Azhar Nizam
Sr Associate
Senior Associate
Faculty, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Mr. Nizam has worked at Emory as a collaborative biostatistician since 1988. He currently serves as the Director of the Biostatistics Collaboration Core. He has experience in the analysis and management of data from clinical trials and observational studies, and in infectious disease modeling. He also has taught numerous courses in applied biostatistical methods, and received RSPH Professor of the Year awards in 1991, 1992, 2000 and 2017 as well as Emory University's Crystal Apple Award for excellence in teaching in 2002.
Contact Information
Rollins School of Public Health , 1518 Clifton Road NE
, GA
Phone: (404)727-0634
Fax: (404)727-1370
Email: anizam@sph.emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Biostatistics
- Clinical Research
- Clinical Trials
- Infectious Disease
- Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Neuroscience
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Statistical Modeling
Education
- MS 1987, University of South Carolina
- BA 1985, Grinnell College
Courses Taught
- BIOS 500: Statistical Methods I
- BIOS 591P: Biostatistics Methods II
Publications
- Freedman SF, Beck AD, Nizam A, Vanderveen DK, Plager DA, Morrison DG, Drews-Botsch CD, Lambert SR; Infant Aphakia Treatment Study Group., 2021, Glaucoma-Related Adverse Events at 10 Years in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial, JAMA Ophthalmology, 139, 165-173
- Derdeyn CP, Chimowitz MI, Lynn MJ, Fiorella D, Turan TN, Janis LS, Montgomery J, Nizam A, Lane BF, Lutsep HL, Barnwell SL, Waters MF, Hoh BL, Hourihane JM, Levy EI, Alexandrov AV, Harrigan MR, Chiu D, Klucznik RP, Clark JM, McDougall CG, Johnson MD, Pride GL Jr, Lynch JR, Zaidat OO, Rumboldt Z, Cloft HJ; Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis Trial Investigators., 2014, Aggressive medical treatment with or without stenting in high-risk patients with intracranial artery stenosis (SAMMPRIS): the final results of a randomised trial., Lancet, ,
- VanderVeen DK1, Nizam A, Lynn MJ, Bothun ED, McClatchey SK, Weakley DR, DuBois LG, Lambert SR; Infant Aphakia Treatment Study Group., 2012, Predictability of intraocular lens calculation and early refractive status: the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study., Archives of Opthalmology, ,
- Longini IM Jr1, Nizam A, Ali M, Yunus M, Shenvi N, Clemens JD., 2007, Controlling endemic cholera with oral vaccines., Proceedings of the Library of Sciences, ,
- Longini IM Jr, Nizam A, Xu S, Ungchusak K, Hanshaoworakul W, Cummings DA, Halloran ME., 2005, Containing pandemic influenza at the source., Science, ,
- Huq A, Sack RB, Nizam A, Longini IM, Nair GB, Ali A, Morris JG Jr, Khan MN, Siddique AK, Yunus M, Albert MJ, Sack DA, Colwell RR, 2005, Critical factors influencing the occurrence of Vibrio cholerae in the environment of Bangladesh, Applied Environmental Microbiology, ,
- Halloran ME, Longini IM Jr, Nizam A, Yang Y., 2002, Containing bioterrorist smallpox., Science, ,