Faculty and Staff of the Department of Biostatistics | News

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Faculty | by Specialty | by Track

Name	Position	Starting Date in Dept	University
		(in parens = start date as faculty)		edit
YuShyr, PhD	Professor	Sep 2003	Michigan	edit
William D. Dupont, PhD	Professor	Sep 2003	Johns Hopkins	edit
Frank E. Harrell, Jr., PhD	Professor	Sep 2003	North Carolina	edit
Jonathan S. Schildcrout, PhD	Professor	Sep 2004	Washington	edit
BryanShepherd, PhD	Professor	Sep 2005	Washington	edit
TatsukiKoyama, PhD	Professor	Sep 2003	Pittsburgh	edit
DanAyers, MS	Senior Associate	Sep 2006	Louisiana State	edit
RobertGreevy, PhD	Professor	Sep 2004	Wharton, UPenn	edit
Qingxia (Cindy) Chen, PhD	Professor	Sep 2005	North Carolina	edit
LeenaChoi, PhD	Professor	Sep 2005	Johns Hopkins	edit
FeiYe, PhD	Professor	May 2006	South Carolina	edit
ChrisSlaughter, DrPH	Associate Professor	Aug 2007	North Carolina	edit
MattShotwell, PhD	Associate Professor	Jan 2011	Medical University of South Carolina	edit
HakmookKang, PhD	Associate Professor	July 2011	Brown University	edit
DandanLiu, PhD	Associate Professor	Nov 2011	University of Michigan	edit
MarioDavidson, PhD	Associate Professor	Nov 2007	The Ohio State University	edit
Rameela Raman, PhD	Associate Professor	Nov 2011	SUNY at Buffalo	edit
YuweiZhu, MS, MD	Senior Associate in Biostatistics	Jan 2004	U Texas Houston	edit
HeidiChen, PhD	Research Associate Professor	Apr 2004	North Carolina State	edit
AmberHackstadt, PhD	Assistant Professor	Aug 2015	Colorado State University	edit
TebebGebretsadik, MPH	Senior Associate in Biostatistics	Nov 2003	UC Berkeley	edit
Robert E. Johnson, PhD	Associate Professor	Aug 2012	North Carolina	edit
Yaomin Xu, PhD	Assistant Professor	May 2014	Case Western Reserve	edit
RanTao, PhD	Associate Professor	Nov 2016	North Carolina	edit
Simon Vandekar, PhD	Associate Professor	July 2018	University of Pennsylvania	edit
Andrew Spieker, PhD	Assistant Professor	Sep 2018	University of Washington	edit
Lauren Samuels, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	Jan 2017	Vanderbilt	edit
DerekSmith, DDS, PhD	Assistant Professor	Jan 2017	Vanderbilt	edit
Gustavo Amorim, PhD	Assistant Professor	Dec 2018	University of Auckland, New Zealand	edit
HuiNian, MS	Assistant in Biostatistics	Sep 2010	Oregon State	edit
Amir Asiaee, PhD	Assistant Professor	Aug 2021	University of Minnesota	edit
Sheau-Chiann Chen, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	Aug 2013 (Jan 2022)	National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan	edit
Jinyuan Liu, PhD	Assistant Professor	July 2022	University of California, San Diego	edit
Siyuan Ma, PhD	Assistant Professor	Sep 2022	Harvard University	edit
Shawn Garbett, MS	Assistant in Biostatistics	Mar 2016 (Dec 2019)	Penn State	edit
Panpan Zhang, PhD	Assistant Professor	Sep 2022	George Washington University	edit
Jing Wang, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	2017 (Apr 2019)	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	edit
Alex Zhao, MS	Assistant in Biostatistics	Jul 2008	University of Iowa	edit
Liping Du, PhD	Assistant in Biostatistics	2013 (Jan 2018)	Vanderbilt University	edit
Jing Yang, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	Jul 2023	East China University of Science and Technology/ Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences	edit
Bryan Blette,PhD	Assistant Professor	Jul 2023	North Carolina	edit
Qingyan Xiang	Assistant Professor	Oct 2024	Boston University	edit

