Dr. Coman has a PhD in communication science and specializes in research methodology applied to several scholarly fields. He has been trained in emotions by his late communications mentor Ross Buck, in statistical modeling (through the backdoor of path analysis) by David Kenny, and in causality by Judea Pearl. He is an Assistant professor (in residence) in the DPHS and Family Medicine departments and is assisting medical students, residents, and faculty from UConn Health, Storrs, and elsewhere, with research projects, grants, and publications. He works in the Health Disparities institute, where he applies modern analytical methods from across a range of domains, from epidemiology, econometrics, social sciences, and ‘pure’ statistics. He is the moderator of the long-running SEMNET, the Structural Equation​ ​Modeling listserv and blogs about applied statistical tricks @ evaluatehelp.blogspot.com.