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

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 Apr 22 PMID: 33895401 PMCID: PMC8061634 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85107113196 04/26/2021
Is autologous transplant in relapsed DLBCL patients achieving only a PET+ PR appropriate in the CAR T-cell era?

(Shah NN, Ahn KW, Litovich C, He Y, Sauter C, Fenske TS, Hamadani M.) Blood. 2021 Mar 11;137(10):1416-1423 PMID: 33120429 PMCID: PMC7955408 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85102604135 10/30/2020
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 Feb 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
Statistical Methods for Time-Dependent Variables in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Studies.

(Kim S, Logan B, Riches M, Chen M, Ahn KW.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Feb;27(2):125-132 PMID: 33017663 PMCID: PMC8015678 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85093960710 10/06/2020
Impact of Reduced-Intensity Conditioning Regimens on Outcomes in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Undergoing Allogeneic Transplantation.

(Epperla N, Ahn KW, Khanal M, Litovich C, Ahmed S, Ghosh N, Fenske TS, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Sureda A, Hamadani M.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Jan;27(1):58-66 PMID: 32956819 PMCID: PMC7972998 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85093981145 09/22/2020
Allogeneic Transplant Conditioning Regimens for Patients With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma-Reply.

(Hamadani M, Litovich C, Ahn KW.) JAMA Oncol. 2020 12 01;6(12):1984 PMID: 33151256 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85095867531 11/06/2020
Timing of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients.

(Hu B, Lin X, Lee HC, Huang X, Tidwell RSS, Ahn KW, Hu ZH, Jabbour E, Verstovsek S, Ravandi F, Garcia-Manero G, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Hossain NM, Marks DI, Kamble RT, Inamoto Y, Kindwall-Keller T, Saad A, Litzow MR, Savani BN, Hale GA, Bacher U, Gerds AT, Liesveld JL, Ustun C, Olsson RF, Daly A, Grunwald MR, Solh M, DeFilipp Z, Aljurf M, Wirk B, Akpek G, Nishihori T, Cerny J, Seo S, Hsu JW, Champlin R, de Lima M, Alyea E, Popat U, Sobecks R, Scott BL, Kantarjian H, Cortes J, Saber W.) Leuk Lymphoma. 2020 12;61(12):2811-2820 PMID: 32662346 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089288816 07/15/2020
Association of Reduced-Intensity Conditioning Regimens With Overall Survival Among Patients With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Undergoing Allogeneic Transplant.

(Ghosh N, Ahmed S, Ahn KW, Khanal M, Litovich C, Aljurf M, Bacher VU, Bredeson C, Epperla N, Farhadfar N, Freytes CO, Ganguly S, Haverkos B, Inwards D, Kamble RT, Lazarus HM, Lekakis L, Murthy HS, Nishihori T, Ramakrishnan P, Rizzieri DA, Yared JA, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Sureda A, Hamadani M.) JAMA Oncol. 2020 07 01;6(7):1011-1018 PMID: 32496525 PMCID: PMC7273311 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086233103 06/05/2020
Comparison of total body irradiation versus non- total body irradiation containing regimens for de novo acute myeloid leukemia in children.

(Dandoy CE, Davies SM, Ahn KW, He Y, Kolb AE, Levine J, Bo-Subait S, Abdel-Azim H, Bhatt N, Chewing J, Gadalla S, Gloude N, Hayashi R, Lalefar NR, Law J, MacMillan M, O'Brien T, Prestidge T, Sharma A, Shaw P, Winestone L, Eapen M.) Haematologica. 2020 06 18 PMID: 32554562 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086742043 06/20/2020
Investigating the Trajectory of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Milwaukee County and Projected Effects of Relaxed Distancing.

(Bemanian A, Ahn KW, O'Brien M, Rausch DJ, Weston B, Beyer KMM.) WMJ. 2020 Jun;119(2):84-90 PMID: 32659059 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85088027487 07/14/2020
Survival following allogeneic transplant in patients with myelofibrosis.

(Gowin K, Ballen K, Ahn KW, Hu ZH, Ali H, Arcasoy MO, Devlin R, Coakley M, Gerds AT, Green M, Gupta V, Hobbs G, Jain T, Kandarpa M, Komrokji R, Kuykendall AT, Luber K, Masarova L, Michaelis LC, Patches S, Pariser AC, Rampal R, Stein B, Talpaz M, Verstovsek S, Wadleigh M, Agrawal V, Aljurf M, Angel Diaz M, Avalos BR, Bacher U, Bashey A, Beitinjaneh AM, Cerny J, Chhabra S, Copelan E, Cutler CS, DeFilipp Z, Gadalla SM, Ganguly S, Grunwald MR, Hashmi SK, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Kindwall-Keller T, Kröger N, Lazarus HM, Liesveld JL, Litzow MR, Marks DI, Nathan S, Nishihori T, Olsson RF, Pawarode A, Rowe JM, Savani BN, Savoie ML, Seo S, Solh M, Tamari R, Verdonck LF, Yared JA, Alyea E, Popat U, Sobecks R, Scott BL, Nakamura R, Mesa R, Saber W.) Blood Adv. 2020 05 12;4(9):1965-1973 PMID: 32384540 PMCID: PMC7218417 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086108920 05/10/2020

Biostatistics