Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD

Associate Professor

Locations

Biostatistics

Contact Information

Education

PhD, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2008
MS, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2005
BS, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2003

Research Experience

Survival and competing risks data analysis, high dimensional data analysis, missing data, bioinformatics, personalized medicine

Research Interests

Dr. Kwang Woo Ahn is an Associate Professor in the Division of Biostatistics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He joined the division in the fall of 2008. He has been collaborating with various research groups at MCW including Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), Department of Physiology, and Department of Plastic Surgery. In CIBMTR, he is serving as PhD statistician of several working committees including Chronic Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Pediatric Cancer. He is involved in projects on hypertension, next generation sequencing data from Physiology. His current research interest includes survival analysis and variable selection.

Curriculum Vitae

Effect of time to relapse on overall survival in patients with mantle cell lymphoma following autologous haematopoietic cell transplantation.

(Riedell PA, Hamadani M, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Brunstein CG, Cashen AF, Cohen JB, Epperla N, Hill BT, Im A, Inwards DJ, Lister J, McCarty JM, Ravi Kiran Pingali S, Shadman M, Shaughnessy P, Solh M, Stiff PJ, Vose JM, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera AF, Sauter CS, Smith SM.) Br J Haematol. 2021 Sep 28 PMID: 34581433 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85115835960 09/29/2021
Outcomes and Utilization Trends of Front-Line Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Mantle Cell Lymphoma.

(Riedell PA, Hamadani M, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Murthy GSG, Locke FL, Brunstein CG, Merryman RW, Stiff PJ, Pawarode A, Nishihori T, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera AF, Sauter CS, Smith SM.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Aug 24 PMID: 34450333 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85116436482 08/28/2021
Fludarabine and Melphalan Compared with Reduced Doses of Busulfan and Fludarabine Improve Transplantation Outcomes in Older Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes.

(Oran B, Ahn KW, Fretham C, Beitinjaneh A, Bashey A, Pawarode A, Wirk B, Scott BL, Savani BN, Bredeson C, Weisdorf D, Marks DI, Rizzieri D, Copelan E, Hildebrandt GC, Hale GA, Murthy HS, Lazarus HM, Cerny J, Liesveld JL, Yared JA, Yves-Cahn J, Szer J, Verdonck LF, Aljurf M, van der Poel M, Litzow M, Kalaycio M, Grunwald MR, Diaz MA, Sabloff M, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Majhail NS, Farhadfar N, Reshef R, Olsson RF, Gale RP, Nakamura R, Seo S, Chhabra S, Hashmi S, Farhan S, Ganguly S, Nathan S, Nishihori T, Jain T, Agrawal V, Bacher U, Popat U, Saber W.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Aug 14 PMID: 34403791 08/18/2021
Incidence rate of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) among nurses in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) units versus non-COVID-19-units at a large academic medical center.

(Rivera F, Huerta S, Ahn KW, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Aug 02:1-2 PMID: 34338169 PMCID: PMC8367872 08/03/2021
Outcomes Associated With Thiotepa-Based Conditioning in Patients With Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma After Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplant.

(Scordo M, Wang TP, Ahn KW, Chen Y, Ahmed S, Awan FT, Beitinjaneh A, Chen A, Chow VA, Dholaria B, Epperla N, Farooq U, Ghosh N, Grover N, Hamad N, Hildebrandt GC, Holmberg L, Hong S, Inwards DJ, Jimenez-Jimenez A, Karmali R, Kenkre VP, Khimani F, Klyuchnikov E, Krem MM, Munshi PN, Nieto Y, Prestidge T, Ramakrishnan Geethakumari P, Rezvani AR, Riedell PA, Seo S, Shah NN, Solh M, Yared JA, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera A, Hamadani M, Sauter CS.) JAMA Oncol. 2021 Jul 01;7(7):993-1003 PMID: 33956047 PMCID: PMC8283558 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105866863 05/07/2021
COVID-19 and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Center-Specific Survival Analysis: Can We Adjust for the Impact of the Pandemic? Recommendations of the COVID-19 Task Force of the 2020 Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation Research Center Outcomes Forum.

(Wingard JR, Ahn KW, Dandoy C, Perales MA, Wood WA, Logan B, Riches M, Rizzo JD.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 07;27(7):533-539 PMID: 33895401 PMCID: PMC8061634 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85107113196 04/26/2021
Predicting asymptomatic severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection rates of inpatients: A time-series analysis.

(Rivera F, Ahn KW, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Jun 24:1-4 PMID: 34162451 PMCID: PMC8280390 06/25/2021
Optimal treatment regimes for competing risk data using doubly robust outcome weighted learning with bi-level variable selection.

(He Y, Kim S, Kim MO, Saber W, Ahn KW.) Comput Stat Data Anal. 2021 Jun;158 PMID: 33994608 PMCID: PMC8117077 05/18/2021
Correction: Allogeneic transplantation in elderly patients ≥65 years with non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a time-trend analysis.

(Shah NN, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Sureda A, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Awan FT, Ganguly S, Gergis U, Inwards D, Karmali R, Lazaryan A, Lekakis L, Munshi P, Nathan S, Saad AA, Solh M, Steinberg A, Vij R, Wood WA, Fenske TS, Smith S, Hamadani M.) Blood Cancer J. 2021 Apr 29;11(4):82 PMID: 33927193 PMCID: PMC8085088 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105142269 05/01/2021
A validated pediatric disease risk index for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

(Qayed M, Ahn KW, Kitko CL, Johnson MH, Shah NN, Dvorak C, Mellgren K, Friend BD, Verneris MR, Leung W, Toporski J, Levine J, Chewning J, Wayne A, Kapoor U, Triplett B, Schultz KR, Yanik GA, Eapen M.) Blood. 2021 02 18;137(7):983-993 PMID: 33206937 PMCID: PMC7918183 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85101021587 11/19/2020
Lactobacillus plantarum 299v probiotic supplementation in men with stable coronary artery disease suppresses systemic inflammation.

(Hofeld BC, Puppala VK, Tyagi S, Ahn KW, Anger A, Jia S, Salzman NH, Hessner MJ, Widlansky ME.) Sci Rep. 2021 Feb 17;11(1):3972 PMID: 33597583 PMCID: PMC7889883 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85101105180 02/19/2021
Stratified proportional subdistribution hazards model with covariate-adjusted censoring weight for case-cohort studies

(Kim S, Xu Y, Zhang MJ, Ahn KW.) Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. December 2020;47(4):1222-1242 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85085067973 12/01/2020

Biostatistics