Larry Holmes Jr., PhD, DrPH, CPH - Head, Epidemiology Laboratory, Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Newark, Delaware, Clinical Epidemiologist/Biostatistician, Orthopedic Department, A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Wilmington
Larry Holmes, Jr., PhD, DrPH, CPH, has over nine years of experience as a
reviewer of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) questions
(1994–2003). During this period, he taught the quantitative medicine
(epidemiology, biostatistics), among other courses, and was responsible for
both the summative and formative examination preparation materials for
the medical schools in the Caribbean.
At the International University of the Health Sciences (IUHS) in St. Kitts,
Holmes directed the assessment for the basic medical sciences and clinical
correlates and managed over 18 thousand questions in the examination
bank. He was responsible for preparing the summative examination of 350
questions for every organ system in the USMLE learning objectives, and
these examinations were offered every three months at IUHS. Holmes also
wrote review questions for immunology and infectious diseases, quantitative
medicine (epidemiology and biostatistics), preventive medicine, behavioral
sciences, geriatrics, and pharmacology
Dr. Holmes is currently a Clinical Epidemiologist at the Alfred I. duPont
Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, where he directs the clinical
research methodology (modern epidemiology and biostatistics)
research and education program. He is the head of Molecular Epidemiology
Lab at the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, and teaches
the Clinical Trial course as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University
of Delaware, Newark. He is a published primary or senior author in many
peer-reviewed scientific journals, a reviewer for scientific journals including
Military Medicine and AIDS Care, and a member of the American College
of Epidemiology.