About
Dr. Ed Gracely received his PhD from Temple University in psychology (Quantitative Division) in 1986 and has been a faculty member at Drexel University (or institutions that later merged with Drexel, notably MCP) since then.
Gracely is an associate professor of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine at the College of Medicine, where he teaches statistics, epidemiology and research methods to the medical students in the Frontiers course (for which he has received several Golden Apple Awards), and statistics to biomedical graduate students. He also sits on several committees and does statistical consulting.
Gracely has a joint appointment with the Drexel School of Public Health where he is the course director for the Introduction to Biostatistics course (for which he received a Golden Apple award in 2011), and a mentor each year to several master’s students.
Gracely also serves on the editorial board of both Pain and Pain Medicine, and has a substantial number of publications reflecting collaborative work with primary researchers. His research interests include the logic of multiple comparisons, statistics education and ethical philosophy. Gracely is a member of the American Statistical Association and webmaster, formerly newsletter editor, for the Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences (from which he received the Distinguished Service Award in 2011). He is active in Statistics Without Borders, which provides pro bono consulting services to low-resource researchers, mostly in developing countries.