Profile Details
Ahn, Chul Ph.D.
Professor
Biographical Information :
| Name: | Ahn, Chul Ph.D. |
| Title: | Professor |
| Primary Appointment: | Clinical Sciences |
| Secondary Appointment: | Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center |
| Affiliations: |
Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
|
| Schools: |
Southwestern Medical School |
| Department Title: | Department of Clinical Sciences |
Research Information:
Research Interest
Design and analysis of clinical trials
Collaborative studies
Epidemiologic studies
Repeated measurement and clustered data
Bioinformatics
Faculty Research Bio
Dr. Chul Ahn has been working on the design and analysis of clinical trials, and epidemiologic and genetic studies. He recently served as the PI of the biostatistics and data management core of SCCOR grants which investigates the effect of genetic and environmental factors in aortic aneurism and scleroderma. He has extensive experiences in managing multicenter studies and large-scale clinical and epidemiologic studies. Dr. Ahn worked as the biostatistics leader of several multicenter studies. He published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers including the papers on the design and analysis of clinical trials, repeated measurement studies, and correlated data, and served as a statistical reviewer for numerous NIH, AHRQ and DOD study sections. Dr. Ahn is currently working as the Director of the "Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design" Key Function of the NIH-funded CTSA grant, as the Co-Director of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Cores of the SPORE lung cancer grants, and as a Cancer Center Associate Director.
Address
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
5323 Harry Hines Blvd
Dallas,
Texas
75390
Contact:
214-648-9418
Recent Publications
Ahn C, Kang SH, Xie Y. , " Optimal biological dose in molecular targeted therapies "Encyclopedia in Clinical Trials ,Volume 3:309-317 ,2008
Kang SH, Ahn C. , " Tests for the homogeneity of two binomial proportions in extremely unbalanced 2 x 2 contigency tables "Statistics in Medicine ,27:2524-2535 ,2008
Ahn C. , " Pharmacogenomics in drug discovery and development "Genomics & Informatics ,5(2):41-45 ,June 2007
Zhang S, Ahn C. , " Effect of correlation and missing data on sample size estimation in longitudinal clinical trials "Pharmaceutical Statistics ,in press,Unknown
Significant Publications
Kang SH, Chung S, Ahn C. , " Exact test for one sample correlated binary data "Biometrical Journal ,47:188-193 ,2005
Ahn C, Jung S. , " Effect of dropout on sample size estimates on trends across repeated measurements "Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics ,15:33-41 ,2005
Jung S, Ahn C. , " Sample size for repeated binary measurements using GEE "Statistics in Medicine ,24:2583-2596 ,2005
Personal Information:
Faculty Personal Bio
Dr. Chul Ahn obtained his MS degree in Operations Research from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986. He previously worked as a faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, City of Hope National Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He is currently a Professor at the department of Clinical Sciences, Director of Key Functions in "Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design" of CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award), and Director of Biostatistics Core at the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has more than 290 peer-reviewed publications, including many methodological papers addressing the design and analysis of clinical trials and the evaluation of repeated measurements and correlated data. Dr. Ahn has been a member of numerous Data and Safety Monitoring Committees and served on numerous study sections and grant review panels of the NIH, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and Centers for Disease Control. He worked as a PI of the Biostatistics and Data Management Core of the NIH-funded SCCOR center grant, and multi-center studies.
Medical School
Carnegie Mellon University (1986)
Honors
No Honors0
Language
Korean English