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Professor
School of Public Health and Information Sciences
- ProfessorSchool of Public Health and Information Sciences
BIO
Bert Little, Ph.D., Professor of Health Management and Systems Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville has an extensive educational background in analytics (mathematics, statistics, databases and probability theory) and population health (human biology, genetics, medicine, public health), and is a formally trained physical/biological anthropologist with extensive experience working with populations outside the US. He has worked with databases since 1978, and has built several unique national data warehouses for research. He is active at the VA Medical Center-Dallas as Senior Research Scientist in Medical Service, and is currently assigned to Medical Service, Division of Cardiology. His role in research projects broadly encompasses the area of applied mathematics which includes but is not limited to clinical trial design and implementation, database design, statistical sampling design and multivariate analysis, and manuscript publication. Contemporary labels such as Big Data analytics/data warehousing and data mining apply to his expertise. His work is directly related to risk factors analysis for outcomes (e.g., type 2 diabetes, interventional cardiology, hepatitis C, cancer-colon, pancreatic, lung, liver). Further, Dr. Little has over 25 years of experience working with underserved patient populations, has research experience in recruiting and retaining patients from Parkland Hospital in Dallas, covering inpatients and outpatient clinics. He has successfully designed and implemented programs including: (1) treatment for pregnant substance users, (2) medical and substance abuse services for homeless, (3) a large multimillion dollar research project for governmental entities conducting applied mathematics research, (4) a large multicenter international interventional cardiology clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies, (5) developing multi-terabyte government silos into high performance RDBMS computing systems, and (6) research on type 2 diabetes in genetic isolates (Zapotec and Mixe) in the Valley of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, and (7) population health in (a) Kentucky focused on diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and (b) Mexico centered on diabetes and renal failure, and childhood obesity.
DEGREES
- PhD Biological Anthropology (Sub-field: Human Genetics, Growth), Applied MathematicsUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States1983
- M.A. Physical Anthropology (Sub-field: Primatology)Ball State University, Muncie, United States1979