Cara Joyce

Cara Joyce is a Biostatistician who conducts collaborative clinical research. She is the Director of the Biostatistics Core and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine.  Dr. Joyce serves as study statistician for investigator initiated clinical trials, and provides support that includes database development and randomization, data safety monitoring services, analysis, and results reporting to clinicaltrials.gov.  Much of her research has focused on clinical prediction modeling, from development and validation to prospective evaluation of models implemented in real-world settings.  She collaborates with physician-scientists across many clinical areas such as Dermatology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Transplant, Urogynecology, Cardiology, and Oncology.  

Cara received a B.S. in Pure Mathematics and M.S. in Applied Statistics at DePaul University, and a PhD in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.