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Biostatistics and Epidemiology

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Mi-Ok Kim, PhD

Title

Biostatistician

Appointment

Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Email

miok.kim@cchmc.org

Phone

(513) 636-1895

Fax

(513) 636-7509

Credentials

PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Statistics, 2003
MS: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Statistics

Position History

2006-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati

2006-present: Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

2003-2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky

2002: Intern, Merck & Co. Inc., Rayway

2002: Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois

1998-2001: Statistical Consultant, Illinois Statistics Office, University of Illinois

Awards and Honors

1997-1998 Fellowship, University of Illinois
2001 First Prize, 2001 Capital One Data Challenge
2002 Norton Prize, Robert Bohrer Workshop for Student Papers in Statistics, University of Illinois

Research

Methodology and biomedical applications in nonparametric regression, longitudinal data and survival analysis, emprical likelihood, quantile regression and Bioinfomatics

Research Grants and Contracts

National Science Foundation DMS-0604920
Primary Investigator: Zhou
06/01/06-05/31/09
Empirical Likelihood Inference of Censored Quantile Regression
Role: Co-PI

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Transitional Research Initiative Grant
Primary Investigator: Denson
07/01/07 - 06/30/08
Biomarkers for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Behavior and Treatment Response
Role: Biostatistician

Broad Medical Research Program, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation
Primary Inestigator: Denson
10/01/07-09/30/09
GM-CSF Bioactivity and IBD phenotype
Role: Biostatistician

NIH R21 CA133663-01
Primary Investigator: Cripe
07/01/08-06/30/10
Targeted Virotherapy for Neuroblastoma Stem Cells      
Role: Biostatistician

NIH P50 N5057531-01A1
Primary Investigator: Ratner, Cincinnati Center of Neurofibromatosis Research
07/01/08-06/30/13
Core B title: Xenograft Core for NF1 Experimental Therapeutics
Role: Biostatistician for Core B

NIH-NHLBI R01 HL079916
Primary Investigator: Malik
06/01/05-05/31/09
Role of Placenta Growth Factor in Sickle Acute Chest
Role: Biostatistician

Program Project, CCFA
Primary Investigator: Kugathasan
7/1/08-6/30/12
Risk stratification and identification of immunogenetic and microbial markers of rapid disease progression in children with Crohn’s disease.
Role: Biostatistician

NIH/NIDDK R01DK078683-01
Primary Investigator: Denson
12/1/08-11/30/13                        
Biomarkers of IBD Behavior and Treatment Response
Score:139, 9th percentile, Council review pending
Role: Biostatistician

Publications, Most Recent

Batheke, A., Kim, M.-O., Zhou, M. Combined multiple testing by censored empirical likelihood, J. Statist. Plann. Inference (2008) in press

Kim, M.-O. and Zhou, M. Empirical Likelihood for Linear Models in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters, Statistics and Probability Letter, 2008 September; 78 (12), pp. 1445-1451

Müller LU, Milsom MD, Kim MO, Schambach A, Schuesler T, Williams DA. Rapid Lentiviral Transduction Preserves the Engraftment Potential of Fanca -/- Hematopoietic Stem Cells.Molecular Therapy, 2008 Jun;16 (6):1154-60

Garfinkle JS, Cunningham LL Jr, Beeman CS, Kluemper GT, Hicks EP, Kim MO, Evaluation of orthodontic mini-implant anchorage in premolar extraction therapy in adolescents.American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 2008 May;133(5):642-53.

Gunnar Johansson, Yonatan Y. Mahller, Margaret Collins, Mi-Ok Kim, Takahiro Nobukuni, John Perentesis, Timothy P. Cripe, Sara Kozma, George Thomas, Nancy Ratner. Effects of doxorubicin, the mTOR inhibitor RAD001 and the EGFR inhibitor Tarceva on malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors.Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 2008, May;7(5):1237-45

Sherafat-Kazemzadeh R, Mehta SN, Care MM, Kim M-O, Williams DA, Rose SR, and the Fanconi Anemia Comprehensive Care Center. Small Pituitary Size in Children with Fanconi Anemia.Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 2007;49(2):166-70.

Kim M-O. Quantile Regression with Varying Coefficients. Annals of Statistics, 2007;35(1):92-108.

Kim M-O. Quantile Regression with Shape-Constrained Varying Coefficients. Sankhya: The Indican Journal of Statistics, 2006;68:369-91.

He, X. and Kim, M.-O. (2002) On Marginal Estimation in a Semiparametric Model for Longitudinal Data with Time-independent Covariates. Metrika, vol. 55, 67-74

 

Professional Organization Memberships

Special Interests

Research

  • Methodology and biomedical applications in nonparametric regression
  • Longitudinal data and survival analysis
  • Empirical likelihood
  • Quantile regression
  • Bioinfomatics

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