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Yi-An Ko
Assoc Professor
Research Associate Professor
Faculty, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
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My primary research interest is in the development, application, and interpretation of a variety of statistical methods in biomedical research with a particular focus on cardiovascular disease outcomes, electronic health records data, and micronutrition adjustment methods in observational studies.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Rd
Atlanta , GA 30322
1518-002-3AA (SPH: Biostatistics)
Phone: 404-727-8128
Email: yi-an.ko@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Biomarkers
- Biostatistics
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Statistical Modeling
Education
- PhD 2014, University of Michigan
- MS 2009, University of Michigan
- MS 2007, University of Southern California
- BS 2004, National Taiwan University
Courses Taught
- BIOS 581: Statistical Practice II
Publications
- Ko YA, Williams AM, Peerson JM, Luo H, Flores-Ayala R, Wirth JP, Engle-Stone R, Young MF, Suchdev PS, 2022, Approaches to quantify the contribution of multiple anemia risk factors in children and women from cross-sectional national surveys, PLOS Global Public Health, 2, e0001071
- Ko YA, Chen Z, Liu C, Hu Y, Quyyumi AA, Waller LA, Higgins M, Ziegler TR, Brigham KL, Martin GS, 2021, Developing a Synthetic Control Group using Electronic Health Records: Application to a Single-arm Lifestyle Intervention Study, Preventive Medicine Reports, 24, 101572
- Ko YA, Shen J, Kim JH, Topel ML, Mujahid MS, Taylor HA, Quyyumi AA, Sims M, Vaccarino V, Baltrus PT, Lewis TT, 2021, Identifying Neighborhood and Individual Resilience Profiles for Cardiovascular Health: a Cross-sectional Study of Blacks Living in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, BMJ Open, 11, e041435
- Ko YA, Hayek S, Sandesara P, Samman Tahhan A, Quyyumi A., 2017, Cohort profile: the Emory Cardiovascular Biobank (EmCAB), BMJ Open, 7, e018753
- Ko YA, Mukherjee B, Smith JA, Kardia SL, Allison M, Diez Roux AV, 2016, Classification and clustering methods for multiple environmental factors in gene-environment interaction: application to the multi-Ethnic study of atherosclerosis, Epidemiol, 27, 870-8
- Hayek SS, Sever S, Ko YA, Trachtman H, Awad M, Wadhwani S, Altintas MM, Wei C, Hotton AL, French AL, Sperling LS, Lerakis S, Quyyumi AA, Reiser J, 2015, Soluble urokinase receptor and chronic kidney disease, N Engl J Med, 373, 1916-25
- Ko YA, Song PX, Clark NM, 2014, Declines with age in childhood asthma symptoms and health care use. An adjustment for evaluations, Ann Am Thorac Soc, 11, 54-62