Larner College of Medicine

Peter Callas

Research Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Director of Biostatistic Core

pcallas@uvm.edu
(802) 656-3195
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pcallas@uvm.edu
(802) 656-3195
Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D., Epidemiology/Biostatistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • M.S., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.A., Biology, California State University, Fullerton
Affiliated Department(s)

Department of Medicine

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Areas of expertise

Epidemiology; medical biostatistics.

BIO

Peter W. Callas, PhD, MS, is Director of the Biomedical Statistics Research Core at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He has been a faculty member at the University of Vermont since 1994, with expertise in the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical and translational research. In addition to his research work, he teaches biostatistics and epidemiology to physicians, medical students, nurses, biostatistics graduate students, and others.

Courses

  • STAT 200 - Med Biostat&Epidemiology

Bio

Peter W. Callas, PhD, MS, is Director of the Biomedical Statistics Research Core at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He has been a faculty member at the University of Vermont since 1994, with expertise in the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical and translational research. In addition to his research work, he teaches biostatistics and epidemiology to physicians, medical students, nurses, biostatistics graduate students, and others.

Courses

  • STAT 200 - Med Biostat&Epidemiology

Select Publications

  • Callas PW, Leslie KO, Mattia AR, Weaver DL, Cook D, Travis B, Stanley DE, Rogers LA, Mount SL, Trainer TD, Zarka MA, Belding RM. Diagnostic accuracy of a rural live video telepathology system. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 1997; 21:812-819. 
  • Callas PW, Pastides H, Hosmer DW. Empirical comparisons of proportional hazards, Poisson, and logistic regression modeling of occupational cohort data. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 1998;33:33-47.
  • Callas PW. Searching the biomedical literature: study designs and critical appraisal. Clinical Laboratory Science 2008; 21:42-48. 
  • Hughes JR, Callas PW. Data to assess the generalizability of samples from studies of adult smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2010;12:73-76. 
  • Sajisevi M, Nguyen K, Callas P, Holcomb AJ, Vural E, Davis KP, Thomas CM, Plonowska-Hirschfeld KA, Stein JS, Eskander A, Kakarala K, Enepekides DJ, Hier MP, Ryan WR, and the American Head and Neck Society Salivary Gland Section. Oncologic safety of close margins in patients with low- to intermediate-grade major salivary gland carcinoma. JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 2024; 150(2):107-116.