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CURRICULUM VITAE

Mei-Jie Zhang PhD
Professor
Department of Data Science Institute
Division of Biostatistics

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Medical Education Building
8701 Watertown Plank Rd
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: 414-456-8375
Fax: 414-955-6513
Email: meijie@mcw.edu

EDUCATION:
- 1989 MS, Florida State University, FL
- 1991 PhD, Statistics, Florida State University, FL

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
08/1991 - 05/1992 Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, New Mexico Institute of Technology, NM
05/1993 - 06/1994 Assistant Professor, Health Policy Institute, IBMTR, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI
07/1994 - 06/1999 Assistant Professor, Health Policy Institute, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI
08/1994 - 07/1999 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
07/1999 - 05/2006 Associate Professor, Health Policy Institute, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI
08/1999 - 07/2006 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
07/2006 - Present Professor, Institute for Health & Equity, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI
08/2006 - Present Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
2000 - 2003 Director of Biostatistics Graduate Program, Institute for Health & Equity, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI
2009 - 2014 Director of Biostatistics Graduate Program, Institute for Health & Equity, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
1990 - Present American Statistician Association

EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Editorship
Bone Marrow Transplatation
Lifetime Data Analysis
Editorial Board
Leukemia
Journal Review
Journal for American Statistical Association
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Genetic Epidemiology
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Leukemia
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications
Biometrics
Biometrical Journal
Annals of Statistics
Statistics in Medicine
Lifetime Data Analysis
Controlled Clinical Trails
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
Statistica Sinica
Journal of Applied Statistical Science
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics
Statistics and Probability Letters

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
1995 - 2000 Statistical Director, Chronic Leukaemia Working Committee, Center for International Blood Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
1995 - 2000 Statistical Director, GVHD/GVL and Immune Reconstruction Working Committee, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
1995 - Present Statistical Director, Acute Leukaemia Working Committee, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
2002 - Present Statistical Director, Graft Sources/Manipulation Working Committee, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
2002 - 2014 Statistical Director, Plasma Cell Disorders Working Committee, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
2002 - 2014 Statistical Director, Lymphoma Working Committee, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
2002 - 2014 Statistical Director, Pediatric Center Working Committee, Center for international Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
2015 - Present Chief Statistical Director, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Mei-Jie Zhang, Fitting Cox's Proportional Hazards Model using Grouped Survival Data, Invited Speaker, The International Conference of Life Data Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, Harvard University, Boston, MA, - 05/1994
John Klein, Mei-Jie Zhang, Statistical Challenges in Comparing Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation as a Treatment for Leukemia, Invited Speaker, The International Conference of Life Data Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, Harvard University, Boston, MA, - 05/1994
Mei-Jie Zhang, Identification of Non-Linear Time Series, Invited Speaker, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, - 08/1995
Mei-Jie Zhang, A Cox Regression Model with Time Dependent Covariate Baseline, Invited Speaker, Sixth International Conference on Statistics, Combinatory and Related Areas, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, - 12/1999
T Scheike, Mei-Jie Zhang, Regression Effects in Multistate Models, Invited Speaker, International Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Complex Event History Data, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway, - 08/2005
Mei-Jie Zhang, Directly Modeling Cumulative Incidence Function with Left-truncated and Right-censored Competing Risks Data, Invited Speaker, The 15th International Conference of Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques, Shanghai, China, - 05/2007
Mei-Jie Zhang, Cox Proportional Hazards Regression Models for Survival Data in Cancer Research, Invited Speaker, 2005 BMT Meetings, Keystone, Colorado, - 02/2005
Mei-Jie Zhang, Estimation of Covariate Effects in Complex Multistate Models: An Application on Current Leukemia Free Survival, Invited Speaker, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, - 02/2006
Mei-Jie Zhang, Current Progress and of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Invited Speaker, Department of Hematology, RenJi Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, - 05/2007
Mei-Jie Zhang, Summarizing Difference in Cumulative Incidence Functions, Invited Speaker, European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Annual Meeting, Goteborg, Sweden, - 04/2009
Mei-Jie Zhang, Modeling Right Censored and Left Truncated Risks Failure Time Data Using Inverse Weighting Technique, Invited Speaker, Department of Biostatistics, University of Freiburg, Germany, - 04/2009
Mei-Jie Zhang, Propensity Score Matching, Invited Speaker, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Xin Hua Hospital, Shanghai, China, - 06/2014
Mei-Jie Zhang, Summarizing GVHD and GVL Effect in Transplant Studies, Invited Speaker, 2015 BMT Tandem Meeting, San Diego, CA, - 02/2015
Summarizing GVHD and GVL Effect in Transplant Studies, Invited Speaker, Institute for Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Tianjin, China, - 09/2014
Mei-Jie Zhang, Confidence Bands for the Difference in Adjusted Survival or Cumulative Incidence, Invited Speaker, 2016 BMT Tandem Meeting, Honolulu, HI, - 02/2016
Mei-Jie Zhang, Summarizing GVHD and GVL Effect in Transplant Studies, Invited Speaker, International Conference on Survival Analysis in Memory of John P. Klein, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA, - 06/2014
Mei-Jie Zhang, Identification of Non-Linear Time Series, Invited Speaker, Department of Economics, University of Aahus, Denmark, - 08/1995
Mei-Jie Zhang, Two-Sample Quartile Comparison Function under the Proportional Hazards Model, Invited Speaker, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, - 07/1999
Mei-Jie Zhang, Predication of Cumulative Incidence Function und the Extension of the Cox-Aalen Survival Model, Invited Speaker, International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis, Columbia, South Carolina, - 05/2003
Mei-Jie Zhang, Multivariate Analysis for Competing Risk Data, Invited Speaker, 2004 Tandem BMT Meetings, Orlando, Florida, - 02/2004
Mei-Jie Zhang, Recent Developments and Comparative Studies on umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation for Patients with Haematological Malignancies, Invited Speaker, Department of Haematology, Beijing Medical "University, Beijing, China, - 05/2004
L Sun, J Liu, Mei-Jie Zhang, Modeling the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk, The Joint Meeting of CSPS/IMS, Beijing, China, - 06/2005
Mei-Jie Zhang, Utilizing Inverse Weighting Technique to Analyze Right Censored and Left Truncated Time to Event Data, Invited Speaker, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, - 03/2008
Mei-Jie Zhang, Propensity Score Matching, Invited Speaker, People's Hospital Workshop, Beijing, China, - 09/2014
Mei-Jie Zhang, Checking Fine and Gray's Subdistribution Hazards Model with Cumulative Sums of Residuals, Invited Speaker, The Fourth International Biostatistics Workshop of Jilin University, Changchun., Jilin, China, - 05/2014
Mei-Jie Zhang, Haplo+cord transplantation: Neutrophil and platelet recovery and long-term survival compared to double umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation-A case-cohort analysis, Invited Speaker, Beijing Haematology Association, Beijing, China, - 09/2014
Mei-Jie Zhang, The Proportional Odd Cumulative Incidence Model for Competing Risks, Invited Speaker, 2016 ICSA Applied Statistical Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, - 2016
Mei-Jie Zhang, John Klein, Confidence Bands for the Difference of Two Survival Curves under Proportional Hazards Model, Invited Speaker, The International Conference in Reliability and Survival Analysis, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois, - 05/1998
 
