Shari Messinger, PhD, is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and director of the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. She also serves as director of the Research Design and Biostatistics Program at the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and leads the Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core, which provides statistical leadership for clinical and translational research across the University of Miami.
Dr. Messinger’s work focuses on advancing clinical and translational science through rigorous study design, statistical methodology, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her research includes statistical methods for clinical trials, diagnostic studies, and complex biomedical data, with an emphasis on aligning analytic approaches with clinically meaningful scientific questions. She has collaborated extensively with investigators across a wide range of medical disciplines, including transplantation, diabetes, kidney disease, cardiovascular health, and emerging translational research initiatives.
A central theme of her career is the development of biostatistical infrastructure that supports team science and high-impact collaborative research. Through leadership of institutional biostatistics cores and translational research programs, Dr. Messinger has contributed to models for integrating quantitative expertise into biomedical research from study conception through dissemination. Her scholarship includes methodological contributions, collaborative biomedical research, and work advancing the practice of statistics within interdisciplinary research teams.
Dr. Messinger received her PhD and MS in biostatistics from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and holds a BS and an ME in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida.
