John Boscardin, PhD

Core Faculty
Center for Population Brain Health
+1 415 221-4810 ext. 23621

W. John Boscardin, Ph.D. is a biostatistician with a joint appointment as Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics. His primary roles with the Department of Medicine are as Director of the Statistical Laboratory for Aging Research, Co-leader of the UCSF Pepper Center Data and Analysis Core, and Co-leader of the Analytics Core for the UCSF/Mount Sinai DEVELOP AD Research Program Project. The laboratory is comprised of ten Master’s and Ph.D. level statisticians and provides data management, analytic support, and methodological input to dozens of investigators at UCSF and other institutions. He has been a core faculty member for the CTSI K-Scholars Program based out of the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics since 2008, serving as statistical mentor to numerous junior investigators over the past several years. Dr. Boscardin received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a faculty member at UCLA in the Departments of Biostatistics and Medicine before joining UCSF in 2008. His areas of methodological expertise include analysis of longitudinal, repeated measures, and time to event data, treatment of missing data, Bayesian statistical modeling, and computational methods.

Publications

Neurofilament Light Chain Elevation and Disability Progression in Multiple Sclerosis.

JAMA neurology

Abdelhak A, Benkert P, Schaedelin S, Boscardin WJ, Cordano C, Oechtering J, Ananth K, Granziera C, Melie-Garcia L, Montes SC, Beaudry-Richard A, Achtnichts L, Oertel FC, Lalive PH, Leppert D, Müller S, Henry RG, Pot C, Matthias A, Salmen A, Oksenberg JR, Disanto G, Zecca C, D'Souza M, Du Pasquier R, Bridel C, Gobbi C, Kappos L, Hauser SL, Cree BAC, Kuhle J, Green AJ, UCSF, MS EPIC, and the SMSC Study Teams

Longitudinal Follow-Up of Participants With Tobacco Exposure and Preserved Spirometry.

JAMA

McKleroy W, Shing T, Anderson WH, Arjomandi M, Awan HA, Barjaktarevic I, Barr RG, Bleecker ER, Boscardin J, Bowler RP, Buhr RG, Criner GJ, Comellas AP, Curtis JL, Dransfield M, Doerschuk CM, Dolezal BA, Drummond MB, Han MK, Hansel NN, Helton K, Hoffman EA, Kaner RJ, Kanner RE, Krishnan JA, Lazarus SC, Martinez FJ, Ohar J, Ortega VE, Paine R, Peters SP, Reinhardt JM, Rennard S, Smith BM, Tashkin DP, Couper D, Cooper CB, Woodruff PG

Reply by Authors.

The Journal of urology

Van Kuiken ME, Zhao S, Covinsky K, Boscardin J, Finlayson E, Suskind AM

Reply.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Lai JC, Covinsky KE, Dodge JL, Boscardin WJ, Segev DL, Roberts JP, Feng S

Incidence of and Risk Factors for Skin Cancer in Organ Transplant Recipients in the United States.

JAMA dermatology

Garrett GL, Blanc PD, Boscardin J, Lloyd AA, Ahmed RL, Anthony T, Bibee K, Breithaupt A, Cannon J, Chen A, Cheng JY, Chiesa-Fuxench Z, Colegio OR, Curiel-Lewandrowski C, Del Guzzo CA, Disse M, Dowd M, Eilers R, Ortiz AE, Morris C, Golden SK, Graves MS, Griffin JR, Hopkins RS, Huang CC, Bae GH, Jambusaria A, Jennings TA, Jiang SI, Karia PS, Khetarpal S, Kim C, Klintmalm G, Konicke K, Koyfman SA, Lam C, Lee P, Leitenberger JJ, Loh T, Lowenstein S, Madankumar R, Moreau JF, Nijhawan RI, Ochoa S, Olasz EB, Otchere E, Otley C, Oulton J, Patel PH, Patel VA, Prabhu AV, Pugliano-Mauro M, Schmults CD, Schram S, Shih AF, Shin T, Soon S, Soriano T, Srivastava D, Stein JA, Sternhell-Blackwell K, Taylor S, Vidimos A, Wu P, Zajdel N, Zelac D, Arron ST

Potential impact of a verbal prehospital DNR policy.

Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors

Grudzen CR, Koenig WJ, Hoffman JR, Boscardin WJ, Lorenz KA, Asch SM