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Nicholas J. Ollberding, PhD


  • Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
  • UC Department of Rehabilitation, Exercise, and Nutrition Sciences

About

Biography

Nicholas Ollberding is an epidemiologist with applied research interests into the role of diet in the etiology and progression of chronic disease and the impact of the developing infant intestinal microbiome on growth and early development. Areas of methodical research interest include the application and development of analytical methods for microbial metagenomic next-generation sequence data, dietary assessment and analysis methodology, predictive modeling, and casual inference. He also collaborates broadly as a quantitative methodologist in the area of health sciences research and leads the Biostatistics Core of the Heart Institute Research Core and the Microbial Metagenomics Analysis Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

PhD: Columbia University, New York, 2009.

MPhil: Columbia University, New York, 2009.

MS: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2008.

BS: Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2004.

Interests

Nutritional epidemiology; microbial metagenomics; quantitative methods; dietary assessment and analysis methodology

Research Areas

Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Publications

A decentralized delivery program for rheumatic heart disease treatment and prevention in Uganda. Nakagaayi, D; Pulle, J; Otim, I; Akiya, OC; Otto, OH; Danforth, K; Longenecker, CT; Ollberding, N; Sarnacki, R; Nakitto, M; et al. Nature Medicine. 2024; 30:12-13.

Time to Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Initiation and 90-Day Major Adverse Kidney Events in Children and Young Adults. Gist, KM; Menon, S; Anton-Martin, P; Bigelow, AM; Cortina, G; Deep, A; De La Mata-Navazo, S; Gelbart, B; Gorga, S; Guzzo, I; et al. JAMA Network Open. 2024; 7:e2349871.

Ventricular global function index is associated with clinical outcomes in pediatric pulmonary hypertension. Ta, HT; Critser, PJ; Schäfer, M; Ollberding, NJ; Taylor, MD; Di Maria, MV; Hirsch, R; Ivy, DD; Frank, BS. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2023; 25:39.

Microbiota-derived butyrate dampens linaclotide stimulation of the guanylate cyclase C pathway in patient-derived colonoids. Velez Lopez, A; Waddell, A; Antonacci, S; Castillo, D; Santucci, N; Ollberding, NJ; Eshleman, EM; Denson, LA; Alenghat, T. Neurogastroenterology and Motility. 2023; 35:e14681.

Biomarker-based risk model to predict persistent multiple organ dysfunctions after congenital heart surgery: a prospective observational cohort study. Benscoter, AL; Alten, JA; Atreya, MR; Cooper, DS; Byrnes, JW; Nelson, DP; Ollberding, NJ; Wong, HR. Critical Care (UK). 2023; 27:193.

Acute pancreatitis is associated with gut dysbiosis in children. Dike, C; Ollberding, N; Thompson, T; Kotha, N; Minar, P; Vitale, D; Lin, T; Nasr, A; Denson, L; Haslam, D; et al. Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.]. 2023; 23:e3-e4.

Evaluating the implementation of a dynamic digital application to enable community-based decentralisation of rheumatic heart disease case management in Uganda: protocol for a hybrid type III effectiveness-implementation study. Minja, NW; Pulle, J; Rwebembera, J; De Loizaga, SR; Fall, N; Ollberding, N; Abrams, J; Atala, J; Kamarembo, J; Oyella, L; et al. BMJ Open. 2023; 13:e071540.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation bridge to pediatric lung transplantation: Modern era analysis. Koh, W; Zang, H; Ollberding, NJ; Ziady, A; Hayes, D. Pediatric Transplantation. 2023; 27:e14570.

Extracardiac Findings on Cardiac Magnetic Resonance: A Children's Hospital Experience. Trussell, TM; Kocaoglu, M; Fleck, RJ; Taylor, MD; Zang, H; Ollberding, NJ; Lang, SM. Pediatric Cardiology. 2023; 44:1201-1208.

Worldwide Exploration of Renal Replacement Outcomes Collaborative in Kidney Disease (WE-ROCK). Menon, S; Krallman, KA; Arikan, AA; Fuhrman, DY; Gorga, SM; Mottes, T; Ollberding, N; Ricci, Z; Stanski, NL; Selewski, DT; et al. Kidney International Reports. 2023; 8:1542-1552.