Christopher S. Coffey, PhD

Director, Clinical Trials Statistical and Data Management Center
Professor of Biostatistics, University of Iowa

Dr. Christopher S. Coffey is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Director of the Clinical Trials Statistical and Data Management Center (CTSDMC) at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 and has 25 years of experience providing data management and statistical support to multi-center clinical trials and biomarker studies. Dr. Coffey is a past member of the NINDS NSD-K clinical trials study section, a member of the FDA Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Board, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, American Academy of Neurology, and Society for Clinical Trials. He has over 200 publications in journals of statistical importance and prestigious applied journals. His primary research interests include design issues such as power and sample size calculations, sample size re-estimation methods, and adaptive designs.