Joseph Beyene

Dr. Joseph Beyene is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and the inaugural chair holder of the John D. Cameron Chair in Genetic Determinants of Chronic Diseases, Population Genomics Program (PGP), McMaster University. Prior to coming to McMaster, he was an Associate Professor of biostatistics in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. Dr. Beyene’s primary research focus is in the development and application of statistical methods for genetics and genomics data, meta-analysis/systematic review and predictive modeling. His current focus is developing, evaluating and deploying analytical methodology for data integration using diverse sources of data sets allowing synthesizing of information at the molecular, clinical, environmental and population level.