• PLGIM (Stata, SIM 2009)
• Missing Data (SAS, Biomt 2008)
• LCMI (SAS, JSPI 2010)
• GLMM for VLDS (SAS, Int Biost)
  
• QuanReg (SAS, BMC-MRM 2011)
• mGLMM for multivariate longitudinal data
  

• MUSC-Mekelle University Partnership  (7/2014)
• Eth Reporter Interview (9/2014)
• VOA Interview (7/2014)
• VOA Interview (12/2012)
• ED-REAP Excellence Award
• Post&Courier
• Reciepe 1
• Reciepe 2
• Reciepe 3
• Reciepe 4
  

Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Ph.D.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfMulugeta

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mulugeta-gebregziabher-31684042

• Invited speakers at SGIM22
• Sex differences in statin use
• Call for US action to help peace in Ethiopia
• Lancet appeal to world leaders
• IDF's urgent call for helping T2DM in Tigray, Ethiopia
• The BMJ letter from Ayder doctors
• BMJ Global Health - Impact of war on healthcare
• Professor gives back 
• Professor's family worries
• Gebregziabher's contributions
• APHA 2021 Talk
• Elected ASA Fellow
• Honored by ASA
• Invited Speaker at USC, Los Angeles, Nov 2018
• Invited Speaker and Organizer at HSR&D Symposium, Charleston, Oct 2018
• Invited Speaker at P2P,Crystal City, Oct 2018
• Organized a session and Presenter at JSM 2017, Baltimore, MD
• Organized a workshop at St Paul Medical College, Addis Ababa, Nov 2016
  

DPHS Global Health Symposium 2022- Health Crisis of War

• Digital Booklet with abstracts and biography of speakers  
• Symposium Flyer with registration link and QR code

The Health Crisis of War and It's Human Impact

• MUSC-CGH symposium April 14 2022
• MUSC Panel on Human Impact of War- Tigray, Syria & Ukraine
• The local media coverage (by NBC News 2) of the MUSC-CGH event
• Johns Hopkins University- the vulnerability of heath care in conflict -  April 13 2022
• Video recording of the JHU Bloobmberg SPH event

CURRENT TEACHING                                                                        

• BMTRY784: Biostatistics Methods III
• PHGEN770: ILE Planning
• BMTRY702: Methods III - Advanced ANOVA and Regression
• BMTRY702: Methods IV - Methods IV
• Epidemiology III - Statistics in Epidemiology
• Analysis of Zero Inflated Data, Summer Institute 2019
  
• Bayesian Biostatistics, Summer Institute 2012
• Bayesian Biostatistics, Summer Institute 2013
• Bayesian Biostatistics, Summer Institute 2015

WHERE TO FIND MY PUBLICATIONS? 

• PubMed Listing (partial list)
• NCBI My Bibliography
• ResearchGate listing
• Methdology papers in HSROM, JSPI, JCSDA and BMC-MRM
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Clinical or Application areas:

• Liver disease and FIB-4
• Health Services  (Veterans Health, Stroke, Cost, Comorbidities )
• Health Disparities  (Diabetes, CVD, Lung Cancer, CKD, HIV)
• Statistics in Epidemiology (Design & analysis of cohort & case-control)
  
• Global health in stroke in Africa, Diabetes, Screening for VIA, HIV
• Research capacity building in Clinical settings  in Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria), Digitizing Patient Data (EHR, EMR)
• Health Impacts of War and Armed Conflict
  
• Interprofessional research and education
  

AFFILATIONS

• Faculty- MUSC Global Health Institute
  
• Faculty- MUSC College of Graduate Studies
• Core Investigator- MUSC Center for Health Disparities Research
• Research Scientist & Biostatistician- RHJ VA Center of Innovation

