Ed Bein has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. He received clinical training at the California-Pacific Medical Center Psychiatry Clinic and at the San Francisco VA, and did psychotherapy research during a 2-year NIMH postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University. In 1996-97 he was a fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Ed has worked as a researcher and statistician on AIDS prevention research projects at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and at SF State's Cesar Chavez Center. He also was the project manager for the San Francisco DPH's Office-based Opiate Treatment Program feasibility study.

Ed is interested in developing and applying causal inference methods to research in psychology, psychiatry, social work, and AIDS prevention. For example, he is interested in using marginal structural models and instrumental variable methods to study psychotherapy process and outcome. He is also engaged in evaluating the use of cross-validation for selecting estimators of nuisance parameters for doubly robust estimating functions and loss functions.