Dr. Tulay Koru-Sengul, Assistant Professor BSc, MHS, MA, PhD

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Dr. Tulay Koru-Sengul is an assistant professor of biostatistics in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University and a Faculty Biostatistician at the Clinical Trials Methodology Group at the Henderson Research Center. She is an experienced statistician and trial methodologist who joined the HRC in 2006. Prior to joining at McMaster University and the Henderson Research Center, Dr. Tulay Koru-Sengul held faculty appointments at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Along with her faculty appointments, she was the director of the Statistical Consulting Laboratory in the Department of Biostatistics at the State University of New York, USA and a Research Scientist at Saskatchewan Health Quality Council in Canada. She also has several years of experience working as a biostatistician in the following departments at the University of Pittsburgh, USA: Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, The Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the Epidemiology Data Center, Graduate School of Public Health.

Dr. Tulay Koru-Sengul has training and experience in statistics/biostatistics. Her primary research interests lie in the development and application of statistical methods for biological responses that vary in time and occasion. Her biostatistical research areas include: analysis of longitudinal responses in the presence of missing data, joint modeling of longitudinal responses and event process.

Her doctoral dissertation in statistics addresses the issues and the solutions on the missing data problem for longitudinal studies in general. She developed a new modeling approach and a methodology to handle missing values to analyze longitudinal studies. She has experience on designing, planning, analyzing, and reporting on the application of variety of statistical models especially in medicine. Her publications and conference presentations include her methodological work in statistics as well as her collaborative work in various fields in medicine.

She is currently collaborating with researchers whose interest is cancer, clinical thromboembolism, psychiatry, respiratory health, rehabilitation sciences, health service evaluation from Juravinski Cancer Center, Henderson Research Center, Firestone Institute of Respiratory Health at St. Joseph’s Health Care in Hamilton, Ontario Clinical Oncology Group, University of Saskatchewan in Canada and University of Pittsburgh in the United States.