Dr. Li is a biostatician with expertise in the application of high dimensional data to improve health outcomes. He serves as the Director of the Kidney Epidemiology Cost Center (UM-KECC), and he is involved developing metrics to evaluate the country’s dialysis centers, helping the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services improve their policies for kidney patients, using big data to predict survival for kidney disease, assessing disparities in dialysis mortality outcomes, and also developing methods to analyze genomic associations with chronic diseases. He has also developed a collaboration with West China Hospital - the largest hospital in China - to help monitor and improve their kidney dialysis facilities. Dr. Li also leads a multidisciplinary group focused on the development of cutting-edge methods for big data arising from biomedical sciences.
- Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of Michigan
- M.S., Biostatistics, University of Michigan
- M.S., Mathematics, Tulane University
- B.S., Mathematics, Nanjing University
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