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After serving as a Research Assistant in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, Dr. Xu received her academic appointment in 2003 as an Assistant Professor in the Center of American Indian Health Research of the College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She joined Houston Methodist Research Institute in 2007. Dr. Xu is an Associate Research Professor of Biostatistics in the Center for Outcomes Research and Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center at Houston Methodist Research Institute.
Research interests
Dr. Xu’s biostatistics work has primarily focused on cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, renal disease, and cancer. She was the biostatistician for the NIH-funded Strong Heart Study, the largest and longest longitudinal study of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in American Indians.
Dr. Xu’s current biostatistics studies include NIH and DoD-funded studies in brain metastatic tumors and breast cancer.
Education/Academic qualification
Statistics, PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jul 1 1999 → Jun 30 2003
Statistics, MS, York University, Toronto, Canada
Jul 1 1998 → Jun 30 1999
BSc, Sichuan University
Jul 1 1982 → Jun 30 1986
Research Area Keywords
- Outcomes, Quality & Health Care Performance
- Systems Medicine & Bioinformatics
Free-text keywords
- Biostatistics
- Clinical trial data analysis
- Survival data analysis
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- Nutrition
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Nanotechnology-based targeting of breast cancer liver metastases
Godin, B., Chen, S., Niravath, P. A., Rosato, R. R. & Xu, S.
3/1/21 → 2/29/24
Project: Federal Funding Agencies
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An evaluation of pelvic floor disorders in a public and private healthcare setting
Agu, I., Smith, F. K., Murarka, S., Xu, J., Siddiqui, G., Orejuela, F., Muir, T. W. & Antosh, D. D., Mar 2023, In: International Urogynecology Journal. 34, 3, p. 693-699 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Association Between Perioperative Chemotherapy and Survival in Men Undergoing Radical Resection for Primary Urethral Urothelial Carcinoma: An Analysis of the National Cancer Database
Celtik, K., Lim, K., Dursun, F., Xu, J., Klaassen, Z., Zhang, J., Efstathiou, E., Sonpavde, G., Wallis, C. & Satkunasivam, R., Jun 2022, In: Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 20, 3, p. 244-251 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Clinical factors and association with treatment modalities in patients with breast cancer and brain metastases who develop leptomeningeal metastases
Puri, A., Mylavarapu, C., Xu, J., Patel, T. A., S.Teh, B., Tremont-Lukats, I., Chang, J. C. & Niravath, P., Jun 2022, In: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 193, 3, p. 613-623 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Clinical outcomes and patterns of population-based management of urachal carcinoma of the bladder: An analysis of the National Cancer Database
Dursun, F., Lim, K., Svatek, R. S., Xu, J., El-Zaatari, Z. M., Wenker, E. P., Klaassen, Z. W., Mansour, A. M., Muhammad, T., Efstathiou, E., Sonpavde, G. P., Wallis, C. J. D. & Satkunasivam, R., Nov 2022, In: Cancer Medicine. 11, 22, p. 4273-4282 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Degree of change in right ventricular adaptation measures during axillary Impella support informs risk stratification for early, severe right heart failure following durable LVAD implantation
Hsi, B., Joseph, D., Trachtenberg, B., Bhimaraj, A., Suarez, E. E., Xu, J., Guha, A. & Kim, J. H., Mar 2022, In: Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 41, 3, p. 279-282 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Scopus citations