Douglas Lorenz '99, '01, '03, '11

Dr. Douglas J. Lorenz received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1999; his Master of Arts in Mathematics in 2001; Master of Science in Public Health in Biostatic Decision Science in 2003; and his Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics in 2011, all from the University of Louisville. As a student, he was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon and a four-year letter winner in baseball. He is an elected member of Delta Omega, Pi Beta Chapter. He received University of Louisville Graduate Dean’s Citations in 2003 and 2011 and a Hohman Fellowship in the University of Louisville Department of Mathematics in 2006.

Dr. Lorenz is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville. He received the 2014 University of Louisville "Top 4" Faculty Favorite and a University of Louisville Faculty Favorite each year from 2014 through 2019. Dr. Lorenz joined the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in 2003, as a Statistician with the Statistical Consulting Center. After completing his Doctorate in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, he joined the faculty in the fall of 2011.

His primary research collaboration is with the Pediatric Emergency Division at Northwestern University and Lurie Children's Hospital in which he provides biostatistical support to faculty, fellows, residents, and attendings with their research. Notable projects include identifying discriminating characteristics of abused children in the pediatric emergency setting and decision rules for pneumonia severity. His methodological research primarily focuses on methods for clustered data under informative cluster size and informative within-cluster covariate distributions. He also has an interest in the areas of survival analysis and multistate models. Previously, Dr. Lorenz conducted collaborative research with Dr. Susan Harkema in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

Doug and his wife, Melissa, also a University of Louisville graduate, reside in the Louisville area with their four children.

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