Bhaskar Thakur, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor School Medical School Department Family and Community Medicine | Emergency Medicine | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Public Health Biography 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. Education Graduate School All India Inst of Medical Sci (2017), Biostatistics Research Interest 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 Publications Family emotional climate, depressive symptoms, and pain prevalence: Testing mediation pathways among midlife and older Black Americans Woods S, Thakur B, Booker S, Wood B, Roberson PN Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2026 Mar 202 Who Uses Patient Portals? A National Cross-Sectional Study Using Epic Cosmos Turer RW, McDonald SA, Higashi RT, Thakur B, Bain AP, Navar AM, Steitz BD Journal of general internal medicine 2025 Dec 40 4082-4085 Anatomical Landmark vs. Ultrasound Identification of the Femoral Vein Sonka T, Musgrave H, Choe JL, Diercks L, Kim M, Schneider TC, Field S, Cervenka G, Singh J, Thakur B, Roppolo L Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 Dec 79 191-197 Family support as a pain protective factor for African American older adults: latent class analyses across 2 national longitudinal data sets Roberson PN, Brady KP, Thakur B, Booker S, Sola-Odeseye Z, Wood BL, Woods S Pain 2025 Nov 166 2588-2595 Pain phenotype trajectories and links to family relationship quality among black older adults Woods SB, Roberson PN, Thakur B, Sola-Odeseye Z, Udezi V, Wood B, Booker S Journal of Pain 2025 Sep 34 Use of Patient-Specific Information for Randomization in Clinical Research: A Randomized Trial Furmaga J, Reeder J, Turer R, O'Connell E, Thakur B, McDonald S JACEP Open 2025 Aug 6 A novel approach to measuring emergency physician efficiency Diercks K, McDonald SA, Metzger JC, Piel C, Thakur B, Kirk AJ, Diercks DB Academic Emergency Medicine 2025 Aug 32 926-928 Digital Health Technology Use Among Spanish Speakers in the US: A Scoping Review Higashi RT, Thakur B, Repasky EC, Casillas A, Steitz BD, Hogan TP, Lehmann CU, Peterson ED, Navar AM, Turer RW JAMA Network Open 2025 May 8 Lack of Routine Health Care Among Adult Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancers (CAYA): A Nationally Representative Study of 4300 Survivors Betts AC, Eary R, Thakur B, Hughes A, Booker QS, Shay LA, Lee SC, Bowers DC, Balasubramanian BA Cancer Medicine 2025 May 14 Assessing the generalizability of a National Burn Database to the United States pediatric burn injury population Dalal S, Miles MV, Solis-Beach KJ, Thakur B, Suman-Vejas OE, Ryan CM, Stewart BT, Carrougher GJ, Orton C, Kowalske K PM and R 2025 Apr 17 404-407 Results 1-10 of 100 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Professional Associations/Affiliations American Statistical Association (2019) Indian Society of Medical Statistics (2012) North American Primary Care Research Group (2022)
