Emily Slade, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and the founding Director of the Biostatistics Consulting and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Lab (Biostat CIRCL). More information about the Biostat CIRCL can be found at https://cph.uky.edu/departments/biostatistics/biostat-circl.
Dr. Slade focuses on developing infrastructure and training to promote effective team science with biostatisticians. As contact PI, she leads an R25 titled “Quantitative Team Science (QuanTS) Program” to develop a national training and mentorship program in collaborative skills for biostatisticians and other quantitative scientists working on interdisciplinary biomedical research teams. She also promotes the value of team science through teaching and mentoring students in statistical consulting and collaboration skills.
Dr. Slade also collaborates with researchers in a wide range of biomedical areas through her work with the Biostat CIRCL and the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Core in UK’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science. She is a co-investigator on multiple funded projects in the areas of opioid use disorder and health promotion in underserved populations.
Select publications are shown below. For more, see Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OYIGzEoAAAAJ
Slade E, Jurkovitz CT, Messinger S, Oster RA, Pomann G, Taylor SL, Brearley AM. (2025). Advancing workforce development and scientific collaboration: A novel resource for biostatistical education. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 9(1): e11. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2024.69
Slade E, Robbins SJK, McQuerry KJ, Mangino AA. (2024). The value of flexible funding for collaborative biostatistics units in universities and academic medical centres. Stat, 13(2): e679. https://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.679
Slade E, Brearley AM, Coles A, Hayat MJ, Kulkarni PM, Nowacki AS, Oster RA, Posner MA, Samsa G, Spratt H, Troy J, Pomann GM. (2023). Essential team science skills for biostatisticians on collaborative research teams. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 7(1): E243. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2023.676
Ellis AR, Slade E. (2023). A new era of learning: Considerations for ChatGPT as a tool to enhance statistics and data science education. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 31(2): 128-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2023.2223609
Slade E, Kern PA, Kegebein RL, Liu C, Thompson JC, Kelly TH, King VL, DiPaola RS, Surratt HL. (2023). Collaborative team dynamics and scholarly outcomes of multidisciplinary research teams: A mixed-methods approach. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 7(1): E59. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2023.9
Slade E, Mangino A, Daniels L, Liford M, Quesinberry D. (2022). Modeling overdose case fatality rates over time: The collaborative process. Stat, 12(1): e510. https://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.510
Slade E, Dwoskin LP, Zhang GQ, Talbert JC, Chen J, Freeman PR, Kantak KM, Hankosky ER, Fouladvand S, Meadows AL, Bush HM. (2020). Integrating data science into the translational science research spectrum: A substance use disorder case study. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 5(1): e29. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2020.521
Slade E, Naylor MG. (2020). A fair comparison of tree-based and parametric methods in multiple imputation by chained equations. Statistics in Medicine, 39(8): 1156-1166. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8468
Link to Google Scholar for more publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OYIGzEoAAAAJ
University of Kentucky (UK) College of Public Health (CPH) researchers, in collaboration with investigators from the College of Medicine and the Co
Members of the Department of Biostatistics (BST) at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, will be presenting at the 2022 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) international conference held in Washington, DC, August 6-11.
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