National
Mei-Jie Zhang, Checking Fine and Gray's Subdistribution Hazards Model with Cumulative Sums of Residuals, Invited Speaker, ENAR, Maimi, Florida, - 03/2015
Mei-Jie Zhang, The Addictive Risk Model for Estimation of Effect of Haplotype Match in BMT Studies, Invited Speaker, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, - 03/2010
Mei-Jie Zhang, Grouped Survival Data Analysis, The Annual Meeting of American Statistical Associations, Atlanta, GA, - 08/1991
Mei-Jie Zhang, Non-Linear Time Series Analysis, The Annual Meeting of American Statistical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, - 08/1991
Mei-Jie Zhang, Modeling the Effect of Haplotype Match in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Studies, Invited Speaker, WNAR, San Luis Obispo, California, - 06/2011
T.H. Scheike, YQ Sun, Mei-Jie Zhang, and T.K. Jensen, A Semiparametric Random Effects Model for Multivariate Competing Risk Data, Invited Talk, The 50th Anniversary Celebration of FSU's Statistical Department, Tallahassee, Florida, - 04/2009
Mei-Jie Zhang, Modeling the Time-Varying Haplotype Matching Effect for Competing Risk Data in Hematopoieticstem Cell Transplant Studies, Invited Speaker, Division of Biostatistics, Yale University, Connecticut, - 04/2011
Mei-Jie Zhang, Competing Risk with Missing Covariates: Effect of Haplotypematch on Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Studies, Invited Speaker, Workshop on Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, - 05/2012
Mei-Jie Zhang, An Additive-Multiplicative Cox-Aalen Regression Model, Invited Speaker, Department of Mathematics, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, - 04/2000
Mei-Jie Zhang, Applications of Alternative Models in Survival Analysis, Invited Speaker, Frontier Science Foundation, Biostatistics, Harvard University, Massachusetts, - 11/2002
Mei-Jie Zhang, Statistical Challengers and Applications in Bone Marrow Transplantation, Invited Speaker, 40th Anniversary Celebration, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, - 04/2000
Mei-Jie Zhang, Extensions and Applications of the Cox and Aalen Model, Invited Speaker, Department of Statistics, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, - 10/2001
Mei-Jie Zhang, Predicting Cumulative Incidence Probability: Marginal and Cause-Specific Modeling, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri, - 11/2004
Xu Zhang, Mei-Jie Zhang, Jason Fine, A mass redistribution algorithm for right censored and left-truncated time-to-event data., Joint Statistical Meeting, Denver, Colorado, - 08/2008
Mei-Jie Zhang, Differences in Cumulative Incidence Functions, Invited Speaker, ENAR 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana, - 03/2010
 
