Yorghos Tripodis
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Yorghos Tripodis, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics - Boston University School of Public Health

617-358-2628
yorghos@bu.edu
Crosstown Center - 316
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Biography

Yorghos Tripodis is a 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 Statistics and Data Management for the Framingham Heart Study and for 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. He is also serves as Statistical Editor in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Education

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

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Classes Taught

  • SPHBS800
  • SPHBS857
  • SPHBS901
  • SPHBS910
  • SPHBS980

Publications

  • Published on 6/7/2026

    Miner AE, Kmiecik MJ, Namburi N, Dunckley N, Adler CH, Driver-Dunckley ED, Nowinski CJ, Gottesman J, Tripodis Y, Stern RA, McKee AC, Stein TD, Mez J, Briggs FBS, Alosco ML. Associations Between Cumulative Head Trauma and Self-Reported Parkinsonism and Parkinson's Disease in Former Soccer Players. Mov Disord. 2026 Jun 07. PMID: 42252813.

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  • Published on 6/2/2026

    Mez J, Abdolmohammadi B, Durape S, Dwyer B, Alosco ML, Yew B, Pritchett A, Fernández NB, Hicks A, Uretsky M, Ryder M, Faheem F, Nosek S, Martin B, Palmisano J, Nowinski C, Tripodis Y, O'Connor KD, Goldstein LE, Katz DI, Cantu RC, Kowall NW, Stern RA, Alvarez VE, Huber BR, Crary JF, Stein TD, McKee AC, Daneshvar DH. Validity of the NINDS traumatic encephalopathy syndrome criteria for predicting chronic traumatic encephalopathy. medRxiv. 2026 Jun 02. PMID: 42282171.

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  • Published on 4/28/2026

    Kleven BC, Chien LC, Surwill D, Alosco ML, Wethe JV, Tripodis Y, Adler CH, Shenton ME, Pasternak O, Katz DI, Peskind E, Balcer LJ, Koerte IK, Mez J, Reiman EM, Cantu RC, Stern RA, Zetterberg H, Bernick C, Cummings JL. Cognitive, biomarker, and neuroimaging indices associated with traumatic encephalopathy syndrome across two independent athlete cohorts. Res Sq. 2026 Apr 28. PMID: 42094043.

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  • Published on 4/20/2026

    Li Y, Cabral H, Tripodis Y, Ma J, Levy D, Joehanes R, Liu C, Lee J. Mediation analysis in longitudinal data: an unbiased estimator for cumulative indirect effect. medRxiv. 2026 Apr 20. PMID: 42078400.

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  • Published on 4/10/2026

    Kiran S, Carpenter E, Grasemann U, Scimeca M, Marte MJ, Russell-Meill M, Peñaloza C, Tripodis Y, Miikkulainen R. Predicting bilingual aphasia treatment outcomes using digital twins: a double-blind randomized controlled trial. NPJ Digit Med. 2026 Apr 10. PMID: 41963587.

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  • Published on 4/9/2026

    Calderazzo SM, Butler MLMD, Breen K, Kanner H, Tripodis Y, Stein TD, Holtzman DM, Cherry JD, Huber BR, McKee AC. Meningeal and infiltrating T-cells are associated with repetitive head trauma and tau-mediated neurodegeneration in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2026 Apr 09. PMID: 41957675.

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  • Published on 4/6/2026

    Bonke EM, Cetin-Karayumak S, Zhang F, Tripodis Y, Seer C, Frey M, Betz AK, Rojczyk P, Zekelman LR, Seitz-Holland J, Pieper S, Schulte-Koerne G, Shenton ME, O'Donnell LJ, Rathi Y, Koerte IK. The association between motor coordination, behavior, cognition and brain structure in children: an ABCD study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2026 Apr 06. PMID: 41940926.

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  • Published on 4/1/2026

    Groh JR, Miner AE, Alshikho MJ, Farris C, Cui A, Pettway E, Labonte J, Mosaheb S, Tripodis Y, Adler CH, Balcer LJ, Bernick C, Cantu RC, Coleman MJ, Dodick DW, Ashton NJ, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Peskind ER, Nowinski C, Ly M, Altaras C, Lenio S, Rabinovici GD, Asken B, Rosen H, Cobigo Y, Blusztajn JK, Budson AE, Turk K, Qiu WQ, Goldstein L, Martin B, Palmisano JN, Dixon D, Schneider G, Steinberg EG, Su Y, Protas H, Pasternak O, Koerte I, Bouix S, Cummings JL, Reiman EM, Shenton ME, Stern RA, McKee AC, Stein TD, Brickman AM, Mez J, Alosco ML. Imaging the later-life white matter pathologies of repetitive head impacts: A novel pattern revealed through T2 FLAIR MRI. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 Apr; 22(4):e71351. PMID: 42002804.

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  • Published on 3/16/2026

    Pinheiro A, Karjadi C, Tripodis Y, Kolachalama VB, Lunetta K, Demissie S, Liu C, Au R, Mohammed S. Predicting cognitive impairment using novel functional features of spatial proximity and circularity in the digital clock drawing test. medRxiv. 2026 Mar 16. PMID: 41891039.

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  • Published on 3/4/2026

    Chan WP, Smith SM, Scantling DR, Torres CM, Janeway MG, Tripodis Y, Nudel JE, Sanchez SE. Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Classification Model for Injury Mechanism in Trauma. J Surg Res. 2026 Apr; 320:70-76. PMID: 41785659.

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