Section 3 Professor Love

Thomas E. Love, Ph.D.

• Professor of Medicine, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, CWRU.
• Director of Biostatistics and Data Science, Population Health Research Institute and Center for Health Care Research and Policy, The MetroHealth System.
• 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

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 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 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 at Savant Systems, and we are raising two terrific sons. The elder is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh who plans to be a paleontologist, and the younger is in his first year at Columbia University, my alma mater, although sadly he is doing it from home thanks to the pandemic. We live in Shaker Heights. In pre-pandemic times, I sang and acted occasionally in community theater, and now I read plays occasionally over Zoom.

3.2 Email

• Email to get help with the course: 500-help at case dot edu (seen by Professor Love and the TA, Wyatt Bensken)
• Thomas dot Love at case dot edu (for matters related to grades or individual concerns)
• Professor Love is available for 15 minutes before and 15 or more minutes after class to chat.

3.3 Name and Pronouns

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

3.4 Web

• Professor Love’s GitHub pages website.
  • His GitHub name is THOMASELOVE.
• His Twitter handle is ThomasELove. ## Email

3.5 Offices

I haven’t been to either of my offices since March 2020. As of 2021-02-01, I’ve not been vaccinated against COVID-19, and I don’t expect to be back in either office in the Spring semester.

• Wood WG-82J on the ground floor of the Wood building on the CWRU Campus.
• Rammelkamp R-229A at MetroHealth Medical Center.