Chapter 6 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 before and after class, 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](https://twitter.com/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.
• 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. We may chair it again in 2021.
• 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 advisor was Paul Rosenbaum. I am married to a brilliant woman and we are raising two terrific sons, one of whom just started college. I live in Shaker Heights.