3 Professor Love

3.1 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 of 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 Data Science at the Population Health Research Institute and at the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at The MetroHealth System.
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 still consult occasionally with them and hold the position of 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 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 at Savant Systems, and we are raising two terrific sons. The elder is finishing a MS in Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and the younger is in his first year of law school at Fordham University in New York. We live in Shaker Heights. I sing and act occasionally in community theater, do lots of puzzles and play golf when I can.

Thanks to Dr. Love’s recovery from a broken leg and ankle surgery, this year’s 432 class will be held remotely (via Zoom) before Spring Break, and then (mostly) in person starting March 18.

3.2 Email

Thomas dot Love at case dot edu (for matters related to grades or individual concerns)
I am available after class to chat.
Remember we have several ways for you to get help with the 432 course.

3.3 Name and Pronouns

I use he/him/his pronouns.
Most students refer to me either as Professor Love or Dr. Love.
I prefer my given name to be written “Thomas” as opposed to “Tom”.
Most of my friends and colleagues call me “Tom”. You are welcome to do so, as well, if that makes you more comfortable.

3.4 Web

My GitHub name is THOMASELOVE.