Justine Shults

Dr. Justine Shults is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as the faculty director of the Biostatistics and Data Management Core (BDMC) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Prior to coming to Penn, she was a faculty member at the Center for Pediatric Research, a joint program of Eastern Virginia Medical School and the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia, where she was involved in clinical trials and community-based intervention studies. Her methodological research focuses on the development of improved statistical approaches for the analysis of longitudinal data, with a more recent focus on discrete longitudinal data. She was funded by the National Science Foundation and was the principal investigator of a completed NIH funded R01 project that developed improved approaches for longitudinal analysis of data from diverse populations (LADP).

She is the lead author on a book that stems from the LADP project. She is currently the principal investigator of the NIH-funded Renal and Urologic Biostatistics Training Grant (T32DK060455) that aims to train graduate students in the Penn biostatistics program to be rigorous and independent academic investigators who use biostatistics to address issues in kidney and urology research.