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Reproducibility Research
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Reproducibility is not just Research publishing your analysis code. The entire workflow of a research project – from formulating hypotheses to dissemination of your results – has decisions and steps that ideally should be reproducible. This extends far beyond just posting the code for your model. In particular, the data cleaning process is an important step in a research project that is often the hardest step to make reproducible, especially if you are dealing with, for example, messy text data, where it’s hard to generalize your cleaning. R Markdown, R packages, and git as example tools that help with producing reproducible research. However, these types of tools can be intimidating if you’ve never seen or used them before. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do anything. Well-documented code goes a long way for someone to be able to reproduce your research! With each new project, aim to try and improve the reproducibility of your workflow in incremental ways.
Biostatistics PhD list
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List of Universities that offer PhD in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. May not be up-to-dated. For ranking, Please see the US news ranking
PhD Life at KUMED
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The thought of doing PhDs are hard. They are incredibly fulfilling, but mentally challenging and emotionally draining. You meet some amazing people along the journey, but also have to deal with some difficult people and difficult situations. The following are a few thoughts of my experience. They are based on being involved in the research.
IELTS Preparation
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“ Every battle is won before it was ever fought ” —————San Su(A Chinese maxim)
portfolio
My Alma matter: KU Medical Center
University of Kansas School of Medicine where I have received my PhD
Alma Mater 2: UNR
University of Nevada, Reno: Department of Mathematics and Statistics 
My Undergraduate School in Bangladesh
University of Dhaka: Department of Mathematics 
publications
Generalized Univariate Distributions and a New Asymmetric Laplace Model
Published in Arxiv Preprint, 2017
This work provides a survey of the general class of distributions generated from the mixture of the beta random variables.
Recommended citation: Sharma, Palash. "Generalized Univariate Distributions and a New Asymmetric Laplace Model." arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05101 (2020). https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05101
Assessing accuracy of Weibull shape parameter in clinical trials for time-to-event outcome
Published in Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2020
This paper is about assessing reliability of Weibull shape parameter estimate from historical controls
Recommended citation: Phadnis, Milind A., Palash Sharma, Nadeesha Thewarapperuma, and Prabhakar Chalise. "Assessing accuracy of Weibull shape parameter estimate from historical studies for subsequent sample size calculation in clinical trials with time-to-event outcome." Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications (2020): 100548. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7052506/
Normalization of Cerebral Blood Flow, Neurochemicals, and White Matter Integrity After Kidney Transplantation
Published in Journal of the American society of Nephrology, 2020
This paper is about the Normalization of Cerebral Blood Flow, Neurochemicals, and White Matter Integrity After Kidney Transplantation
Recommended citation: Lepping, Rebecca J., Robert N. Montgomery, Palash Sharma, Jonathan D. Mahnken, Eric D. Vidoni, In-Young Choi, Mark J. Sarnak, William M. Brooks, Jeffrey M. Burns, and Aditi Gupta. "Normalization of Cerebral Blood Flow, Neurochemicals, and White Matter Integrity After Kidney Transplantation." medRxiv (2020). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.04.20091199
Exploratory analysis of mtDNA haplogroups in two Alzheimer’s longitudinal cohorts
Published in Alzheimers & Dementia, 2020
This paper is about the Exploratory analysis of mtDNA haplogroups in two Alzheimers longitudinal cohorts.
Recommended citation: Swerdlow, Russell H., et al. "Exploratory analysis of mtDNA haplogroups in two Alzheimers longitudinal cohorts." Alzheimers & Dementia 16.8 (2020): 1164-1172. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12119
Mild cognitive impairment is associated with skeletal muscle mitochondrial deficits (Under Review)
Published in Function, 2020
This paper is about the Mild cognitive impairment association with skeletal muscle mitochondrial deficits
Recommended citation: Morris, Jill K., Colin S. McCoin, Kelly N. Fuller, Casey S. John, Heather M. Wilkins, Xiaowan Wang, Palash Sharma et al. "Mild cognitive impairment is associated with skeletal muscle mitochondrial deficits." medRxiv (2020). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.20.20158022
The influence of religious belief on burnout in medical students
Published in Missouri medicine, 2021
Approximately half of all U.S. medical students are experiencing burnout. A previous study has demonstrated that higher levels of spirituality are associated with less burnout in medical students, yet no studies have examined the relationship between religious affiliation and burnout in medical students. The purpose of this study is to determine if specific religious affiliation and level of religious involvement is associated with less burnout in medical students.
Recommended citation: Haghnegahdar, Megan et al. “The Influence of Religious Belief on Burnout in Medical Students.” Missouri medicine vol. 118,1 (2021): 63-67. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7861608/
CONSENSUS: A Shiny application of Dementia evaluation and reporting for the KU ADC Longitudinal Clinical Cohort Database
Published in JAMIA open, 2021
This paper is about to effectively manage the cohort, the KU ADC utilizes a combination of open source Electronic Data Capture (EDC) (i.e. REDCap), along with other homegrown data management and visualization systems developed using R-studio and Shiny.
Recommended citation: Sharma, Palash, Robert N. Montgomery, Rasinio S. Graves, Kayla Meyer, Suzanne L. Hunt, Eric D. Vidoni, Jonathan D. Mahnken, Russell H. Swerdlow, Jeffrey M. Burns, and Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam. "CONSENSUS: A Shiny application of Dementia evaluation and reporting for the KU ADC Longitudinal Clinical Cohort Database." (2020). https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-69396/v1
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Single arm phase II clinical trial design using historical data
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This is a description of your talk, which is a markdown files that can be all markdown-ified like any other post. Yay markdown!
Conference talks on association of Mitochondrial Haplogroups with the Risk of Alzheimer Disease
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teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Workshop, The University of Nevada Reno, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2015
Course taught including Probability and Statistics, Advanced Calculus for undergrad Students. Created lesson plans and fostered an environment conducive to facilitate students furthering their education. Proctored, graded and recorded quizzes and exams.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate course, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Biostatistics & Data sciences, 2017
Teaching Assistant for course BIOS 740 Applied Multivariate Methods (Fall 2018) , STAT 820 Statistical Computing (Summer 2017). Tutored in the biostatistics tutoring lab every other Friday to answer questions from students from various departments in KU medical center.