Regional
Brent Logan, Hong Wang, and Mei-Jie Zhang, Pairwise Multiple Comparison Adjustment in Survival Analysis, Fall Meeting of the Northeastern Illinois Chapter, American Statistical Association, Skokie, Illinois, - 10/2003
Mei-Jie Zhang, Propensity Scores, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 2016
Mei-Jie Zhang, Prediction and Modeling of Survival Data, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 05/2002
 
Local
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 06/1994
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 04/2005
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 10/2005
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 08/2007
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 08/2008
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 05/1992
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 02/1993
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 03/1996
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 04/2007
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 11/2009
Mei-Jie Zhang, The Straight Dope on Simple Linear Regression, CTSI Lecture, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 02/2009
Mei-Jie Zhang, The Straight Dope on Simple Linear Regression, CTSI Lecture, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 01/2010
Mei-Jie Zhang, Regression Models for Censored Data, CTSI Lecture, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 05/2010
Mei-Jie Zhang, The Straight Dope on Linear Regression, CTSI Lecture, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 03/2011
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 08/1995
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 03/2010
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 04/2008
Mei-Jie Zhang, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - 06/2009
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Mei-Jie Zhang, Invited Presentation and Panel Discussion, NCI 1st International Workshop on the Biology, Prevention. and Treatment of Relapse After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Natcher Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland, 11/02/2009 - 11/03/2009
 

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Medical College of Wisconsin
1996 - 1998 Chair, Social Committee, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health & Equity
1996 - 2003 Chair, Library Committee, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health & Equity
1996 - 2003 Co-Chair, Computing Committee, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health & Equity
1998 - 2000 Member, Student Award Committee
2000 - 2002 Chair, Student Award Committee
2000 - 2003 Member, Graduate Studies Council
2003 - 2004 Chair, Social Committee, Division of Biostatisitcs, Institute for Health & Equity
2004 - 2006 Chair, Computing Committee, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health & Equity
2006 - 2008 Chair, Colloquium Committee, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health & Equity
2008 - 2009 Chair, Web Committee, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health & Equity
2009 - Present Member, Graduate Studies Council
2009 - Present Director, Biostatistics PhD Program, Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health & Equity
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Graduate Student Education
- 2010 Biost 221: Theory of Consulting
- 2008 Biost 275: Applied Survival Analysis
- 2016 Biost 386: Advanced Survival Analysis
- 1997 Biost 230: Foundations for Biostatistics
- 2000 Biost 233: Models and Methods III
- 2006 Biost 231: Models and Methods I
- 2007 Biost 201: Biostatistics II
- 2007 Biost 200: Biostatistics I
- 2011 Biost 203: Computers in Medicine
- 2015 Biost 386: Advanced Survival Analysis
- 2012 Biost 221: Theory of Consulting
- 1994 Biost 313: Statistical Computing
- 2001 Biost 386: Advanced Survival Analysis
- 2003 Biost 233: Models and Methods III
- 2009 Biost 233: Models and Methods III
- 2001 Biost 200: Biostatistics I
- 2002 Biost 233: Models and Methods III
- 2004 Biost 233: Models and Methods III
- 2011 Biost 386: Advanced Survival Analysis
- 2011 Biost 224: Biostatistical Computing
- 2014 Biost 275: Applied Survival Analysis
- 2015 Biost 275: Applied Survival Analysis
- 2018 Biost 275: Applied Survival Analysis
- 2020 Biost 275: Applied Survival Analysis
- 1996 Biost 230: Foundations for Biostatistics
- 1998 Biostatistics 230: Foundations for Biostatistics
- 2006 Biost 386: Advanced Survival Analysis
- 1993 Statistical Methods
- 1999 Biost 364: Advanced Statistics II
- 2013 Biost 386: Advanced Survival Analysis
 
Resident and Fellow Education
- 1998 Biostatistics Short Course for Clinical Fellows
 

MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Graduate Students
PhD Students Advised
2001 - 2007 Dr. Jingxia Liu, Medical College of Wisconsin, Current, Assistant Professor, Washington University
2001 - 2005 Dr. Xu Zhang, Medical College of Wisconsin, Current, Associate Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center
2007 - 2013 Dr. Franco Mendolia, Medical College of Wisconsin, Germany Aero Space Agency
2008 - 2013 Dr. Kristin Ellis, Medical College of Wisconsin, Current, Procter & Gamble
2011 - 2014 Dr. Peng He, Medical College of Wisconsin, Current, Amgen
2012 - 2015 Dr. Jianing Li, Medical College of Wisconsin, Current, Merck
2013 - 2016 Dr. Ying Zhang, Medical College of Wisconsin, Current, Merck
 
Faculty
Member of Biostatistics Ph.D. Thesis Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
Member of Medical Fellows MS Thesis Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
Member of Biostatistics Master Thesis Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
 

PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS:
Educational Programs
Student
- 2002 Review and Update Ph.D. Program of Biostatistics, MCW
 
 
 
 

COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
- 1993 Official Judge, South-Eastern Wisconsin Science and Engineering Competition
- 1994 Official Judge, South-Eastern Wisconsin Science and Engineering Competition