Gerald van Belle, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Health
Professor Emeritus, Biostatistics
University of Washington

Dr. van Belle holds a joint appointment in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and the Department Biostatistics. He served as chair of the former from 1991 to 1998 at which time he returned to regular faculty status. He was recipient of the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching award in 1985.

He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Association for the Advancement of Science. His book Statistical Rules of Thumb won Wiley Author of the Year in Mathematics and Statistics in 2003. Dr. van Belle has served as Director of the Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety. Other positions that he has held at the University of Washington include Director of the Graduate Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics in the Department of Biostatistics, and Director of the Clinical Trial Center of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. Prior to that time, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Florida State University. Dr. van Belle’s research interest includes experimental design and the application of biostatistical methods to research areas in the health sciences.