Positions

Overview

  • As a statistician, Rongbing Xie, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., has expertise in designing, developing, managing and analyzing clinical databases (national and international registries) and administrative databases (electronic medical records). As a doctor of public health in outcomes research, she is interested in translating statistical findings into medical decision making and public health policy making for improving health outcomes.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2019 Left ventricular myxoma: A contractile mass causing intracavitary obstruction and severe pulmonary hypertension.  Journal of Cardiac Surgery.  34:1127-1129. 2019
    2019 Failure to Diagnose and Treat Hyperparathyroidism Among Patients with Hypercalcemia: Opportunities for Intervention at the Patient and Physician Level to Increase Surgical Referral.  Oncologist.  24:e828-e834. 2019
    2019 Epidemiology of infection in mechanical circulatory support: A global analysis from the ISHLT Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support Registry.  The Journal of heart transplantation.  38:364-373. 2019
    2019 Outcomes with ambulatory advanced heart failure from the Medical Arm of Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (MedaMACS) Registry.  The Journal of heart transplantation.  38:408-417. 2019
    2019 Third Annual Report From the ISHLT Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support Registry: A comparison of centrifugal and axial continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices.  The Journal of heart transplantation.  38:352-363. 2019
    2019 Gender and Racial Disparities in Survival After Surgery Among Papillary and Patients With Follicular Thyroid Cancer: A 45-Year Experience.  Clinical Medicine Insights : Endocrinology and Diabetes.  12. 2019
    2018 Why Is Hyperparathyroidism Underdiagnosed and Undertreated in Older Adults?.  Clinical Medicine Insights : Endocrinology and Diabetes.  11. 2018
    2018 Impact of body mass index on adverse events after implantation of left ventricular assist devices: An IMACS registry analysis.  The Journal of heart transplantation.  37:1207-1217. 2018
    2018 Hyperthyroidism is Underdiagnosed and Undertreated in 3336 Patients: An Opportunity for Improvement and Intervention.  Annals of Surgery.  268:506-512. 2018
    2018 Bloodstream infections in mechanical circulatory support device recipients in the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Mechanically Assisted Circulation Support Registry: Epidemiology, risk factors, and mortality.  The Journal of heart transplantation.  37:1013-1020. 2018
    2018 Second annual report from the ISHLT Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support Registry.  The Journal of heart transplantation.  37:685-691. 2018
    2018 Long-term survival prospects of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: Envisioning the future.  Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.  91:696. 2018
    2017 Failure to Diagnose Hyperparathyroidism in 10,432 Patients with Hypercalcemia.  Annals of Surgery.  266:632-640. 2017
    2017 Discordant Perceptions of Prognosis and Treatment Options Between Physicians and Patients With Advanced Heart Failure.  JACC: Heart Failure.  5:663-671. 2017
    2016 Conflicting Perceptions of Prognosis and Treatment Options between Physicians and Patients with Advanced Heart Failure: Results From the Medical Arm of Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (Medamacs) Registry.  Journal of Cardiac Failure.  22:S18-S18. 2016

    Education And Training

  • Doctor of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2015
  • Master of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2010

    • Full Name

  • Rongbing Xie