About
Dr. Mayer is an expert on the use of epidemiology, statistics and biostatistics in addressing issues of general causation in a clinical, regulatory or policy setting.
He has worked on a wide range of problems in a variety of specialties in public health, medicine and public policy. The common component of most of these problems is that there is a data set to analyze, records to review and/or published studies to be reviewed and evaluated. The studies may include clinical trials, observational studies, and statistical reviews such as meta-analyses. Over about 40 years he has consulted about equally for plaintiffs and defendants. About a third of his consultancy has been for decision making outside of litigation.
Over the last few years Dr. Mayer has transitioned from being a full-time professor working at Arizona State University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic to being an independent scholar. consultant and part-time Research Fellow at Harvard University. Previously he held a variety of faculty appointments in statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, biomedical informatics, public health, economics, medicine, and psychiatry. He held various titles including Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (part-time), Affiliated Professor of a Mayo Clinic/ASU joint program in Biomedical Informatics, a member of the research staff at The Mayo Clinic, and Professor, Arizona State University. His individual research interest is in the relationship between the newer methods of analyzing epidemiological and clinical data and more traditional biostatistical methods that are standard in epidemiology and clinical trials. He focuses on strategies for validating the new hybrid methodologies.
He does a limited amount of consulting in epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trials, public health, public policy and medicine including cardiology, oncology, toxicology, psychiatry and other specialities where epidemiological issues arise. His consulting projects often focus on model development, model fitting, statistical inferences and model evaluation. He is one of the few MD/PhD biostatistician-epidemiologists. He resides in Laguna Beach, California but travels extensively.
He prides himself on being able to communicate complex ideas in simple language. His primary interests are the evaluation of epidemiological and statistical data and models in a clinical, regulatory, or legal arena.
Dr. Mayer has worked on problems in injury causation, drug development and evaluation, product liability, patent disputes, occupational and environmental exposures, and medical malpractice. He has worked on data and analyses in numerous specialties including toxicology, internal medicine (cardiology, endocrinology, etc.) Ob/Gyn, psychiatry, and surgery and has a preference for problems that are both medically and statistically complex often involving extensive review of records and published literature.