Scholar
Layla Parast
Google Scholar ID: DfpaiTgAAAAJ
University of Texas at Austin
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,253
H-index
28
i10-index
63
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
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Background
- Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin
- Faculty Scholar in the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
- Research spans statistical methodology, clinical trial optimization, healthcare policy, and applied biomedical studies
- Develops robust statistical approaches for evaluating surrogate markers, addressing challenges like censored data and small sample sizes
- Focuses on optimizing clinical trial design and analysis using surrogate markers to accelerate drug evaluation
- Contributes to healthcare quality measurement, developing and validating patient-reported outcomes, and improving fairness in provider comparisons
- Collaborates on biomedical research applying statistical methods to adolescent substance use, mental health, biomarker prediction of disease outcomes, and factors associated with childhood asthma and atopic dermatitis