Howard Andrews is Director of the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and is Co-director of the Research Information Services Consortium (RISC) at the New York Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Andrews heads the HIV Center's Data Management Component (DMC) of the Statistics, Epidemiology and Data Management Core. Dr. Andrews holds a doctorate in Biopsychology and a more recent Masters degree in Biostatistics. In addition to providing comprehensive data management services to all of the HIV Center's research projects, Dr. Andrews' DCC manages data for many other large-scale clinical trials and epidemiological studies at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, including The Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project, the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease with Estrogens Clinical Trial, and the Columbia Child Environmental Health Center. Dr. Andrews is a specialist in the management and analysis of large data sets, and in the statistical analysis of community-level data.

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