Yunxi Zhang
Assistant Professor
Department:
SPH-Dept of Data Science
Email:
yzhang4@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 815-3477
Education
| University of Mississippi, MA, Higher Education | 2023 |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, PhD, Biostatistics | 2018 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MS, Statistics | 2013 |
| Shanghai Maritime University, BS, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics | 2011 |
Current Positions
| Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management | 07/2024 - Present |
| Assistant Professor, School of Population Health, Department of Data Science | 02/2020 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Academic Appointments or Other Previous Appointments
| Instructor, School of Population Health | 01/2019 - 02/2020 |
Sponsored Program Funding
| Extramural, Enhancing Healthcare Access and Outcomes: A Comprehensive Analysis of Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and Telehealth Practice, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2024 - Present |
| Extramural, OAT (Office for the Advancement of Telehealth) Measure Evaluation, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2023 - 09/2024 |
| Extramural, Cost, Utilization and Economic Analysis of Telehealth Among Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2022 - Present |
| Extramural, National Telehealth Data Dictionary, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2022 - Present |
| Extramural, Telehealth Center of Excellence, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2021 - Present |
| Extramural, Telehealth Network Grant Program, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2020 - 08/2024 |
| Extramural, Simulation to guide implementation of telemedicine cardiorenal interventions to reduce health disparities, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2019 - 09/2021 |
| Extramural, Telehealth Center of Excellence, Health Resources and Services Administration | 01/2019 - 09/2021 |
Publications
Journal Article | |
| Zhang Y, Kim S, Lin Y, Baum G, Basen-Engquist KM, Swartz MD. Comparisons of imputation methods with application to assess factors associated with self efficacy of physical activity in breast cancer survivors. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 2019; 48: 2523-2537 | 2018 |
| Zhang Y, Kim S Variable selection for high-dimensional incomplete data using horseshoe estimation with data augmentation Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. 2023; 53(12), 4235–51 | |
| Zhang S, Marsiglia FF, Zhang Y Adolescents’ Substance Use Initiation and Transitions Across Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drugs: A Survival Analysis Approach Families in Society. 2023; 0(0) | |
| Reneker JC, Pruett WA, Pannell WC, Brown M, Babl RM, Shirley HL, Zhang Y Central and Peripheral Attention in Virtual Reality: Test of Visual Efficiency for Concussion Detection Journal of Medical Extended Reality; 1(1): 35-43 | |
| Zhang Y, Kim S Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation and Selection For High-Dimensional Incomplete Data using Multiple Imputation and Horseshoe Estimators Mathematics. 2024; 12(12) | |
| Zhang Y, Lal LS, Lin Y, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Jones BF, Chandra S, Ladner ME Tele-Mental Health Utilization Trends with Rural-Urban Disparities in Mississippi: 2020 – 2023 Journal of rural mental health. 2024; Online First | |
Abstracts | |
| Christine C, Kim S, Zhang Y, Dietiker C Characterization of vitamin b12 supplementation and clinical outcomes in a large longitudinal study of early parkinson's disease Annals of Neurology; 80:S84-S84 | |
| Hillegass WB, Zhang Y, Cain-Shields L, Barefield A, Davis WG, Clark D 3rd Estimated population health and economic impact of statewide implementation of the University of Mississippi Medical Center and telehealth center hypertension remote patient management program Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Brown C, Woods J, Zhang Y, Clark D 3rd Using an evidence-based treatment protocol for hypertension management via telehealth: exploring patterns of protocol deviation Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Davis, T.C., Allen, A.S., & Zhang, Y A retrospective look at the long-term effects of remote patient monitoring Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Reneker J, Zhang Y, Dorthy YK, Liu X, Lutz E Comparison of obstetric management via telehealth prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploration of maternal and birth outcomes in Mississippi Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Wilhelm A, Carlisle A, Mahoney M, Hughes L, Zhang Y, Davis T, Lasource C, Chandra S Paradigm for establishing a multidisciplinary Telehealth team for managing complex multi‐system disorders like Post‐acute Sars‐CoV‐19 Syndrome (PASC) Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Dent E, Zhang Y, Lal L, Swint J, Peña M Evaluation of Patient Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Receiving Medication Nutrition Therapy at a University Health Center in Mississippi Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Goldwater J, Harris Y, Zhang Y, Chandra S, Summers RL New Frontiers in Telehealth Research: A National Telehealth Data Warehouse Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Obi Y, Zhang Y, Chandra S, Tio MC, Wells C, Dossabhoy N, Shafi T Telehealth‐Assisted Home BP Monitoring for In‐Center Hemodialysis Patients: A Pragmatic Implementation Study Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Narmour MA, Lin Y, Zhang Y, Swint JM, Lal L, Chandra S, Gangadhara S Inpatient Teleneurology Consultation Service in a Rural Hospital Following Physician Shortage Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Elkin TD, Zhang Y, Reneker JC, Ivory D Measuring Gaze Fixation in Children with Autism Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Ivory D, Chandra S, Collier C Launching Remote Maternal Blood Pressure Monitoring into an Established Telehealth System Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Lal LS, Lin Y, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Chandra S Tele-Mental Health (TMH) Utilization Trend with Rural-Urban Differences in Mississippi 2020 – 2022 Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Lal LS, Lin Y, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Chandra S Tele-Mental Health Service Usage and Impact on Healthcare Utilization and Costs in Mississippi Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Lin Y, Lal LS, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Chandra S Sociodemographic Factors Associated with No-Shows in Tele-Mental Health Services Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Lin Y, Lal LS, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Barbara BF, Chandra S, Ladner ME Disparities of Pediatric Tele-Mental Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mississippi Telemedicine and e-Health | |
Electronic Publications | |
| Zhan C, Zhang L, Zhong Z, Sher D-O, Lin Y, Zhang Y, Huang S, Wang C Deep Learning Approach in Automatic Iceberg - Ship Detection with SAR Remote Sensing Data SEG Library | |
| Zheng Y, Christman BD, Morris MC, Hillegass WB, Zhang Y, Douglas K, Kelly C, Zhang L Adolescent Behavioral Risk Analysis and Prediction Using Machine Learning: A Foundation for Precision Suicide Prevention SPIE Digital Library | |
Presentations
| Invited Symposia, Telehealth Research, Artisight/UMMC Clinical Summit, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 08/2024 |
| Poster Presentation, Assessing Telehealth Uptake and Impact on Healthcare Resource Utilization and Expenditures Among Mississippi Medicaid Beneficiaries with Major Depression: A Comparative Study Using Propensity Score Matching, AcademyHealth 2024 Annual Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD | 06/2024 |
| Platform Presentations, Disparities of Pediatric Tele-Mental Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mississippi, American Telemedicine Association 2024 Nexus/American Telemedicine Association | 05/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, A New Frontier in Telehealth Research: A National Telehealth Data Warehouse, Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center 2024 Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 04/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, Remote Maternal Blood Pressure Monitoring in A Predominantly Black, Rural, Medicaid Population: A Feasibility Study at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center 2024 Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 04/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, Innovative Telehealth Solutions: Sustainable Telehealth Programs for Underserved Communities., 2024 Conference for Agricultural Worker Health/National Association of Community Health Centers, Atlanta, GA | 04/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, National Telehealth Data Warehouse and RPM programs at UMMC, Tulane University and UMMC Telehealth Collaboration, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA | 03/2024 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Advancing Telehealth: Innovations in Data Standardization, Rural Access, and School-Based Services, National Telehealth Center of Excellence Webinar Series/Telehealth Centers of Excellence, Virtual | 03/2024 |
| Platform Presentations, National Telehealth Data Warehouse – Status Update, OAT (Office for the Advancement of Telehealth) Telehealth Research Directors Meeting/Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Virtual | 03/2024 |
| Platform Presentations, Tele-Mental Health Service Usage and Impact on Healthcare Utilization and Costs in Mississippi, SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA | 11/2023 |
| Poster Presentation, Launching Remote Maternal Blood Pressure Monitoring into an Established Telehealth System, SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA | 11/2023 |
| Platform Presentations, Sociodemographic Factors Associated with No-Shows in Tele-Mental Health Services, SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA | 11/2023 |
| Poster Presentation, Tele-Mental Health (TMH) Utilization Trend with Rural-Urban Differences in Mississippi 2020 – 2022, SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA | 11/2023 |
| Platform Presentations, CMS data and national telehealth data dictionary projects, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) Rural Telehealth Research Directors Meeting/Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Virtual | 04/2023 |
| Platform Presentations, Economic evaluation of remote patient monitoring for cardiovascular disease: a systematic review, American Public Health Association 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo, Boston, MA | 11/2022 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Meeting with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CTeL Digital Health Summit/CTeL, Virtual | 06/2022 |
