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| | Faculty The Department of Biostatistics currently has 27 full-time faculty with primary appointments: eight full professors, four associate professors, and 15 assistant professors. One visiting professor from the Department of Statistics, Korea University. In addition, one research associate has faculty status in the school. 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 17 secondary appointments: eight with primary appointments in the School of Medicine, three with primary appointments in the School of Nursing, one with a primary appointment in the Department of Bioinformatics, one with a primary appointment 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. In addition, there are two adjunct faculty.
Department Chair Howard E. Rockette, Professor and Chair
(PhD Pennsylvania State University)
Research interests: Clinical trials, occupational biostatistics, estimation theory.
Return to top Professors Emeriti Philip E. Enterline, Professor Emeritus
(PhD American University)
Research interests: Public health statistics, biostatistical applications in environmental and occupational health. Return to top 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, diagnostic test evaluation. 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 Assistant Professor
(PhD Stanford University)
Research interests: Clinical trials, quality of life, statistical applications in cancer. Gary M. Marsh, Professor
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Occupational and environmental epidemiology, survey sampling, statistical computing, health services evaluation. 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 Assistant Professor
(PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Research interests: Statistical methodology for preclinical studies and early phase clinical trials in cancer; design and analysis of studies in genetic and molecular epidemiology; new approaches utilizing permutation tests. 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. James J. Schlesselman, Professor and Director of Biostatistics Facility UPCI
(PhD Princeton University)
Research interests: Role of statistics in scientific inference. Statistical methods for planning and analyzing controlled clinical trials and epidemiologic studies.
Roslyn A. Stone, Associate Professor
(PhD University of Washington)
Research interests: Generalized linear models, survival analysis, 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, Assistant Professor
(ScD Harvard University)
Research interests: Bioinformatics, microarray analysis, classification, support vector machine, clustering, and multiple comparison. Abdus S. Wahed, Assistant 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. Yun Wang, Research Assistant Professor
(PhD Purdue University)
Research interests: Design and analysis of clinical trials, microarray analysis, missing values in biomedical research, statistical applications in cancer research and gerontology.
Lisa Weissfeld, Professor and Director of Academic Program
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Censored data, regression diagnostics. 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 or Adjunct Appointments 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 J. Collins, Adjunct Research Professor of Biostatistics
(PhD University of Illinois)
Research interests: (David) Qianyu Dang, Assistant Professor of Division of General Internal Medicine and Biostatistics
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Longitudinal data analysis, Survival analysis, Psychiatric Modeling Roger S. Day, Research 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, Epidemiology, Psychology, & Biostatistics
(PhD)
Research interests: Igor Dvorchik, Research Assistant 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. Joyce Ho-Chang, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: Survival analysis, regression diagnostics.
Yookyung Kim, Associate Professor of Health & Community Systems, School of Nursing and Associate Professor of Biostatistics
(PhD University of Pittsburgh)
Research interests: quality of life, measurement and modeling in health science research - Item response theory, structural equation modeling, latent growth curve modeling, signal detection methodology. Nicholas T. Lange, Adjunct Associate Professor
Research interests: 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
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
Thomas E. Rudy, Professor of Anesthesiology, Psychiatry, and Biostatistics
(PhD University of Notre Dame)
Research interests: Psychometrics, multivariate clustering and classification models, multivariate approaches to clinical trials, empirical approaches to psychosocial and functional capacity assessment in chronic pain, ergonomics and biomechanical models in back pain. 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 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
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. Return to top 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 Visiting Faculty Jae Won Lee, Professor
(PhD University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Research interests: Design, conduct and analysis of Clinical Trials;
DNA fingerprinting for paternity determination and criminal identification;Design and analysis of DNA microarray gene expression experiments; Development of statistical software system for the analysis of biological data . |  | © 2001-2007
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