Kinfe Bishu PhD

Biography

Dr. Bishu worked at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Division of General Internal Medicine as a Statistician. On March 2019, he was appointed Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, MUSC.  He is currently working in the COIN as a Statistician and Health Research Investigator at the Ralph H Johnson VAMC, Charleston. He specialize in big databases analyses (MEPS, NHANES, NIS and NRD). His expertise in statistical models include count data models, zero inflated count data models, semi-continuous data models, selection models, predictive and factor analysis and mixed effect and longitudinal analysis.   He has conducted research on diabetes, CKD, stroke, epilepsy, hypertension, heart failure, COPD, HIV, AMI, BMI, substance use disorder, cost-benefit, and disparities research. He has over 50 publications, most of them published in high-impact journals. He has been serving as a reviewer over 15 journals. Moreover, he has more than 10 years of experience in teaching higher education ranging from introduction to statistics to advanced quantitative economics courses in New Millennium College, Admas University College and Mekelle University (Department of Natural Resource Economics and Management) all in Ethiopia. He supervised undergraduate and graduate students on methodology part of their theses in Mekelle University, Ethiopia. He worked in administrative positions such as head of department, student’s dean and vice dean of college in New Millennium College and head of department in Admas University. From 2007-2012, Dr. Bishu obtained four research grant awards (as PI) based on merit.  Namely, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), NORAD II (2007) and NORAD III (2010) from Mekelle University.  The third grant was funded by IFS (International Foundation for Science) in 2012  and the fourth grant was funded by Rural Capacity Building Project (RCBP, Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia) for PhD study.