Rameela Raman

Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Health Policy, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Nursing
Office Address
2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100
Room / Suite
Room 11133B
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
Phone
(615) 322-7365

PhD, Biostatistics, State University of New York, Buffalo

Research interests include: health disparities, geocoding, critical care, child welfare, influenza, statistical education

Honors and service include: Chair, All-Department Retreat (2024); American Statistical Association Council of Chapters representative (2022–2024); Academy for Excellence in Education (elected 2019); Outstanding Faculty Member (2019); Patrick G. Arbogast Awards for best collaborative publication (2016, 2019); Delta Omega (National Honor Society in Public Health, inducted 2021)

More information: biostat.app.vumc.org/RameelaRaman 

Dr. Raman’s research is motivated by real-world problems that need to be addressed with suitable statistical methods. She serves as a statistical collaborator for the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, Vanderbilt Center for Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship, and CDC's Emerging Infections Program, and she is a co-I on multiple NIH-funded studies. Her methodological research is mostly associated with challenges encountered in her collaborative work and includes health disparity measures, provider profiling, area under the time curve, and methods to address survivor/attrition bias. In addition, Dr. Raman co-instructs the statistics course for Doctorate in Nursing Practice students at the School of Nursing.