Christopher Schmid is Professor and past Chair of Biostatistics at Brown University School of Public Health where he co-founded the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health. He directs the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Core of the Rhode Island Center to Advance Translational Science. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, founding Editor of the journal Research Synthesis Methods, long-time statistical editor of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases and former member of the Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee for FDA. His research focuses on Bayesian methods for meta-analysis, methods for developing and assessing predictive models using data from multiple sources and on design and analysis of N-of-1 trials. Dr. Schmid graduated from Haverford College with a BA in Mathematics and received his PhD in Statistics from Harvard University