Christopher H. Schmid

Christopher H. Schmid is a Professor of Biostatistics and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health. Schmid was a founding member formerly Co-Director of Brown's Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health.

Schmid grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. He earned a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University. After receiving his doctorate, he joined Tufts-New England Medical Center where he worked on predictive models for patients who had heart attacks and were candidates for thrombolysis.