Gina-Maria Pomann

Gina-Maria Pomann, PhD, is Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Director of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Methods Core at Duke University School of Medicine. She serves on the Duke AI Health Faculty Council, leading the development of AI collaborations across Duke to address challenges in healthcare. She also serves as Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS Centre for Quantitative Medicine in Singapore. She has developed functional data methodology and predictive modeling techniques for brain imaging, and has broad experience collaborating with investigators across biomedical fields such as Neurology, Surgery, Urology, Hospital Medicine, among others.Dr. Pomann has extensive leadership and administration experience, including the development and oversight of more than 30 teams of biostatistics and data science staff, faculty, and students, working on long term (multi-year) collaboration agreements with clinical and translational researchers. Under her leadership, the BERD Core has facilitated over 1600 collaborations that have generated more than 800 peer-reviewed publications.

In addition to directing the BERD Core Training and Internship Program (BCTIP), Dr. Pomann is Co-Principal Investigator on multiple NIH-funded training programs. She co-leads the Quantitative Methods for HIV/AIDS Research Program, offering internships, mentoring, and workshops for HIV researchers; and the Quantitative Team Science (QuanTS) Program, which provides open-access educational videos and a 7-month training program for quantitative scientists to improve their collaboration skills. She also serves as the co-Lead of the Community Development and Education Core of the Duke Multiscale Immune Systems Modeling (MISM) Center of Excellence. She was a co-founder of the biostats4you educational website and contributes to numerous other workforce development programs such as the Duke AI Health Fellowship Program.