Email: zou@bwh.harvard.edu

Phone: 617.732.6536

Fax: 617.264.6887

Dr. Kelly H. Zou is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Principal Statistician, and Lecturer of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. She has been a Statistical Consultant and Investigator at the Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School since July, 1997.

She received her B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Mathematics from Chaminade University of Honolulu in 1992, M.A. and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Rochester in 1994 and 1997, respectively. She completed a joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biostatistics and Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1999. Since then she's been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

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Summary of Research Interests

Dr. Zou's statistical methodological work has been devoted to health care policy and cancer imaging research. Currently she is the Principal Investigator of Grant R01-LM007861, entitled "Improved Tumor Resection in Image-Guided Neurosurgery," sponsored by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NLM). Much of her methodology work involves statistical validation problems associated with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, which is useful for evaluating and comparing the diagnostic accuracies of diagnostic markers or imaging modalities. Her work on ROC analysis has led her to be the recipient of the Stauffer Award for the best article published in "Academic Radiology." She was twice the recipient of the Travel Stipend Award from the Society of Health Services Research in Radiology and Reviewer with Special Distinction Award for "Radiology." The second area of Dr. Zou's original research on health care policy is on the design of multi-center health quality of care studies. The third area of Dr. Zou's original research is on the development of improved methods for reliability measures.

In the area of applied research, Dr. Zou is an Associate Editor of "Radiology." a Referee for over 10 professional statistical and medical journals, Member of Committee on Applied Statisticians, American Statistical Association, Chair of Rules Committee and Director, Radiology Alliance to Health Services Research, Association of University Radiologists, and Member of the Faculty Taskforce, Joint Committee on the Status of Women, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She has also been an investigator and author on a number of collaborative medical research projects. For example, she was a statistician in two multi-institution Radiologic Diagnostic Oncology Group (RDOG) studies (funded by NCI). Dr. Zou's statistical research in imaging analysis (funded by NIA) has focused on the evaluation of image-guided minimally invasive brachytherapy for prostate cancer and cryotherapy for liver cancer. Dr. Zou's roles in these projects include study designs, technology assessment, and statistical validation. She has also been the Principal Statistician in the Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and offers consultations on numerous funded clinical studies. Finally, another focus area of Dr. Zou's applied research is on functional MR imaging as a statistician of a national multi-center study sponsored by Biomedical Informedical research network (BIRN).

Dr. Zou's teaching activities include development and instruction in several courses on statistical methods for clinical research for the Brigham and Women's Hospital Radiology residents, fellows, and faculty members. She has been a course developer and instructor of invited statistical seminars locally and nationally.