Secondary & Adjunct Faculty

Name	Position	Starting Date in Dept	University	Primary Appointment
BradleyMalin, Ph.D.	Professor	November 2016	Carnegie Mellon University	Vanderbilt, DBMI	edit
IreneFeurer, Ph.D.	Research Professor	May 2004	University of Pennsylvania	Vanderbilt, Surgery	edit
Yang Liu, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	2023	U Southern California	Vanderbilt, Medicine (Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care	edit
RafeDonahue, PhD	Adjunct Associate Professor	Aug 2005	Colorado State University		edit
Karel G.M. Moons, M.D., Ph.D.	Adjunct Professor	2005	Erasmus	University Medical Center Utrecht	edit
PingshengWu, M.S., Ph.D.	Research Professor	Aug 2006	University of Kentucky	Vanderbilt, Medicine	edit
MaryDietrich, Ph.D.	Professor	Jul 2007	Vanderbilt University	Vanderbilt, Nursing	edit
MichaelMatheny, M.D.	Associate Professor	June 2010	University of Kentucky	Vanderbilt, DBMI	edit
BenSaville, PhD	Adjunct Associate Professor	Jul 2014	North Carolina	Berry Consultants	edit
ChrisFonnesbeck, PhD	Adjoint Associate Professor	Jun 2010	Georgia	Philadelphia Phillies	edit
Paul Harris, PhD	Professor		Vanderbilt University	Vanderbilt, DBMI	edit
Jacquelyn Pennings, PhD	Research Associate Professor	2022	Texas Christian	Vanderbilt, Orthopaedic Surgery	edit
Vikram Tiwari, PhD	Associate Professor		Indiana University	Vanderbilt, Anesthesiology	edit
Peter Rebeiro, PhD	Assistant Professor		Johns Hopkins	Vanderbilt, Medicine (Epidemiology)	edit
Yong Deng, PhD	Adjunct Professor	2018	Shanghai Jiao Tong U	UESTC	edit
Chao-Han Lai, MD, PhD	Adjoint Professor	2019	National Cheng Kung University	NCKU	edit
Pei-Ying Emily Lin, MD, PhD	Adjoint Associate Professor	2020	TMU/NYMU/Academia Sinica	Taipei Medical University	edit
Ayumi Shintani, PhD	Adjunct Professor	2018	Yale	Osaka Metropolitan University	edit
Thomas Stewart, PhD	Adjoint Professor	2022	North Carolina	Virginia	edit

Staff Biostatisticians

Name	Position	Starting Date in Dept	University
CathyJenkins, M.S.	Biostatistician IV	Apr 2005	North Carolina	edit
LiWang, M.S.	Biostatistician IV	Oct 2007	University of Georgia	edit
SamuelNwosu, M.S.	Biostatistician IV	Jan 2008	Middle Tennessee State University	edit
YapingShi, M.S.	Biostatistician IV	Oct 2008	The University of Iowa	edit
AihuaBian, M.P.H	Biostatistician III	Apr 2009	University of Texas Southwestern	edit
MengXu, M.S.	Biostatistician IV	May 2013	University of Idaho	edit
HenryDomenico, M.S.	Biostatistician IV	Sep 2010	Purdue	edit
TanDing, M.S.	Biostatistician II	Jul 2015	University of Georgia	edit
AmyPerkins, M.S.	Biostatistician III	Sep 2015	University of Pittsburgh	edit
RunFan PhD, M.S.	Biostatistician III	Sep 2015	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine	edit
Xiaoke Feng, M.S.	Biostatistician II	Feb 2018	University of Texas at Dallas	edit
JoshDeClercq, M.S.	Biostatistician II	June 2018	Vanderbilt University	edit
Elizabeth McNeer, M.S.	Biostatistician II	July 2018	Vanderbilt University	edit
OnurOrun, M.S.	Biostatistician II	Feb 2019	Colorado State University	edit
HeatherPrigmore, M.P.H.	Biostatistician II	Apr 2019	Texas A&M University	edit
ZhihongYu, M.S. PhD	Biostatistician II	Jan 2020	Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis	edit

