Mentor

Robert Platt

Robert Platt

Co-Investigator

Email: robert.platt@mcgill.ca

Research Focus:
  • Research Methods
  • Meta-analysis
Affiliations:
  • Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health
  • Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health
  • Senior Scientist, McGill University Health Centre Research Institute

Biography

Robert Platt is Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University. He received a BSc in Mathematics from McGill, an MSc in Statistics from the University of Manitoba, and MS and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington, and joined McGill in 1996. Dr. Platt was director of the Biostatistics program from 2006-2012, and is currently the Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health. He holds a CIHR Foundation Scheme grant, and is co-PI and leader of the methods team for the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies. His research interests centre on causal inference in epidemiologic studies, with emphasis on pharmacoepidemiology and pediatric and perinatal epidemiology.