Dr. Schoenfeld is a Biostatistician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has provided statistical support for investigators conducting clinical and laboratory research for more than 30 years. He is principal investigator for the Clinical Coordination Center for the ARDS Network, which represents over 30 hospitals and conducts multi-center clinical trials on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.  Dr. Schoenfeld is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and has numerous papers in the statistical literature.

Dr. Schoenfeld developed the first omnibus goodness of fit test for the proportional hazards regression model, a model that is used extensively in clinical trials that have survival or time to progression as an endpoint. He also developed widely used graphical techniques for this model. Dr. Schoenfeld’s current research involves the application of causal inference to clinical trials, methods for the analysis of studies involving gene arrays and novel clinical trial designs in psychiatry and neurology.