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Sixia Chen

Welcome to my homepage! I am currently an associate professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. 


CONTACT INFO

Phone: (405) 271-2229 x48628

Office: The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 801 NE 13th St, Room 325, Oklahoma City, OK 73104

Email: Sixia-Chen@ouhsc.edu

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

RESEARCH INTERESTS

AWARDS

GRANTS

Funded

Pending

TEACHING

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

I have more than 15 year’s practical experience in survey sampling and missing data analysis. I worked on many survey projects such as National Resource Inventory (NRI), National Health Nutrition and Examination Survey (NHANES), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct (CCSSASM), Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), Programmer for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), Minnesota Survey on Adult Substance use (MSASU),  Oklahoma Tribal Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Oklahoma tobacco stops with me (TSWM), Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Healthy Living Program Community Member Survey (TSET HLP), Oklahoma shape your future survey, Cherokee Nation Adult Tobacco Survey and so on. For those surveys, I have done power calculation, sampling, weighting, imputation, nonresponse bias analysis, statistical disclosure control and statistical analysis.

PUBLICATIONS

Quality of Life Research, 30(9):2497-2507. doi: 10.1007/s11136-021-02830-4. Epub 2021 Apr 10. PMID: 33837892; PMCID: PMC8658625

PRESENTATIONS (Italic refers to students or mentees. * refers to presenters)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

1. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 

2. The European Science Foundation 

3. NIH Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD) Study Section (Declined due to Covid-19)

4. Southern Plains Tribal Health Board/ Oklahoma Area Tribal Epidemiology Center Good Health and Wellness Sub-Award 

5. NIH Genetics of Health and Disease (GHD) study section 

6. Reviewer for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) 

Associate Editor, Journal of the Korean Statistical Society (JKSS), 1/2018-Current

Associate EditorScandinavian Journal of Statistics (SJS), 4/2019-Current

Associate Editor, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology  (JSSAM), 7/2019-Current 

Associate Editor, Survey Methodology, 2021-Current

Guest Editor, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , Special Issue on "Innovative Statistical Analysis in Public Health ", 2022-2023

Guest Editor, Mathematics, Special Issue on "New Advances in Statistics and Econometrics", 2023-2024

Faculty Board Chair, 2023-2024

Ad hoc tenure review committee for Health Promotion Sciences, 9/2023-present

Academic Programs Council (APC) committee member (representing College of Public Health),  8/2018-10/2020

College awards committee (representing department of biostatistics and epidemiology), 3/2019-4/2020

College of Public Health APC committee member (representing department of biostatistics and epidemiology), 8/2017-7/2020

Provisional position on the Academic Appeals Board at OUHSC, 4/2019-5/2020

Provisional position, 2019-2022

Bylaws Committee, 2021-2023

Biostatistics admissions committee at OUHSC, 7/2019-8/2022

OUHSC Research and Graduate Student Affairs Committee, 1/2021-Current

Vice President of American Statistical Association (ASA) Oklahoma Chapter, 2018-2020

President of American Statistical Association (ASA) Oklahoma Chapter, 2020-2021

Council of Chapters Representative, 2020-2023

MENTORING EXPERIENCE

1. Sheila Kelley (DrPH, Committee Member)

1. Alexander Stubblefield (Master in Biostatistics, Advisor, Research Topic: Oversampling minority population and imputation method, Graduated in May 2019, Now he is PhD candidate at Department of Economics at Michigan State University, Alex won OUHSC Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award)

2. Ben Gochanour (Master in Biostatistics, Advisor, Research Topic: Multiply robust estimation in casual inference, Graduated in May 2021, Now he is PhD candidate at Department of Biostatistics at University of Minnesota, Ben won the following three awards: 1. OUHSC Outstanding Master Thesis Award of the year in 2022, 2. OUHSC outstanding biostat student of the year in 2021, and 3. 2021 Robert M Bird Society Award)

3. Alexandra Milligan (Master in Biostatistics, Advisor, Research Topic: Improving the representativeness of TBRFSS by mordern data integration approaches. Graduated in August 2023) 

4. Steven Pan (Master in Biostatistics, Advisor, Graduated in May 2023)

5. Gideon Hallum (Master in Biostatistics, Committee Member, Graduated in July 2023)

6. Allison Wells (Master in Biostatistics, Committee Member, Graduated in May 2021)

7. Mark Camardo (Master in Biostatistics, Committee Member, Graduated in 2018)

8. Xi Chen (Master in Biostatistics, Committee Member, Graduated in 2016)

9. Zoona Sarwar (Master in Epidemiology, Committee Member, Graduated in 2017)

10. Ozair Naqvi (Master in Epidemiology, Committee Member, Graduated in 2018)

11. Donna Tyungu (Master in Pediatrics, Committee Member)

12. Midhun Malla (Master in Clinical and Translational Science, Graduated in June 2019)

1. Hibah Awwad (Faculty, Pharmaceutical Sciences)

2.  Sudarshan Seshadri (Resident, Microbiology & Immunology) 

3. Katerine Ntourou (Faculty, Communication Sci & Disorders)

4. Mary Hudson (Faculty, Communication Sci & Disorders) 

5. Yacoub AI Sakka (Faculty, Restorative Sciences) 

6. Suhair Jambi (Faculty, Restorative Sciences)

7. Sun Young Lee (Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology)

8. Wanda Robinson (Assistant Professor, College of Nursing)

9. Helen Milojevich (Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics)

10. Anna Nguyen (Assistant Professor, College of Nursing)

11. Jaewon Kim (Clinical Assistant Professor, OUHSC College of Dentistry Division of Periodontics)

12. Mark Newpower (Assistant Professor, OU College of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology )

REVIEWERS FOR JOURNALS