Kirk A. Easley

Kirk A. Easley, MS, MApStat is a Research Professor within the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He has over 30 years of experience as a biostatistician and as a collaborator with medical investigators. His areas of interest are clinical trials, statistical education and statistical applications in clinical research. He was Co-PI of the Clinical Coordinating Center for a Natural History Study of Pediatric Lung and Heart Complications of HIV Infection (N01-HR-96037) from 1997-1999 and assumed sole PI responsibility from 1999 to 2007. From 2001 he has served as the Associate Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics Core and from 2001 to 2010 he served as the Assoicate Director of the Emory Biostatistics Consulting Center. He served as the Principal Investigator of the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for a NIDDK funded SICU intervention clinical trial and he is the DCC Co-Director for a birth cohort study funded by the NHLBI (Transfusion-Transmission of Cytomegalovirus (TT-CMV) in Low Birth Weight Infants (LBWI; < 1250 grams) using CMV Seronegative and Leukoreduced Transfusions (the TT-CMV Study). He has served as the Director of the Data Coordinating Center for several clinical studies in HIV/AIDS, pediatrics, renal transplantation, nutrition, blood transfusion and infectious diseases.