Dr. Michael Szafron is a tenured Associate Professor and the Director of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Program in the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan. He attained three degrees at the University of Saskatchewan (USask): a Bachelor of Education (2009) from the College of Education and an MSc (2000) and a PhD (2009) from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He holds a 4-year Specialist Bachelor of Science Degree (1997) from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Brandon University. Dr. Szafron taught for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Saskatchewan as a sessional lecturer from 2003-2010. From 2009-2012, he taught for the USask School of Public Health (SPH) as a sectional lecturer. In July 2012 he joined the SPH’s faculty as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Dr. Szafron’s research interests lie in Monte Carlo simulations, statistical methods associated with Monte Carlo data, computational biomodelling of the structure/function of biopolymers and statistical methods for the health sciences including survey data. His current research focuses on determining the Type II topoisomerase-DNA interaction mechanism via studies of lattice models, and the product distribution for a recombinase-DNA interaction mechanism via studies of lattice models.