Faculty Directory
Click on a faculty member's name for more information| Name | Title | Research Interests | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Barlow | wbarlow@u.washington.edu | Research Professor (GHC/CRAB) | Survival analysis, residuals, applications to opthalmology and cancer screening. |
| Jacqueline Benedetti | jbenedet@fhcrc.org | Professor (Adjunct Medicine) | clinical trials in oncology |
| Norman Breslow | norm@u.washington.edu | Professor | Statistical methods in epidemiology, generalized linear models, childhood cancer. |
| Elizabeth Brown | elizab@u.washington.edu | Research Assistant Professor | Joint models for longitudinal and survival data; Bayesian methods in biostatistics; statistical methods in HIV/AIDS research |
| Lyndia Brumback | lynb@u.washington.edu | Research Assistant Professor | Functional data analysis; Statistical methods for cardiovascular disease research, Cystic Fibrosis clinical trials, and AIDS research. |
| Lon Cardon | lcardon@u.washington.edu | Professor | Developing and applying statistical methods, novel algorithms and specialized software to help locate genes that lead to common diseases in humans. |
| Timothy A. DeRouen | derouen@u.washington.edu | Professor (Joint: Dental Public Health Sciences) | Methods for correlated data and applications in dentistry and the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases. |
| Paula Diehr | pdiehr@u.washington.edu | Professor (Joint: Health Services) | Application of Statistics to health services research, small-area analysis, hierarchical data. |
| Scott Emerson | semerson@u.washington.edu | Professor | Clinical trials, sequential testing, survival analysis, categorical data, statistical consulting, computer intensive methods. |
| Mary Emond | emond@u.washington.edu | Research Associate Professor | Semiparametric estimation and efficiency; efficient multi-stage sampling in retrospective studies with application to large case-control studies aimed at finding gene-disease associations; statistical problems in molecular biology, particularly characterization of mutational distributions, testing for mutational hotspots and locating mutations involved in neoplastic progression. |
| Tom Fleming | fleming@seattlebiostat.com | Professor (Joint: Statistics) | Survival analysis, cancer clinical trials, AIDS research, sequential analysis. |
| Peter Gilbert | pgilbert@scharp.org | Research Associate Professor (FHCRC) | Clinical trials, HIV vaccines, survival analysis, infectious diseases, genetic sequence analysis |
| Elizabeth Halloran | betz@u.washington.edu | Professor (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) | Research encompasses a wide range of quantitative methods applied to research in infectious diseases. The research includes novel designs for evaluating vaccines in the field, dynamic mathematical models,both stochastic and deterministic, for understanding interventions in infectious diseases, and genomic approaches to understanding the immune system and response to pathogens. Use of Bayesian, likelihood and nonparametric statistical methods for inference. |
| Al Hallstrom | aph@u.washington.edu | Professor | Clinical trial methodologies, especially in cardiovascular (chronic) applications and emergency services applications. |
| Patrick Heagerty | heagerty@u.washington.edu | Professor | Regression techniques for dependent data, including marginal models and random effects models for longitudinal data, methods for categorical time series, and hierarchical models for categorical spatial data, statistical computing and applications in epidemiology and ecology. |
| Peter Hoff | hoff@stat.washington.edu | Associate Professor (Joint: Statistics) | Research Interests: nonparametric Bayesian methods, mixture models, applications in cancer research, applications in the social and behavioral sciences. |
| Jim Hughes | jphughes@u.washington.edu | Professor | Statistical methods for infectious disease research, Markov models, environmental statistics. |
| Lurdes Inoue | linoue@u.washington.edu | Assistant Professor | Bayesian methods in Biostatistics; MCMC methods; Clinical Trials; Decision Theory and Cancer Research. |
| Kathleen Kerr | katiek@u.washington.edu | Associate Professor | Statistical genetics, particularly the design and analysis of gene expression microarray experiments; experimental design. |
| Richard Kronmal | kronmal@u.washington.edu | Professor (Joint: Statistics) | Nonparametric density estimation, computer algorithms, cardiovascular data analysis, clinical trials. |
