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Yorghos Tripodis, PhD

Research Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Yorghos Tripodis
(617) 638-5844yorghos@bu.edu
Crosstown Center – 316
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Biography

Yorghos Tripodis is a Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics. He has spent much of his career as an applied statistician collaborating with researchers in medicine and public health to address scientific questions with appropriate statistical methods. He has particular expertise in the analysis of longitudinal data. He serves as the Director for the Data Management and Biostatistics Core of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease and CTE Center (BU ADCTEC). Additionally, he directs the statistical analyses in multiple studies with researchers in medicine and public health to address issues of health disparities, especially among children.

Other Positions

  • Boston Medical Center

Education

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, PhD
  • London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc
  • University of Cambridge, MPhil
  • University of Athens, BSc

Classes Taught

  • SPHBS803
  • SPHBS852
  • SPHBS857
  • SPHBS980

Publications

  • Published on 7/25/2018

    Adams JW, Alvarez VE, Mez J, Huber BR, Tripodis Y, Xia W, Meng G, Kubilus CA, Cormier K, Kiernan PT, Daneshvar DH, Chua AS, Svirsky S, Nicks R, Abdolmohammadi B, Evers L, Solomon TM, Cherry JD, Aytan N, Mahar I, Devine S, Auerbach S, Alosco ML, Nowinski CJ, Kowall NW, Goldstein LE, Dwyer B, Katz DI, Cantu RC, Stern RA, Au R, McKee AC, Stein TD. Lewy Body Pathology and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Associated With Contact Sports. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2018 Jul 25. PMID: 30053297.

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  • Published on 7/23/2018

    Alosco ML, Tripodis Y, Fritts NG, Heslegrave A, Baugh CM, Conneely S, Mariani M, Martin BM, Frank S, Mez J, Stein TD, Cantu RC, McKee AC, Shaw LM, Trojanowski JQ, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Stern RA. Cerebrospinal fluid tau, Aß, and sTREM2 in Former National Football League Players: Modeling the relationship between repetitive head impacts, microglial activation, and neurodegeneration. Alzheimers Dement. 2018 Jul 23. PMID: 30049650.

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  • Published on 7/13/2018

    Mayeda ER, Filshtein TJ, Tripodis Y, Glymour MM, Gross AL. Does selective survival before study enrolment attenuate estimated effects of education on rate of cognitive decline in older adults? A simulation approach for quantifying survival bias in life course epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol. 2018 Jul 13. PMID: 30010793.

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  • Published on 5/22/2018

    Zirogiannis N, Krutilla K, Tripodis Y. Human Development Over Time: An Empirical Comparison of a Dynamic Index and the Standard HDI. Soc Indic Res. 2018.

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  • Published on 5/19/2018

    Lepage C, Muehlmann M, Tripodis Y, Hufschmidt J, Stamm J, Green K, Wrobel P, Schultz V, Weir I, Alosco ML, Baugh CM, Fritts NG, Martin BM, Chaisson C, Coleman MJ, Lin AP, Pasternak O, Makris N, Stern RA, Shenton ME, Koerte IK. Limbic system structure volumes and associated neurocognitive functioning in former NFL players. Brain Imaging Behav. 2018 May 19. PMID: 29779184.

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  • Published on 5/1/2018

    Alosco ML, Mez J, Tripodis Y, Kiernan PT, Abdolmohammadi B, Murphy L, Kowall NW, Stein TD, Huber BR, Goldstein LE, Cantu RC, Katz DI, Chaisson CE, Martin B, Solomon TM, McClean MD, Daneshvar DH, Nowinski CJ, Stern RA, McKee AC. Age of first exposure to tackle football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Ann Neurol. 2018 May; 83(5):886-901. PMID: 29710395.

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  • Published on 3/21/2018

    Guenette JP, Stern RA, Tripodis Y, Chua AS, Schultz V, Sydnor VJ, Somes N, Karmacharya S, Lepage C, Wrobel P, Alosco ML, Martin BM, Chaisson CE, Coleman MJ, Lin AP, Pasternak O, Makris N, Shenton ME, Koerte IK. Automated versus manual segmentation of brain region volumes in former football players. Neuroimage Clin. 2018; 18:888-896. PMID: 29876273.

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  • Published on 2/1/2018

    Tagge CA, Fisher AM, Minaeva OV, Gaudreau-Balderrama A, Moncaster JA, Zhang XL, Wojnarowicz MW, Casey N, Lu H, Kokiko-Cochran ON, Saman S, Ericsson M, Onos KD, Veksler R, Senatorov VV, Kondo A, Zhou XZ, Miry O, Vose LR, Gopaul KR, Upreti C, Nowinski CJ, Cantu RC, Alvarez VE, Hildebrandt AM, Franz ES, Konrad J, Hamilton JA, Hua N, Tripodis Y, Anderson AT, Howell GR, Kaufer D, Hall GF, Lu KP, Ransohoff RM, Cleveland RO, Kowall NW, Stein TD, Lamb BT, Huber BR, Moss WC, Friedman A, Stanton PK, McKee AC, Goldstein LE. Concussion, microvascular injury, and early tauopathy in young athletes after impact head injury and an impact concussion mouse model. Brain. 2018 Feb 01; 141(2):422-458. PMID: 29360998.

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  • Published on 1/1/2018

    Sugarman MA, Alosco ML, Tripodis Y, Steinberg EG, Stern RA. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and the Diagnostic Stability of Mild Cognitive Impairment. J Alzheimers Dis. 2018; 62(4):1841-1855. PMID: 29614641.

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  • Published on 1/1/2018

    Alosco ML, Sugarman MA, Besser LM, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Kowall NW, Au R, Mez J, DeCarli C, Stein TD, McKee AC, Killiany RJ, Stern RA. A Clinicopathological Investigation of White Matter Hyperintensities and Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology. J Alzheimers Dis. 2018; 63(4):1347-1360. PMID: 29843242.

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