Chap T. Le, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Director of Biostatistics and Informatics, Masonic Cancer Center
Dr. Le teaches "Regression" in Fall semester and "Statistics for Translational and Clinical Research" in the Spring. His collaborations have focused on the analyses of survival and categorical data; currently, major concentrations are in the areas of cancers and tobacco research. His own research interests are data-driven and include epidemiological methods, cross-over designs, survival analysis, ordered alternatives, ROC curves, and methods for the analysis of In Vitro experiments - especially Chemo-combination therapy. Dr. Le received the Leonard M. Schuman Excellence in Teaching award presented by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (1988) and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Post-Baccalaureate, Graduate and Professional Education by the University of Minnesota (2001; designated throughout his career at the University of Minnesota as "Distinguished Teaching Professor of Biostatistics"). He is the author of several text books [Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference(1992), Health and Numbers: Basic Biostatistical Methods(with JB Boen, 1995), Applied Survival Analysis (1997), Applied Categorical Data Analysis (1998), Health and Numbers: A Problems-based Introduction to Biostatistics (2001), Introductory Biostatistics (2003), Statistics Quick Reference Guide for Medical Affairs (2007), Health and Numbers: Introductory Biostatistics with Microsoft Excel (2009), and Applied Categorical Data Analysis and Translational Research (in press, 2009)] and research papers in Biometrics, Statistics in Medicine, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, and other journals in biomedical sciences. Dr. Le was born in Vietnam, is an Engineering graduate of California State University at Fresno, and received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Le spends most of his time providing statistical consulting for a variety of biomedical research projects.
Selected Recent Publications:
- Le C. T. and P. M. Grambsch. Design and Analysis of In Vitro
Experiments for Combination Chemotherapy. Journal of
Biopharmaceutical Statistics 15: 179--186, 2005.
- Le C. T. A Solution to the most basic Optimization Problem associated
with an ROC Curve. Statistical Methods in Medical Research : 15:
571-584, 2006.
- Sinha A. A., Morgan J. L., Betre K., Wilson M. J., Le C. T., and L. S. Marks.
Cathepsin B expression in prostate cancer of Japanese and Japanese-American patients: An
Immunohistochemical Study. Anticancer Research 28: 2271--2278, 2008.
- Majhail N. S., Brunstein C. G., McAlvoy S., DeFor T. E., Al-Hazzouri A., Setuba D., Arora M., Le C. T., Wagner J. E., and D. J. Weisdoff. Does the hematopoietic cell transplantation specific comorbility index predict transplantation outcomes? A validation study in a large cohort of umbilical cord blood and matched related donor transplants. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 14: 985-992, 2008.
- E-mail: chap@umn.edu
- To connect for full list of Publications, or my courses: PubH 7405: Regression, PubH 7470: Translational Research, or switch to U of M Biostatistics home page.
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