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CURRICULUM VITAE

Yan Gao PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Data Science Institute
Division of Biostatistics

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Medical Education Building
8701 Watertown Plank Rd
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
09/2001 - 06/2006 B.MedSc., Public Health Administration, Harbin Medical University, China
09/2006 - 06/2009 M.Sc., Social Medicine, Fudan University, China
08/2014 - 05/2016 M.Sc., Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA
08/2016 - 08/2021 Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/2009 - 06/2011 Biostatistician (Full-time job), MacroStat Clinical Research Co., Shanghai, China
07/2011 - 08/2014 Senior Statistical Programmer (Full-time job), Novartis Pharma Ltd., Shanghai, China
09/2012 - 11/2012 Senior Statistical Programmer (Job-rotation), Novartis Pharma K.K., Tokyo, Japan
06/2017 - 08/2017 Summer Statistical Intern, Advanced Analytics Team, AbbVie Inc., Lake Bluff, IL, USA
08/2017 - 05/2018 Statistical Extern (UIC Fellowship), Clinical Statistics, AbbVie Inc., Lake Bluff, IL, USA
06/2018 - 08/2018 Summer Statistical Intern, Clinical Statistics, AbbVie Inc., Lake Bluff, IL, USA
08/2018 - 05/2019 Statistical Extern (UIC Fellowship), Exploratory Statistics, AbbVie Inc., Lake Bluff, IL, USA
05/2019 - 08/2019 ORISE Biostatistical Research Fellow, Office of Biostatistics, CDER, FDA, Silver Spring, MD, USA

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
09/2021 - Present Assistant Professor,, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226

AWARDS AND HONORS:
10/2018 Honorable Mention Award at Student Poster Competition, NIC-ASA and ICSA Midwest Joint Fall Meeting
09/2019 Travel Award in School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
10/2019 Student Presenter Award in Graduate College, University of Illinois at Chicago
11/2019 Travel Award in Graduate Student Council, University of Illinois at Chicago
05/2020 The Biopharmaceutical Student Scholarship Award, American Statistical Association

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
12/2016 - Present Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Member)
01/2020 - Present American Statistical Association (Member)
11/2020 - Present International Chinese Statistical Association (Member)
12/2022 - Present Society for Clinical Trials (Member)
12/2022 - Present International Society for Bayesian Analysis (Member)

EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Journal Review
05/2022 - Present Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
06/2022 - Present Lifetime Data Analysis
03/2023 - Present Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology
07/2023 - Present JAMA Network Open
08/2023 - Present Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
09/2023 - Present Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
05/2022 - Present Member, Cancer Center Scientific Review Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
06/2022 - Present Member, PhD Preliminary Exam Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
10/2022 - Present Chair, Statistical Inference Course Development Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
09/2023 - Present Co-lead, Statistical Methods in Oncology Scientific Working Group, American Statistical Association

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Active
Peer Review
Title:
The roles of Lyme spirochete adhesins in hematogenous dissemination
Source:
NIH / NIAID
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Jenifer Coburn and Chaconas Leong
Dates:
04/2022 - 03/2027
  
Title:
HJKC3-0007: Real-World Outcomes of Patients with CML-CP Treated with Asciminib and Other Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
Source:
The H. Jean Khoury Cure CML Consortium
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Michael Mauro;Ehab Atallah;Kathryn Flynn;James Thompson
Dates:
07/2022 - Present
  
Title:
HJKC3-0004: Asciminib as Initial Therapy for Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in Chronic Phase
Source:
The H. Jean Khoury Cure CML Consortium
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Jorge Cortes
Dates:
07/2022 - Present
  
Title:
IIT-HAMADANI-FLU-MEL-TBI: A Phase II, Open-Label Study of Propylene Glycol-Free Melphalan for Injection (EVOMELA®) in Combination with Fludarabine and Total-Body, Irradiation-Based, Reduced-Intensity Conditioning for Haploidentical Transplantation
Source:
Medical College of Wisconsin
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Mehdi Hamadani
Dates:
07/2022 - Present
  
Title:
Stand Up for Your Health: A Randomized Study
Source:
NIH / NHLBI
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Jacquelyn Kulinski
Dates:
02/2023 - 01/2028
  
Pending
Peer Review
Title:
Host-Pathogen Dynamics in Leptospirosis, Project 3: Invasion Dynamics
Source:
NIH / NIAID
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
David Haake
Dates:
03/2022 - 02/2027
  
Title:
Investigating arterial stiffness and its role in cognitive and physical outcomes in patients on dialysis
Source:
NIH/NIDDK
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Dawn Wolfgram
Dates:
04/2024 - 03/2029
  
Title:
Optimize cumulative variations of longitudinal biomarkers to advance personalized health care
Source:
Research Affairs Committee
Role & Effort:
PI
PI:
Yan Gao
Dates:
08/2024 - 08/2025
  
Prior
Peer Review
Title:
Investigation of the Porin Function of B. burgdorferi P66
Source:
NIH / NIAID
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Jenifer Coburn
Dates:
04/2019 - 03/2022
  
Title:
Small molecule NO precursors as a bioactive source of NO in vasodilation and angiogenesis
Source:
NIH / NHLBI
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Nichole Lohr
Dates:
07/2019 - 05/2024
  
Title:
Mechanisms of Leptospira interrogans interactions with the vascular endothelium in vivo
Source:
NIH / NIAID
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Jenifer Coburn
Dates:
07/2020 - 06/2022
  
Title:
Cerebrovascular reactivity in adults on hemodialysis and association with intradialytic cerebral hypoperfusion
Source:
NIH/NIDDK
Role & Effort:
Statistician
PI:
Dawn Wolfgram
Dates:
05/2022 - 03/2024
  

