Tom Bohman, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Dr. Bohman received his Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. He has over 20 years of research experience: statistical consultation; grant proposal development; project management; database management; interpretation and write-up results; training and supervision of graduate students on data analysis; and teaching in a variety of complex, research oriented computing environments. He currently leads the evaluations for two large Federal Demonstration projects. Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT) is a five-year, $17 million targeted capacity expansion grant funded by SAMHSA. Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment is a three-year, $26 million clinical trial funded by CMS. Dr. Bohman also serves as co-principal investigator for NIH-funded projects related to developing diagnostic markers of bilingual language development problems and identifying complementary and alternative medicine usage in African-Americans. Dr. Bohman has developed and taught seminars on statistical computing including structural equations modeling and has extensive statistical knowledge regarding hierarchical linear models, structural equations modeling, power analysis, analyzing family/couple data, longitudinal data analysis, categorical data analysis. He is a past-president of the Austin chapter of the American Statistical Association.

Professional Interests

Substance abuse; evaluation; survey research; design and analysis of longitudinal research studies with particular focus on prevention studies; analysis of non-independent data (e.g., data from families); multilevel modeling; generalized linear models; complex survey sampling.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• B.S., Ohio University

Faculty Research

• Texas Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE) (TX DSHS / CMMS)
• Project CHOICES+: Preconception Approach to Reducing Alcohol & Tobacco-Exposed Pregnancy (CDC, U84 DD000438, PI: Velasquez)
• Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) (TX DSHS / SAMHSA, 2009)
• Patterns and Correlates of CAM use in African Americans (NIH, R21AT002858, PI: Brown)
• Diagnostic markers of language impairment (NIH, R01DC007439, PI: Peña)
• Evaluation of Protecting You, Protecting Me Alcohol Prevention Curriculum (2002)
• Evaluation of Expect Respect: A Domestic Violence Prevention Project for Elementary School Students
• Evaluation of Texas National Guard Environmental Leadership Simulation
• ITS Campus Survey
• Factors Predicting Treatment Retention among High-Risk Mexican American and African American Juvenile Offenders