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The Department of Biostatistics currently has 26 full-time faculty with primary appointments: seven full professors, eight associate professors, and 11 assistant professors. Members of the graduate faculty have responsibility for teaching courses and advising graduate students as well as involvement in major independent and/or collaborative research. There are also 19 secondary appointments: ten with primary appointments in the School of Medicine, two with primary appointments in the School of Nursing, one with a primary appointment in the Department of Bioinformatics, two with a primary appointments in the Department of Epidemiology, two with primary appointments in the Department of Human Genetics and two with primary appointments in the Department of Statistics. There are two visiting professors. In addition, there are two adjunct faculty.
Department Chair
Gary M. Marsh, Professor and Interim Chair
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Occupational and environmental epidemiology, survey sampling, statistical computing, health services evaluation.
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Philip E. Enterline, Professor Emeritus
(PhD American University)
Research interests: Public health statistics, biostatistical applications in environmental and occupational health.
James J. Schlesselman, Professor Emeritus
(PhD Princeton University)
Research interests: Role of statistics in scientific inference. Statistical methods for planning and analyzing controlled clinical trials and epidemiologic studies.
Faculty with Primary Appointments Stewart Anderson, Professor
(PhD University of Colorado)
Research interests: Stochastic processes, splines, clinical trials, statistical computing. Vincent C. Arena, Associate Professor
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Statistical models for environmental and occupational epidemiology, statistical computing, etiology and prevention of diabetes.
Andriy Bandos, Research Assistant Professor
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Nonparametric methods, resampling approaches, ROC analysis, statistical
evaluation of diagnostic tests.
Hanna Bandos, Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Survival analysis, clinical trials. Jeanine Buchanich, Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Occupational epidemiology, historical cohort studies, environmental epidemiology, vital status tracing, cancer incidence, head injury Joseph P. Costantino, Professor and Director, NSABP Biostatistical Center
(DrPH University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Design and analysis of clinical trials, cancer treatment and prevention, quantitative risk assessment, environmental and occupational epidemiology, sleep apnea. Richard D. Day, Associate Professor
(PhD University of California, Berkeley)
Research interests: Environmental and occupational epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, statistical computing, statistical consulting.
Jong-Hyeon Jeong, Associate Professor
(PhD University of Rochester)
Research interests: Survival modelling and analysis, stochastic process, clinical trials. Lan Kong, Assistant Professor
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Research interests: Survival analysis, clinical trials, and longitudinal data analysis.
Stephanie Land, Research Associate Professor
(PhD Stanford University)
Research interests: Clinical trials, quality of life, statistical applications in cancer.
Yan Lin, Research Assistant Professor
(PhD in Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh; PhD in Biology University of Michigan)
Research interests: Statistical applications in statistical genetics and bioinformatics.
Sati Mazumdar, Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry
(PhD Cornell University)
Research interests: Statistical inference, psychiatric research, longitudinal data analysis, environmental and occupational health. Maria K. Mor, Research Assistant Professor
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Missing Data; Health Services Research; Measurement Error; Administrative Databases
Doug Potter, Research Associate Professor
(PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Research interests: Statistical methodology for design and analysis of preclinical studies and early phase clinical trials in cancer; development and use of novel exact and approximate permutation tests; analysis of small datasets.
Carol K. Redmond, Distinguished Service Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
(ScD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Discrete multivariate analysis, clinical trials, statistical methods for environmental and occupational epidemiology.
Howard E. Rockette, Professor
(PhD Pennsylvania State University)
Research interests: Clinical trials, occupational biostatistics, estimation theory.
Roslyn A. Stone, Associate Professor
(PhD University of Washington)
Research interests: Generalized linear models, survival analysis, multi-level models, statistical methods for cluster randomized studies.
Gong Tang, Assistant Professor
(PhD University of Michigan)
Research interests: My primary research interest is the analysis of data sets with missing values. Other research interests are longitudinal data analysis and semi-parametric statistics.
Chien-Cheng (George) Tseng, Associate Professor
(ScD Harvard University)
Research interests: Bioinformatics, microarray analysis, statistical learning in genomic/proteomic data, genomic meta-analysis, supervised and unsupervised machine learning.
Abdus S. Wahed, Associate Professor
(PhD North Carolina State University)
Research interests: Two-stage designs, semiparametric inference, missing data (censored data), survival analysis, causal inference, longitudinal data analysis. Hong Wang, Research Assistant Professor
(PhD Medical College of Wisconsin)
Research interests: Clinical trials, survival analysis, statistical
applications in biomedical field.
Lisa Weissfeld, Professor and Director of Academic Program
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Censored data, regression diagnostics, biomarker and neuroimaging data.
John W. Wilson, Assistant Professor
(PhD Cornell University)
Research interests: Statistical methods in cancer research and field biology, nonparametric statistics.
Greg Yothers, Research Assistant Professor
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Clinical Trials, Subset Analyses. Ada O. Youk, Research Assistant Professor
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Occupational epidemiology, statistical computing, historical cohort studies, missing racial data. Return to top
Faculty with Secondary Appointments
Richard A. Bilonick Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Biostatistics
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Latent variable / structural equation models of measurement error for characterizing the bias and imprecision of measuring devices, time series analysis of count data using generalized autoregressive moving average models, statistical analysis of spatially and temporally distributed data.
Steven Belle, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
(PhD University of Michigan)
Research interests: Epidemiological and statistical research in chronic and infectious diseases, quality of life, gerontology, and transplantation. Designing and implementing systems for data analysis. Designing and applying innovative statistical techniques. Database design and implementation.
