Josué Guzmán is Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health,
Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico. His interests include the
application of statistical theory and methods to biomedical research, probability
sampling, categorical data analysis, regression modeling, clinical trials, survival
analysis, and statistical computing. Currently, he collaborates with biomedical
researchers in topics like: headache and migraine headache prevalence in Puerto Rico,
comparative trials on HIV plus HCV co-infected patients, on newly diagnosed malignant
gliomas patients, color vision deficits in Albino subjects, and a prevalence study of
erectile dysfunction in the San Juan Metropolitan Area of Puerto Rico.
Dr. Guzmán was trained at the University of Puerto Rico where he received a
BA degree in economics and mathematics. After teaching at the University of Puerto
Rico for a year, he went to New York University where he received an MSc degree in
Quantitative Methods and a PhD in Statistics. He also has studied courses on Clinical
Trials, Principles of Epidemiology, and Survival Analysis at the Harvard School of
Public Health under the Summer Session on Public Health Studies. Since 1997, he is
member of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the School of Public
Health of the University of Puerto Rico. Dr. Guzmán made a collaborative research on
disease-free survival in breast cancer, a comparative study between African American
and Caucasian American of patients from Detroit, Michigan. He wants to extend the study
and to include data on disease-free survival of Hispanic patients. In addition to his
teaching duties, he supervises several master theses and community-based studies.
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