Faculty

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

• Clinical Trial and Experimental Design
• Robust Regression Methodology

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

• Foundations of Statistics
• Likelihood Based Statistical Methods
• Dynamic Nonlinear Models in Biology & Ecology
• Evolution, Genetics/Genomics
• Clinical Applications of Biostatistics

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

• Survival Analysis
• Statistical genetics and genomics
• Computational statistics
• Statistical methods in Biostatistics

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

• Bayesian feedback in drug dosage individualization
• Statistical methods in pharmacological and medical research
• Clinical epidemiology
• Psychometric methods
• Mixed models
• Longitudinal data analysis

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

• Bayesian data analysis
• Bayesian modeling in health care services research
• Bayesian latent variable modeling and psychometrics
• Bayesian clinical trials

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

• Survival Analysis
• Time-Varying Coefficent Survival Models
• Meta Analysis
• Missing Data Imputation
• Obesity and Cardiology Research

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

• Applied Area - Use of Statistics in analysis and reporting of
  Cancer Registry Data

Andrew Kramer, PhD
Adjunct Professor
akramer3@kumc.edu

• Predictive Models in Critical Care
• Hybrid Models of Logistic Regression and CART

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

• Power and Sample Size Calculations
• Secondary Data Analysis
• Multivariate Survival Analysis

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

• Survival Analysis
• Non-parametric Regression
• Experimental Design
• Bayesian Survival Analysis

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

• Analysis of Health Care Observational Data in Clinical Research
• Performance Measurement and Improvement in Health Care Quality Managment

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

• Mixed models (linear and generalized)
• Latent variable modeling
• Bootstrapping
• Mathematical statistics
• Health services research

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

• Knowledge Discovery in Databases for Health Care Quality Improvement
• Decision Support Systems
• Computerized Provider Order Entry

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

• 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

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

• Bayesian Theory and Methods
• Adaptive Clinical Trial Design
• Risk-Benefit Assessment
• Clinical Trials in Cancer
• Statistics Education

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

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

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