Dr. Haitao Chu is a Senior Director of Biostatistics at Pfizer Inc. He has been a tenured Full Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health since 2017, and previously held faculty positions at Johns Hopkins University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his MD from the West China University of Medical Sciences (now West China Medical Center, Sichuan University) in 1995 and his PhD in Biostatistics from Emory University in 2003. His research interests include general biostatistics and epidemiology methods, Bayesian analysis, clinical trials, causal inference, and diagnostic medicine, with applications in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease.