Linda Hynan
Professor
Department of Clinical Science | Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mexico
Biography
Dr. Hynan is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences - Division of Biostatistics. She received her MS in Applied Measurement/Statistics and PhD in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois - Urbana. She joined UT Southwestern in 1999 and is involved in various research projects and clinical trials such as Alzheimer's Disease, Acute Liver Failure, and Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She has co-authored more than 260 peer-reviewed publications and chapters in addition to abstracts and presentations at regional and national meetings. Dr. Hynan has served on 23 PhD dissertation committees, 20 PsyD project committees, and 9 masters theses in the areas of Clinical Psychology, Statistics, Mathematics, and Gerontology. She is the course director and one of the instructors for Conceptual Biostatistics for the Clinical Investigator I as well as one of the instructors for in Biostatistics for Clinical Sciences II and Critical Readings in Biostatistics (a senior elective for MS-4 students). In 1997, she received the Psi Chi Outstanding Psychology Professor of the Year Award (Baylor University). Dr. Hynan is a past president of the Southwestern Psychological Association and the Chapter Representative for the North Texas Chapter of the American Statistical Association. She is the statistical review editor for the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, on the editorial board for The Scientific World Journal and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and a statistical advisor for the journal Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology.
Research Interest
Biostatistics Design of Clinical Trials Models of Judgment and Decision Making Multivariate Statistics/Longitudinal Data Analysis Psychometrics
