Xuelin Huang Revised on September 18, 2002

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Xuelin Huang, Ph.D.

Address: 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Unit 447

Houston, TX 77030-4009

Telephone: (713) 794-4172

Fax: (713) 745-4940

E-mail: xlhuang@mdanderson.org

Education: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Ph.D. in Biostatistics received August 2002

Dissertation title: Analysis of Correlated Survival Data with Dependent Censoring

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

Master of Science in Mathematics received May 1997

Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

Bachelor of Science in Probability and Statistics received July 1994

Awards: University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Travel Grant, March 2002

Best Student Paper Award in the Biopharmaceutical Section

American Statistical Association, Atlanta, GA, August 2001

National Science Foundation traveling grant to the NSF/CBMS Regional Conference in Statistical Inference in Genetic Data, Houghton, MI, July 1999

Employment

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

August 2002 ¾ Present

Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics

University of Michigan.

September 1997 ¾ July 2002

Graduate Assistant, Department of Mathematics

Texas A&M University.

September 1995 ¾ May 1997

Statistical Analysis Experience

Working as a statistical analyst in the following projects in the University of Michigan:

(1) Mammography Intervention Project. A five-year project to increase mammography screening (to detect breast cancer at an early stage) among elderly rural and minority women. Conducted by the Department of Medical Education, in collaboration with the Departments of Biostatistics, Health Management and Policy, Internal Medicine, etc.

(2) Dialysis Outcome and Practice Patterns Study. A study of dialysis as part of the treatment for end-stage kidney disease. Working in the Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center.

(3) Annual Data Reports for Scientific Registry of Transplantation Recipients. Working in the Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center.

(4) Survey of the Effect of Reimbursement Change on Medical Education. Conducted by the Medical Education Department.

(5) Genetics of Age-Sensitive Traits in Mice. Working in the Institute of Gerontology. Designed databases for the nine laboratories in medical school participating in this project (PI in Pathology Department), also designed and maintained the master database, using Microsoft Visual Basic for Access.

Publications

Huang X and Wolfe RA. (2002). A Frailty Model for Informative Censoring. Biometrics, Volume 58, No. 3, 510-520.

Harrison RV, Janz NK, Wolfe RA, Tedeschi PJ, Stross JK, Huang X, and McMahon LF (2002). Five Year Mammography Rates and Associated Factors for Older Women. Cancer. Accepted.

Harrison RV, Janz NK, Wolfe RA, Tedeschi PJ, Stross JK, Huang X, and McMahon LF (2002). Personalized Letter Increases Mammography among Long Term Non-compliant Medicare Beneficiaries. Medical Care. Accepted.

Harrison RV, Janz NK, Wolfe RA, Tedeschi PJ, Stross JK, Huang X, and McMahon LF (2002). Characteristics of Primary Care Physicians and Their Practices Associated with Mammography Rates for Older Women. Submitted to Medical Care.

Strawderman RL, Huang X.(2000) A Note on Breslow Estimator for Survival Functions. Technical Report, Biometrics Department, Cornell University.

Contributed Presentations

A Frailty Model for Informative Censoring. Joint Statistical Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2001

A Test for Independent Censoring Using Correlated Survival Data. The International Biometrics Society, Eastern Northern American Region (ENAR), Arlington, VA, March 2002

The Analysis of Clustered Survival Data with Dependent Censoring. Joint Statistical Meeting, New York City, NY, August 2002