Faculty

Sudipto Banerjee, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
A430 Mayo Building, (612) 624-0624
e-mail: sudiptob@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~sudiptob

Ph.D., 2000, Statistics, University of Connecticut
Modeling spatial data with emphasis on misalignment, modeling spatial interactions, investigation of smoothness properties of spatial processes; prediction, interpolation and regression methods for misaligned datasets.

Saonli Basu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
A448 Mayo Building, (612) 624-2135
e-mail: saonli@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~saonli

PhD, 2005, Statistics, University of Washington
Stochastic modeling, statistical genetics, computational statistics. She is particularly interested in developing statistical methods and software tools for mapping genes influencing complex traits.

Tracy L. Bergemann, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
A448 Mayo Building, (612) 625-9142
e-mail: berge319@umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~tracyb

Ph.D., 2004, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Image analysis and spatial statistics, methods to describe signal quality from cDNA microarrays, methods for analysis of microarray data, genetic epidemiology, haplotype modeling.

Bradley P. Carlin, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
A427 Mayo Building, (612) 624-6646
e-mail: brad@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~brad

Ph.D., 1989, Statistics, University of Connecticut
Statistical applications in AIDS research, clinical trial monitoring, longitudinal studies, spatial and spatiotemporal disease mapping, spatial boundary analysis, Bayes and empirical Bayes methodology, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods

John E. Connett, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and Division Head
A464 Mayo Building and
2221 University Avenue #200, (612 ) 626-9010
e-mail: john-c@ccbr.umn.edu
www.biostat.umn.edu/~ john-c/john-c.homepage.html

Ph.D., 1969, Mathematics, University of Maryland
Clinical trials in cardiovascular disease, ophthalmology and pulmonary disease, case-control studies, estimation of odds ratio, random effects models, coefficient-of-variation models for laboratory data, and statistical computing.

Lynn E. Eberly, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
A465 Mayo Building, (612) 624-1436
e-mail: lynn@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~lynn

Ph.D., 1997, Statistics, Cornell University
Methods for correlated data, including time-to-event, clustered, and longitudinal data; clinical/intervention trials, environmental exposure studies, pharmaceopidemiology, and related applications; Bayesian inference using Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques.

Patricia M. Grambsch, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
A466 Mayo Building, (612) 624-0418
e-mail: gramb001@umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~pat

Ph.D., 1980, Statistics, University of Minnesota
Stochastic processes, survival analysis, and clinical trials.

Hongfei Guo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
A420 Mayo Building, (612) 626-9280
e-mail: hfguo@umn.edu

Ph.D., 2006, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Multivariate data analysis, statistical methods and analysis for longitudinal data and survival data, design and analysis of clinical trials, and application of Bayes methods to clinical research.

Tim Hanson
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
A444 Mayo Building, (612) 626-7075
e-mail: hanson@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~hanson

Ph.D., 2000, Statistics, University of California at Davis
Development of Bayesian nonparametric priors with application to survival models, longitudinal data models, diagnostic test accuracy assessment, stochastic ordering, and generalized linear mixed models.

James Hodges, PhD
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
2221 University Avenue SE, Suite 200, (612) 626-9626
e-mail: hodges@ccbr.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~hodges

Ph.D., 1985, Statistics, University of Minnesota
Jim collaborates with researchers at the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research (CCDOR) at the Minneapolis Veterans' Affairs Medical Center and at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, and with various investigators in the University's Academic Health Center. Over the years he has worked with researchers in dentistry, AIDS, gastroenterology, demographics, wildlife management, ornithology, horticulture, combat analysis, military logistics, simulation models, airport safety, and marketing. His statistical research is in hierarchical and other richly-parameterized models.

Chap T. Le, PhD
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Biostatistics
A441 Mayo Building, (612) 624-9963
e-mail: chap@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~chap

Ph.D., 1978, Statistics, University of New Mexico
Epidemiologic methods, cross-over designs, suvival analysis, correlated binary data, ordered alternatives, and ROC curves.