| Michael LeBlanc | mleblanc@fhcrc.org | Research Professor (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) | Tree-based methods for regression and exploratory survival analysis. Development and application of adaptive regression and classification techniques. |
| Brian Leroux | leroux@u.washington.edu | Associate Professor (Joint: Dental Public Health Sciences) | Toxicology, analysis of random effects models, stochastic processes, dental research. |
| Ira Longini | longini@scharp.org | Professor (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) | Stochastic processes, quantitative method for infectious diseases |
| Thomas Lumley | tlumley@u.washington.edu | Associate Professor | correlated data regression, clinical trials, statistical computing and graphics. |
| Barbara McKnight | bmck@u.washington.edu | Professor | Statistical methods in epidemiology, human genetics, and animal carcinogenicity testing; survival analysis. |
| Margaret Pepe | mspepe@u.washington.edu | Professor (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) | Medical diagnostic testing, Disease screening especially with biomarkers, Longitudinal data and survival analysis, Design of clinical research studies. |
| Art Peterson | avpeters@fhcrc.org | Professor (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) | Survival data methodology, competing risks, design and analysis of disease prevention trials, random number generation. |
| Ross Prentice | rprentic@whi.org | Professor (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) | Failure time analysis, disease prevention trials, epidemiologic methods, dietary factors and disease. |
| Kenneth Rice | kenrice@u.washington.edu | Assistant Professor | Bayesian methods, particularly connections between Bayesian and classical techniques; methods allowing for measurement and misclassification error; analysis of fMRI brain images; case-control studies in genetics; False Discovery Rates |
| Barbra Richardson | barbrar@u.washington.edu | Research Associate Professor | Statistical methodology for clinical trials data; analysis of data from clinical trials; statistical analysis with missing data; longitudinal data analysis; statistical methods for AIDS and STD data. |
| Steve Self | sgs@scharp.org | Professor (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) | Longitudinal data analysis, survival time models, cancer prevention and screening trials, HIV vaccine evaluation. |
| Lianne Sheppard | sheppard@u.washington.edu | Research Professor (Joint: Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences) | Observational study methods, grouping, environmental and occupational exposures. |
| Nancy Temkin | temkin@u.washington.edu | Professor (Joint: Neurological Surgery) | Clinical trials, recovery models, statistical modeling of epileptic phenomena, survival analysis. |
| Mary Lou Thompson | mlt@u.washington.edu | Research Professor | Filtered point processes, diagnostic methods, longitudinal reference ranges, maternal and child health, occupational health. |
| Pat Wahl | pwahl@u.washington.edu | Professor (Dean, SPHCM) | Multivariate statistical techniques, especially regression analysis applied to cardiovascular data. |
| Jon Wakefield | jonno@u.washington.edu | Professor (Joint: Statistics) | Bayesian methods in biostatistics and epidemiology; spatial epidemiology; ecological studies; studies of air pollution and health; pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling; genetic association studies |
| Bruce Weir | bsweir@u.washington.edu | Chair, Professor (Adjunct in Genome Sciences) | Statistical methodology for genetic data, with an emphasis on allelic dependencies, population structure, disease associations and relationships. Use of genetic data for human identification. |
| Jon Wellner | jaw@stat.washington.edu | Professor (Joint: Statistics) | Empirical processes, semiparametric models, asymptotic efficiency, survival analysis, martingales. |
| Ellen Wijsman | wijsman@u.washington.edu | Professor (Joint: Medicine) | Statistical genetics, population genetics, applications to genetic epidemiology |
| N. David Yanez | yanez@u.washington.edu | Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director | Analysis of overdispersed data, joint modeling of mean and dispersion parameters, quasi-likelihood models. |
| XH Andrew Zhou | azhou@u.washington.edu | Professor, Director of Biostatistics Unit - Seattle VA Medical Center | ROC Curve Methodology, Causal Inferences, Analysis of Skewed Distributions, Analysis of Missing Data, Diagnostic Medicine, Health Services Research, and Mental Health Research. |