Neal Thomas joined Pfizer in 2002, and has been a member of the Statistics Research and Innovation center since 2004 where he has worked on clinical and non-clinical applications in many therapeutic areas. He received a PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago, and he was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2003. Previous work experience includes sample surveys, educational statistics (ETS), and health policy applications. Statistical research interests include design of observational studies, dose response, missing data methods, psychometric models, and Bayesian statistics.