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Fei Ye, Ph.D., MSPH, FASA

Department:

Public Health Sciences

Division:

Biostatistics

Fei Ye, Ph.D., MSPH, FASA headshot

Roles

  • Executive Director, Clinical Trials and Quantitative Sciences
  • Assistant Director for Biostatistics, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource
  • Professor
  • Biography

    Fei Ye, PhD, MSPH, is a tenured Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Executive Director for Quantitative Sciences, and Assistant Director for Statistics for the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System.

    She earned both her MSPH and PhD in biostatistics from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. During her doctoral training, Dr. Ye completed an internship and her dissertation research at Vanderbilt University. After earning her doctorate, she joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she progressed from instructor to professor of biostatistics, co-directed the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Research Center, and served as vice chair of collaborative studies in the Department of Biostatistics. She also held a secondary appointment in the Division of Epidemiology within the Department of Medicine.

    Before joining Sylvester and the University of Miami, Dr. Ye was professor and vice chair of collaborative studies in the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In that role, she co-directed the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core for Vanderbilt’s Breast and Gastrointestinal Specialized Programs of Research Excellence and served on the Data Monitoring and Scientific Review Committees of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. At the national level, Dr. Ye serves as associate editor for statistics at JAMA Oncology, reviews for National Institutes of Health study sections in cancer prevention, immunotherapy, and clinical oncology, and is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association. She currently holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University.
  • Education & Training

    Education

    • 2007
      Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina at Columbia
      PhD, Philosophy in Biostatistics
    • 2004
      Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina at Columbia
      MS, Science in Public Health in Biostatistics
  • Honors & Awards

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    • Teaching Interests

      Dr. Ye has taught biostatistics to 12 cohorts of Vanderbilt MPH students, updating the curriculum annually to ensure relevance and rigor. She also developed advanced modules for Vanderbilt’s Epidemiology PhD program. Her “Regression and Modeling in R” course, offered through the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute, has reached a diverse audience, including students, postdocs, clinicians, and faculty from various disciplines. She served on numerous ?PhD, MS, and faculty mentoring committees, and ?has delivered lectures and workshops for international training programs and clinical investigators.
    • Research Interests

      Dr. Ye's research focuses on developing and applying biostatistical/bioinformatic methods to biomedical research areas such as cancer prevention, early detection, prognosis, predictive model development and validation, biomarker discovery, omics data analysis, and clinical trial design. Her work spans 200+ peer-reviewed publications.
    • Publications

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      • Professional Activities

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