Na (Michael) Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
A443 Mayo Building, (612) 626-4765
e-mail: nali@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~nali

Ph.D., 2003, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, stochastic processes and statistical computing.

Xianghua Luo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
A455 Mayo Building, (612) 624-2158
e-mail: xianghua@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~xianghua

Ph.D., 2005, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Development and application of nonparametric and semiparametric methods for recurrent event survival data. Application of longitudinal and survival methods on cancer research, HIV studies, gerontological studies, and youth behavioral studies.

Andrew Mugglin, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics
2221 University Avenue SE, Suite 200, (612) 625-7292
e-mail:andy@ccbr.umn.edu

Ph.D., 1999, Biostatistics, University of Minnesota
Clinical trials, especially in cardiovascular medical device applications; Bayesian and other innovative clinical trials design; Bayesian hierarchical modeling, spatio-temporal modeling, and computing.

James D. Neaton, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
2221 University Avenue SE, Suite 200, (612) 626-9040
e-mail: jim@ccbr.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~jim

Ph.D., 1984, Biometry, University of Minnesota
Design and conduct of clinical trials and the application of statistical models to the analysis of data arising from intervention studies.

Wei Pan, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
A428 Mayo Building, (612) 626-2705
e-mail: weip@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~weip

Ph.D., 1997, Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Survival analysis, correlated response data analysis, bioinformatics, and computing

Cavan Reilly, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
A440 Mayo Building, (612) 624-9644
e-mail: cavanr@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~cavanr

Ph.D., 2000, Statistics, Columbia University
Bayesian statistics-modeling and computiation, spatial statistics, and bioinformatics

William Thomas, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
A467 Mayo Building, (612) 625-0651
e-mail: will@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~will

Ph.D., 1987, Statistics, University of Minnesota
Statistics education, statistical diagnostics and nonparametric regression, compliance in epidemiological and clinical trials.

Melanie M. Wall, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
A426 Mayo Building, (612) 625-2138
e-mail: melanie@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~melanie

Ph.D., 1998, Statistics, Iowa State University
Latent variable modeling, structural equation modeling, geostatistical and lattice spatial data analysis.

Baolin Wu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
A442 Mayo Building, (612) 624-0647
e-mail: baolin@biostat.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~baolin

Ph.D., 2004, Biostatistics, Yale University
Computational biology, proteomics, statistical genetics, multiple hypothesis testing, and machine learning.

Graduate Faculty Members

Susan Duval, PhD
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, (612) 624-3392
e-mail: duval@epi.umn.edu
www.epi.umn.edu/epi_pages/people/duval.html

Ph.D., 1999, Analytic Health Sciences (Biometrics), University of Colorado
Statistical methods in epidemiology, meta-analysis methodology and related applications, publication bias, statistical consulting and cardiovascular epidemiology.

Birgit Grund, PhD
Associate Professor of Statistics
383 Ford Hall, (612) 624-8076
2221 University Avenue SE, Suite 200, (612) 626-8622
e-mail: birgit@umn.edu

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

Katherine Huppler Hullsiek, PhD
Research Associate, Biostatistics
2221 University Avenue SE, Suite 200, (612) 626-0314
e-mail: kathy-h@ccbr.umn.edu
http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~kathy-h

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.

Robert Leduc, PhD
Research Associate, Biostatistics
2221 University Avenue SE, Suite 200, (612) 626-8618
e-mail: robertl@ccbr.umn.edu

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

David Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Senior Statistician, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research
Minneapolis VA Medical Center

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. He also is interested in stepwise Bayes methods for finite population sampling and nonparametric statistical analysis.

Judith Punyko, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Room 300 WBOB, 1300 S 2nd St, (612)624-0419
e-mail: puny0002@umn.edu

Ph.D., 2004, Epidemiology, University of Minnesota

Daniel Sargent, PhD
Associate Academic Advisor, Biostatistics
Director, Cancer Center Statistics, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Kahler 1A, Mayo Clinic
200 1st St SW
Rochester, MN 55905

e-mail: sargent.daniel@mayo.edu
Sargent's home page

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.

Teaching Instructors