Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Faculty and Staff
Yolanda Barrón-Vaya, M.S., Research Associate in Biostatistics, received her Masters in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. Prior to joining Weill Cornell Medical College in April 2005, Ms. Barrón worked as a biostatistician at the Wilmer Eye Institute in Johns Hopkins, and later as a statistical programmer in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she collaborated with investigators from the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a multicenter cohort study of the natural history of HIV-1 infection in women in the United States. At Weill Cornell Medical College, Ms. Barrón is collaborating with Drs. Lisa Kern and Rainu Kaushal from the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, analyzing the effects of Electronic Health Records (EHR), and specifically laboratory result viewing, on quality of care, including preventive care, chronic disease management, and patient satisfaction, on a group of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the Taconic IPA in New York. She worked with Drs. Tabaee, Anand and Schwartz from the Departments of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery in a systematic review and meta-analysis of the results from nine papers published or submitted on the outcomes and complications of endoscopic pituitary surgery. Ms. Barrón is currently working with Dr. Heejung Bang in applications of marginal structural models to estimate the effect of anti-depression medication use in the survival of patients with coronary heart disease. She also is collaborating with Dr. Linda Gerber in the analysis of a longitudinal multilevel study on the effect of the Patient Activation Measure on chronic care of patients with hypertension. Ms. Barrón collaborated with Dr. Madhu Mazumdar in the design and teaching of the course "Biostatistics in Clinical Research" for the Masters Program in Clinical Investigation. Ms. Barrón's CV
