Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
Associate Professor

Dipankar Bandyopadhyay earned his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Georgia. His methodological research interests include modeling of spatially-referenced datasets with emphasis on disease-mapping, clustered/correlated data, survival analysis, non-random missingness, robust regression, nonparametric methods, time-series, etc. His major clinical interest is in dental research, particularly periodontology. His other clinical interests are in substance abuse, diabetes and hypertension, ophthalmology and criminal justice.

Phone:612-625-9142
E-mail: dbandyop@umn.edu

Sudipto Banerjee
Professor

Sudipto Banerjee received a Ph.D. and an M.S. in statistics from the University of Connecticut. His current interests include hierarchical modeling of data arising from spatial processes, interpolation and prediction (kriging) methods, and smoothness of spatial processes. Dr. Banerjee is also interested in modeling geographically referenced survival data. He is collaborating with plant geneticists, as well as researchers in epidemiology and environmental and occupational health, in designing and analyzing studies in such fields. Dr. Banerjee's current research involves Bayesian Wombling methods that model stochastic gradients using GIS and formal statistics.

Phone:612-624-0624
E-mail: baner009@umn.edu

Saonli Basu
Assistant Professor

Saonli Basu has research interests in the development of methods for inference from human genome data. Her primary focus is developing methods for linkage analysis using large complex pedigrees. Her areas of interest also include computational statistics and nonparametric inferences.

Phone:612-624-2135
E-mail: saonli@umn.edu

Bradley P. Carlin
Mayo Professor in Public Health, Division Head

Brad Carlin earned his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut. His teaching experience and interests include spatial epidemiology, statistical computing, spatial statistics, and Bayes and empirical Bayes methods and data analysis. Dr. Carlin's research interests include statistical applications in AIDS research, clinical trial monitoring, longitudinal studies, and spatial and spatio-temporal disease mapping. He also conducts geographical analysis by analyzing public health data that are geographically indexed. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the 2000 winner of American Public Health Association's Mortimer Spiegelman Award.

Phone:612-624-6646
E-mail: carli002@umn.edu

Haitao Chu
Associate Professor

Ph.D., 2003, Biostatistics, Emory University. Research topics include: Statistical methods on the design and analyses of continuous biomarker assay data; Latent class modeling for multiple diagnostic tests; Statistical methods for mismeasured and missing data.

Phone:612-625-2138
E-mail: chux0051@umn.edu

John E. Connett
Professor

John Connett has research interests in clinical trials in pulmonary disease, smoking, ophthalmology, and cardiovascular disease; case-control studies; estimation of odds ratio; random effects models; coefficient-of-variation models for laboratory data; and statistical computing.

Phone:612-626-3699
E-mail: john-c@umn.edu

Lynn E. Eberly
Associate Professor

Lynn Eberly earned her Ph.D. in statistics from Cornell University. Her research interests involve methods for correlated data, including time-to-event, clustered, and longitudinal data. She holds particular interest in medical imaging, clinical/intervention trials, environmental exposure studies, pharmacoepidemiology, and related applications. She was a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health during 2006 - 2007 in the Department of Biostatistics. Dr. Eberly is director of the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) Coordinating Center.

Phone:612-624-1436
E-mail: eberl003@umn.edu

Patricia M. Grambsch
Associate Professor

Patricia Grambsch received her doctorate from the Department of Statistics at the University of Minnesota. She has conducted research in mathematical modeling of biological phenomena and survival analysis at the Mayo Clinic and Bell Laboratories. Her current interests include stochastic processes, crime data, infectious diseases, and clinical trials.

Phone:612-624-0418
E-mail: gramb001@umn.edu

Weihua Guan
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Ph.D., 2010, Biostatistics, University of Michigan Statistical genetics, identification of genes involved in complex diseases and traits, with a special emphasis on developing statistical and analytical methods for the genetic data with new high-throughput technologies.

Phone:612-626-4765
E-mail: wguan@umn.edu

Hongfei Guo
Assistant Professor

Hongfei Guo received his Ph.D. in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests include development and application of statistical methods for multiple outcomes data, design and analysis of clinical trials, statistical methods and analysis for longitudinal data and survival data, and collaboration research focusing on smoking cessation, cardiovascular disease, health disparities, and kidney transplant. He also has an appointment with the Biostatistical Design and Analysis Center in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

Phone:612-626-9280
E-mail: hfguo@umn.edu

Yen-Yi Ho
Assistant Professor

Yen-Yi Ho earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include computational biology, statistical genetics, and statistical applications in biomedical research. Currently, her focus is on developing statistical methods and computational tools using large-scale genomic data. Dr. Ho is a member of the biostatistics core of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center.

