University of California San Francisco

Chiung-Yu Huang large headshot
Chiung-Yu
Huang
PhD, MS

Professor
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics 

Address

550 16th Street, #2534
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States

    Education

    Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
    Johns Hopkins University Adjunct Professor 2018
    University of California Professor 2017
    Johns Hopkins University Associate Professor 2013
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Mathematical Statistician 2004
    Johns Hopkins University PhD Biostatistics 2002
    University of Minnesota Assistant Professor 2002
    National Tsing-Hua University MS Mathematics 1996
    National Tsing-Hua University BS Mathematics 1994

    Awards & Honors

    Award Conferred By Date
    Elected Fellow Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2025
    Y.S. Chow Distinguished Lecture Award Chinese Institute of Probability and Statistics 2022
    Elected Fellow American Statistical Association 2018
    Distinguished Alumni Award National Tainan Girls' Senior High School, Tainan, Taiwan 2017
    NIH Merit Award National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 2007
    Margaret Merrell Award Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 2002

    Program Affiliations

    World Health Organization

    Cameroon’s Ministry of Health

    Center for Global Surgical Studies

    Grants and Funding

    • Improving causal inference in Alzheimer's Disease prevention research on modifiable risk factors: the Triangulation of Innovative Methods to End AD (TIME-AD) project | NIH/NIA | 2024-09-01 - 2029-08-31 | Role: Co-lead of Analytics Core
    • Cancer Center Support Grant – Biostatistics & Population Research Shared Resource | NIH/NCI | 2023-09-01 - 2028-05-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
    • The impact of body composition on peri-operative and patient-centered outcomes in lung transplantation | NIH/NHLBI | 2022-08-01 - 2027-07-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
    • CF Statistical Expertise and Network (CF StatNet) Award | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | 2022-09-01 - 2025-08-31 | Role: Statistician
    • Mixed Data Meta-analysis: Integration of Individual Participant and Aggregate Data | PCORI | 2021-11-01 - 2025-01-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
    • Predicting post-transplant mortality and global functional health based on pre-transplant functional status in liver transplantation | NIH | 2018-06-15 - 2023-05-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
    • UCSF Liver Core Center, Biostatistics Core | NIH/NIDDK | 2018-06-01 - 2023-05-31 | Role: Statistician
    • Cancer Center Support Grant | NIH | 1999-08-05 - 2023-05-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
    • Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation Research (UCSF Coordinating Center) | NIH/NIAID | 2021-09-01 - 2023-01-31 | Role: Statistician
    • A novel natural history study of medullary thyroid carcinoma | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | 2019-09-01 - 2022-07-31 | Role: Statistician
    • Statistical Methods for Survival and Recurrent Event Data in Clinical Research | NIH | 2015-07-01 - 2021-06-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • Reprogramming the pancreatic tumor microenvironment with immunotherapy | NIH/NCI | 2015-07-01 - 2020-06-30 | Role: Statistician/Principal Investigator (Subaward)
    • Comparing Patient Centered Outcomes in the Management of Pain between Emergency Departments and Dedicated Acute Care Facilities for Adults with Sickle Cell disease | PCORI | 2017-09-01 - 2018-12-31 | Role: Statistician/Principal Investigator (Subaward)

    Research Interests

    Violence and Injury Prevention

    Management of Health Services

    Strengthening Health Systems

    Positioning Injury Prevention as a Priority Area in the National Health Agenda

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 185
    1. Scalable estimation for high velocity survival data able to accommodate adding covariates
      Sheng Y, Sun Y, McCulloch CE, Huang CY| | UCSF Research Profile
    2. Clinically relevant cut-points for changes in the Liver Frailty Index are associated with waitlist mortality in patients with cirrhosis.
      Wang M, Shui AM, Ruck J, Huang CY, Verna EC, King EA, Ladner DP, Ganger D, Kappus M, Rahimi R, Tevar AD, Duarte-Rojo A, Lai JC| | PubMed
    3. The burden of significant pain in the cirrhosis population: Risk factors, analgesic use, and impact on health care utilization and clinical outcomes.
      Rubin JB, Loeb R, Fenton C, Huang CY, Keyhani S, Seal KH, Lai JC| | PubMed
    4. Salvage therapies including retreatment with BCMA-directed approaches after BCMA CAR-T relapses for multiple myeloma.
      Reyes KR, Liu YC, Huang CY, Banerjee R, Martin T, Wong SW, Wolf JL, Arora S, Shah N, Chari A, Chung A| | PubMed
    5. Efficient data integration under prior probability shift.
      Huang MY, Qin J, Huang CY| | PubMed
    6. A modified Hospital Frailty Risk Score for patients with cirrhosis undergoing abdominal operations.
      Calthorpe L, Chiou SH, Rubin J, Huang CY, Feng S, Lai J| | PubMed
    7. Disturbed sleep after lung transplantation is associated with worse patient-reported outcomes and chronic lung allograft dysfunction.
      Prather AA, Gao Y, Betancourt L, Kordahl RC, Sriram A, Huang CY, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Calabrese DR, Venado A, Kapse B, Greenland JR, Singer JP| | PubMed
    8. Time to be blunt: Substance use in cystic fibrosis.
      Vaziri S, McGarry ME, Huang CY, Cuneo AA, Willen SM, Iwanaga K, Neemuchwala F, Gibb ER, Chan M, Ly NP| | PubMed
    9. Assessing Adherence to US LI-RADS Follow-up Recommendations in Vulnerable Patients Undergoing Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance.
      Choi HH, Kim S, Shum DJ, Huang CY, Shui A, Fox RK, Khalili M| | PubMed
    10. The liver frailty index is a predictor of healthcare utilization after liver transplantation in older adults.
      Wang M, Shui AM, Ruck J, King E, Rahimi R, Kappus M, Volk ML, Ganger DR, Ladner DP, Duarte-Rojo A, Huang CY, Verna EC, Lai JC| | PubMed