Dr. Bangdewelia is a full professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (formerly Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics) and Statistics Director at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, which he joined in January 2017. He is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was for 36 years, teaching, conducting research and mentoring graduate students in biostatistics. He was core faculty of the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (CSCC), which conducted large multicenter studies in cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in adults, and studies of cardiovascular risk factors in children & adolescents.

He has lectured in over 240 short and regular courses on statistical methods to clinical researchers. In my current position at PHRI, He oversees multiple large global epidemiological studies and randomized controlled trials in CVD, diabetes, stroke, infectious diseases, and cognition. He has thorough knowledge of issues related to design, conduct, data management and statistical analysis of randomized clinical trials, and the work of data and safety monitoring boards (DSMBs). While at the CSCC and now at the PHRI, he has over 38 years of experience in preparing and presenting reports to DSMBs in many clinical fields, mainly in cardiovascular diseases. He has extensive experience as member of several large NIH, WHO and private industry DSMBs. He has chaired the DSMB Herpetic Eye Disease Study(HEDS), National Eye Institute, 1988-1998; the Vasectomy study DSMB, Family Health International, 2000-2001; and currently am the chair of the Multinational DSMB in the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 2010.