Titles here are from a few years back. They are up to date on the department website, analytical staff page: https://www.vumc.org/biostatistics/person/analyticalresearch-staff

Lead biostatistician was added as a biostatistician rank in December 2021, with Cathy Jenkins as the first staff member promoted to that tier.

Biostatistician IV = Principal biostatistician

Biostatistician III = Senior biostatistician

Biostatistician II = Biostatistician

IT Staff

Name	Position	Starting Date in Dept	Degree	University
DalePlummer	Manager, Application Development	May 1981	BS, Computer Science	Vanderbilt	edit
ZhouwenLiu	Sr. Application Developer	Dec 2003	MS	Middle Tennessee State	edit
ColeBeck	Sr. Application Developer	Jan 2004	BS, Computer Science	Lipscomb University	edit
CharlesDupont	Associate Application Developer	Apr 2005	BS	Rensselaer Polytech	edit
Milad Abbasi	Cloud Computing Developer	Jun 2022	MS, Computer Engineering	University of California, Irvine	edit
Dean Gibson	Sr. IT Project Manager	Feb 2021	MS, Computer Science	George Washington University	edit
Will Gray	Principal Application Developer	Jun 2004	BS, Computer Science and Mathematics	Lipscomb University	edit
James Grindstaff	Application Developer	Feb 2019	BS, Computer Science	East Tennessee State	edit
Savannah Obregon	Application Developer	June 2021	BS, Information Technology Management	Lipscomb University	edit
Bashar Shakhtour	Principal System Administrator	Dec 1999	BS, Computer Science	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	edit
Bart Sharp	Senior Quality Assurance Analyst	Feb 2016	BA, Commercial Music and Music Business	Belmont University	edit
Jubilee Tan	Application Developer	Mar 2016	MS, Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering	National Cheng Kung University	edit
Hui Wu	Application Developer	Mar 2013	PhD, Engineering	Louisiana Tech	edit
Vinni Yenukonda	Quality Assurance Analyst	Nov 2021	BTech, Computer Science Engineering	IFHE University	edit

E-mail Lists

These will be replaced by 2025 with CollabHub, Adestra, etc. as VUMC phases out LISTSERV. Peg is working on the transition plan.

List Name	Definition
biostat-admin	Biostatistics administrative staff in 2525 WEA	edit
biostat-all	biostat-staff + biostat-fac + biostat-student + biostat-postdoc + cos-managed	edit
biostat-clinic	Clinic notification	edit
biostat-execfac	Executive faculty committee	edit
biostat-exempt	Exempt staff	edit
biostat-fac	biostat-phdfac + biostat-msfac	edit
biostat-facalloc	Allocations Committee	edit
biostat-it	Biostatistics IT staff in 2525 WEA	edit
biostat-msfac	other faculty (senior MS level etc)	edit
biostat-mssc	MS search committee	edit
biostat-msstaff	MS-level biostatisticians without faculty appointments	edit
biostat-phdfac	assistant professors and up (overlaps with execfac)	edit
biostat-rstaff	all staff other than admin, cs, msstaff	edit
biostat-secfac	secondary faculty	edit
biostat-staff	biostat-admin + biostat-it + biostat-msstaff + biostat-rstaff	edit
biostat-students	All MS and PhD students in our department	edit
biostat-supervisors	Supervisors in the Dept of Biostatistics	edit
biostat-adj	Adjunct/adjoint faculty	edit
biostat-rfac	Research track faculty	edit

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