Scott Evans

Professor Evans's interests include the design, monitoring, analyses, and reporting of and education in clinical trials and diagnostic studies. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and three textbooks on clinical trials, and has served on more than 100 DSMBs. He is the Director of the Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC) for the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), a collaborative clinical research network that prioritizes, designs, and executes clinical research to reduce the public health threat of antibacterial resistance. Examples of ARLG studies are clinical trials evaluating bacteriophage therapy and studies evaluating the accuracy of rapid diagnostics. Listen to Dr. Evans on NPR talk about his work with superbug infections: Stats and Stories Podcast.

Dr. Evans is the Principle Investigator of several other grants including the Coordinating Center for the Exercise and Nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-Related Outcomes (ENICTO) in Cancer Survivors Consortium, the statistical center for a multicenter randomized clinical trial evaluating antifungal therapy for uncomplicated candidemia in children and adolescents, and the statistical centers for two randomized controlled trials funded by the CDC’s EpiCenter program.

Professor Evans is a former member of the Board of Directors for the American Statistical Association (ASA) and formerly for the Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) and Mu Sigma Rho, the National Honorary Society for Statistics. He is a former member of an FDA Advisory Committee, a member of the Steering Committee of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), and a member of the Execution Committee for the Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, and Networks (ACTTION). He serves as the co-Chair of the Benefit-Risk Balance for Medicinal Products Working Group of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).

Professor Evans is a recipient of the Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award, the Robert Zackin Distinguished Collaborative Statistician Award for contributions to the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences Section of the ASA, the Founders Award from the ASA, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and is a Fellow of the ASA, SCT, and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA).

Faculty Profile

Current BSC Projects

• Director of the Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC) for the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG)
• Principle Investigator, Coordinating Center for the Exercise and Nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-Related Outcomes (ENICTO) in Cancer Survivors Consortium
• Principle Investigator, statistical center for a multicenter randomized clinical trial evaluating antifungal therapy for uncomplicated candidemia in children and adolescents
• Principle Investigator, statistical center of a randomized clinical trial evaluating diagnostic stewardship for ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP)
• Principle Investigator, statistical center of a randomized clinical trial, Response to Emerging Antimicrobial resistance with Containment microbiota restoration Therapy (REACT)