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    Biostatistics Faculty and Staff

    The Department of Biostatistics is internationally recognized as a leader in biostatistics research and training and is housed in three different locations: administrative and faculty offices, including a suite of offices for graduate students in McGavran-Greenberg Hall, the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center located at 137 E. Franklin St. and the Carolina Survey Research Laboratory at 730 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., both in Chapel Hill. In 2017, we have 44 faculty members and 192 students (103 doctoral, 41 masters and 48 undergraduate).

    A searchable database of faculty publications is available here.

    Faculty
    Robert Agans Associate Professor agans@unc.edu
    Eric Bair Associate Professor ebair@email.unc.edu
    Richard Bilsborrow Professor richard_bilsborrow@unc.edu
    Jianwen Cai Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor cai@bios.unc.edu
    Ding-Geng (Din) Chen Professor dinchen@email.unc.edu
    David Couper Professor david_couper@unc.edu
    Jamie Crandell Assistant Professor jbigelow@email.unc.edu
    Jason Fine Professor jfine@email.unc.edu
    Annie Green Howard Assistant Professor aghoward@email.unc.edu
    Marcus Herman-Giddens Instructor marcushg@live.unc.edu
    Michael Hudgens Professor mhudgens@email.unc.edu
    Joseph G. Ibrahim Alumni Distinguished Professor Director  of Graduate Studies jibrahim@email.unc.edu
    Anastasia Ivanova Associate Professor aivanova@bios.unc.edu
    Yuchao Jiang Assistant Professor yuchaoj@email.unc.edu
    Gary Koch Professor bcl@unc.edu
    Michael R. Kosorok W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair kosorok@unc.edu
    Lisa M. LaVange  (profile page coming soon) Professor and Associate Chair and Director of the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center lisa.lavange@unc.edu
    Quefeng Li Assistant Professor quefeng@email.unc.edu
    Yun Li Associate Professor yunli@med.unc.edu
    Danyu Lin Dennis Gillings Distinguished Professor lin@bios.unc.edu
    Feng-Chang Lin Assistant Professor flin@bios.unc.edu
    Yufeng Liu Professor yfliu@email.unc.edu
    Matthew Loop Assistant Professor mloop@email.unc.edu
    Michael Love Assistant Professor milove@email.unc.edu
    James Stephen Marron Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor marron@unc.edu
    Jane Monaco Associate Professor monaco@email.unc.edu
    Andrew B. Nobel Professor nobel@email.unc.edu
    John S. Preisser Professor John_Preisser@unc.edu
    Matthew Psioda Assistant Professor matt_psioda@unc.edu
    Bahjat Qaqish Professor bahjat_qaqish@unc.edu
    Naim Rashid Assistant Professor naim@unc.edu
    Kathy Roggenkamp Instructor kathy_roggenkamp@unc.edu
    Todd Schwartz Associate Professor tschwart@email.unc.edu
    Richard Smith Mark L. Reed Distinguished Professor rls@email.unc.edu
    Daniela Sotres-Alvarez Assistant Professor dsotres@unc.edu
    Paul Stewart Professor Paul_Stewart@unc.edu
    Chirayath M Suchindran Professor suchindran@unc.edu
    Xianming Tan Associate Professor xianming@email.unc.edu
    Kinh Truong Professor truong@bios.unc.edu
    Mark Weaver Assistant Professor mark_weaver@med.unc.edu
    Di Wu Assistant Professor did@email.unc.edu
    Donglin Zeng Professor dzeng@email.unc.edu
    Haibo Zhou Professor Haibo_Zhou@unc.edu
    Hongtu Zhu Professor htzhu@email.unc.edu
    Fei Zou Professor fzou@bios.unc.edu

    Emeritus Faculty
    Shrikant I. Bangdiwala Professor Emeritus
    Lloyd Chambless Professor Emeritus
    Clarence E. Davis Professor Emeritus
    James E. Grizzle Professor Emeritus
    Ronald W. Helms Professor Emeritus
    William D. Kalsbeek Professor Emeritus
    Lawrence L. Kupper Professor Emeritus
    Keith E. Muller Professor Emeritus
    Dana E. Quade Professor Emeritus
    Pranab Sen Professor Emeritus
    Michael J. Symons Professor Emeritus
    Craig D. Turnbull Professor Emeritus

    Adjunct Faculty
    Biggs, Matthew Adjunct Assistant Professor mbiggs@agbiome.com
    Georgiy Bobashev Adjunct Associate Professor bobashev@rti.org
    Chen, Liddy Adjunct Assistant Professor liddy.chen@bavarian-nordic.com
    Alan Karr Adjunct Professor karr@rti.org
    Eric B. Laber Adjunct Assistant Professor eblaber@ncsu.edu
    Herman Mitchell Adjunct Professor mitchel7@email.unc.edu
    Brian Neelon Adjunct Associate Professor neelon@musc.edu
    Jean Orelien Adjunct Assistant Professor orelien@email.unc.edu
    Shyamal Peddada Adjunct Professor
    Sean Simpson Adjunct Assistant Professor simpsons@email.unc.edu
    Maura Stokes Adjunct Associate Professor stokesm@email.unc.edu
    Wei Sun Adjunct Associate Professor wsun@bios.unc.edu
    Thomas, Sonia M. Adjunct Professor smthomas@rti.org
    William Valdar Adjunct Assistant Professor william.valdar@unc.edu
    Clarice Weinberg Adjunct Professor cweinber@email.unc.edu
    Michael Wu Adjunct Assistant Professor mcwu@fhcrc.org
    Shanshan Zhao Adjunct Assistant Professor shanshan.zhao@nih.gov
    Richard Zink Adjunct Assistant Professor richard.zink@jmp.com

