About Dr. Love

Hi. My name is Thomas E. Love, Ph.D., and I’ll be teaching 431 this semester.

• Email is the best way to reach me: I’m at Thomas dot Love at case dot edu, and this is on the bottom of each page of this pre-class website.
• I will be away from email August 6-16 but will catch up quickly on my return.

I have at least three different jobs.

• I am a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Population & Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. I teach three courses each year (PQHS 431, 432 and 500) and also lead the Health Care Analytics track of the MS program in Biostatistics.
• I direct a Biostatistics and Data Science group at the Population Health Research Institute and the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at The MetroHealth System.
• For ten years, I was the (founding) Data Director for Better Health Partnership, an alliance of people who provide, pay for and receive care in Northeast Ohio. I now serve as Chief Data Scientist there.

Name, Pronouns, Social Media

• Professor Love uses he/him/his pronouns.
  • Most students refer to him either as Professor Love or Dr. Love, and he prefers this during class.
  • He prefers his given name to be written “Thomas” as opposed to “Tom”.
  • Most of his friends and colleagues call him “Tom”. You are welcome to do so, outside of class time, if it makes you comfortable.
• At Github, I am THOMASELOVE.
  • Github repository for this site is found here.
• My professional Twitter handle is ThomasELove.

A Few Other Things

• I am a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and have won numerous awards for my teaching and my research, including the 2018 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching from CWRU.
• I have been teaching at CWRU since 1994, and have taught every manner of CWRU student over the years, especially students in biostatistics, medicine, and management.
• In research, I use statistical methods to look at questions in health policy and in particular the provision of health services. I mostly work with observational data, rather than data that emerge from randomized clinical trials, and I have a special interest in working with data from electronic health records.
• I hold degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York and from the University of Pennsylvania. My dissertation adviser was Paul Rosenbaum.
• I am married to a brilliant attorney and we are in the process of emptying our nest. Our older son is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, and our younger son begins his first year at Columbia in September.
• We live in Shaker Heights. I enjoy baseball, golf and several other sports. I also sing and act occasionally in community theater.

Office Location(s)

I have an office at CWRU in the Wood building (WG-82J) and an office at MetroHealth Medical Center (Rammelkamp R229A) but do not anticipate being in either office for visitors in the Fall 2020 semester. Instead, I work out of my home.

Questions? Email Dr. Love at Thomas dot Love at case dot edu. (Note that he will be away August 6-16.)