Bhaskar Thakur, Ph.D.

Dr. Thakur is a faculty Biostatistician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and the Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He previously worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso as well as a research fellow (Data Science) at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA. Before coming to the United States, he was a faculty at Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.

Dr. Thakur's research interests are centered around epidemiological and statistical practices with a multi-disciplinary approach, including areas related to Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Neuro-Psychiatric Epidemiology, Sleep Health, Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors, Brain Injury Health Assessment and Rehabilitation, Health Informatics, and Implementation Sciences at UT Southwestern.

Graduate School

All India Inst of Medical Sci (2017), Biostatistics

• Analysis of mixed effect model; Modeling for longitudinally measured exposures and outcomes
• Areas: Health Disparities, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Neuro-Psychiatric Epidemiology, Sleep Health, Cardiovascular Disease & Risk Factors, Post-Traumatic Brain Injury health measures and rehabilitation, Health Informatics, and Implementation Sciences
• Methodological research for modern causal inference
• Quantitative methodologies and analytic approaches to population research
• Systematic-review and meta-analysis; analysis of secondary data and survey data

Featured Publications

Statistical and Methodological Considerations for Randomized Controlled Trial Design in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Thakur B, Ayers GD, Atem F, DeClercq JJ, Jain NB, Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2023 Oct 102 10 855-860

Oral Contraception use and Musculotendinous Injury in Young Female Patients: A Database Study.

Rodriguez LA, Liu Y, Soedirdjo SDH, Thakur B, Dhaher YY, Med Sci Sports Exerc 2023 Oct

Low-Grade Inflammatory Mediators and Metalloproteinases Yield Synchronous and Delayed Responses to Mechanical Joint Loading.

Hutcherson CW, Mao M, Thakur B, Dhaher YY, Cartilage 2023 Aug 19476035231193089

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy versus placebo for post-concussion syndrome (HOT-POCS): A randomized, double-blinded controlled pilot study.

Wright B, Guilliod R, Thakur B, Kundig C, Morales J, Tessler J, Berry J, Zhang R, Bell KR, Pinto SM, Contemp Clin Trials Commun 2023 Aug 34 101176

Therapeutic plasma-exchange improves short-term, but not long-term, outcomes in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure: A propensity score-matched analysis.

Swaroop S, Arora U, Biswas S, Vaishnav M, Pathak P, Agarwal A, Golla R, Thakur B, Coshic P, Andriyas V, Gupta K, Elhence A, Nayak B, Kumar R, Shalimar J Clin Apher 2023 Aug 38 4 376-389

Incidence and Risk Factors for Severe Outcomes in Pediatric Patients With COVID-19.

Ho M, Most ZM, Perl TM, Diaz MI, Casazza JA, Saleh S, Pickering M, Radunsky AP, Hanna JJ, Thakur B, Lehmann CU, Medford RJ, Turer RW, Hosp Pediatr 2023 May 13 5 450-462

Answer to "Obstructive sleep apnea in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: The multidisciplinary approach and multidimensional assessment".

Thakur B, Pathak M, Singh P, Padhan P, Int J Rheum Dis 2023 Mar 26 3 568-569

Is there an association between peri-diagnostic vaccination and clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients?

Casazza JA, Thakur B, Perl TM, Hanna JJ, Diaz MI, Ho M, Lanier H, Pickering M, Saleh SN, Shah P, Shah D, Navar AM, Lehmann CU, Medford RJ, Turer RW, Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol 2023 3 1 e150

Real-Time Patient Portal Use Among Emergency Department Patients Since Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act: An Open Results Study.

Turer RW, Martin KR, Courtney DM, Diercks DB, Chu L, Willett DL, Thakur B, Hughes AE, Lehmann CU, McDonald S, Appl Clin Inform 2022 Sep

Association of keratoconus with serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and antioxidant trace elements: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Gupta PC, Pathak M, Thakur B, Fogla R, Agarwal A, Ram J, Indian J Ophthalmol 2022 Aug 70 8 2818-2824

• American Statistical Association (2019)
• Indian Society of Medical Statistics (2012)
• North American Primary Care Research Group (2022)