Bhaskar Thakur, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School Departments Family and Community Medicine | Emergency Medicine | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Public Health Biography Bhaskar Thakur, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, with secondary appointments in the Department of Health Data Science and Biostatistics within the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Thakur specializes in biostatistics, epidemiology, and quantitative population health and collaborates on multidisciplinary clinical, public health, and translational research. He joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2021. Dr. Thakur's research focuses on applying quantitative methods to understand how social, behavioral, and clinical factors influence health outcomes across the life course. His work spans health disparities, social determinants of health, adverse childhood experiences, cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric health, sleep health, brain injury and rehabilitation outcomes, health informatics, and implementation science. Dr. Thakur is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Indian Society of Medical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the North American Primary Care Research Group. 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; Methodological research for modern causal inference Quantitative methodologies and analytic approaches to research area including health disparities, social determinants of health, cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric epidemiology, sleep health, brain injury and rehabilitation outcomes, health informatics, and implementation science. Systematic-review and meta-analysis; analysis of secondary and survey data Publications Featured Publications A New Type of Table One: Showing Instead of Telling. Furmaga J, McDonald S, Thakur B, Turer R, J Clin Epidemiol 2026 May 112317 The Association Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Mahasin SZ, Thakur B, Champagne P, Joshi PH, Bell KR, Driver S, Whitfill JD, Vigen R, Pinto SM, J Head Trauma Rehabil 2026 Mar Family support as a pain protective factor for African American older adults: latent class analyses across 2 national longitudinal data sets. Roberson PNE, Brady KP, Thakur B, Booker S, Sola-Odeseye Z, Wood BL, Woods S, Pain 2025 Nov 166 11 2588-2595 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, J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open 2025 Aug 6 4 100215 Pain phenotype trajectories and links to family relationship quality among black older adults. Woods SB, Roberson PNE, Thakur B, Sola-Odeseye Z, Udezi V, Wood B, Booker S, J Pain 2025 Jun 34 105484 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 Netw Open 2025 May 8 5 e2510386 Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Its Cardiac Implications in the United States: An Age-Stratified Analysis Between Young and Older Adults. Strenth C, Wani A, Alla R, Khan S, Schneider FD, Thakur B, J Am Heart Assoc 2024 Jun 13 12 e033810 Sex Differences in the Association of Depression Symptoms and Cardiovascular Disease in Adults in the United States. Thakur B, Strenth C, Arnold EM, Schneider FD, Am J Health Promot 2024 Jun 8901171241262249 Prevalence of Cardiovascular Conditions After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Comparison Between the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Pinto SM, Thakur B, Kumar RG, Rabinowitz A, Zafonte R, Walker WC, Ding K, Driver S, Venkatesan UM, Moralez G, Bell KR, J Am Heart Assoc 2024 Apr e033673 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 Results 1-10 of 96 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)
