Education:
A.B.: University of North Carolina
M.S.: North Carolina State University
Ph.D.: University of North Carolina
Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of Iowa

Summary Statement:
Dr. Hamer’s time is spent designing, planning, and working on psychopharmacology clinical trials, performing psychiatric research in collaboration with other psychiatry faculty, occasional medical research in other fields with faculty members in other fields, performing research on clinical trials methodology and statistics, and teaching. He has served 2 terms on the FDA Psychopharmacology Drugs Advisory Committee, has served on numerous NIH study sections, and currently is serving a term on the NIMH Interventions Research Review study section. He consults for numerous pharmaceutical companies, and for the FDA.

Representative Publications:
1. Hamer, R.M. and Hosking, J.D. The nonorthogonal analysis of variance. Representative Research in Social Psychology, 8:71-87, 1977.

2. Hamer, R.M. Papers that evaluate computer programs. The American Statistician, 35:264, 1981.

3. Hamer, R.M. Computerized biochemical profiles for alcoholism revisited. Psychosomatics, 24:659-660, 1983.

4. Bronitsky, G. and Hamer, R.M. Experiments in ceramic technology: the effects of various tempering materials on impact and thermal shock resistance.American Antiquity, 51:89-101, 1986.

5. Goldberg, S.C., Ettigi, P.G., Schulz, P.M., Hamer, R.M., Hayes, P.E., and Friedel, R.O. Alprazolam versus imipramine in depressed outpatients with neurovegatative signs. Journal of Affective Disorders, 11:139-145, 1986.

6. Hamer, R.M. Review of Keppel, G., and Zedeck, S. Data Analysisfor Research Designs. Journal of the American Statistical Association,1990, 85:268-269.