Emily Kistner-Griffin

Emily Kistner-Griffin, Ph.D.


Associate Professor
Public Health Sciences
Cancer Focus:

As a member of the Biostatistics Shared Resource, I collaborate with Hollings investigators on a wide-range of grant and clinical trial development, including numerous investigator-initiated trials.

Research Interest

As a member of the Biostatistics Shared Resource (BSR), I collaborate with Hollings Cancer Center investigators, having contributed to over 50 NIH, DOD, and internal grant submissions, providing biostatistical expertise to both basic sciences and clinicians.  I work with investigators from varying programs including Cancer Immunology and Cancer Genes and Molecular Regulation.  In addition to funded projects, I have supported HCC investigators on analyses of preliminary data which have resulted in publications on associations between risk variants and breast cancer, prostate, and non-melanoma skin cancer.  I also assist in clinical trial design for investigator-initiated Phase I and II trials at Hollings, as well as participate on committees such as the Protocol Review Committee and the BSR Clinical Trials Working Group, ensuring that trials offered to patients meet the highest standard of trial design.  

Positions and Scientific Appointments

2024-Present: Research Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 2023-2024: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 2013-2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 2009-2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 2005-2009: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1999-2002: Graduate Research Assistant, Medical Image Display and Analysis Group, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Education

PhD
August 2005
Biostatistics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
MS
May 2001
Biostatistics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BS
May 1999
Biostatistics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill