James Sinacore is an associate professor and the coordinator of the Research Consultation Team. Dr. Sinacore is a social psychologist and has over 20 years of experience in providing research and statistics consultation to investigators in the behavioral and health-related disciplines (including: medical education, family medicine, pediatrics, nursing, physical therapy surgery, emergency medicine, orthopedics, rheumatology, psychiatry and optometry). Prior to his coming to the Stritch School of Medicine, Dr. Sinacore was director of the Outcomes Research Program at Children’s Memorial Hospital. Before that, he was director of research in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago and co-director of the Biostatistical and Data Management Core of the NIH funded Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Center of the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. In addition to general research consultation, Dr. Sinacore is interested in teaching data analysis. He is the instructor for the graduate level course in biostatistics (BSMC 402) offered at the Medical Center campus and is available for designing faculty development programs. Dr. Sinacore’s main research interests include the visual display of quantitative information, the reliability and validity of measurement instruments, multiple regression and correlation analysis, and classification and regression trees (CART).
