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Division of Biostatistics

Faculty

Baraniuk, Mary Sarah, PhD
Assistant Professor

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

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E807
Email: mary.baraniuk@uth.tmc.edu
Mary Sarah Baraniuk, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9512

Baumler, Elizabeth G., PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Research interests: Multilevel modeling; youth risk behavior; population health

Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2632
Email: elizabeth.r.baumler@uth.tmc.edu
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Phone: (713) 500-9684

Bradshaw, Benjamin S., PhD
Professor

Research interests: Demography; minority populations; U.S.-Mexico border health issues

Campus: San Antonio — Office: SPH 212
Email: benjamin.s.bradshaw@uth.tmc.edu
Benjamin S. Bradshaw, PhD
Phone: (210) 562-5506

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

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1042
Email: keith.d.burau@uth.tmc.edu
Keith D. Burau, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9472

Chan, Wenyaw , PhD
Professor

Research interests: Stochastic modeling; longitudinal studies

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W942
Email: wenyaw.chan@uth.tmc.edu
Wenyaw  Chan, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9321

Chen, Chin-Hsing, PhD
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

Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2514
Email: chin-hsing.chen@uth.tmc.edu
Chin-Hsing Chen, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9766

Davis, Barry R., MD, PhD
Guy S. Parcel Chair in Public Health and Director, Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials

Research interests: Development and applications of statistical methods to clinical trials and epidemiology

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E809
Email: barry.r.davis@uth.tmc.edu
Barry R. Davis, MD, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9515

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

Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2614
Email: pamela.m.diamond@uth.tmc.edu
Pamela M. Diamond, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9979

Dunn, J. Kay, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Research interests: Clinical trials; survival analysis; stochastic models

Campus: Houston — Office:
Email: judith.k.dunn@uth.tmc.edu
J. Kay Dunn, PhD
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

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E827
Email: charles.e.ford@uth.tmc.edu
Charles E. Ford, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9513

Frankowski, Ralph F., PhD
Professor

Research interests: Design and analysis of clinical experiments; traumatic brain injury and cerebrovascular disease

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1008
Email: ralph.f.frankowski@uth.tmc.edu
Ralph F. Frankowski, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9320

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

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E923
Email: luisa.franzini@uth.tmc.edu
Luisa  Franzini, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9487

Fu, Yun-Xin , PhD
Betty Wheless Trotter Professor

Research interests: Biostatistics; bioinformatics; molecular evolution; population genetics and computational biology

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E541
Email: yunxin.fu@uth.tmc.edu
Yun-Xin  Fu, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9813

Glasser, Jay H., PhD
Professor

Research interests: Health services research; utilization analysis; health survey methodology; technology assessment; policy applications

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W940
Email: jay.h.glasser@uth.tmc.edu
Jay H. Glasser, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9173

Hardy, Robert J., PhD
Allan King Professor in Public Health, Division of Biostatistics

Research interests: Biometrical methods; statistical epidemiology; clinical trials

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E805
Email: robert.j.hardy@uth.tmc.edu
Robert J. Hardy, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9524

Harris, Theodore R., PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests: Biostatistics; survey methods; exploratory data analysis; imputation; alcohol epidemiology

Campus: Dallas — Office: 00V V8.112D
Email: theodore.r.harris@uth.tmc.edu
Theodore R. Harris, PhD
Phone: (214) 648-1776

Kapadia, Asha S., PhD
Professor

Research interests: Operations research modeling of health systems; meta analysis; Bayesian statistics; compartmental modeling; pharmacokinetic modeling

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W928
Email: asha.s.kapadia@uth.tmc.edu
Asha S. Kapadia, PhD
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

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W1006
Email: dejian.lai@uth.tmc.edu
Dejian  Lai, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9270

Luo, Sheng, PhD
Assistant Professor

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W932
Email: sheng.t.luo@uth.tmc.edu
Sheng Luo, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9554

Moye III, Lemuel A., MD, PhD
Professor

Research interests: Bayes methods; continuous time stochastic processes

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E815
Email: lemuel.a.moye@uth.tmc.edu
Lemuel A. Moye III, MD, PhD
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

Campus: Dallas — Office: 00V V8.106C
Email: mohamed.e.mubasher@uth.tmc.edu
Mohamed E. Mubasher, PhD
Phone: (214) 648-1041

Ning, Jing, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Univariate and multivariate survival analysis; Nonparametric and semiparametric models for multiple event data and length-biased data; Longitudinal analysis; Design and analysis of clinical trials. Of clinical trials.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W820
Email: jing.ning@uth.tmc.edu
Jing Ning, PhD
Phone: (700) 500-9567

Perez, Adriana , PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests: Statistical methods for handling missing data, statistical methods for epidemiological research (including modeling), sampling and sample size issues in health studies and statistical methods to account for the uncertainty due to measurement error.

Campus: Austin — Office:
Email: adriana.perez@uth.tmc.edu
Adriana  Perez, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6183

Piller, Linda B., MD
Associate 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.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E819
Email: linda.b.piller@uth.tmc.edu
Linda B. Piller, MD
Phone: (713) 500-9507

Rahbar, Mohammad Hossein, PhD
Professor, 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

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E627
Email: mohammad.h.rahbar@uth.tmc.edu
Mohammad Hossein Rahbar, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9166

Risser, Jan M.H., PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Research interests: Sexually transmitted disease surveillance; syphilis; prevention of HIV; social determinants of health; stroke and hypertension.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E607
Email: jan.m.risser@uth.tmc.edu
Jan M.H. Risser, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9386

Rodin, Andrei S., PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Genetic epidemiology; computational biology; bioinformatics; data mining; artificial intelligence; machine learning; molecular evolution and phylogenetics

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E523
Email: andrei.s.rodin@uth.tmc.edu
Andrei S. Rodin, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9845

Tilley, Barbara, PhD
Lorne Bain Prof & Dir Biostat

Research interests: Clinical trials, Parkinson's Disease, health disparities research, minority health, and movement disorders

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E833
Email: barbara.c.tilley@uth.tmc.edu
Barbara Tilley, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9564

Wei, Peng, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Statistical genomics and genetics; Bayesian statistics; Graphical Models; Mixture Models; Statistical learning methodology and applications

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W806
Email: peng.wei@uth.tmc.edu
Peng Wei, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9565

Xiong, Momiao , PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests: Computational systems biology; functional genomics; bioinformatics; genetic epidemiology; statistical genetics; pharmacogenetics; population genetics

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E439
Email: momiao.xiong@uth.tmc.edu
Momiao  Xiong, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9894

Yamal, Jose-Miguel, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Statistical learning methodology and applications; Statistical evaluation of diagnostic tests for classification; High-dimensional data mining; Early detection of disease, Optical technologies

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W812
Email: jose-miguel.yamal@uth.tmc.edu
Jose-Miguel Yamal, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9566