Section 2 Dr. Love

Thomas E. Love, Ph.D.

• Professor of Medicine, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, CWRU
• Director of Biostatistics and Evaluation, Center for Health Care Research & Policy, MetroHealth Medical Center
• Chief Data Scientist, Better Health Partnership
• Track Lead for Health Care Analytics, MS in Biostatistics, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, CWRU
• Fellow, American Statistical Association

Email

• Email to get help with the course: 431-help at case dot edu (seen by Professor Love and the TAs)
• Thomas dot Love at case dot edu (for matters related to grades or individual concerns)
• Dr. Love is hard to reach by phone. Email is always the best way to reach him.

Offices

• Wood WG-82L on the ground floor of the Wood building (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
• Rammelkamp R-229A at MetroHealth Medical Center (Wednesdays and Fridays)

Dr. Love is generally available for the 15 minutes before and the 30 minutes after each class, and otherwise by appointment on Tuesdays and Thursdays (send email to schedule).

Web

• Dr. Love’s GitHub pages website.
  • His GitHub name is THOMASELOVE.
• His Twitter handle is ThomasELove.

A More Complete Biography

Hi. I am Thomas E. Love, Ph.D. and I have at least three different jobs.

• I am a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Population & Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. I teach three courses per year there (PQHS 431, 432 and 500) and also lead the Health Care Analytics track of the MS program in Biostatistics.
• I direct Biostatistics and Evaluation at the Center for Health Care Research & Policy, which is a joint venture of CWRU and MetroHealth Medical Center.
• For ten years, I was the (founding) Data Director for Better Health Partnership, an alliance of people who provide, pay for and receive care in Northeast Ohio. I now serve as Chief Data Scientist there.
• I am a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and have won numerous awards for my teaching and my research, including the 2018 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching from CWRU.
• I have been teaching at CWRU since 1994, and have taught every manner of CWRU student over the years, especially students in biostatistics, medicine, and management.

In research, I use statistical methods to look at questions in health policy and in particular the provision of health services. I mostly work with observational data, rather than data that emerge from randomized clinical trials, and I have a special interest in working with data from electronic health records.

• You may be interested in a recent study in Health Affairs showing the impact of a Medicaid-like expansion plan on care and outcomes of poor patients in Cleveland.
• Or you might be interested in our New England Journal of Medicine study of the effect of electronic health records on the care and outcomes of people with diabetes.
• In 2011, James O’Malley and I chaired the Ninth International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, here in Cleveland. Here’s a recap.
• I’ve also worked on many projects involving the use of propensity scores to make causal inferences from observational studies, particularly in heart failure.

If you want to see a pretty complete list of my publications, knock yourself out.

I hold degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York and from the University of Pennsylvania. My dissertation adviser was Paul Rosenbaum. I am married to a brilliant woman who is an attorney downtown, and we are raising two terrific sons, who are sophomores in college and high school. I live in Shaker Heights. I also sing and act occasionally in community theater.