Phone:612-624-7656
E-mail: yho@umn.edu

James Hodges
Associate Professor

Jim Hodges received a PhD in statistics from the University of Minnesota in 1985 and an MA in Public Affairs from the Humphrey School in 1986.  Before joining the SPH in 1993, he worked at the RAND Corporation for 8 years.  Dr. Hodges works with University researchers in a variety of health-related fields;  over the years, his areas of particular emphasis have included oral-health research, infectious diseases, neurology, and kidney disease.  Besides AHC researchers, he has collaborated with researchers at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center's Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research and the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, affiliated with Abbott Northwestern Hospital.  Outside of health-care research, he has collaborated with researchers in demographics, wildlife management, ornithology, horticulture, combat analysis, military logistics, simulation models, airport safety, and marketing.  His statistical research is in the area of hierarchical and other richly parameterized models

A fairly current version of Jim's CV is available at http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~hodges/vita.pdf -- you'll probably have to paste this address into your browser.

Phone:612-626-9626
E-mail: hodge003@umn.edu

John Hughes
Assistant Professor

John earned his PhD in statistics from the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include spatial models, applied stochastic processes, statistical computing, Bayesian methods, and longitudinal data.

Phone:612-626-7075
E-mail: hughesj@umn.edu

Joseph Koopmeiners
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., 2009, Biostatistics, University of Washington Design of diagnostic biomarker studies, group sequential clinical trials, assessment of diagnostic and prognostic tests and biomarker development.

Phone:612-624-7486
E-mail: koopm007@umn.edu

Chap T. Le
Professor & Distinguished Teaching Professor

Chap Le received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. His research projects are in the areas of otitis media and cancers. He has published five textbooks and numerous research articles. He is director of biostatistics for the University of Minnesota Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Le received the Leonard M. Schuman Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Post-Baccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education. His teaching interests include survival analysis and basic biostatistical methods for public health students, and biostatistics for translational and clinical research.

Phone:612-624-9963
E-mail: chap@umn.edu

Xianghua Luo
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Xianghua Luo received a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has expertise in the development and application of nonparametric and semiparametric methods for recurrent event survival data, informative censoring, and case-crossover design. She has worked in the application of longitudinal and survival methods on cancer research, blood and marrow transplant, gerontological studies, and youth behavioral studies.

Phone:612-624-2158
E-mail: luox0054@umn.edu

Richard F. MacLehose
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Community Health and Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Richard MacLehose received his M.S. in epidemiology from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina. His research interests include in Bayesian statistics, epidemiologic methods, applied biostatistics, and reproductive and environmental health.

Phone:612-624-1932
E-mail: macl0029@umn.edu

Andrew Mugglin
Research Associate Professor

Andrew Mugglin holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Minnesota, a M.S. in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.E. in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union. He held a postdoctoral position at The Ohio State University and has previous experience as assistant professor of mathematics at Northwestern College and as statistics manager for Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management Clinical Research.

Phone:612-625-7292
E-mail: amugglin@umn.edu

James D. (Jim) Neaton
Professor

James Neaton has research interests in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials. He leads an international HIV clinical trials group (INSIGHT) and remains in involved in clinical trials aimed at the prevention of cardiovascular disease.  He teaches a course on clinical trials.   Dr. Neaton served as Editor of Controlled Clinical Trials from 1999-2003.  He has served on several national committees and advisory panels including theU.S. Public Health Service Panel on Clinical Practices for the Treatment of HIV Infection, the Food and Drug Administration Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee, and the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on National Statistics Oversight Committee for Workshop on Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials.

Phone:612-626-9040
E-mail: neato001@umn.edu

Wei Pan
Professor

Wei Pan received a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His teaching interests include both introductory and advanced biostatistics. He is interested in statistical genetics, bioinformatics/ computational biology and data mining. He collaborates with both basic biologists and clinicians. Recently, he has been developing statistical and computational methods for analyzing SNP and next-generation sequencing data and integrating multiple types of genomic and proteomic data.

Phone:612-626-2705
E-mail: panxx014@umn.edu

Cavan Reilly
Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Cavan Reilly's primary research interests are spatial statistics and statistical genomics/bioinformatics, often using Bayesian methods. He is interested in models for point processes in the plane and applications of these methods (and others) to the statistical analysis of microscopic images. He also develops methods for analyzing microarray experiments. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Columbia University.

Phone:612-624-9644
E-mail: reill017@umn.edu

Kyle Rudser
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Kyle Rudser received his M.S. and Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Washington. He also has an appointment with the Biostatistics, Design and Analysis Center in the Office of Clinical Research. He provides statistical expertise and leadership in the design, monitoring, and analysis of projects throughout the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center.

Phone:612-626-6814
E-mail: rudser@umn.edu

William Thomas
Associate Professor

William Thomas received his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Minnesota. He works primarily in statistics education, clinical trials, statistical diagnostics, and nonparametric regression. He directs biostatistical support for the General Clinical Research Center at the University of Minnesota, and collaborates on several medical and epidemiologic studies.