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Yan Gao (Collaboration with Drs. Rodney Sparapani and Sergey Tarima), Accelerated Fitting of Joint Models with Cumulative Variation, Eastern Asia Chapter of International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Qingdao University / Virtual, 06/23/2023 - 06/25/2023
 
Local
Yan Gao, Rodney A. Sparapan, Sanjib Basu, Bayesian Arc Model and Its Application to HIV/AIDS Clinical Trial, Hematology & Oncology Monthly Research Meeting, Medical College of Wisconsin, 10/19/2022
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Yan Gao;Sanjib Basu;Cheng Ouyang, Bayesian Lag Joint Model (BLJM) for time-to-event data with exposure-lag-response association, Joint Statistical Meetings, Virtual Conference, 08/2020
Yan Gao, Sanjib Basu, Transformation into Next-Generation Risk Management Through Bayesian Lag Joint Model, 2022 Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington DC, 08/2022
Yan Gao, Bayesian joint modeling of survival and longitudinal outcomes in hematology oncology, 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, 08/2023
 
National
Yan Gao, Integrative analysis and visualization of cancer genomic data in Cloud, R/Medicine Conference, Boston, 09/2019
 
Local
Yan Gao, Pooling clinical data: key points and pitfalls, PhUSE Single Day Event, Shanghai, 2013
Yan Gao, Optimal dose selection in dose-finding clinical trials, AbbVie Statistical Seminar, Lake Bluff, 04/2018
Yan Gao, Impact of probability of receiving placebo on clinical outcomes in Crohn's disease, AbbVie Statistical Seminar, Lake Bluff, 08/2018
Yan Gao, Resampling-based multiple testing procedures with applications to clinical trial data, Presentation Day at Office of Biostatistics in FDA, Silver Spring, 08/2019
 

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Medical College of Wisconsin
08/06/2022 - 08/11/2022 Member, JSM Faculty Candidate Screening Committee, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin
03/01/2023 - Present Mentor, MCW Staff Mentorship Steering Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Graduate Student Education
09/2006 - 01/2007 Statistical Analysis Using SAS, Fudan University, China
02/2007 - 06/2007 Multivariate Statistics in Medicine, Fudan University, China
05/2014 - 07/2014 SAS Lecture Series in Clinical Trials, East China Normal University, China
08/2014 - 12/2014 Biostatistics I, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
01/2015 - 05/2015 Biostatistics I, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
08/2015 - 12/2015 Biostatistics I, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
08/2016 - 12/2016 Longitudinal Data Analysis, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
01/2017 - 05/2017 Design of Clinical Trials, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
08/2019 - 12/2019 Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
09/2022 - 12/2022 Statistical Models and Methods I, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
01/2023 - 05/2023 Introduction to Bayesian Analysis, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
01/2024 - 05/2024 Advanced Bayesian Analysis, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Martens M, Gao Y and Szabo A. (2023). Designing and conducting a clinical trial in blood and marrow transplantation. Best Practice Research Clinical Haematology 36(2), 101471.
2. Castellani C, Gao Y, Kim H, Thompson C, Ning J, Lohr N, Welsh A, Berger M (2023) Left atrial appendage structural characteristics predict thrombus formation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol,34(8):1683-1689.
3. Zhao R, Lv J, Gao Y, Li Y, Shi H, Zhang J, Wu J, Wang L. Association between Family Environment and Adolescents' Sexual Adaptability: Based on the Latent Profile Analysis of Personality Traits. Children (Basel) 2023 Jan 19;10(2)
4. Gao Y, Sparapani RA, Basu S (2022). Bayesian Arc Length Survival Analysis Model (BALSAM): Theory and Application to an HIV/AIDS Clinical Trial. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2212.06353
5. Keszler, A., Lindemer, B., Broeckel, G., Weihrauch, D., Gao, Y., & Lohr, N. L. (2022). In Vivo Characterization of a Red Light-Activated Vasodilation: A Photobiomodulation Study. Frontiers in Physiology, 792.
6. He, J., Li, F., Gao, Y., & Rothmann, M. (2021). Resampling‐based stepwise multiple testing procedures with applications to clinical trial data. Pharmaceutical Statistics, 20(2), 297-313.
7. Darwish, D. Y., Patel, S. N., Gao, Y., et al. (2019). Diagnostic accuracy and reliability of retinal pathology using the Forus 3nethra fundus camera compared to ultra wide-field imaging. Eye, 856-857.
8. Lobo, A. M., Gao, Y., Rusie, L., et al. (2018). Association between eye diagnosis and positive syphilis test results in a large, urban sexually transmitted infection/primary care clinic population. International journal of STD & AIDS, 357-361.
9. Eldeirawi, K., Kunzweiler, C., Rosenberg, N., Riley, B., Gao, Y., et al. (2016). Association of neighborhood crime with asthma and asthma morbidity among Mexican American children in Chicago, Illinois. Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology, 502-507.
10. Klemetti, R., Che, X., Gao, Y., et al. (2010). Cesarean section delivery among primiparous women in rural China: an emerging epidemic. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 65.e1-65.e656.
11. Gao, Y., Wu, Z., Li, N. (2010). Needs assessment and its application in program evaluation for public health, Chinese Health Service Management, 2
12. Gao, Y., Wu, Z., Li, C. (2010). Identification of problems in process evaluation for public health, Chinese Health Service Management, 2
13. Gao, Y., Wu, Z., Shi, H. (2007). Impact of Health VIII Project on maternal health service utilization, Chinese Primary Health Care, 12
 
Books, Chapters, and Reviews
1. Wu, Z., Li, N., Gao, Y., et al., Medicine in public health, Fudan University Press, 2012.