Postdoctoral Fellows
Graduate Students
Research Assistants
Former members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Anamaria Savu
E-mail: savu@ualberta.ca
I am a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Yasui and his research team in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta. My research interests include the development of differential equation models, partial differential equation models and other mathematical tools to understand public health problems, in particular the epidemiology of cancer. I hold a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto and a M. Sc. in Statistics and Stochastic Processes from the University of Bucharest.
Md. Shakhawat Hossain
E-mail: mhossain@ualberta.ca
Dr. Md. Shakhawat Hossain received his Masters in Statistics from the University of Alberta in 2001 and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Windsor in 2008. He worked as a Statistician in Population Health Research Unit, Dalhousie University. He is now a Postdoctoral fellow jointly working with Dr. Marcy Winget, Alberta Cancer Board and Prof. Yutaka, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta. His research interests include statistical model selection, shrinkage and LASSO methods, survival analysis, biostatistical methods to population health research and cancer outcomes research related to patient care trajectories.
Graduate Students
Anmmd Kamruzzaman
E-mail: ank@ualberta.ca
Anmmd Kamruzzaman completed Masters in Statistics from the University of Alberta in 2004. He started his PhD program in Public Health Sciences in the University of Alberta in 2006 focusing on biostatistical methods for biomarker studies in cancer research. His research interest includes small area estimation, multilevel modeling, survival analysis, biostatistical and epidemiologic methods related to public health sciences. Kamruzzaman is from Bangladesh. Since 2004, he has been working as a surveillance analyst in Surveillance Group under the Division of Population Health and Information of Alberta Cancer Board.
Noha Sharaf El-Din
E-mail: sharafeldin.n@ualberta.ca
I graduated as a Medical Doctor in 1999 and received my Masters degree in Public Health in 2004 from Ain Shams University, Egypt. I started my PhD program in Epidemiology at University of Alberta in September 2007 under supervision of Dr. Yasui. My main research area of interest is cancer epidemiology.
Jennifer Stanger
E-mail: stanger@ualberta.ca
Jennifer Stanger started her MSc in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Alberta in September 2007. Her thesis work will examine prognostic factors, including clinical variables and DNA microarray data, in esophageal cancer. Jenn received her Medical Degree from the University of Calgary in May 2005 and is currently a resident in General Surgery at the U of A. She is completing her Masters as part of the Clinical Investigator Program, a fellowship program with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Xue Li
E-mail: xue2@ualberta.ca
Xue Li started her MPH program (course-based) in Applied Biostatistics at University of Alberta in September 2007. She received her BA Degree in China and finished a graduate program in Applied Sociology at Peking University in 2004. Xue conducted a field practicum at the Alberta Cancer Board with Dr. Marcy Winget in the summer of 2008 and continues working part time with her and Dr. Yasui on a health-services-research project of evaluating timeliness and consistency to the guidelines of cancer care.
Fei Xu
E-mail: feixu@phs.med.ualberta.ca
Dr. Fei Xu holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Hefei University of Science and Technology, China and a PhD in Agronomy from Nagoya University, Japan. Her current research focuses on applied statistics/mathematics in public health, in particular, analytic methods for cancer early-detection biomarker discovery and quantitative epidemiological methods.
Isac Lima
E-mail: isac@ualberta.ca
Isac Lima pursued his BSc degree in Statistics from the University of Brasilia in 2005. In September 2008, Isac started his MSc in Epidemiology at the University of Alberta and has been working as a part-time Research Assistant for Dr. Yasui since then. Isac has been working in different projects including statistical analyses for the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) and Alberta Health Services. Isac's research interests include the application of biostatistical and epidemiological methods in cancer studies and public health sciences. He is also interested in biomarker analysis in cancer research, survival analysis, and relative survival. His previous working experience includes working as a Data Analyst in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta.
Xuan Wu
E-mail: xwu6@ualberta.ca
Xuan Wu is a MSc student in Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health Sciences. She received her Bachelor degree of Medicine from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in 2008. Her research will focus on CCSS (Childhood Cancer Survivor Study) and biomarker study.