MEMBERSHIP and HONOURS

• Director & PI, Region IV SC Public Health Training Center
• President, American Statistical Association SC Chapter, 2013-2015
• Editorial Board member: British Medical Journal-Heart, since 2013
• Editorial Board Member: Int J. of Biometrics and Biostatistics, since 2014
• Editorial Board Member: J of Biometrics and Biostatistics, since 2012
• Publications Officer, Statistics in Imaging, ASA, since 2014
• Past President, Statistical Society of Ethiopians in North America, 2013
• President, Statistical Society of Ethiopians in North America, 2012
• President Elect, Statistical Society of Ethiopians in North America, 2011
• Vice President, American Statistical Association SC Chapter,  2011-13
• American Statistical Association (ASA), since 2005
• Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region (ENAR), since 2006
• Ethiopian Statistical Association, since 1994 (executive committee 2000-01)
• Organization of Social Science Research Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)
• Secretary -Ethiopian Diaspora Research & Education Advancement (ED-REAP)
• Vice President - Security and Justice for Tigrayans (SJT, 501(c(3)))
• Board Member- Worldwide Fistula Fund (WFF, 501(c(3)))
• Board Member- Tigray Community of the Carolinas (TigCoC, 501(c(3))))

• Tailored education in Ethiopia
• Signed MoU with St Paul Millenium Medical College (March 2015)
• Signed MoU with College of Health Sc Mekelle University (July 2014)
• Awarded Pilot grant from Center for Global Health (June 2014)
• DOM newsletter (Aug 2011)
• DOM newsletter (July 2011)
• MUSC Catalyst (May 2010)
• DOM News Letter (April 2010)
• DOM News Letter (March.'10)
• DOM News Letter (July 2009) 
• MUSC Catalyst (March 21,'08)  

• DPHS-MUSC
• USC-Keck School of Medicine
• AAU
• BGSU
• Belgium Development Cooperation Prize
• ASA
  
• Biometric Society, ENAR
• OSSREA
• ED-REAP
• SJT

Some Key Publications (from over 250)

