Welcome to my St. Petersburg College website. Please note that my office location is LY 103.

At the outset, I thank you for visiting the website and take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Lakshminarayan Rajaram.

As of January 1, 2025, I start my 26th year of teaching at the St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus.

EDUCATION AND PAST POSITIONS:
My graduate education is in theoretical and applied mathematics as well as applied statistics. My Ph.D. degree is in mathematics with concentration being applied statistics. I truly enjoy teaching, and hope to continue teaching for many years to come.

I held the following positions in the pharma industry and the universities where I extensively applied the principles and techniques of clinical statistics to model and analyze the data from the biomedical research and epidemiological studies:

• Statistician, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore
• Biostatistician/Data Manager, Clinical Research Division of TheraTech Inc. (pharmaceutical company), Salt Lake City
• Data managment associate in the Biometric Division of Baker Norton Pharmaceuticals (Ivax Corporation), Miami
• Biostatistician, Institute of Aging and Epidemiology/Biostatistics Department, College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, Tampa
• Consulting Data Manager/Biostatistician, Lawton Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies, University of South Florida, Tampa
• Assistant Professor Adjunct, Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, and Pathology & Cell Biology,
  Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida.
• Affiliate Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, University of South Florida.
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida.
• Prometeo Scholar and Facultad de Ciencias del Ecuador, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

EXPERIENCE

My experience includes teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics and mathematics, mathematical modeling, pharmacokinetics and bioequivalence, and statistical evaluation of the clinical data from multi-center clinical trials and epidemiological studies.

STATISTICAL ADVISORY MEMBER OF PHD COMMITTEES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

I served (2009 - 2019) as a statistical advisory member of the Ph.D. committee in the Departments of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Global Health, and Civil & Environmental Engineering. 

INTERNATIONAL TEACHING
During my time off from St. Petersburg College, I travel abroad and present workshops, presentions and lectures in conferences as well as short courses in such diverse areas as:

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
(To know more about my research publications, please click on the following link:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Lakshminarayan_Rajaram

As a clinical biostatistician, I have been doing collaborative research/consulting with scientific researchers, physicians and doctoral students in engineering and public health, leading to publications in the following journals of:

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Global Advisory Board: The Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, Shock, Synergizing Basic Science, Clinical Medicine & Global Health.