Elizabeth Caolantuoni

Elizabeth Caolantuoni

PhD

Elizabeth Colantuoni, PhD, is a biostatistician who works to improve the design and analysis of research studies conducted among neonates, children and adults with critical illness. She has more than 10 years of experience working with the Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery (OACIS) research group at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (PI: Dale Needham) where she has served as the lead biostatistician on studies of critically ill adults with acute respiratory failure (ARF) receiving care in the intensive care unit (ICU) and long-term follow-up studies of ARF survivors. Dr. Colantuoni is the principle investigator for an NIA-funded R01 whose goal is to improve the statistical design and analysis of randomized controlled trials of delirium prevention and treatment for critically ill older adults, as well as, the lead biostatistician for the PICU UP! pragmatic, stepped-wedge trial evaluating the clinical effectiveness of a multifaceted early mobility intervention for critically ill children. In addition to her research, she teaches courses on statistical methods including regression analysis, longitudinal data analysis and multilevel models, and is the director of Master’s degree programs for the Department of Biostatistics at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.