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Md Monir Hossain, MSc, PhD

  • Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

Biography

Dr. Hossain is a biostatistician and his research interests focus on developing innovative statistical methods motivated by complex biomedical and environmental applications. He has developed novel spatial and spatiotemporal models for cluster detection and also in the area of cluster detection diagnostics for small area health data. Dr. Hossain's methodologic work has been published in several top biostatistics/statistics journals such as Statistics in Medicine, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, etc. His application research in health services and patient outcomes has received numerous public attentions. He has been successfully funded via National Cancer Institute and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grants for his work. Dr. Hossain has over 70 peer reviewed journal papers and has also been an ad hoc reviewer of several top statistical journals. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

PhD: Statistics, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan.

MSc: Statistics (Thesis group), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

BSc: Statistics (Honors), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Interests

Spatial-temporal disease cluster modeling; hidden Markov mixture models; inter- and intra-rater reliability; survival function for informative drop-out; hierarchical Bayesian modeling; and spatial accessibility to primary care.

Research Areas

Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Publications

Increased incidence of pediatric narcolepsy following the 2009 H1N1 pandemic: a report from the pediatric working group of the sleep research network. Simakajornboon, N; Mignot, E; Maski, K; Owens, J; Rosen, C; Ibrahim, S; Hassan, F; Chervin, RD; Perry, G; Brooks, L; et al. Sleep. 2022; 45.

Quantitative cardiopulmonary magnetic resonance imaging in neonatal congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Tkach, JA; Higano, NS; Taylor, MD; Moore, RA; Hossain, M; Huang, G; Spielberg, DR; Fain, SB; Kingma, PS; Woods, JC. Pediatric Radiology. 2022.

External validation and comparison of risk score models in pediatric heart transplants. Dani, A; Heidel, JS; Qiu, T; Zhang, Y; Ni, Y; Hossain, MM; Chin, C; Morales, DL S; Huang, B; Zafar, F. Pediatric Transplantation. 2022; 26.

The Geospatial Distribution of Myositis and Its Phenotypes in the United States and Associations With Roadways: Findings From a National Myositis Patient Registry. Hossain, MM; Wilkerson, J; McGrath, JA; Farhadi, PN; Brokamp, C; Khan, MT F; Goldberg, B; Brunner, HI; Macaluso, M; Miller, FW; et al. Frontiers in Medicine. 2022; 9.

Improving hyperpolarized 129 Xe ADC mapping in pediatric and adult lungs with uncertainty propagation. Bdaiwi, AS; Niedbalski, PJ; Hossain, MM; Willmering, MM; Walkup, LL; Wang, H; Thomen, RP; Ruppert, K; Woods, JC; Cleveland, ZI. NMR in Biomedicine. 2022; 35.

Hyperpolarized 129Xenon MRI Ventilation Defect Quantification via Thresholding and Linear Binning in Multiple Pulmonary Diseases. Roach, DJ; Willmering, MM; Plummer, JW; Walkup, LL; Zhang, Y; Hossain, MM; Cleveland, ZI; Woods, JC. Academic Radiology. 2022; 29 Suppl 2:S145-S155.

Utility of polysomnography for management of chronic invasive mechanical ventilation in children. Gurbani, N; Benscoter, D; Torres-Silva, C; Huang, G; Hossain, MM; Simakajornboon, N. Pediatric Pulmonology. 2022; 57:560-566.

Early Atherosclerotic Inflammatory Pathways in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Smith, DF; Schuler, CL; Hossain, MM; Huang, G; McConnell, K; Urbina, EM; Amin, RS. Journal of Pediatrics. 2021; 239:168-174.

Evaluation of Risk Scores to Predict Pediatric Severe Asthma Exacerbations. Niu, C; Xu, Y; Schuler, CL; Gu, L; Arora, K; Huang, Y; Naren, AP; Durrani, SR; Hossain, MM; Guilbert, TW. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. 2021; 9:4393-4401.e8.

Reply: Sleep Outcomes in Neonates with Pierre Robin Sequence Undergoing External Mandibular Distraction: A Longitudinal Analysis. Ehsan, Z; Pan, BS; Weaver, KN; Huang, G; Hossain, MM; Simakajornboon, N. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2021; 148:502e-503e.