Bio
Dr. Sorkin's professional life revolves around statistics, epidemiology, and teaching. Dr. Sorkin's is a Prof. in the, Dept. of Medicine, and the Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health, Univ. Maryland Baltimore, Affiliate Prof. in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Univ. Maryland College Park, and Affiliate Prof. in the Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Sorkin's training in Medicine, Epidemiology, and Computer Science (and more than a decade working and teaching in the field of computer science in both academia and industry) allows him to bring a wide range of experience and knowledge to his role as the leader of the Biostatistics and Informatics Cores of four federally funded research centers. For the last eighteen-years, Dr. Sorkin's has been PI of the (1) Biostatistics Core of the Univ. of Maryland’s Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, and of the (2) Biostatistics Core of the Baltimore VA Medical Center’s Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center; and since their inception eleven years ago, Dr. Sorkin's has been PI of the Biostatistics Core of the (3) VA Maryland Exercise and Robotics Center of Excellence and the (4) Bio-statistics Subcore of the Mid-Atlantic Nutrition Obesity Research Center. Dr. Sorkin is a member of the Editorial Board of, and statistical reviewer for, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was co-editor of Diabetes Metabolism Research and Reviews, and have been a faculty member of the Univ. of Maryland’s K30 Program training junior faculty scholars for more than seven years. Dr. Sorkin's research explores the role of exercise as a therapy for chronic disease (e.g. diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension), and diseases that result in ambulatory disability including stroke and peripheral vascular disease. Dr. Sorkin's has published more than 130 papers and book chapters. Over the years Dr. Sorkin's has had the opportunity to study risk factors for, and interventions designed to, lower risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and mortality and the genetics of longevity and to study interventions designed to promote recovery from chronic disease. Dr. Sorkin's has mentored numerous graduate students, PhDs and MDs and mentor T32 scholars in statistics, epidemiology, and research ethics. Dr. Sorkin teaches sections of several graduate classes and am co-course master of and statistician for, Research Practicum. Practicum takes graduate students through all phases of a research project, pro-posing a research question, reviewing the literature, designing an analysis plan, and analyzing data. Dr. Sorkin is the co-course master of Clinical Research at UM, a course designed to help investigators start research careers, and was Senior Faculty Member of the NIA’s Summer Institute (Butler-Williams Scholars Program).