Primary Biostatistics Faculty
| Baraniuk, Mary Sarah, PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Survival analysis; missing data; clinical trial methodology Email: mary.baraniuk@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9512 |
| Baumler, Elizabeth G., PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Research interests: Multilevel modeling; youth risk behavior; population health Email: elizabeth.r.baumler@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9684 |
| Burau, Keith D., PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics Research interests: Job exposure matrix development and applications to epidemiological studies; spatial/temporal analysis in epidemiology; occupational exposure analysis; automated ECG/VCG analysis; clinical data systems Email: keith.d.burau@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9472 |
| Chan, Wenyaw , PhD Professor Research interests: Stochastic modeling; longitudinal studies Email: wenyaw.chan@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9321 |
| Davis, Barry R., MD James W Rockwell Professor in Public Health Research interests: Development and applications of statistical methods to clinical trials and epidemiology Email: barry.r.davis@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9515 |
| Dunn, J. Kay, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics Research interests: Clinical trials; survival analysis; stochastic models Email: judith.k.dunn@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9563 |
| Ford, Charles E., PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics Research interests: Management and analysis of clinical trial data; polychotomous logistic regression analysis; statistical computing; hypertension; cardiovascular disease Email: charles.e.ford@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9513 |
| Frankowski, Ralph F., PhD Professor Research interests: Design and analysis of clinical experiments; traumatic brain injury and cerebrovascular disease Email: ralph.f.frankowski@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9320 |
| Fu, Yun-Xin , PhD Betty Wheless Trotter Professor Research interests: Biostatistics; bioinformatics; molecular evolution; population genetics and computational biology Email: yunxin.fu@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9813 |
| Glasser, Jay H., PhD Professor Research interests: Health services research; utilization analysis; health survey methodology; technology assessment; policy applications Email: jay.h.glasser@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9173 |
| Hardy, Robert J., PhD Allan King Professor in Public Health and Director, Division of Biostatistics Research interests: Biometrical methods; statistical epidemiology; clinical trials Email: robert.j.hardy@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9524 |
| Harris, Theodore R., PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Biostatistics; survey methods; exploratory data analysis; imputation; alcohol epidemiology Email: theodore.r.harris@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (214) 648-1776 |
| Harrist, Ronald B., PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics Research interests: Statistical design and data analysis for longitudinal studies; multilevel statistical methods Email: ronald.b.harrist@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (512) 482-6179 |
| Kapadia, Asha S., PhD Professor Research interests: Operations research modeling of health systems; meta analysis; Bayesian statistics; compartmental modeling; pharmacokinetic modeling Email: asha.s.kapadia@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9180 |
| Lai, Dejian , PhD Professor Research interests: Biostatistics; chaos; demography; global health; life table; time series analysis; nonparametric methods; spatial statistics; statistical methods Email: dejian.lai@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9270 |
| Moye III, Lemuel A., MD Professor Research interests: Bayes methods; continuous time stochastic processes Email: lemuel.a.moye@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9518 |
| Mubasher, Mohamed E., PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Statistical methods in design, conduct and analyses of clinical trials; sequential and survival data analyses Email: mohamed.e.mubasher@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (214) 648-1041 |
| Munoz Maldonado, Yolanda, PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Functional Data Analysis, Smoothing Techniques, Mixed-Effects Models and Kalman Filtering Web: www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/faculty/munozEmail: yolanda.m.munoz@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9525 |
| Ortiz, Melchor , PhD Professor of Biostatistics Research interests: Experimental design; analysis of designed experiments; multiple regression; model building; sampling procedures Email: melchor.ortiz@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (915) 747-8506 |
| Pedroza, Claudia, PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Bayesian methodology; multilevel statistical methods; methods for handling missing data Email: claudia.pedroza@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9514 |
| Rodin, Andrei S., PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Genetic epidemiology; computational biology; bioinformatics; data mining; artificial intelligence; machine learning; molecular evolution and phylogenetics Email: andrei.s.rodin@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9845 |
| Smith, David W., PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Outcomes research methods; survey design and analysis, particularly for minorities or diabetics; biostatistical methods for health policy; population effects of terrorism and disasters Email: david.w.smith@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (210) 562-5512 |
| Xiong, Momiao , PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Computational systems biology; functional genomics; bioinformatics; genetic epidemiology; statistical genetics; pharmacogenetics; population genetics Email: momiao.xiong@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9894 |
Secondary Biostatistics Appointments
| Aragaki, Corinne C., PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Epidemiologic/statistical methods for gene-environment interaction risk estimation; use of gene expression analysis in molecular epidemiology; hierarchical/ multilevel modeling; cancer epidemiology; genetic epidemiology Email: corinne.c.aragaki@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9915 |
| Bradshaw, Benjamin S., PhD Professor Research interests: Demography; minority populations; U.S.-Mexico border health issues Email: benjamin.s.bradshaw@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (210) 562-5506 |
| Chen, Chin-Hsing, PhD Visiting Assistant Professor Research interests: Evaluation of health promotion/education programs; etiology of obesity, smoking, and other health behaviors and its associated risk/protective factors; longitudinal methods; multi-level analysis and hierarchical linear modeling; growth curve/growth mixture modeling; Bayesian methods, intervention time series analysis; spatial statistical analysis Email: chin-hsing.chen@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9766 |
| Diamond, Pamela M., PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: Interface between criminal justice and mental health policy, psychiatric epidemiology, community reintegration for female offenders, and the use of latent variable models in public health research Email: pamela.m.diamond@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9979 |
| Franzini, Luisa , PhD Associate Professor Research interests: Health economics and econometrics; economic and social determinants of health; racial/ethnic health disparities and minority health; income inequality; cost effectiveness and cost-utility analysis; cost of medical education Email: luisa.franzini@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9487 |
| Piller, Linda B., MD Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Research interests: Hypertension; ischemic heart disease; coronary heart disease; clinical trials; cardiovascular clinical trials; endpoint reporting in clinical trials; safety in clinical trials; congestive heart failure; cardiovascular pathology; cervical pathology; breast pathology. Email: linda.b.piller@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9507 |
| Rahbar, Mohammad Hossein, PhD Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research interests: Statistical and Study Design Issues in Epidemiology; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Developmental Disabilities; Global Health; Environmental Health with a focus on Toxic and Heavy Metals; Gene-Environment Interactions in relation to Autism; Medical Informatics; Analytic Issues in Multicenter Studies; Data Mining; Sequential Procedures; Clinical Trials; Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Survival Analysis Email: mohammad.h.rahbar@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9166 |
| Risser, Jan M.H., PhD Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Research interests: Sexually transmitted disease surveillance; syphilis; prevention of HIV; social determinants of health; stroke and hypertension. Email: jan.m.risser@uth.tmc.edu | Phone: (713) 500-9386 |

