Paul Rathouz

Paul Rathouz is a Visiting Professor and former Chair in the Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin. He serves as Director of the Biomedical Data Science Hub, fostering collaborative data science initiatives in clinical and population health research. With a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University, Rathouz has extensive experience in academic leadership, previously serving as Chair of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin and holding roles at the University of Chicago.

His research focuses on methodological advancements in statistical modeling, including missing data analysis, generalized linear models, and outcome-dependent sampling designs. Applied work spans developmental psychopathology, sleep epidemiology, and arsenic exposure studies. He has led high-impact projects like longitudinal studies of speech development in children with cerebral palsy and interventions to improve provider-patient communication in surgery.

Rathouz holds fellow status in the American Statistical Association (2015) and received the Van Ryzin Award from ENAR (1997). His collaborative approach emphasizes full lifecycle research involvement, from project inception to publication, and he actively contributes to workforce development in research methods within Dell Med.

Professional affiliations include the American Statistical Association and International Biometric Society. The Biomedical Data Science Hub under his direction leverages UT Austin’s interdisciplinary strengths to advance translational science, particularly in health services research and surgical outcomes optimization.