    Department of Biostatistics
    Vera Bennett Human Resources Consultant vera_bennett@unc.edu
    Monika Soria Caruso Soc/Clin Research Specialist monika_caruso@unc.edu
    Mary Everette Accounting Specialist everette@bios.unc.edu
    David Hill Tech Support Analyst dwhill@email.unc.edu
    Melissa Hobgood Student Services Manager hobgood@unc.edu
    Christine Kantner Business Officer ckantner@email.unc.edu
    Terry Link Accounting Technician tlink12@email.unc.edu
    Jeff Oberhaus Soc/Clin Research Specialist Communications jjoberhaus@unc.edu
    Debbie Quach Business Officer dquach@bios.unc.edu
    Bethsaida Seagroves Executive Assistant to the Chair betsy_seagroves@unc.edu
    Christopher Sheldahl Applications Specialist sheldahl@email.unc.edu
    Veronica Stallings Student Services Specialist stalling@bios.unc.edu
    Scott C. Zentz Systems Programmer/Specialist zentz@email.unc.edu

    Carolina Survey Research Laboratory
    Erica Atkins Personnel Supervisor elatkins@email.unc.edu
    Anna Hoffmeyer Operations Manager ahoffmeyer@unc.edu
    Deborah Marean Survey Programmer & Data Mgr marean@email.unc.edu
    Jackie Shehadi Soc/Clin Research Assistant jshehadi@unc.edu

    Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center
    Maria de los Angeles (Nana) Abreu Social/Clinical Research Specialist abreu@email.unc.edu
    Vidya Antony Applications Analyst vantony@unc.edu
    James Bartow Applications Specialist jbartow@email.unc.edu
    Nicole Blanton Admin Support Specialist nicole_blanton@unc.edu
    Ashley Britt Soc/Clin Research Specialist adbritt@unc.edu
    Barbara Brown Soc/Clin Research Assistant barbw_brown@unc.edu
    Hope Bryan IT Manager HOPE_BRYAN@unc.edu
    Sheila Burgard Soc/Clin Research Manager sheila_burgard@unc.edu
    Myra Carpenter Senior Biostatistician myra_carpenter@unc.edu
    Nancy Cohn Soc/Clin Research Manager nancy_cohn@unc.edu
    Steven Cory Applications Analyst cory@unc.edu
    Forrest DeMarcus Business Services Coordinator demarcus@email.unc.edu
    Lisa Dusenberry Accounting Technician lisa_dusenberry@unc.edu
    Jeff Evarts Applications Analyst jevarts@email.unc.edu
    Bryce B. Glasspoole Tech Support Analyst bryceg@unc.edu
    Franklyn Gonzalez Soc/Clin Research Manager fgonzale@email.unc.edu
    Rachel Goolsby Soc/Clin Research Specialist rwgoolsby@unc.edu
    Nathan M. Gotman Biostatistician nathan.gotman@unc.edu
    Lisa Gravens-Mueller Biostatistician & Supervisor lgravens@email.unc.edu
    Carolyn Hagy Business Officer Carolyn_Hagy@unc.edu
    Linda Hartig Applications Analyst Hartig@unc.edu
    Jeremy Grant Holliday Soc/Clin Research Assistant jgh1987@email.unc.edu
    Michele Inishi Soc/Clin Research Assistant minishi@email.unc.edu
    Kwanhye Jung Applications Specialist khjung@email.unc.edu
    James Locklear Applications Specialist jalockle@email.unc.edu
    Alison Marquis Principal Biostatistician alison_marquis@unc.edu
    Micah McCumber Soc/Clin Research Manager micahmc@email.unc.edu
    Allison McGee Social Research Assistant admcgee@email.unc.edu
    William McGee Soc/Clin Research Assistant Bill.McGee@unc.edu
    Yonghong Nie Application Analyst ynie@email.unc.edu
    Jeff Oberhaus Soc/Clin Research Specialist jjoberhaus@unc.edu
    Aluoch Ooro Soc/Clin Research Specialist aooro@unc.edu
    Pedro Miguel Quibrera Biostatistician mqm@email.unc.edu
    Lisa Reeves Soc/Clin Research Manager reevesbr@email.unc.edu
    Kim Ring Soc/Clin Research Manager kim_ring@unc.edu
    Ping Shen Applications Analyst pshen@email.unc.edu
    Yue Shen Applications Analyst shen@email.unc.edu
    Jeffrey Sink Applications Tech jsink@email.unc.edu
    Carl Smalley System Programmer/Specialist csmalley@email.unc.edu
    Jan Louise Smith Soc/Clin Research Specialist smithjl@email.unc.edu
    Robert Sumner, Jr. Applications Specialist bobsumner@unc.edu
    Kui Sun Applications Specialist sksun@email.unc.edu
    Yanping Teng Biostatistician tengunc@email.unc.edu
    Hongqing Tian Applications Analyst ucchbt@email.unc.edu
    Robert Tomsick Systems Programmer/Specialist rtomsick@unc.edu
    Pingping Wu Soc/Clin Research Specialist carenwu@email.unc.edu
    Marston Youngblood, Jr. Biostatistician/Supervisor youngbl1@email.unc.edu
    Ding Zhao Applications Specialist dyzhao@unc.edu
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