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Faculty

Dr. Matthew Mayo

Matthew S. Mayo, PhD, MBA
Chair and Professor
mmayo@kumc.edu

Research Interests:
  • Clinical Trial and Experimental Design
  • Robust Regression Methodology
Dr. Michael Brimacombe

Michael Brimacombe, PhD
Associate Professor
mbrimacombe@kumc.edu
(913) 588-4785

Research Interests:
  • Foundations of Statistics
  • Likelihood Based Statistical Methods
  • Dynamic Nonlinear Models in Biology & Ecology
  • Evolution, Genetics/Genomics
  • Clinical Applications of Biostatistics
Dr. Prabhakar Chalise

Prabhakar Chalise, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
pchalise@kumc.edu
(913) 588-4703

Research Interests:
  • Survival Analysis
  • Statistical genetics and genomics
  • Computational statistics
  • Statistical methods in Biostatistics
Dr. Francisco Diaz

Francisco Diaz, PhD
Associate Professor
fdiaz@kumc.edu
(913) 945-7006

Research Interests:
  • Bayesian feedback in drug dosage individualization
  • Statistical methods in pharmacological and medical research
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Psychometric methods
  • Mixed models
  • Longitudinal data analysis
Dr. Byron Gajewski

Byron Gajewski, PhD
Professor
Secondary in School of Nursing
bgajewski@kumc.edu
(913) 588-1603

Research Interests:
  • Bayesian data analysis
  • Bayesian modeling in health care services research
  • Bayesian latent variable modeling and psychometrics
  • Bayesian clinical trials
Dr. Jianghua (Wendy) He

Jianghua (Wendy) He, PhD
Assistant Professor
jhe@kumc.edu
(913) 588-2985

Research Interests:
  • Survival Analysis
  • Time-Varying Coefficent Survival Models
  • Meta Analysis
  • Missing Data Imputation
  • Obesity and Cardiology Research
Dr. John Keighley

John Keighley, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
jkeighle@kumc.edu
(913) 588-7391

Research Interests:
  • Applied Area - Use of Statistics in analysis and reporting of
    Cancer Registry Data
Dr. Matthew Mayo

Andrew Kramer, PhD
Adjunct Professor
akramer3@kumc.edu

Research Interests:
  • Predictive Models in Critical Care
  • Hybrid Models of Logistic Regression and CART
Dr. Jonathan Mahnken

Jonathan Mahnken, PhD
Associate Professor
jmahnken@kumc.edu
(913) 588-4703

Research Interests:
  • Power and Sample Size Calculations
  • Secondary Data Analysis
  • Multivariate Survival Analysis
Dr. Milind Phadnis

Milind Phadnis, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
mphadnis@kumc.edu
(913) 588-4703

Research Interests:
  • Survival Analysis
  • Non-parametric Regression
  • Experimental Design
  • Bayesian Survival Analysis
Dr. Randall Spoeri

Randall K. Spoeri, PhD
Adjunct Professor
rspoeri-vfa@kumc.edu
(732) 369-3282

Research Interests:
  • Analysis of Health Care Observational Data in Clinical Research
  • Performance Measurement and Improvement in Health Care Quality Managment
Dr. Vincent Staggs

Vincent Staggs, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
vstaggs@kumc.edu
(913) 588-0652

Research Interests:
  • Mixed models (linear and generalized)
  • Latent variable modeling
  • Bootstrapping
  • Mathematical statistics
  • Health services research
Dr. Russ Waitman

L. Russell Waitman, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Medical Informatics
rwaitman@kumc.edu
(913) 945-7087

Research Interests:
  • Knowledge Discovery in Databases for Health Care Quality Improvement
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Computerized Provider Order Entry
Dr. Judy Warren

Judith J. Warren, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, FACMI Christine A. Hartley Centennial Professor
Adjunct Professor
jwarren2@kumc.edu
(913) 588-4286

Research Interests:
  • Designing and Testing Data Structures That Support Nursing Data, Information, and Knowledge
  • Testing Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom and Online Classroom
  • Developing, Modeling, and Mapping Nursing Terminologies to Terminologies of Other Healthcare Disciplines to Ensure Interoperability
  • Testing Approaches for Developing Evidence-Based Practice Protocols
  • Evaluating the Use of the Electronic Patient Record as an Educational Teaching Strategy
Dr. Jo Wick

Jo A. Wick, PhD
Assistant Professor
jwick@kumc.edu
(913) 588-4790

Research Interests:
  • Bayesian Theory and Methods
  • Adaptive Clinical Trial Design
  • Risk-Benefit Assessment
  • Clinical Trials in Cancer
  • Statistics Education
Dr. Hung-Wen (Henry) Yeh

Hung-Wen (Henry) Yeh, PhD
Assistant Professor
hyeh@kumc.edu
(913) 588-0531

Research Interests:
  • Methods to Handle Missing Data and/or Variables with
    Measurement Errors
  • Longitudinal Data

Brooke Fridley, PhD
Associate Professor
bfridley@kumc.edu
(913) 588-0539


     Last modified: Dec 17, 2012