Division of Biostatistics

Primary Biostatistics Faculty

Baraniuk, Mary Sarah, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Survival analysis; missing data; clinical trial methodology

Email: mary.baraniuk@uth.tmc.edu

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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

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Phone: (713) 500-9472

Chan, Wenyaw , PhD
Professor

Research interests: Stochastic modeling; longitudinal studies

Email: wenyaw.chan@uth.tmc.edu

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/munoz
Email: yolanda.m.munoz@uth.tmc.edu

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Phone: (713) 500-9386