Chengcheng Hu

Chengcheng Hu

Director, Biostatistics - Phoenix Campus
Professor, Public Health
Professor, Statistics-GIDP
Professor, BIO5 Institute
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(520) 626-9308

Work Summary

Chengcheng Hu has worked on a broad range of areas including cancer, occupational health, HIV/AIDS, and aging. He has extensive collaborative research in conducting methodological research in the areas of survival analysis, longitudinal data, high-dimensional data, and measurement error. His current methodological interest, arising from studies of viral and human genetics and biomarkers, is to develop innovative methods to investigate the relationship between high-dimensional information and longitudinal outcomes or survival endpoints.

Research Interest

Chengcheng Hu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, Public Health and Director, Biostatistics, Phoenix campus at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona. He is also Director of the Biometry Core on the Chemoprevention of Skin Cancer Project at the University of Arizona Cancer Center. Hu has worked on multiple federal grants in a broad range of areas including cancer, occupational health, HIV/AIDS, and aging. In addition to extensive experience in collaborative research, he has conducted methodological research in the areas of survival analysis, longitudinal data, high-dimensional data, and measurement error. His current methodological interest, arising from studies of viral and human genetics and biomarkers, is to develop innovative methods to investigate the relationship between high-dimensional information and longitudinal outcomes or survival endpoints. Hu joined the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health in 2008. Prior to this he was an assistant professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2002 to 2008. While at Harvard, he also served as senior statistician in the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) and the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Group (IMPAACT). Hu received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of Washington and a M.A. in Mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University.

Publications

Best, B., Burchette, S., Li, H., Stek, A., Hu, C. -., Wang, J., Hawkins, E., Byroads, M., Watts, H., Smith, E., Fletcher, C. V., Mirochnick, M., Capparelli, E. V., & IMPAACT P1026S Protocol Team, . (2015). Pharmacokinetics of Tenofovir during Pregnancy and Postpartum. HIV Medicine.
Shrestha, M. P., Hu, C., & Taleban, S. (2017). Appointment Wait Time, Primary Care Provider Status, and Patient Demographics are Associated With Nonattendance at Outpatient Gastroenterology Clinic. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY, 51(5), 433-438.
Kopp, L. M., Hu, C., Rozo, B., White-Collins, A., Huh, W. W., Yarborough, A., Herzog, C. E., & Hingorani, P. (2015). Utility of bone marrow aspiration and biopsy in initial staging of Ewing sarcoma. Pediatric blood & cancer, 62(1), 12-5.

The current standard of care for initial staging of pediatric Ewing sarcoma (EWS) patients is to obtain a bilateral bone marrow aspiration and biopsy (BMAB). The incidence of bone marrow (BM) disease in patients deemed non-metastatic by conventional and metabolic imaging and the concordance of BM positivity with other clinical characteristics are not well established.

Fukushima, H., Panczyk, M., Spaite, D. W., Chikani, V., Dameff, C., Hu, C., Birkenes, T. S., Myklebust, H., Sutter, J., Langlais, B., Wu, Z., & Bobrow, B. J. (2016). Barriers to telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation in public and residential locations. Resuscitation, 109, 116-120.

Emergency medical telecommunicators can play a key role in improving outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) by providing instructions for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to callers. Telecommunicators, however, frequently encounter barriers that obstruct the Telephone CPR (TCPR) process. The nature and frequency of these barriers in public and residential locations have not been well investigated. The aim of this study is to identify the barriers to TCPR in public and residential locations.

Wu, Z., Panczyk, M., Spaite, D. W., Hu, C., Fukushima, H., Langlais, B., Sutter, J., & Bobrow, B. J. (2018). Telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation is independently associated with improved survival and improved functional outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation, 122, 135-140.

This study aims to quantify the relative impact of Dispatcher-Initiated Telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (TCPR) on survival and survival with favorable functional outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in a population of patients served by multiple emergency dispatch centers and more than 130 emergency medical services (EMS) agencies.