Mark Weaver

Dr. Mark Weaver joined the Elon Mathematics and Statistics faculty in 2018. He completed his PhD in Biostatistics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. Prior to joining Elon, he worked primarily as a collaborative interdisciplinary researcher at Family Health International (now FHI360), Rho, Inc., and UNC-CH. Dr. Weaver has served as the principal statistician on many randomized controlled trials, and he has provided expert oversight on trials conducted by others as a member of various Data and Safety Monitoring Boards. At UNC-CH, Dr. Weaver served as the primary biostatistician for the NC TraCS Institute's Education & Training program, in which role he taught many medical and health-oriented researchers and junior faculty about study design and statistical analysis and he collaborated with faculty members in helping them to secure their first indepenedent NIH funding. Dr. Weaver's main areas of statistical interest include statistical consulting, analysis of longitudinal and time-to-event data, and design, analysis, and interpretation of individually- and cluster-randomized trials.