Yan Yuan, PhD (Statistics), MMath (Biostatistics), MSc (Animal Science), BSc (Biochemistry)
Contact
Professor, School of Public Health
- yyuan@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 248-5853
- Address
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3-299 (C05 Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
11405 87 Ave NWEdmonton ABT6G 1C9
Overview
About
My current research focuses on five topics: 1) risk prediction of early menopause in childhood cancer survivors; 2) modeling individual gestational weight gain and fat accretion trajectories, and postpartum weight/fat retention; 3) developing performance measures for screening tools where prediction accuracy is assessed in a low prevalence setting; 4) rare cancer epidemiology and survivorship in Canada; 5) health services research in breast cancer screening and diagnostic care. I team up with statisticians, cancer epidemiologists, oncologists, and nutrition experts to advance our knowledge on these topics. I also work with public health researchers and professionals, and community partners to solve problems in their field.
Degrees
PhD (Statistics), University of Waterloo, 2008
MMath (Biostatistics), University of Waterloo, 2003
MSc (Animal Science), Michigan State University, 1999
BSc (Biochemistry), Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 1996
Awards
40 under 40 young scientists, nominated by IAP - The Global Network of Science Academies, 2012
Canada Graduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, 2004-2007
Keywords
biostatistical methods
statistical prediction
cancer epidemiology
health services research
functional data analysis
Announcements
Supervision
Currently accepting MSc and PhD students.
Scholarly Activities
Research - Brain Tumour Registry of Canada
2016 to 2019
Co-investigator
Funded by Brain Canada
Research - Gestational Diabetes Management and its Influence on Breastfeeding Practices
2018 to 2019
Co-investigator
Funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Research - Maternal Iron Nutrition and its Consequences in Pregnant Women and Their Children in the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition Study
2018 to 2021
Co-investigator
Funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Research - Optimizing Outcomes in Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer
2018 to 2026
Co-investigator
Funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Research - Performance Measures and Models for Statistical Prediction
Principal investigator
Funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC
Research - Risk Prediction for Premature Ovarian Insufficiency in Childhood Cancer Survivors
2016 to 2021
Primary investigator
Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Featured Publications
Yan Yuan, Qian M. Zhou, Bingying Li, Hengrui Cai, Eric J. Chow, Gregory T. Armstrong
Statistics in Medicine. 2018 January; Vol 37(2018)
Yuan Y, Amjad S, Eckstrand A, Sevick R, Scott J, Devji S, Bertrand C, King MJ, Brunka V, Maplethorpe E, Walker E, Muanza T, Davis F.
Journal of Registry Management. 2018 January; 45 (4):167-172
Fung M, Yuan Y, Atkins H, Shi Q, Bubela T
Stem Cell Reports. 2017 January; Vol 8(2017)
Ye Shen, Marcy Winget, Yan Yuan
Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2017 January; Vol 108(2017)
Che M, Kong L, Bell RC, Yuan Y
PLoS One(2017). 2017 January;
Y. Yuan, M. Li, J. Yang, M. Winget
European Journal of Cancer Care. 2014 January;
Khanh Vu, Rececca A. Clark, Colin Belinger, Graham Erickson, Alvaro Orsinio-Vargas, Osmar R. Zaiane, Yan Yuan
BMC.