James Bost, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Health Services Research, Performance Measurement, Psychometrics, Nonparametric Statistics, Survey Design and Analysis, Clinical Trials.
Maria Mori Brooks, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
(PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Research interests: Clinical trial design and coordination for cardiology and diabetes interventions. Epidemiological research in chronic and infectious diseases. Application of survival analysis and longitudinal data analysis techniques to clinical and quality of life data.
Joyce Ho-Chang, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Survival analysis, regression diagnostics.
Feng Dai, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Biostatistics
(PhD)
Research interests: statistical genetics, gene mapping of complex diseases (obesity, pain), analgesic clinical trials
Roger S. Day, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics & Biostatistics
(ScD Harvard University)
Research interests: Stochastic models of tumor growth, treatment and monitoring community-based cancer epidemiology, spatial cluster detection, statistical methods in AIDS epidemiology.
Mary Amanda Dew, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
(PhD Harvard University)
Research interests: Clinical epidemiologic research designs in chronic disease and organ transplantation. Clinical trial design for late life mood disorder interventions. Application of longitudinal data analysis techniques to clinical and quality of life data. Meta-analysis of observational studies and clinical trials. Psychometric issues in the development and modification of tests and measures.
Igor Dvorchik, Research Associate Professor of Medicine & Biostatistics
(PhD St Petersburg Electrotechnical University)
Research interests: Multi-layer and recurrent artificial neural networks; (ANN) as a modeling tool. Data preprocessing and missing values treatment in ANN analysis. Semi-parametric and nonparametric survival estimation. Multivariate survival analysis and modeling in areas of transplantation and cancer research. Evaluation of diagnostic systems, development of clinical decision-making systems. Cost-effectiveness, cost minimization and cost-utility analysis. Design and analysis of clinical trials and studies.
Eleanor Feingold, Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Biostatistics
(PhD Stanford University)
Research interests: Statistical methods for gene mapping, genetic epidemiology of trisomy and Down syndrome, statistical approaches to bioinformatics.
Charity Moore, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics
(PhD)
Research interests: Clinical trials, group randomized trials, longitudinal data analysis, complex survey data, rural health.
Subashan Perera, Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Biostatistics
(PhD Kansas State University)
Research interests: Collaborative research interests in aging.
Julie C. Price, Associate Professor of Radiology and Biostatistics, Head of PET Methodology
(PhD Johns Hopkins University)
Research interests: Integrated approaches to the analyses of multiple intra-subject neuroimaging measures (e.g. blood flow, neuroreceptor binding) in studies of neurodegenerative disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders and aging. Dianxu Ren, Assistant Professor of Health & Community Systems, School of Nursing and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
(MD Shanxi Medical University; PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: My area of research is biostatistics including longitudinal data analysis, measurement error and missing data problems, Bayesian analysis and statistical computation. I have collaborated as a co-investigator and statistician on a number of research projects with either intramural or extramural funding in the health sciences. Some of research studies I have participated also motivated the statistical methodology research. Doris M. Rubio, Director, Data Center, Center for Research on Health Care, Associate Professor of Medicine, Health & Community Systems, and Biostatistics
(PhD Washington University)
Research interests: Alcohol use, health care, prenatal care, Quality of Life, Well-Being, Women's health, Psychometrics, Structural Equation Modeling, Health Services Research
Allan R. Sampson, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics
(PhD Stanford University)
Research interests: Designing adaptive clinical trials where the design can be modified based on intermediate data. Statistical models and methods for neurobiology. Dose response methodology. Biopharmaceutical clinical trials and regulatory agencies. Order-restricted methods in statistical models. Multivariate modeling.
Susan Sereika, Associate Professor of Nursing, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
(PhD University of Michigan)
Research interests: Survival analysis, nonparametrics, empirical Baye's estimation, longitudinal data analysis.
David S. Stoffer, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics
(PhD University of California)
Research interests: Time series analysis
Daniel E. Weeks, Professor of Human Genetics and Professor of Biostatistics
(PhD University of California at Los Angeles)
Research interests: Linkage analysis, statistical genetics, parallel computational techniques for linkage analysis, genetic mapping, chiasma interference, simulation studies, genetic mapping of autism, obesity, age-related macular degeneration, inflammatory bowel disease, endometriosis, and Type II diabetes.
Faculty with Adjunct Appointments
James J. Collins, Adjunct Research Professor of Biostatistics
(PhD University of Illinois)
Research interests: Major research interest is the impact of occupational and environmental exposures on health including exposures from dioxins, benzene, acrylonitrile, acrylamide, formaldehyde, and glutaraldehyde.
Wesley Thompson, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
(PhD Rutgers University)
Research interests: My main research interests are longitudinal and functional data analysis, with applications to functional connectivity in brain imaging studies of mood disorders and schizophrenia. I am also interested in network analysis with applications to psychiatric treatment and prognosis. Finally, I am doing research on genetic associations in twin studies using sparse factor analysis and structural equation modeling.
Visiting Professors
John J. Grefenstette, Director, Public Health Dynamics Laboratory and Visiting Professor
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Modeling and simulation of dynamic health-related processes including infectious diseases, health care operations, and health-related social behavior; machine learning; high-performance computing applications to public health.
Daniel P. Normolle, Director of the Biostatistics Facility at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Visiting Associate Professor
(PhD State University of New York at Binghamton)
Research interests: Adaptive clinical trials, analysis of laboratory data, decision-making in scientific research
Research Associates
Ann Brown, Research Associate
(ScD(Hyg) University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Breast cancer clinical trials, particularly clarification of protocol objectives and procedures, design and implementation of data collection instruments, and quality assurance. Return to top |
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