Mohamed El Shayeb
E-mail: elshayebm@ualberta.ca
Mohamed El Shayeb MD, MSc. student in Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, graduated From Ain Shams University Medical School in 1997, worked in clinical practice for 3 years then joined the pharmaceutical Industry in the field of clinical research mainly clinical operations and quality management. His thesis project will be with Drs. Marcy Winget and Yutaka Yasui on health services research to speed colorectal cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Wei Liu
E-mail: wl3@ualberta.ca
Wei Liu is a MSc candidate in Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health Sciences. He received his BSc in Engineering from Dalian Maritime University in 2005 and MSc of Management Engineering in Wuhan University in 2008. Wei's main research is applying statistical tools and other mathematical methods to the epidemiology problems. He is also interested in combining public health problems with other research areas.
Weihong Hu
E-mail: nkcatty@hotmail.com
Weihong is a MSc candidate of Epidemiology in the department of Public Health since 2009. She received her Bachelor degree in Sociology from Nankai University, China. Her current research interests include applying statistical method into epidemiology and public health, particularly, screening test and survival analysis in cancer study.
Weiyu Qiu
E-mail: weiyu@ualberta.ca
Weiyu Qiu is an MSc candidate in Epidemiology at department of Public Health Sciences since September, 2009. She received her BSc in Applied Mathematics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2007, and MSc in Statistics at department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in University of Alberta in 2009. Her main interests focus on applying statistical methodologies to epidemiologic and biostatistics issues, and in particular, DNA microarray data analysis will be part of her research area.
Research Assistants
Qi Liu
M.Sc in statistics
E-mail: qliu@phs.med.ualberta.ca
Qi Liu received her master degree in Statistics from the University of Alberta in 2005. She is a full-time research assistant working with Dr. Yutaka Yasui, in the department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta. Since she started working in the team on December 1st, 2005, she has worked on many projects, including more than 10 projects on childhood cancer survivor study (CCSS). The CCSS includes more than 14,000 survivors originally diagnosed between 1970 and 1986 and was established to better understand the late effects of childhood cancer survivors. Qi is also involved in the analysis of microarray data, focusing on the development and comparison of gene set analysis tools.
Yan Chen
E-mail: yanchen@med.ualberta.ca
Yan Chen received her Master of Mathematics degree in Biostatistics from University of Waterloo in 2007. She works as a full-time research assistant with Yutaka in the Depertment of Public Health Sciences on microarray data analysis, proteomics data analysis, Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, and other health science projects.
Former members
Irina Dinu (Currently Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Alberta)
E-mail: idinu@ualberta.ca
I am an assistant professor in the School of Public Health, University of Alberta. I received a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1999, from University of Bucharest, Romania, and a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from University of Alberta. I was an AHFMR Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Yasui in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, from September 2005 to November 2007.
My main research focus is to develop biostatistical tools for analysis of microarray data. The microarray technology measures expression profiles of tens of thousands of genes in a single assay. This new technology has brought not only tremendous promises in clinical and biological sciences, allowing "technology-driven" explorations of disease markers and pathways, that were previously unthinkable, but also data-analytic challenges due to the complexity and high-dimensionality of its data. Here at University of Alberta, our biostatistics research team is collaborating with Dr. Phil Halloran's Laboratory to develop analytical methods for the analysis of organ transplant microarray data ( http://transplants.med.ualberta.ca ).
I enjoy collaborating with scientists at the Glenrose Hospital in the area of Outcomes / Health Services Research. Other collaborative projects include Late Effects of Childhood Cancer and its Therapy (The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study http://www.cancer.umn.edu/ltfu).
Adeniyi Adewale (Currently Biometrician at Merck Research Laboratories: Merck & Co, Inc)
E-mail: aadewale@ualberta.ca
Dr. Adewale holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mathematics from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria and a PhD in Statistics from University of Alberta in 2006. He was an AHFMR (Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research) postdoctoral fellow with the Yasui Biostatistics Research Team, School of Public Health, University of Alberta from October 2006 to December 2007. His research interests include the development of biostatistical methods for design and analysis of microarray experiments, issues in robust design and analysis of experiments (in particular, clinical trials). He has interest in collaborating with other scientists bringing to bear his experience in study design and analysis. Dr. Adewale left for Merck Research Laboratories (Merck & Co, Inc) in December 2007 where he works as a Biometrician.
Suwen Li (Currently Statistical Programmer/Analyst at Cangene)
E-mail: lisuwen123@hotmail.com
In 2005, Suwen graduated with Honors with BA in Actuarial Science from Concordia University . He received Master of Science degree in Biostatistics from University of Toronto in 2006. He is a certified advanced SAS programmer. He worked with Dr. Yasui from August 2006 to August 2007 as a full-time research assistant. He worked in Eli Lily and is currently working as a Statistical Programmer/Analyst at Cangene.