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Pittsburgh, PA
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Represented: Researchers
Kaleab Abebe, PhD, MA, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Biostatistics, and Clinical and Translational Science at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is a staff member in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a core faculty member in the Center for Research on Health Care.
Abebe is also the Founder and Director of the Center for Clinical Trials and Data Coordination, Director of the Clinical Trials Track of the Clinical Research Master’s Program, and teaches courses on clinical trials and correlated data for the Institute for Clinical Research Education. He leads the statistical cores and data coordinating centers on multiple trials with collaborations that have included studies of adolescent depression, HIV, adolescent health and violence prevention, and anxiety disorders. His research focus is the design, analysis, and coordination of clinical trials. His experience includes a large cluster randomized controlled trial of the Coaching Boys into Men program modified for middle-school male athletes, and the DCC for a Phase II randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of metformin on the progression of polycystic kidney disease.
Abebe serves as the lead statistician on the design and statistical analysis of two comparative effectiveness studies evaluating the impact of collaborative care-based interventions on anxiety and depression, respectively. His completed studies have been published in high-impact journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Kidney International, American Journal of Kidney Disease, and Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Abebe served as a member and Chair of the Advisory Panel on Clinical Trials from August 2016 to August 2019.