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Tor D Tosteson serves as Professor of Biomedical Data Science, The Dartmouth Institute, and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine. He directs the Division of Biostatistics within the Department of Biomedical Data Science and holds affiliations with the Dartmouth Cancer Center and SYNERGY research consortium. His academic career spans over two decades, including prior faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Tosteson's research focuses on methodological challenges in biomedical data science, particularly covariate measurement error for nonlinear regression models, clinical trials design, instrumental variables analysis, and joint modeling of survival and longitudinal patient outcomes. His collaborative work centers on cancer and musculoskeletal disease research across clinical, translational, and outcomes domains, with significant contributions to randomization methods in learning health systems.
His recent publications (2022-2025) demonstrate concentrated expertise in oncology clinical trials, telemedicine implementation during the pandemic, cancer screening guidelines for older adults, and methodological innovations in statistical collaboration. The work spans pragmatic trials, retrospective clinical studies, and multimodal assessment approaches across diverse medical specialties.
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2014)
As an active mentor, Dr. Tosteson leads two NIH training grants (T32 CA134286-11 and T32 LM012204-05) while mentoring pre/postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. His grant portfolio includes NCI P30 CA023108-41 as Subaward PI for Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. He teaches QBS Fundamentals of Biostatistics and Statistical Consulting courses at Dartmouth.
Dr. Tosteson operates within the Dartmouth Cancer Center's Biostatistics core and contributes to the SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute, where his division provides statistical leadership for multi-institutional research initiatives across Northern New England.
