SCOT Study Leadership
Dennis D. Wallace, PhD
Dr. Wallace is a principal statistical scientist at Rho Federal Systems Division, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC (Rho). He is the PI for the Statistical and Clinical Coordinating Center for Autoimmune Disease Clinical Trails, the NIAID-funded coordinating center, which supports the SCOT trial as well as clinical trials conducted by the Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence, an NIAID-supported research network, and he serves as the primary statistician for the SCOT study.
Dr. Wallace also serves as the PI for the Bacteriology and Mycology Biostatistical and Operations unit, a coordinating center that supports the NIAID-funded Bacteriology and Mycology Study Group and as Co-PI for the coordinating center for the Atopic Dermatitis Vaccinia Immunization Network. Prior to joining Rho, he was a biostatistician on the faculty of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, serving as the PI for the data management and statistics core for the Kansas Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Center grant, and in the Biostatistics Department in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, serving as a statistical investigator for the Longitudinal Study of CHD Risk Factors in Young Adults (CARDIA Coordinating Center).
Dr. Wallace’s research interests include statistical methods for longitudinal and correlated data and statistical collaboration in clinical, epidemiological, and environmental studies. He has over 50 collaborative publications in such diverse areas as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, environmental health, infectious diseases, oncology, autoimmune diseases, substance abuse, and environmental sciences.