Wonsuk Yoo, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience and a director of the Ivy Brain Tumor Center Biostatistics Program at Barrow Neurological Institute. During last 18 years, Dr. Yoo has been devoted in health science as a cancer biostatistician and a population-health scientist. He has the extensive experience in collaborative and independent research in various cancer areas.

He has expertise in cancer biostatistics for preclinical and clinical trial designs (early phases including Phase 0 studies) and in population-based cancer research. His research interests include (1) Evaluation of Phase 0 paradigm, (2) Growth modeling on longitudinal data in cancer surveillance data, (3) Mendelian randomization using instrumental methods in ALS and aSAH.

History

  • PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Biostatistics, 2005

    Predoctoral Internship, Wyeth Pharmaceutical Research, 2002

    MS, University of Florida, Statistics, 1999

    BS, Yonsei University

  • American Association for Cancer Research

    American Statistical Association

    American Public Health Association

  • Travel Scholarship Award, American Association for Cancer Research, Cancer Biostatistics Workshop, 2009

    Young Investigator’s Award, American Statistics Association, Statistics in Epidemiology Section, 2005

Contact

Email: wyoo153@gmail.com

Phone: (602) 406-7109

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Phoenix, Arizona 85013
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