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Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Ph.D.

 (Syllabification: Mu-lu-ge-ta  Geb-re-egzavier)
Professor of Biostatistics
Vice Chair for Academic Programs
Department of Public Health Sciences,
Medical University of South Carolina
135 Cannon St, Suite 303, Charleston, SC 29425
Phone: 843-876-1112;   Fax:   843-876-1126

Research Health Scientist
Leader, Methodology Core
Health Equity and Rural Outreach Innovation Ctr (HEROIC)
RHJ VA Medical Center

Director and PI
Region IV Public Health Training Center for South Carolina

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfMulugeta

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

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skype: mulugeta.gebz
e-mail: gebregz at musc dot edu
Webpage: http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/dbe/MulugetaGebregziabher.htm
Board membership in Charities: ED-REAP WFF
Recent Activities

DPHS Global Health Symposium 2022- Health Crisis of War

The Health Crisis of War and It's Human Impact

CURRENT TEACHING                                                                        

WHERE TO FIND MY PUBLICATIONS? 

Media Appearance

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Methodology
- Modified Cox Regression - competing risk models
- Joint Modeling of multiple longitudinal outcomes, Missing data analysis (missing covariates, missing race/ethnicity at the VA), & analysis of semi-continuous data 
Zero-inflated count data from complex surveysfMRI data analysis, mixture modeling or latent class analysis
- Risk prediction modeling, Multimorbidity modeling

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
Journals where some of my Publications appeared

Favorites
CL-Theorem
Math Exp't  Mathematicians
Statisticians
Reference
Ethiopia
Applied Statistics

Committee Membership

CGS Council
HEROIC Executive
CEPH accreditation
MPH Community
MPH Steering
MPH Curriculum
MUSC Faculty Senate
MUSC IP Advisory
DPHS Advanced Exam
DPHS Seminar
DPHS Curriculum
MPH program, chair
CGS Council

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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

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

World Of Statistics 2014