Seth T. Lirette, PhD
Associate Professor
Department:
SPH-Dept of Data Science
Email:
slirette2@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 815-8127
Biography
Dr. Seth Lirette holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Mississippi State University and a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His primary appointment is in the Department of Data Science, but he also holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Radiology and Radiation Oncology alongside his work with the Doctor of Health Administration program.
He has a broad range of biostatistical skills and works with a large number of collaborators, both on and off the UMMC campus, publishing dozens of peer-reviewed articles and helping obtain millions of dollars in external funding.
Education
| Millsaps College, Business Advantage for Professionals Certification, Business | 2018 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham, PhD, Biostatistics | 2017 |
| Mississippi State University, MS, Statistics | 2012 |
| Mississippi State University, BS, Mathematics | 2010 |
Current Positions
| Associate Professor, School of Population Health, Department of Data Science | 07/2023 - Present |
| Assistant Professor, School of Health Related Professions, Department of Health Administration | 12/2021 - Present |
| Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Radiation / Oncology | 10/2020 - Present |
| Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Radiology | 02/2020 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Academic Appointments or Other Previous Appointments
| Assistant Professor, UMMC, School of Population Health, Department of Data Science | 12/2017 - 06/2023 |
Sponsored Program Funding
| Extramural, Improving Hypertension Treatment in African Americans Using Computational Modeling and Predictive Analytics, NIH | 03/2023 - Present |
| Extramural, Molecular Center of Health and Disease, NIH/NIGMS | 03/2023 - 02/2028 |
| Extramural, Spatiotemporal sequence analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Mississippi, CDC | 06/2021 - 05/2021 |
| Extramural, Mississippi CEAL Team: Community-Engaged Research Alliance, NHLBI | 09/2020 - 09/2021 |
| Extramural, AI-Assisted Assessment, Tracking, and Reporting of COVID-19Severity on Chest CT, NSF | 08/2020 - 02/2021 |
| Extramural, Comparative Effectiveness of Noninvasive Imaging Tests for Staging Chronic Liver Disease, RSNA | 07/2017 - 06/2019 |
| Extramural, Mississippi Center of Excellence in Perinatal Research, NIGMS | 06/2017 - Present |
| Extramural, Liver surface nodularity score as a new noninvasive biomarker for chronic hepatitis, NIH | 03/2016 - 02/2017 |
| Extramural, Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research, NIH/NIGMS | 10/2015 - Present |
| Extramural, Pharmacist Linkage in Care Transitions: From Academic Medical Center to Community, NACDS | 05/2015 - 12/2017 |
| Extramural, Adiposity, Inflammation and Neurocognitive Decline in African Americans, NIA | 06/2014 - 03/2017 |
| Extramural, ARIC Neurocognitive Study (ARIC NCS), NHLBI/NINDS/NEI | 07/2010 - Present |
| Extramural, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC), NHLBI | 02/2006 - Present |
Publications
Journal Article | |
| Lirette ST The Commutative Property Is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient: It’s Time to Consider Implementing Distance PhD Programs Amstat News | 2018 |
| Thomas TV, Gordy XZ, Lirette ST, Albert AA, Gordy DP, Vijayakumar S, Vijayakumar V Lack of Racial Survival Differences in Metastatic Prostate Cancer in National Cancer Data Base (NCDB): A Different Finding Compared to Non-metastatic Disease Frontiers in Oncology. 2020; 10. | 2020 |
| Florez E, Nichols TA, Lirette ST, Fatemi A Developing a Texture Analysis Technique using Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) to Differentiate Tumor from Edema for Contouring Primary Intracranial Tumors SM Journal of Clinical and Medical Imaging | 2018 |
| Lirette ST, Didlake RH Educational Debt in Mississippi’s Emerging Health Care Workforce Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association. 2017; 57: 122-125 | 2017 |
| Lirette ST, Seals SR, Blackshear C, May W Capturing a Stata Dataset and Releasing It Into REDCap Stata Journal. 2017; 17:130-138 | 2017 |
| Sunesara I, Lirette ST, Griswold ME surveytablesbinary: A SAS Macro for Publication Quality Tables for Complex Survey Data Austin Biometrics and Biostatistics. 2015; 4:1028 | 2015 |
| Lirette ST Complete Automation of a Participant Characteristics Table Stata Journal. 2015; 15:1167-1173 | 2015 |
Presentations
| Regional Invited Seminars/Lectures, Structural Equation Models, University of Southern Mississippi | 07/2023 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Into the Mind of a Statistician, UMMC | 07/2023 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Introduction to Meta Analysis, UMMC | 10/2022 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Working With a Biostatistician, UMMC | 03/2022 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Biostatistics for Health Administrators, UMMC | 12/2021 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Crash Course on What You Need to Know About Biomed Statistics for Aspiring Internists, UMMC | 12/2021 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Biostatistics for Radiologists, Society for Advanced Body Imaging, Virtual | 08/2021 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Crash Course on What You Need to Know About Biomed Statistics for Young Med Scientists, MSRP Summer Research Series, UMMC | 06/2020 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, MCCTR BERD Core, UMMC SHRP | 07/2019 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Data Science Applications in Medical and Healthcare Research, Shackouls Honors College, Mississippi State University | 11/2018 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, A Workflow for Identifying Nonlinearities in Your Data and Establishing Their Functional Forms, Department of Biomedical Material Science, UMMC | 04/2018 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Data Is the New Oil, a Commodity That Can Power the World, Make You Rich, or Leave a Giant Mess, Graduate School, UMMC | 11/2017 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, What is Biostatistics?, Department of Mathematics, Mississippi College, Clinton, MS | 04/2016 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Introduction