Dr. VanVeldhuisen, epidemiologist, provides statistical expertise and managerial leadership to both government-sponsored and privately funded projects at EMMES. As Director and PrincipaI Investigator of the National Eye Institute-sponsored Coordinating Center for the Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study (AGIS), he has responsibilities for staffing, budget, data analyses, monitoring clinical sites, and data management of this multi-center project. His duties as a member of the AGIS Operations Committee include assessing data quality, monitoring protocol adherence and writing of manuscripts.

In addition, Dr. VanVeldhuisen serves as the PrincipaI Investigator for two privately funded research studies, one that investigates different regimens for immunosuppressive therapies in cardiac, kidney and liver transplantation, and the other is a large pediatric registry of infants at risk for respiratory infection. These efforts involve study design as well as monitoring and analysis of data.

Dr. VanVeldhuisen earned his doctoral degree in epidemiology from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and holds a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of Washington in Seattle.