Data management and statistical support for the Center will be provided by statisticians and programmers who are part of the Center and VISN 22 MIRECC Data Core. The Data Management and Statistics Core is directed by Dr. Catherine Sugar, the lead statistician for the Center / MIRECC, and staffed by members of SIStat, the biostatistics core in UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior (Dr. Sugar, Director). SIStat is made up of senior consulting faculty from the departments of Biostatistics, Statistics, and Psychiatry, as well as full-time staff statisticians, database and applications development programmers, database managers and web designers.