Researcher Profile: Kremers, Walter K, Ph.D.

Walter K. Kremers, Ph.D.

Location: Minnesota

Joint Appointment
Health Sciences Research
Academic Rank
Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Clinical Profile

Summary

My current work is in the statistical analysis of data arising from transplantation. Primarily I am working with solid organ transplantation in the clinical setting but also work with blood and marrow transplantation and laboratory studies. A major contribution of mine has been with the study of the MELD score as a predictor of mortality in patients with end stage liver disease and the value of the MELD score as a tool in ranking patient urgency for transplantation. Driven by the need in applications, methodological interests of mine concentrate in survival analysis and in particular competing risks analysis. I am also interested in the use of resampling methods for their efficiencies in obtaining results for complex problems.

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Education

Post-Doc – NATO/NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Augsburg, Germany

Post-Doc – NATO/NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Dortmund, Germany

Ph.D. – Statistics
Thesis: The Statistical Analysis of Sum-Quota Sampling
Cornell University, New York

M.S. – Statistics
University of California, Davis

B.A. – Mathematics
Thesis: Feeding Ecology of the Migrant Dunlin (Calidris alpina) in Massachusetts
Kalamazoo College

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