1. Mulugeta A. and Gebregziabher M.War prevention and mitigation are public health imperatives. The Lancet Global Health. 2022.
2. Gebregziabher M, Amdeselassie F, Reiye I, et al.  Geographical distribution of the health crisis of war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. BMJ Global Health 2022.
3. Owolabi MO, Sarfo F, Akinyemi R, Gebregziabher M, Akpa O, Akpalu A, Wahab K, Obiako R, Owolabi L, Ovbiagele B; SIREN Team; as part of H3Africa Consortium. Dominant modifiable risk factors for stroke in Ghana and Nigeria (SIREN): a case-control study. Lancet Glob Health. 2018 Feb 26. pii: S2214-109X(18)30002-0. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30002-0. PMID: 29496511
4. Vrana-Diaz CJ, Korte JE, Gebregziabher M, Richey L, Selassie A, Sweat M, Kisa R, Musoke W, Chemusto H, Buregyeya E, Matovu JK, Wanyenze RK.Low acceptance of intimate partner violence by pregnant women in Uganda predicts higher uptake of HIV self-testing among their male partners. Afr J AIDS Res. 2021 Dec;20(4):287-296. doi: 10.2989/16085906.2021.2000449. PMID: 34905449 Clinical Trial.
5. Gesesew H, Berhane K, Siraj ES, Siraj D, Gebregziabher M, Gebre YG, Gebreslassie SA, Amdes F, Tesema AG, Siraj A, Aregawi M, Gezahegn S, Tesfay FH. The impact of war on the health system of the Tigray region in Ethiopia: an assessment. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Nov;6(11):e007328. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007328.PMID: 34815244 
6. Jaffa MA, Gebregziabher M, Jaffa AA.Shared parameter and copula models for analysis of semicontinuous longitudinal data with nonrandom dropout and informative censoring. Stat Methods Med Res. 2021 Nov 22:9622802211060519. doi: 10.1177/09622802211060519 . PMID: 34806502
7. Ward R, Weeda E, Taber DJ, Axon RN, Gebregziabher M. Advanced models for improved prediction of opioid-related overdose and suicide events among Veterans using administrative healthcare data. Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol. 2021 Nov 2:1-21. doi: 10.1007/s10742-021-00263-7. PMID: 34744496 
8. Gonzales HM, Fleming JN, Gebregziabher M, Posadas Salas MA, McGillicuddy JW, Taber DJ.A Critical Analysis of the Specific Pharmacist Interventions and Risk Assessments During the 12-Month TRANSAFE Rx Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Pharmacother. 2021 Sep 8:10600280211044792. doi: 10.1177/10600280211044792. PMID: 34496669
9. Schreiner AD, Livingston S, Zhang J, Gebregziabher M, Marsden J, Koch DG, Petz CA, Durkalski-Mauldin VL, Mauldin PD, Moran WP. Identifying Patients at Risk for Fibrosis in a Primary Care NAFLD Cohort. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2021 Jul 22. doi: 10.1097/MCG.0000000000001585. PMID: 34294656
10. Taber DJ, Fleming JN, Su Z, Mauldin P, McGillicuddy JW, Posadas A, Gebregziabher M. Significant hospitalization cost savings to the payer with a pharmacist-led mobile health intervention to improve medication safety in kidney transplant recipients. Am J Transplant. 2021 Oct;21(10):3428-3435. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16737. Epub 2021 Jul 14. PMID: 34197699. 
11. Gebregziabher M, Ward R, Taber D, Walker R, Ozieh M, Axon RN, Egede LE. Ethnic and Geographic Variations in Multimorbidty: Evidence from Three Large Cohorts. Social Science and Medicine. 2018 Jun 21;211:198-206. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed. PMID: 29960171
12. Gebregziabher M, Eckert MA, Vaden K, Johnson TD, Lawson AB  (2017). Methods for the Analysis of Missing Data in FMRI Studies. Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics.208. 10.4172/2155-6180.1000335.
13. Gebregziabher M, Mark A. Eckert, Lois J. Matthews, Abeba A. Teklehaimanot & Judy R. Dubno (2018) Joint modeling of multivariate hearing thresholds measured longitudinally at multiple frequencies, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2017.1395045
14. Gebregziabher M, Delia Voronca, Abeba Teklehaimanot, Elizabeth J. Santa Ana (2015). Weibull mixture regression for marginal inference in zero-heavy continuous outcomes. Stat Methds in Med Research. 2015; PMID 25902801.
15. Gebregziabher M, Zhao Y, Dismuke C, Axon N, Hunt K, Egede LE. Joint Modeling of longitudinal multiple source cost data using multivariate generalized linear mixed models. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 2012;  Doi: 10.1007/s10742-012-0103
16. Egede LE, Gebregziabher M, Dismuke CE, Lynch P, Axon RN, Zhao Y, Mauldin PD. Medication Non-Adherence in Diabetes: Longitudinal Effects on Costs and Potential Cost-Savings from Improvement.  Diabetes Care, 2012 Aug 21 [Epub ahead of print], PMID:22912429
17. Gebregziabher M, Gumarease P, Conti D and Cozen W (2010). A polytomous conditional likelihood approach for combining matched and unmatched case-control studies. Stat in Med 29:1004-13.
18.  Gebregziabher M and DeSantis S (2010). Latent class based multiple imputation approach for missing categorical data. J. Statist. Plann. Inference (2010), doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2010.04.020
19. Gebregziabher M and Hoel D. Applications of the poly-k statistical test to life-time cancer bioassay studies. J Hum and Eco Risk Assessment 2009, 15:858-875.
20. Gebregziabher M and Langholz B (2009). A Semiparametric missing data induced method for missing covariate data in individually matched case-control studies. Biometrics. 2010 Sep;66(3):845-54.
21.  Gebregziabher M, Egede LE, et al (2010) Effect of Trajectories of glycemic control on mortality in type 2 diabetes: A semiparametric joint modeling approach.  Am J Epidemiol. 2010 May 15;171(10):1090-8. Epub 2010 Apr 27
22.  Lynch C, Gebregziabher M, Hunt KJ, Axon RN, Echols C, Gilbert GE, Egede LE. Differential Impact of longitudinal medication non-adherence on Mortality by Race/Ethnicity among Veterans with Diabetes. J Gen Intern Med. 2012 Sep 5. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:22948932)
23. Tanner N, Egede L,  Clayton S, Gebregziabher M; Silvestri G. Attitudes & beliefs toward lung cancer screening among US Veterans, CHEST  144(6): 1783-7,2013.
24. Owolabi MO, Akinyemi R, Gebregziabher M, Olaniyan L, Salako B, Arulogun O, Ovbiagele B. H3-Africa Consortium. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa. Science 344, 1346-48, 2014. 
25. Vaden KI Jr, Gebregziabher M, Kuchinsky SE, Eckert MA. Multiple imputation of missing fMRI data in whole brain analysis. Neuroimage. 2012 Apr 15;60(3):1843-55. Epub 2012 Feb 10. PMID 22500925

• BMTRY789-03: Advanced Regression Methods 
• BMTRY789-08: Cluster Analysis