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Antonio Olivas Martinez
Antonio
Olivas-Martinez
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PhD
Email
aolivas@uw.edu
UW Location
Population Health Building

Hans Rosling Center for Population Health
3980 15th Avenue NE
Box 351617
Seattle, WA 98195-1617
United States

About

I am from Mexico where I obtained a bachelor's degree in Mathematics at the University of Sonora, and a medical doctor degree as an Internal Medicine specialist at the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán/National Autonomous University of Mexico (INCMNSZ/UNAM).

I joined the UW Biostatistics graduate program in Fall 2019, and I am currently working on my dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Holly Janes and Dr. Andrea Rotnitzky. Our work involves developing new methods for the design and analysis of non-inferiority trials, especially in the setting of HIV prevention, and for estimating the effect of modified treatment regimens under the presence of unmeasured confounding.

Earlier in the program, I worked with Dr. Lurdes Inoue on individual patient data meta-analysis of clinical trials to investigate the benefits of cardiac resynchronization therapy (pacemakers) in patients with heart failure in different subpopulations. I also worked with Dr. Ruth Etzioni on developing an analytic approach to examine the potential bias of the true sensitivity of a cancer screening test when it is estimated from a prospective screening program.

In addition, I collaborate with the INCMNSZ in the design and data analysis of projects regarding COVID-19, antimicrobial resistance, HIV/AIDS, cancer, and liver transplantation; and with Mexicans in Statistics and Health, a group of graduate students in the US with ties to Mexico committed to explain complex scientific issues in everyday language.

I am open to many research areas, however, the topics I find most fascinating involve Infectious Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases and Cancer. I am especially interested in statistical methods for clinical trials, cancer screening, survival analysis, and causal inference.

Education
MD
Internal Medicine
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
BM
Medicine
Universidad de Sonora
BMath
Mathematics
Universidad de Sonora