Phone:612-625-0651
E-mail: thoma003@umn.edu

Julian Wolfson
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., 2009, Biostatistics, University of Washington

Julian Wolfson's research interests include causal inference, particularly as applied to problems arising from randomized trials, and prediction/variable selection in high-dimensional models.

Phone:612-625-9514
E-mail: julianw@umn.edu

Baolin Wu
Associate Professor

Baolin Wu received his Ph.D. in biostatistics from Yale University in 2004. His research interests include functional genomics, proteomics, statistical genetics, multiple hypothesis testing, and machine learning. He currently focuses on developing computational and statistical methods to help solve scientific problems in genetics and biology. He teaches categorical data analysis and biostatistics regression for public health students.

Phone:612-624-0647
E-mail: baolin@umn.edu

Karla Ballman
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Ph.D.,1991, Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Karla Ballman's interests include clinical trial design and analysis and high-dimensional data analysis. She is specifically focused on trial designs for surgical trials.

Phone:507-301-3013
E-mail: ballman.karla@mayo.edu

Mariza de Andrade
Adjunct Professor

Ph.D., 1990, Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Mariza de Andrade’s research interests include developing methods for diagnostic, longitudinal and multivariate traits for linkage analysis of quantitative phenotypes using variance components approach, and extending these methods for association studies using family and population-based data.

Phone:612-292-0903
E-mail: mdeandra@umn.edu

Brooke L. Fridley
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Statistics, Iowa State University. As a statistical geneticist, my collaborative research interests are focused on the genomic basis of complex diseases and pharmacogenomics.

Phone:507-538-3646
E-mail: bfridley@umn.edu

Birgit Grund
Associate Professor

Ph.D., 1987, Math/Statistics, Humboldt-Universitat (Berlin) Nonparametric curve estimation, smoothing methods, clinical trials and AIDS research.

Phone:612-626-8622
E-mail: birgit@umn.edu

Katherine Huppler Hullsiek
Senior Research Associate

Ph.D., 1999, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota Drug resistance issues and hepatitis coinfection for people infected with HIV, and the causal analysis of observational data using propensity score methods.

Phone:612-626-0314
E-mail: hulls003@umn.edu

Robert Leduc
Research Associate

Ph.D., 1994, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Madison Robert Leduc's research interests include clinical trials, especially in HIV research and solid organ transplantation. Robert also has an interest in problems related to missing data or losses to follow-up.

Phone:612-626-8618
E-mail: robertl@ccbr.umn.edu

Sumithra J Mandrekar
Adjunct Associate Professor

Ph.D., 2002, Interdisciplinary - Statistics, Psychology, Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Ohio State University Adaptive dose-finding trial design, designs for biomarker validation, pooled analyses, and general statistical inference.

Phone:
E-mail: Mandrekar.Sumithra@mayo.edu

David B Nelson
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ph.D., 1998, Statistics, University of Minnesota David Nelson is developing methods for inference in observational studies and model diagnostics using sufficiency and proopensity theory.

Phone:612-467-3490
E-mail: nelso096@umn.edu

Daniel J Sargent
Adjunct Professor

Ph.D.,1996, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota Clinical trial design and analysis, meta-analysis, tumor marker studies, survival analysis, and random effect models. Daniel's primary field of medical collaboration is colorectal cancer.

Phone:
E-mail: sarg0001@umn.edu

Jeffrey A Sloan
Adjunct Professor

Ph.D.,1991, Statistics, Univeristy of Manitoba Recent research activities include methods of assessing quality of life (QOL) of cancer patients and other patient-reported outcomes, determining a clinically meaningful difference in these measures.

Phone:507-289-1882
E-mail: sloan059@umn.edu

Ann M Brearley
Research Fellow

M.S., 2008, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Ph.D., 1986, Analytical Chemistry, University of Minnesota Ann Brearley is a statistical consultant with the Biostatistical Design and Analysis Center in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

Phone:612-624-4586
E-mail: brea0022@umn.edu

Cynthia Davey
Senior Research Fellow

M.S., 1998, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota Statistical consulting and analysis for school nutrition and physical activity policy and practice evaluation, group-randomized trials, community-based intervention trials.

Phone:612-626-5202
E-mail: davey002@umn.edu

Greg Grandits
Senior Research Fellow

Greg Grandits's research interests include design and analysis of clinical trials, survival analysis, and developing sofware tools in SAS for statistical report generation and other applications.

Phone:612-626-9033
E-mail: grand001@umn.edu

Susan Telke
Instructor

Susan Telke teaches several Biostatistical cores courses including PubH 6414-6415 (Biostatistical Methods I and II), PubH 6450 (Biostatistics I) and PubH7400 (Introduction to Clinical Trials). She developed the online offering of Biostatistical Methods II and Introduction to Clinical Trials. 

Phone:612-624-2636
E-mail: telke001@umn.edu