Dandan Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
E-mail: dandan dot liu at vanderbilt dot edu Phone: 615-322-8318 Fax: 615-343-4924 Office: 11135	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics 2525 West End, Ste. 11000 Nashville, TN 37203

Research Interests

• Event history data analysis
• Risk prediction, diagnostic and predictive accuracy measures
• Applications in cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease and cancer disease
• Statistical methods in Implementation studies

Collaboration

• Emergency Department Collaboration
• Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center

Education

• PhD, Biostatistics 2010 University of Michigan
• MA, Statistics 2005 University of Missouri-Columbia
• BS, Applied Mathematics 2002 Fudan University, China

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor 2011 - present
  Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2010 - 2011
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Selected Publications

1. Passiak BS, Liu D, Kresge HA, Cambronero FE, Pechman KR, Osborn KE, Gifford KA, Hohman TJ, Schrag MS, Davis LT, et al. Perivascular spaces contribute to cognition beyond other small vessel disease markers. Neurology, 2019, 92(12):e1309–e1321.

2. Self WH, Liu D, Strayer N, Russ S, Ward MJ, Shapiro NI, Rice TW, and Semler MW. Charge reductions associated with shorter time to recovery in septic shock. Chest, 2019, 155(2): 315-321.

3. Liu D, Cai T, Lok A, and Zheng Y. Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimators of time-dependent accuracy measures for survival outcome under two-stage sampling designs. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018, 113(522):882–892.

4. Jefferson AL, Cambronero FE, Liu D, Moore EE, Neal JE, Terry JG, Nair S, Pechman KR, Rane S, Davis LT, et al. Higher aortic stiffness is related to lower cerebral blood flow and preserved cerebrovascular reactivity in older adults. Circulation, 2018, 138(18):1951–1962

5. Liu D , Zheng Y, Prentice RL and Hsu L (2014) Projecting Population Risk with Time-to-Event Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association , 109: 514-524

6. Liu, D , Kalbfleisch, JD and Schaubel, DE (2014) Methods for Estimating Center Effects on Recurrent Events. Statistics in Bioscience , 6: 19-37

7. Liu, D , Cai, T and Zheng, Y (2012) Evaluating the Predictive Value of Biomarkers with Stratified Case-Cohort Design. Biometrics , 68: 1219-1227

8. Liu, D , Schaubel, DE and Kalbfleisch, JD (2012) Computationally Efficient Marginal Models for Clustered Recurrent Event Data. Biometrics , 68: 637-647

9. Liu, D , Kalbfleisch, JD and Schaubel, DE (2011) A Positive Stable Frailty Model for Clustered Failure Time Data with Covariate Dependent Frailty. Biometrics , 67: 8-17

10. Sun, J , Sun, L and Liu, D (2007) Regression Analysis of Longitudinal Data in the Presence of Informative Censoring and Observation Times. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102: 1397-1406. code