Research Team and Support
Current Staff:
Wen Ye, Ph.D
Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
wye@umich.edu
Jacob Barhak, Ph.D
Application Systems Analyst / Programmer
jbarhak@umich.edu
Address:
Department of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
M4537 SPH II
1420 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029
Acknowledgments
This project could not have been completed without the work of:
Deanna Isaman, Ph.D, who developed the Lemonade method of estimation and proposed and directed the migration of the original version of the model to its current platform in Python.
Jacob Barhak, Ph.D, who developed the software application in Python.
William H. Herman, MD, Director of the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (MDRTC), who proposed the development of the chronic disease model and provided the scientific direction.
Morton B. Brown, Ph.D, Director of the Biostatistics and Economic Modeling Core of the MDRTC, who supervised the development of the model.
Honghong Zhou, Ph.D and Shari Messinger Cayetano, Ph.D who programmed the initial model in SAS.
Michael Brandle, MD, who did the literature search to identify the transition parameters.
Supporting Team
Software Development
- Dong Hee Lee (GUI Design and Coding)
- Ray Lillywhite (Testing and Model Encoding)
- Aidan Feldman (Testing and Documentation support)
Web Page Developers
- Bolaji Akingbola (UROP & MRC)
- Emily Herbert (UROP)
Webmasters and Adminstration
- Mariann Christy
- Jean Eggertsen
- Linda Potter
Thanks also to Scot E. Moss and Ray Burke who assisted with this project.
Thanks to Asad Yousuf (UROP) and Emily Springfield (SON) who helped with earlier versions of this web page.
Thanks to Doug Hockstad (Tech-Transfer) who helped with license issues.
Sponsors
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Biostatistics and Economic Modeling Core of the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (MDRTC)
- Chronic Disease Modeling for Clinical Research Innovations
This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chronic Disease Modeling for Clinical Research Innovations (NIH: R21-DK075077) and the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (NIH: P60-DK20572)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) and the Michigan Research Community (MRC) at the University of Michigan


