Dr. Atkinson is a statistician and methodologist providing ad hoc and project-driven support for interventional and observational studies. His research involves developing methods for handling missing data, the adoption of the estimand framework to improve clarity, and developing novel designs for clinical trials. He has a broad range of experience in the design and analysis of studies involving people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as projects investigating antibiotic resistance and healthcare associated infections.
After studies in mathematics and statistics, he completed a PhD in Biostatistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, on the development of methods for investigating informative missingness for time to event outcomes. Prior to moving to St Louis, he was head of the Data Science group in the Pediatric Research Center at the University Children’s Hospital in Basel, Switzerland.
Dr. Atkinson has a secondary appointment in the Infectious Diseases Division at Washington University School of Medicine.