Bhaskar Thakur, Ph.D. 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 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 American Journal of Health Promotion 2024 Nov 38 1199-1209 Primary Infection Site as a Predictor of Sepsis Development in Emergency Department Patients Vadhan JD, Thoppil J, Vasquez O, Suarez A, Bartels B, McDonald S, Courtney DM, Farrar JD, Thakur B Journal of Emergency Medicine 2024 Aug 67 e128-e137 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 Journal of the American Heart Association 2024 Jun 13 The relationship between borderline personality disorder and self-injurious/suicidal behaviors in adolescents and young adults: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis Thakur B, Pathak M, Strenth C, Wilmoth K, Arnold EM Health Science Reports 2024 Jun 7 Predictors of Admission to Post–Acute Rehabilitation Following Multi-Level Spinal Decompression and Fusion Surgery and Its Associated Outcomes Annapureddy D, Venkatesh P, Azam F, Olivier T, Thakur B, Sloan E, Wingfield S, Bagley C, Lopez M World neurosurgery 2024 Jun 186 e593-e599 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 Journal of the American Heart Association 2024 May 13 Real-Time Electronic Patient Portal Use among Emergency Department Patients Turer RW, McDonald SA, Lehmann CU, Thakur B, Dutta S, Taylor RA, Rose CC, Frisch A, Feterik K, Norquist C, Baker CK, Nielson JA, Cha D, Kwan B, Dameff C, Killeen JP, Hall MK, Doerning RC, Rosenbloom ST, Distaso C, Steitz BD JAMA Network Open 2024 May 7 E249831 Oral Contraception Use and Musculotendinous Injury in Young Female Patients: A Database Study Rodriguez LA, Liu Y, Soedirdjo SD, Thakur B, Dhaher YY Medicine and science in sports and exercise 2024 Mar 56 511-519 Mediational pathways exploring the link between adverse childhood experiences and physical health in a transgender population Strenth CR, Smith M, Gonzalez L, Grant A, Thakur B, Levy Kamugisha EI Child Abuse and Neglect 2024 Mar 149 Statistical and Methodological Considerations for Randomized Controlled Trial Design in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Thakur B, Ayers GD, Atem F, Declercq JJ, Jain NB American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2023 Oct 102 855-860 Results 1-10 of 87 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)
