Lily Wang
Associate Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 2525 West End, Ste. 11000 Nashville, TN 37203
lily.wang@vanderbilt.edu phone: (615) 343-3856 fax: (615) 343-4924
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Work Experience
Associate Professor (with tenure) 2012 - Present
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Assistant Professor 2004 – 2012
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Education
PhD in Biostatistics 2004
School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Some Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Genomic Sequences
(manuscript) Advisor: Dr Pranab K Sen
MS in Biostatistics 2000
School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Advisor: Dr Gary G Koch
BA in Mathematics 1998
School of Arts and Sciences, Temple University
Research Interests
- Clinical trials
- Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Immunology
- Integrative Analysis of Genome-wide Studies
- Pathway Analysis
- Statistical Models of Correlated Data, repeated measures
- Mixed-Effects Models
- Models for Extremal Events; Extreme Value Theory
- Models for Mixture Distributions
Software
RNA-Seq data analysis
SplineAdjust
SOURCE_CODE.zip
GWAS pathway analysis example dataset:
geneset.xls source code:
GWAS_PATHWAY.sas design matrix.docx
Projects
Department of Neurology (Report) Kennedy Center for Human Development (Report) The Vanderbilt Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research (Report)
Omics Projects
Clinical Trials
- Effects of Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Epilepsy. A Multicenter, randomized, double-blind, Phase II trial. PI: Dr Beth Malow.
- Melatonin for Sleep in Children with Autism: Safety, Tolerability, and Dosing. A dose titration Phase II trial. PI: Dr Beth Malow.
- Safety and Tolerability of Neurostimulation in Early State Parkinson’s Disease. A prospective, randomized, blinded, single-center phase II pilot trial. PI: Dr David Charles.
- Long-term follow-up of deep brain stimulation for early stage Parkinson’s disease. PI: Dr David Charles.
Resources for Collaborative Research
Departmental Policies on Collaboration, Consulting and Grants (Policy)Biostatistics Clinics (Clinics) How to Prepare Data for Statisticians (courtesy of Daniel W. Byrne, Senior Associate in Biostatistics)
10DataEntryCommandments.doc spreadsheetfromheaven.xls Spreadsheetfromhell.xls datadictionary.xls (courtesy of Dr Paul Harris)
Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap)