Dr. Matt Hayat is a Professor of Biostatistics in the College of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina, with a secondary joint appointment with the Department of Public Health Sciences in the College of Medicine. His research interests include the design and analysis of clinical trials, interdisciplinary collaboration, and biostatistics education.
Prior to joining MUSC, he was on faculty at Georgia State University, Rutgers University, and Johns Hopkins University. His statistics education includes a master’s degree in statistics from Northern Illinois University and a doctoral degree in biostatistics from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He also previously held positions at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Dr. Hayat has extensive experience as a collaborating biostatistician, with contributions to research across nursing, public health, medicine, and other health disciplines. He has served as co-investigator on multiple federally funded projects from agencies including DOD, NIH, NIJ, and PCORI, and has led studies on the teaching and learning of biostatistics. Since 2014, he has been an associate editor for the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, an official publication of the American Statistical Association.
He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in recognition of his contributions to transdisciplinary biostatistics, education, and health sciences research.