Emir Veledar leads analytical teams, conducts advanced statistical analyses, designs research activities, analyzes complex data sets and reports results. He is research professor, Senior Biostatistician at the Florida Stroke Registry, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Neurology. Before that he was the director of biostatistics at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and a has appointment as full professor, courtesy status, in the Department of Biostatistics at Robert Stempel College of Public Health at FIU. He is also a faculty at Department of Medicine, School of Medicine at Emory University.
From 1990 to 1993, he was an assistant professor at the University of Mostar and the University of Sarajevo. In 1993, he became a visiting researcher at Tilburg University in Netherlands. From 1994 to 1998, he taught mathematics at the University of Georgia, and was appointed assistant professor of statistics at James Madison University in Virginia in 1998. In January 1999, he moved to the Cardiology Division at Emory University, in 2013 to Baptist Health South Florida, in 2022 to Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and in November 2023 to University of Miami.
Dr. Veledar uses and teaches statistical methods and data mining techniques. He is interested in the application of meta-analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence in healthcare. Being involved on a regular basis in organized research, he is familiar with statistical methods that apply to Phase I-IV clinical trials and have a strong working knowledge of SAS, Stata and R. In the past 20 years, Dr. Veledar coauthored more than 500 scientific abstracts and articles and helped colleagues with sample size and power calculation for grants. Dr. Veledar served as lead biostatistician on many small and large one-or multi-protocol projects and was a member of PhD defense teams in 12 occasions. For several years, Dr. Veledar has been participating in teaching meta-analysis at FIU and “Clinical Trial, Design and Analysis” to cardiology residents at Emory University. He is also a professor for data mining at the graduate school organized by the School of Information Technology at the University of Mostar and graduate faculty at the University of Sarajevo. He is one of most published cardiology biostatisticians in the U.S.