| Platform Presentations, LDC 2021 GWIMS LDP Participant Perspectives Panel, GWIMS (Group on Women in Medicine and Science) Leadership Development Program Conference/UMMC, Jackson, MS | 04/2022 |
| Poster Presentation, Utilization of Tele-Psychiatry during the COVID-19 Pandemic at the only academic medical center in Mississippi, Mississippi Public Health Association Annual Conference, Flowood, MS | 04/2022 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Use of telehealth to improve population outcomes in Mississippi, Mississippi State Department of Health Grand Rounds/Mississippi State Department of Health, Virtual | 02/2022 |
| Regional Invited Seminars/Lectures, Variable Selection and Imputation for High-Dimensional Incomplete Data, Division of Biostatistics Seminar Series, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN | 03/2020 |
| Poster Presentation, Variable Selection and Imputation in the High-Dimensional Setting, Research Day/School of Graduate Studies, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 10/2019 |
| Platform Presentations, Incomplete High-Dimensional Inverse Covariance Estimation, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO | 07/2019 |
| Platform Presentations, Variable Selection with Missing Data Imputation in the High Dimensional Setting, Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, Canada | 07/2018 |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Nominated for Early Career Investigator Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2024 |
| Distinguished Reviewer, mHealth Journal | 2024 |
| Reviewer of the Month (August 2024), mHealth Journal | 2024 |
| Nominated for the Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award in Population Health, Interdisciplinary Association For Population Health Science (IAPHS) | 2024 |
| Nominated for the GWIMS Early-Career Faculty Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2022 |
| Research Day Poster Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences | 2019 |
| Keith D. Burau PhD. Scholarship, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 2017 |
| Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai Maritime University | 2011 |
| Outstanding Student Scholarship, Shanghai Maritime University | 2011 |
| Outstanding Student Scholarship, Shanghai Maritime University | 2010 |
| Mathematical Modeling Competition Award, Shanghai Maritime University | 2010 |
| Outstanding Student Scholarship, Shanghai Maritime University | 2009 |
Professional Membership and Service
| Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS), Member | 2024 - Present |
| AcademyHealth, Member | 2024 - Present |
| Mississippi Public Health Association (MPHA), Member | 2022 - Present |
| American Public Health Association (APHA), Member | 2022 - Present |
| Group on Women in Medicine and Science, Member | 2020 - Present |
| International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), Member | 2017 - Present |
| American Statistical Association (ASA), Member | 2013 - Present |
Committee Service
| Faculty Search Committee, Department of Data Science, Member | 2024 - Present |
| MEDICAL CENTER-FACULTY SENATE, Faculty Senate | 2023 - Present |
| MEDICAL CENTER-FACULTY SENATE, Faculty Senate Alternate | 2022 - 2023 |
| SOPH Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Member | 2022 - Present |
| SOPH Awards and Recognition Committee, Member | 2022 - Present |
| Biospecimen Access Committee, Member | 2020 - Present |
| Biostatistics and Data Science Curriculum Committee, Member | 2020 - Present |
Other Service
| mHealth | 06/2024 - Present |
| Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) | 05/2024 - Present |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 04/2024 - Present |
| Digital Health | 01/2024 - Present |
| Communications Medicine (Nature Portfolio) | 01/2024 - Present |
| Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association | 08/2023 - Present |
| JBI Evidence Synthesis | 08/2023 - Present |
| SAGE Open Medicine | 07/2023 - Present |
| Frontiers in Public Health | 06/2023 - Present |
| Frontiers in Endocrinology | 03/2023 - Present |
| BMJ Open | 01/2023 - Present |
| Biostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series, Organizer | 07/2022 - Present |
| Heliyon | 04/2021 - Present |
| Journal of Official Statistics | 03/2020 - Present |
| Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine | 2020 - Present |
| Statistics Education/History Booth, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Volunteer | 08/2019 - 08/2019 |
| Journal of Korean Statistical Society | 2018 - Present |
Teaching Experience
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2024 - 2024 |
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2023 - 2023 |
| BDS 797, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Biostatistics & Data Science Internship | Summer 2022 - 2022 |
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2022 - 2022 |
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2021 - 2021 |
| BDS 791, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Special Topics | Summer 2021 - 2021 |
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2020 - 2020 |
Directed Student Learning
| Academic Advisor, Advised: Rui Xu | 2023 - Present |
| Academic Advisor, Advised: Hunter Sylvester | 2021 - 2023 |
| Academic Advisor, Advised: David Lee | 2020 - 2022 |