Robert W. Platt
Professor
PhD
PhD, Biostatistics, University of Washington, 1996
Robert W. Platt is a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at 㽶Ƶ. He holds the Albert Boehringer I endowed chair in Pharmacoepidemiology. Dr. Platt is a Principal Investigator of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES), a national network to provide timely responses to regulatory and stakeholder questions on medications. His research focuses on improving methods for the study of medications using administrative data, with an emphasis on methods for causal inference and a substantive focus on medications in pregnancy. Dr. Platt is an editor-in-chief of Statistics in Medicine and is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. He has published over 400 articles, one book and several book chapters on biostatistics and epidemiology.
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiologic methods
- Perinatal epidemiology
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Drug safety research
- Methods: analysis of observational data, generalizability and transportability of results, multi-database studies
- Perinatal research
- Prix d’Excellence, Fonds de la recherche sur les maladies infantiles, 2005
- Chercheur-Boursier Senior award, Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec, 2008-2012
- Chercheur-National award, Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec, 2012-2016
- Albert Boehringer I chair in Pharmacoepidemiology, February 2016
- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, September 2016
- 2017 F1000 Prime award (Research Methodology), March 2018
- 2020 Article of the Year, In recognition of the article: “The critical importance of asking good questions: The role of epidemiology doctoral training programs” in the American Journal of Epidemiology and the Society for Epidemiologic Research, April 2020
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute