Xiudong Jennifer Lei
Houston,Texas
Summary
Self-motivated Data Analyst offering 15+ years of leadership experience. Methodical with significant experience in literature research, data mining, statistical analysis and manuscript writing. Expert in analyzing large data sets with a focus on real-world evidence including electronic health records, medical claims data, cancer registries. Highly-motivated with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Principle Statistical Analyst
M D Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
01.2023 - Current
Serves as an expert and leads the design and development of the analytic methods for advanced research and development in literature search, data processing and analysis techniques, and written of peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Advances clinical and scientific research projects by designing complex methods/programs tailored to meet specific clinical and research objectives.
Leads the design, analysis, and development of data analysis with a focus on real-world evidence (RWE) for complex applications in clinical and observational data.
Leads the development, testing and revision of program algorithms tailored for claims-based observational analysis.
Directs and consults with staff and faculty in analyzing, defining and resolving research problems with a focus on evidence-based research. Data sources included but not limited to electronic health records, medical claims data, product or disease registries, and data gathered from other sources like digital health technologies.
Manages research projects involving data science methods under the direction of a faculty member or designee.
Communicates with faculty members inside and outside of the institution to improve data analysis techniques and manuscript production.
Director
Center for Research and Analytics, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Alexandria, VA
01.2022 - Current
Principle Statistical Analyst
M D Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
01.2014 - 01.2022
Research Statistician
M D Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
01.2006 - 01.2014
Biostatistician
Chiron Corporation
Emeryville, CA
01.2005 - 01.2006
- Expertise and skills
- Clinical Trial Design
- Provided designs for over 10 phase I - II clinical protocols
- Provided a full Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) and statistical considerations section for a NIH-funded clinical trial and listed as the primary statistician
- Familiar with protocol design methodology such as accelerated titration design, 3 + 3 design, adaptive randomization, block randomization, two-stage or multiple-stage design, Bayes factor time-to-event and binary design, group sequential design, etc
- Reviewed over 80 protocols for M
Education
Ph.D - Biostatistics
University of California
01.2005
M.S - Statistics
University of Cincinnati
01.2001
B.E - Environmental Engineering
Tsinghua University
01.1996
Skills
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Mining
- Database Management
- Intelligence Gathering
- SAS, SPLUS, R expertise
- Advanced mathematical abilities
- Machine Learning
Accomplishments
- D Anderson Cancer Center
- Served as the primary statistician for 10 protocols
- Provided yearly summary reports of two protocols reviewed by Data Safety and Monitoring Committee (DSMB) of M D Anderson Cancer Center, and one protocol reviewed by the Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) of the National Institutional Health (NIH)
- Fluent in statistical design software including EAST, nQuery, NCSS-PASS
- Knowledge in both frequentist and Bayesian design methods
- Clinical Trial Software Package
- Served as the lead programmer for the software package BayesFactorBinary and BayesFactorTTE (both were released on the webpage at the Department of Biostatistics at M D Anderson Cancer Center at https://biostatistics.mdanderson.org/SoftwareDownload/)
- Familiar with programming language including C, C#
- Knowledge in both windows and Unix programming environment
- Statistical Methodology
- Published 5 papers as first author or co-author in statistical journals including Biometrics, Statistics in Medicine, Biometrika, Lifetime Data Analysis, and American Journal of Epidemiology
- Served as referee for paper in Lifetime Data Analysis
- Health Services Research / Real World Evidence (RWE) Data Science
- Over 100 publications as co-author in biomedical journals including Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA Oncology, Cancer, etc
- Significant contribute to grant applications and protocol designs
- Expertise in health services research access to care, health care processes, outcomes, and cost for individuals and population in the following big databases
- Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) and Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) Medicare linked data
- 100% National Medicare
- IBM Truven Health MarketScan data
- Optum Clinformatics Data Mart and Optum Electronic Health Research (EHR) COVID-19 Data
- National Cancer Database
- Expertise in survey questionnaire and patient-reported outcomes (PRO) longitudinal analysis
- Expertise in survival analysis including competing risks, meta-analysis, and recurrent events, longitudinal data analysis, generalized linear models, hierarchical structure and correlated outcomes, multiple imputation for missing data and recursive partitioning analysis
- Fluent in statistical software packages including SAS, SPLUS, and R
- Teaching experience
- Graduate School of Biomedical Science
- M D Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
- Instructor, Introduction to Mathematical Probabilities, 2006-2007
Languages
- English, speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency
- Chinese, native language
Timeline
Principle Statistical Analyst
M D Anderson Cancer Center
01.2023 - Current
Director
Center for Research and Analytics, American Society of Clinical Oncology
01.2022 - Current
Principle Statistical Analyst
M D Anderson Cancer Center
01.2014 - 01.2022
Research Statistician
M D Anderson Cancer Center
01.2006 - 01.2014
Biostatistician
Chiron Corporation
01.2005 - 01.2006
Ph.D - Biostatistics
University of California
M.S - Statistics
University of Cincinnati
B.E - Environmental Engineering
Tsinghua University
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