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About

I'm an epidemiologist at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, where I work in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience. I hold a Ph.D. in Health Policy & Management from UCLA, an M.P.P. from USC, and a B.A. from UC Berkeley.

Timothy P. Copeland

Research Areas

My current work focuses on multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, narcolepsy, and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease, using Swedish national patient registries and population databases.

Previously, I spent five years as a statistician in the Division of Nephrology at UCSF, studying pediatric and adult chronic kidney disease, kidney transplantation, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and vascular access surgery. I also consult on studies in fertility medicine, pediatric diabetes, oncology, obstetrics, and infectious disease.

Methods & Data

My methodological interests center on causal inference from observational data—particularly target trial emulation, marginal structural models, and g-computation. I work primarily with large administrative and registry datasets, including national medical claims, electronic health records, organ transplant registries, and randomized trial data.

I have experience with health data systems in the United States, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. I also develop and maintain a suite of open-source Stata packages for data management, causal inference, and publication-ready reporting.

Recognition

  • Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship Seal of Excellence (90.8/100)
  • Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California
  • NIH NCATS Clinical & Translational Science Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
  • Peer reviewer for the American Journal of Kidney Disease, The BMJ, Primary Care Diabetes, and others

Contact

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ORCID 0000-0002-3813-3576