to Bayesian Inference, Department of Pediatrics, UMMC | 01/2016 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Quantifying Predictive Accuracy in Survival Models, Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, UMMC | 10/2015 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Becoming a Successful Young Collaborator: 20 Strategies for the MS-level Statistician, American Statistical Organization, Seattle, WA | 08/2015 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Introduction to Bayesian Modeling, Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, UMMC | 12/2014 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Practical and Statistical Issues in Missing Data for Longitudinal Patient Reported Outcomes, Department of Biostatistics, UAB, Birmingham, AL | 11/2014 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Introduction to Data Visualization, Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, UMMC | 10/2013 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Structured Chaos: Using Mata and Stata to Draw Fractals, Stata, New Orleans, LA | 07/2013 |
| Poster Presentation, Becoming a Successful Young Collaborator: 20 Strategies for the MS-level Statistician, American Statistical Association, Tampa, FL | 02/2013 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Making Statistical Significance More Significant, Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, UMMC | 01/2013 |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Excellence in Research - Gold, UMMC | 2020 |
| Excellence in Research - Bronze, UMMC | 2019 |
| Naomi Fineberg Distinguished New Researcher, University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2016 |
Professional Membership and Service
| American College of Radiology, LIRADS Quantitative Imaging Group | 2021 - Present |
| Association of Clinical and Translational Statisticians, Member | 2019 - Present |
| AL-MS Chapter of the ASA, Officer, Vice President | 2019 - Present |
| American Statistical Association, Member | 2010 - Present |
Committee Service
| UMMC COVID Biosurveillance Task Force, Member | 2021 - Present |
| SoPH Curriculum Committee Member, Member | 2021 - Present |
| SoPH Health Science Policy Fellowship Committee, Member | 2021 - Present |
| Title IX Committee, Member | 2020 - Present |
| Pediatric Discovery Council, Member | 2019 - Present |
| Cancer Institute Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee, Member | 2018 - 2019 |
| SoPH Admissions Committee, Chair | 2017 - Present |
| SoPH Curriculum Committee, Member | 2017 - Present |
Community Service
| McWillie Elementary School, Volunteer, Good News Club | 2019 - 04/2020 |
| Madison County Youth League, Sports Coach | 03/2018 - Present |
| Grace Baptist Church, Deacon | 01/2017 - Present |
Other Service
| Physiological Genomics | 2022 - Present |
| Vaccines | 2022 - Present |
| American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2022 - Present |
| Journal of Public Health in the Deep South | 2022 - Present |
| Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine | 02/2021 - Present |
| International Journal of Translation Medicine | 2021 - Present |
| Biology of Sex Differences | 07/2020 - Present |
| Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology | 04/2020 - Present |
| Journal of Clinical and Translational Research | 04/2020 - Present |
| Journal of Multiple Sclerosis | 07/2019 - Present |
| Delta Clinical and Translational Science Consortium | 09/2018 - Present |
| F1000 Research | 06/2018 - Present |
| The Stata Journal | 04/2018 - Present |
| Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences | 10/2015 - Present |
| ARIC Publications and Presentations | 07/2015 - Present |
Teaching Experience
| BDS 722, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Advanced Analytics | Spring 2023 |
| BDS 725, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Survival Analysis | Fall 2023 |
| BDS 722, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Advanced Analytics | Spring 2022 |
| BDS 722, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Advanced Analytics | Spring 2021 |
| BDS 722, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Advanced Analytics | Spring 2020 |
| BDS 722, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Advanced Analytics | Spring 2019 - 2019 |
| BDS 797, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Biostatistics and Data Science Internship | Summer 2019 - 2019 |
| BDS 722, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Advanced Analytics | Spring 2018 - 2018 |
| BDS 792, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Statistical Consulting | Fall 2018 |
| ID 740, Graduate, Course, Lecturer, Statistical Methods in Research | Fall 2012 - 2012 |
| ID 740B, Graduate, Course, Lecturer, Statistical Methods in Research | Annual 2012 - 2013 |
Directed Student Learning
| Supervised Research, Advised: Taylor Ward | 2022 - Present |
| Internship Advisor, Advised: Quest Whalen | 2021 - 2021 |
| Internship Advisor, Advised: Neil Maneck | 2021 - 2021 |
| Dissertation Committee Member, Advised: Leslie Musshafen | 2021 - Present |
| Dissertation Committee Member, Advised: Aya Abdelaziz | 2020 - Present |
| Internship Advisor, Advised: Tran Le | 2020 - 2020 |
| Dissertation Committee Member, Advised: Elliot Varney | 2020 - Present |
| Dissertation Committee Chair, Comparison of Different Approaches to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate Advised: Xiaoqian Zhu | 2019 - Present |
| Internship Advisor, Advised: Md Roungu Ahmmad | 2019 - 2019 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: Sara Parker | 2018 - 2018 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: Kirby Parker | 2018 - 2018 |
| Dissertation Committee Member, Fractal Analysis of Dental Ceramics Using a Novel Unbiased Method Advised: Kartikeya Jodha | 2018 - 2021 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: Kirby Parker | 2016 - 2017 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: Ashley Surles | 2015 - 2015 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: Cathy Chen | 2015 - 2015 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: Steven Wilkening | 2013 - 2017 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: Victoria Cannon | 2013 - 2013 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: Brittany Simpson | 2012 - 2017 |
| Research Advisor, Advised: John Bridges | 2012 - 2016 |