Jose-Miguel Yamal

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About

Dr. Yamal is the Director of the Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials at UTHealth and a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science. He is a clinical trialist and data scientist with extensive experience with the design and analysis of clinical and diagnostic trials. Dr. Yamal is the PI of the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for the PCORI-sponsored multi-site BEST-MSU trial, a comparative effectiveness trial of a mobile stroke unit. He was also the Principal Investigator of the Statistical Core for a NIH-sponsored Phase II clinical trial EPO Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Trial studying the effects of Erythropoietin on Cerebral Vascular Dysfunction & Anemia. He is the co-lead developer of the TexasPandemic.org dashboard, an interactive tool to help identify and understand Covid-19 trends in Texas communities. He also leads the DCC of a cluster-randomized trial in schools. Other research projects include work on the landmark NIH-sponsored ALLHAT study, and using optical technologies to image the cervix and using machine learning methods to detect cervical pre-cancers. This has included the development of advanced machine learning methods to classify high-dimensional optical data. Dr. Yamal currently serves as a member of NIH grant review and DSMB committees for several multi-site clinical trials. He trained at Rice University and completed a postdoctoral position at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

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Center Affiliation

Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials

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Research Interests

• Big Data/Data Science
• Biostatistics
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular and Chronic Diseases
• Clinical Trials
• Epidemiology
• Infectious Disease