Fatima Mahmud

Fatima
Mahmud
VN-Biostat Fellow (2024 - 2025)
Office Address
2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100
Nashville
Tennessee
37203

PhD, Epidemiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Primary appointment: Project Coordinator and Researcher, Africa Center for Excellence for Population Health Policy, Bayero University, Kano

Research interests include: infectious diseases, health systems, health equity, global health, evidence-informed decision-making

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Habeebah Kakudi

Habeebah
Kakudi
VN-Biostat Fellow, 2024 - 2025
Office Address
2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
habeebah.kakudi@vumc.org

PhD, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), University of Malaya

Primary appointment: Senior Lecturer, Bayero University, Kano

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Jo-Ying Hung

Jo-Ying
Hung
Visiting Research Scholar, 2024 - 2025
Office Address
2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100
Room / Suite
11138F
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
jo-ying.hung@vumc.org

PhD candidate, Statistics, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)

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Vanderbilt Biostatistics at JSM 2024

Peg Duthie, senior program manager
July 17, 2024
The 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings, which convene in Portland, Oregon, from August 3 through August 8, are expected to bring together more than five thousand attendees from fifty-two countries, with the theme of "Statistics and data science: Informing policy and countering misinformation." We are proud of the department members, trainees, and alumni who will be sharing their work and ideas with colleagues from around the world, as well as participating in assorted research and professional service activities.

Yajing Li promoted to senior biostatistician

Peg Duthie, senior program manager
July 3, 2024
headshot Yajing Li (woman with long black hair in long-sleeved shirt)
We are pleased to announce the promotion of Yajing Li to senior biostatistician, in effect as of June 28. Li earned a bachelor's degree in statistics at East China Normal University in Shanghai, followed by her MS in statistics at the University of Michigan.

Yuqi Tian

Yuqi
Tian
PhD, 2022

Winner of the 2021 W. S. Gosset Award for Exceptional Research.

Publications include:

Tian Y, Li C, Tu S, James NT, Harrell FE, Shepherd BE. Addressing Multiple Detection Limits with Semiparametric Cumulative Probability Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 2024;119(546):864–874. Epub 2024 Apr 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2024.2315667

Li C, Tian Y, Zeng D, Shepherd BE. Asymptotic Properties for Cumulative Probability Models for Continuous Outcomes. Mathematics (Basel). 2023 Dec 2;11(24):4896. doi: 10.3390/math11244896. Epub 2023 Dec 7. PMID: 38374966; PMCID: PMC10875740.

Tian Y, Shepherd BE, Li C, Zeng D, Schildcrout JS. Analyzing clustered continuous response variables with ordinal regression models. Biometrics. 2023 Dec;79(4):3764-3777. doi: 10.1111/biom.13904. Epub 2023 Jul 17. PMID: 37459181; PMCID: PMC10792095.

Audet CM, Pettapiece-Phillips M, Tian Y, Shepherd BE, Vermund SH, Salato J. "If it weren't for my traditional healer, I would be dead": Engaging traditional healers to support people living with HIV in rural Mozambique. PLoS One. 2022 Jun 28;17(6):e0270565. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270565. PMID: 35763519; PMCID: PMC9239464.

Tian Y, Hothorn T, Li C, Harrell FE Jr, Shepherd BE. An empirical comparison of two novel transformation models. Stat Med. 2020 Feb 28;39(5):562-576. doi: 10.1002/sim.8425. Epub 2019 Dec 6. PMID: 31808976; PMCID: PMC7537829.

 

Dissertation: Semiparametric Cumulative Probability Models for Skewed, Censored, and Clustered Continuous Response Data

Advisor: Bryan Shepherd

BS, Statistics, Xiamen University

At Pinterest since 2024. Currently Data Scientist.

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Cara Lwin promoted to biostatistician

Peg Duthie, senior program manager
June 20, 2024
We are pleased to announce the promotion of Cara Lwin to biostatistician, in effect as of June 1. Lwin earned a bachelor's degree in microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017, with minors in chemistry, computer science, neuroscience, and economics, followed by three years as a senior research associate at eyeGENE and the Ophthalmic Genetics Laboratory at the National Eye Institute.

Afan Swan promoted to senior research data specialist

Peg Duthie, senior program manager
June 18, 2024
We are delighted to announce the promotion of Afan Swan to senior research data specialist, in effect as of June 1. Swan earned a bachelor's degree in microbiology and master's degree in public health from the University of Alabama, joining our department in 2021 as a health services research analyst.
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