Joseph E. (“Joe”) Cavanaugh is currently a Professor of Biostatistics and the Head of the Department of Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa, where he has worked since 2003. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, and an affiliate appointment in the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences. Dr. Cavanaugh has published over 140 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 50 of which feature methodological research contributions to statistics and biostatistics. He has published extensively in the areas of model selection and time series analysis. His applied, interdisciplinary research contributions span a wide range of fields in biomedicine and public health.