Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, PhD

Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, PhD, retains a current position as Associate Professor at the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine Department of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology. Dr. Durazo-Arvizu served as associate professor at Northwestern University's Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society and the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies. He continues to collaborate on several priority Buehler Center projects. Dr. Durazo- Arvizu has expertise in statistics and research design to the two centers. He obtained a master's degree in statistics in 1987 from the University of Texas at El Paso and his doctorate in applied mathematics in 1994 from the University of Arizona. Following the completion of his doctoral degree Dr. Durazo-Arvizu worked in México for the University of Sonora in Hermosillo as a full-time researcher. While in Hermosillo he taught statistics for the master's degree programs in Psychology and Business Administration. Since then he has served as research associate and lead statistician in the Department of Health Sciences Research in the Cancer Center of the Mayo Clinic and as assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at Loyola University, Chicago. He was also associate professor in Department of Biometry and Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he directed the Office of Statistics and Data Management in the Alcohol Research Center within the Institute of Psychiatry. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, the International Biometry Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. Dr. Durazo-Arvizu has been a co-investigator on numerous NIH- or foundation-funded research projects, on topics such as prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, alcohol consumption, and causes of death.