Mohammad Tabatabai, PHD, MS, MS
Professor
Department of Public Health
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics, University of Memphis
Master of Science in Statistics, The Florida State University
Master of Science in Economics, The Florida State University
RESEARCH & AREAS OF INTEREST
Theoretical Biostatistics
Health Disparities
Community Health Diabetes
Cancer Survival Analysis
Substance Abuse
Medical Genomics Infectious Disease
TEACHING
Biostatistics
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Tabatabai is a tenured Professor and Director of Biostatistics at Meharry Medical College. In addition, he serves as a member of the Data Science Core for the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research (TN-CFAR). His methodological research includes Hypertabastic survival models https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertabastic_survival_models, Hyperbolastic functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolastic_functions, and their applications in cancer research, health disparity, air pollution, stem cell proliferation and machine learning. In addition, he introduced robust statistical techniques such as robust Taba and TabWil correlations as well as similarity measures https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-021-04098-4, and their applications in genomics. His current research includes the development of a new and highly accurate growth model called TWW and its application in medical diagnostic tests https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/11779322241290126, as well as the introduction of a new machine learning method called Taba regression https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/12/1/2 applied to liver cirrhosis data. He has published over 130 articles in peer reviewed journals and has been honored as the recipient of the prestigious Professor of the Year award by the Meharry Medical College Pre-Alumni Association as well as the Academic Faculty of the Year award by the Meharry Residency Program. He has developed novel statistical methods that are currently being used in a wide variety of fields such as medical, biomedical, engineering and public health across the globe.
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