Michael is a Statistical Advisor and a Senior Statistician at the Veterans Administration, working on multiple research projects focused on sleep research. This research helps Veterans to improve their quality of sleep as well as improving our knowledge about effective treatments for poor sleep quality. He is actively involved in every phase of these research projects — research design, grant writing, data cleaning, data preparation, statistical analysis, interpretation of results, and writing of manuscripts. Previously, he worked for 12 years as a statistical consultant and manager of the UCLA ATS statistical consulting group, where he envisioned, designed and contributed to the UCLA Statistical Consulting Resources website. He is the author of three books — A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics, Data Management Using Stata: A Practical Handbook, and Interpreting and Visualizing Regression Models using Stata. He is working on his fourth book, Stata for the Behavioral Sciences due for release in 2015.