinformatics, simulation methods, and exploratory and graphical analysis, and reproducible research. He also has a wealth of software programming experience including SQL Server, C#, and R.
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Michael Anderson, PhD
Biostatistician
Michael Anderson is an Assistant Professor at OU College of Public Health Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He received his BA in statistics from Utah State University and his MS and PhD in statistics from Kansas State University and became a member of OUHSC faculty in 2009.
Dr. Anderson's areas of expertise and interest include Bayesian classification of high dimensional data, statistical genomics, Bayesian statistical analysis, bioinformatics, statistical computing, non-parametric, mixed models, and statistical education. He currently teaches several courses in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and works on statistical analysis for research for a number of research studies.
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Christopher Aston, PhD
Biostatistician
Christopher Aston is an Associate Research Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Faculty Biostatistician on the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources (OSCTR) project. Dr. Aston's areas of expertise and interest focuses mostly on the genetic epidemiology of diabetes and obesity and their sequelae, of disorders of urology and sex development, and of cardio-vascular disease. But he will have a go at anything that walks in the door: surveys, clinical trials, results from wet-bench experiments, or genomics: Anethesiology to Urology: cats, rats, humans or salamanders. He has experience with developing REDCap databases. He teaches the Human Population Genetics course for the Masters in Genetic Counseling Program. He has a Morton number = 1.
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Lana Beasley, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Lana Beasley leads qualitative research for the EmBRACER Center.
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Sixia Chen, PhD
Biostatistician
Sixia Chen is an Assistant Professor Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Sixia Chen is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Dr. Chen's research interests include survey sampling, missing data problems, empirical likelihood, data integration, semi-parametric modeling, and small area estimation. Dr. Chen is currently also a member of the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources (OSCTR) project and he is faculty member of Stephenson cancer center BioStat core. Dr. Chen also holds survey methodologist position for OUHSC sooner survey center and consultant position for Tribal Epidemiology Center at Southern Plains Tribal Health Board.
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Lise DeShea, PhD
Research Biostatistician
Lise DeShea is a senior research biostatistician who has worked on the OUHSC campus for more than 10 years, following her employment with OHCA as a statistician analyzing claims data in Quality Assurance. She has authored 3 statistics textbooks, has years of teaching experience, and expertise related to manuscript writing and presentation development. Lise joined the CDW team in July 2020.
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Lauren Ethridge, PhD
Associate Professor
Lauren Ethridge is Faculty at OU Norman campus and heads EEG biomarker outcomes on EmBRACER applied research.
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Mallory Ford, MEd
Research Coordinator
Mallory Ford received her MEd in Child Studies from Vanderbilt in 2020 and joined EmBRACER shortly thereafter. She is a Research Coordinator within the EmBRACER Center and works on multiple applied behavioral research studies.
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Sr. Data Scientist
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Erin Maher, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Erin Maher is a Professor at OU Norman Campus, and she is the lead investigator on the Title IV-E Waiver Evaluation project.
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Geneva Marshall, MS, MHR
Sr. Data Scientist
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Helen Milojevich, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Helen Milojevich is an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator on multiple applied research studies.
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Kaitlin Owen, BA
Research Technician
Kaitlin Owen is a Research Technician for the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). She volunteered and worked with the OUHSC Child Trauma Services Program for 3 years prior to joining OUHSC CCAN in July 2019. She served an administrative capacity for the BBMC Team preceding her transition to full time data collection for quantitative and qualitative research projects focused on secondary and tertiary prevention of child maltreatment.
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Andrew Peters, MS
Biostatistician
Andrew Peters is a Biostatistician working on applied research studies for the EmBRACER Center. He is experienced in CQI work under the MIECHV grant, as well as general research and analytics.
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Adon Rosen, MS
Biostatistician
Adon Rosen is a Biostatistician working on applied research studies for the EmBRACER Center.
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Maleeha Shahid, MB, BS, MPH, MSHR
Research Analyst
Maleeha Shahid is a Research Biostatistician at OUHSC. She received her MPH from OUHSC College of Public Health and her MB, BS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) from Sindh Medical College – University of Karachi in Karachi, Pakistan. Ms. Shahid is currently working on her MS in Human Resources. She has taken her United States Medical Licensing Exams and is ECFMG Certified. She is also a LEND fellow. She works on multiple research studies for OUHSC's Sooner SUCCESS. She is experienced in study design, development of research instruments, collection, management and analysis of data, interpretation of results, and preparation of reports. She is also gaining familiarity with qualitative methodology and network analysis.
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Jane Silovsky, PhD
Professor, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Director of Research, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
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Hairong Song, PhD
Professor
Dr. Hairong Song is a professor on OU Norman Campus.
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Yutian Tang, PhD
Research Biostatistician
Dr. Yutian Tang is a Research Biostatistician and works on several research studies within the Section of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
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Ashley Thumann, MHA
EMR Liaison
Ashley Thumann has 15 years of healthcare administration experience. Prior to joining the CRDW team in October 2017, she served as a Clinic Administrator and Quality Manager for OU Physicians. Ashley has end-user experience with many of the data systems on campus and is the CRDW’s primary liaison with investigators.
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Amy Treat, PhD
Post Doc
Dr. Amy Treat is a post doc working on multiple research studies.
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Lisa Tunley, BS
Research Technician
Lisa Tunley is a Research Technician and the BBMC's Administrative Assistant. She manages the administrative and organizational business for the Director.
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