Rema Raman is a Professor of Neurology at Keck School of Medicine of USC and the Director of the Biostatistics Section and the Recruitment, Engagement, and Retention (RER) Section at the USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI). Dr. Raman serves as co-lead of several key units within the NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium, including Biostatistics, Recruitment, Engagement & Retention (RER), and Alzheimer's Clinical Trials - Education, Engagement, Access, and Accountability (ACT-E2A2).
Dr. Raman has focused her academic career in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials in neurology. She has extensive experience as a collaborative biostatistician and clinical trialist, serving in the leadership team of several highly integrated and interdisciplinary research programs conducting clinical research in Alzheimer¹s disease, stroke, post-traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury. Her primary statistical research interests are in innovative trial design, advanced statistical methods for missing and correlated data, centralized statistical monitoring, and strategies to improve participant recruitment and retention.
Dr. Raman is committed to the effective teaching of biostatistics and clinical trial methodology to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, postdoctoral fellows and other clinical researchers. She is co-director of the NIA- and Alzheimer's Association- funded Institute of Methods and Protocols for Advancement of Clinical Trials in ADRD (IMPACT-AD) program that aims to educate and train the next generation of clinical trial researchers and future principal investigators in the field of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders clinical trials research.