Yutaka Yasui

Department of Public Health Science, University of Alberta, Canada

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Yasui received a Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Kyoto University (Japan) in 1989 and a PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Baltimore, USA) in 1994. He worked in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Injury Prevention Center, and Health Services and Development Center at Johns Hopkins in 1994-1995, and then in the Cancer Prevention Research Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the Department of Biostatistics at University of Washington (Seattle, USA) in 1995-2004. He joined the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, in November 2004 as a Professor of Biostatistics. His research is focused on developing and applying biostatistical and epidemiologic methods in the intersection of biology and clinical/public health sciences, especially on quantitative issues in biomarker discovery research. He has been involved in over 50 peer-review-funded research projects as the principal investigator or a co-investigator, mostly funded by the US National Institute of Health and Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and is an author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications. He is a Canada Research Chair in Biostatistics and Epidemiologic Methods.