Professor
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Medicine
Dr. Kuo is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics & Data Science at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). Her research assesses patterns of care, treatment toxicities, and health outcomes using a variety of large data sets. She also examines health care delivery focused on hospitalist care and its impact, and the use and effectiveness of primary care provided by nurse practitioners for older adults. She has been involved in several pharmacoepidemiology studies using Medicare or commercial insurance claims data. Currently, her NIH funded research focuses on effectiveness, toxicity, and safety of opioid and benzodiazepine substitutes, and the effect of annual wellness visit on dementia care. As a biostatistician, she serves as the director of Biostatistics and Analysis Core for several center grants funded by the NIH. She is also the PI of a core facility award funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. She has been a primary mentor of K01, K07 junior faculty, F30, and F31 pre-doc, and a biostatistics mentor for more than 100 trainees. Her expertise is in the analyses for comparative effectiveness research, pharmacoepidemiology, and health outcomes studies.