Dr. Mulugeta Gebregziabher is Professor and
Vice Chair of Academic Programs at MUSC and Research Health
Scientist at the Charleston VA Medical Center. He is
co-leader of the Methods Core with the Federally funded VA Health Services
Research and Development (HSR&D) Innovation Center called Health Equity and
Rural Outreach Innovation Center (HEROIC) at the Charleston VA. He is also
affiliated with the MUSC Global Health Institute and College of Graduate
Studies.
He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Southern California in 2006 and he has been faculty at MUSC since
July 2006. His research expertise is in longitudinal data analysis, missing
data analysis, modeling outcomes with point mass at zero, multiple outcomes
research, and analysis of very large datasets. He collaborates in several areas
of clinical and health services research related to Diabetes, CKD, Stroke, TBI,
CVD, lung cancer and HIV/AIDS.
His research interests span a wide
range of topics and he collaborates with local, national and global researchers
and scientists. He has contributed to more than 50 funded NIH, VA-HSR&D and
intramural pilot grants with over 200 manuscripts in high-tier peer reviewed
journals. He has contributed to novel methods for the design of studies and
statistical analysis of health services and patient care outcomes data. He has
developed and taught graduate courses on topics such as longitudinal data
analysis, advanced regression, Bayesian analysis and statistics in
epidemiology. He has trained several PhD students. He has been reviewer
and editorial board member of scientific journals and international graduate
students’ thesis. He had served as President of the South Carolina Chapter of
the American Statistical Association (ASA) and Officer of the Statistics in
Imaging. He has also served as President of the Statistical Society of
Ethiopians in North America. He has received several honors for his teaching,
mentoring, research and professional services. He is Fellow
of the American Statistical Association.
He serves as founder, leader and
board member of several charity organizations such as www.ED-REAP.org, www.SJTE.org
and https://worldwidefistulafund.org/home.aspx
respectively.
He can be reached at:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfMulugeta
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mulugeta-gebregziabher-31684042