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Philip W. Lavori

Contact Information

  • Academic Offices
    Personal Information
    Email lavori@stanford.edu Tel (650) 725-6109

Administrative Appointments

  • Chair, Dept. of Health Research and Policy , (2005– present )
  • Director, Biostatistics Shared Resource, Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center , (2004– present )
  • Acting Director, Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program (National HQ) , (2002– 2004 )
  • Director, Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Palo Alto , (1992– 2005 )

Honors and Awards

  • Leadership Award, Department of Veterans Affairs Research and Development Office (2002-2004)

Professional Education

  • PhD, Cornell University Mathematics (1974)
  • MA, Cornell University Mathematics (1972)

Postdoctoral Advisees

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

Industry Relationships

Stanford is committed to ethical and transparent interactions with our industry partners. It is our policy to disclose payments of $5,000 or more, equity valued at $5,000 or more in a publicly traded company, or any equity in a privately held company, to physicians and scientists employed by Stanford University from companies or other commercial entities with which they interact as part of their professional activities. 

  • Consulting: ARCA Discoveries, Inc, Neuronetics, Inc, Pfizer Inc

Research Interests

Biostatistics, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, casual inference from observational studies, genetic tissue banking, informed consent. Trial designs for dynamic (adaptive) treatment regimes, psychiatric research, cancer.

Publications