Kathleen F. Kerr

Here are some students I've had the privilege to work with, along with papers we have published together.

• Renee Russell, MS 2020.
• Anu Mishra, PhD 2019 (co-advised with Lurdes Inoue). Anu shared the award for Most Outstanding Written Paper at WNAR 2018.
  ◊ Mishra A , McClelland RL, Inoue LYT, Kerr KF. Recalibration Methods for Improved Clinical Utility and Clinically Relevant Calibration of Risk Scores. Medical Decision Making, 2021.
• Si Cheng (PhD advisor: Ali Shojaie), former RA.
  ◊ Cheng S, Kerr KF, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Coca S, Parikh CR. BioPETsurv: Methodology and open source software to evaluate biomarkers for prognostic enrichment of time-to-event clinical trials. PLoS One, 2020.
• Eric Morenz (PhD advisor: Marco Carone), former RA.
  ◊ Kerr KF, Morenz ER, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Coca SG, Wilson FP, Reese PP, Parikh CR. Quantifying Donor Effects on Transplant Outcomes Using Kidney Pairs from Deceased Donors. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2019. ◊ Kerr KF, Morenz ER, Roth J, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Coca SG, Parikh CR. Developing Biomarker Panels to Predict Progression of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery. Kidney International Reports, 2019.
• Allison Meisner, PhD 2017 and former RA. Allison won first place in the ASA Medical Device and Diagnostic Section student paper competition in 2017.
  ◊ Meisner A, Parikh CR, Kerr KF. Using ordinal outcomes to construct and select biomarker combinations for single-level prediction. Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, 2018.
  ◊ Meisner A, Parikh CR, Kerr KF. Biomarker combinations for diagnosis and prognosis in multicenter studies: Principles and Methods. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2018.
  ◊ Meisner A, Kerr KF, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Wilson FP, Garg AX, Shlipak MG, Kavsak P, Whitlock RP, Coca SG, Parikh CR. Development of biomarker combinations for postoperative acute kidney injury via Bayesian model selection in a multicenter cohort study. Biomarker Research, 2018.
  ◊ Meisner A, Kerr KF, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Coca SG, Parikh CR. Methodological Issues in Current Practice May Lead to Bias in the Development of Biomarker Combinations for Predicting Acute Kidney Injury. Kidney International 89:429-438, 2016.
  ◊ Kerr KF, Meisner A, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Coca SG, Parikh CR. RiGoR: Reporting Guidelines to Address Common Sources of Bias in Risk Model Development. Biomarker Research, 2015.
  ◊ Kerr KF, Meisner A, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Coca SG, Parikh CR. Developing Risk Prediction Models for Kidney Injury and Assessing Incremental Value for Novel Biomarkers. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2014.
  ◊ Meisner A and Kerr KF. Expert review on "Evaluation of screening tests for detecting Clamydia trachomatis -- Bias associated with the patient-infected-status-algorithm. World Health Organization STD Diagnostics Initiative, Literature reviews Issue 40.
• Jeremy Roth (PhD advisor: Noah Simon). Former RA.
  ◊ Kerr KF, Roth J, Zhu K, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Meisner A, Wilson FP, Coca S, Parikh C. Evaluating biomarkers for prognostic enrichment of clinical trials. Clinical Trials, 2017.
  ◊ de Fontnouvelle CA, Greenberg JH, Thiessen-Philbrook HR, Zappitelli M, Roth J, Kerr KF, Devarajan P, Shlipak M, Coca S, Parikh CR; TRIBE-AKI Consortium. Interleukin-8 and Tumor Necrosis Factor Predict Acute Kidney Injury After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2017.
• Kehao Zhu, former RA.
  ◊ Kerr KF, Brown M, Zhu K, Janes H. Assessing the Clinical Impact of Risk Prediction Models with Decision Curves: Guidance for Correct Interpretation and Appropriate Use. Journal of Clinical Oncology 34:2534-40, 2016.
  
• Zheyu Wang (PhD advisor: Andrew Zhou). Former RA.
  ◊ Seymour CW, Cooke CR, Wang Z, Kerr KF, Rea RD, Kahn JM, Pepe MS. Potential value of biomarkers for out-of-hospital risk stratification of critical illness. Journal of Critical Care, 28:541-548, 2013.
  ◊ Pepe MS, Kerr KF, Longton G, Wang Z. Testing for improvement in prediction model performance. Statistics in Medicine 32: 1467-1482, 2013.
  
• Emily Weed (now Emily Hansen), MS 2010
  ◊ Hansen E, Kerr KF. A Comparison of Two Classes of Methods for Estimating False Discovery Rates in Microarray Studies. Scientifica, vol 2012, Article ID 519394.
  
• David Coblentz. MS 2008
• Theresa Kim. MS 2006
• Daryl Morris. Former RA
  ◊ Qin LX, Beyer R, Hudson N, Linford N, Morris D, Kerr KF. Validation of data transformation methods for oligonucleotide arrays with qRT-PCR measurements. BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:23.
  
• Li-Xuan Qin (PhD advisor: Steve Self). Former RA
  ◊ Qin LX, Beyer R, Hudson N, Linford N, Morris D, Kerr KF. Validation of data transformation methods for oligonucleotide arrays with qRT-PCR measurements. BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:23.
  ◊ Qin LX, Kerr KF, Contributing Members of the Toxicogenomics Research Consortium. Empirical evaluation of data transformations and ranking statistics for microarray analysis. Nucleic Acids Research 2004, 32(18):5471-5479.
  

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