Roland Albert Matsouaka | Scholars@Duke

Roland Albert Matsouaka
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Basic Science Departments 2014
Member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Institutes and Centers 2014

Contact Information

2400 Pratt Street, 6021 North Pavilion, Durham, NC 27705
Duke Box 3850, Durham, NC 27710
roland.matsouaka@duke.edu (919) 668-7838

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Harvard University 2012
Research
Selected Grants
- Optimizing Prevention of Healthcare-Acquired Infections After Cardiac Surgery awarded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2015 - 2018
- Mapping Quality in the Stroke System of Care: Do hospitals that share in the care of Acute Stroke patients also share awarded by Massachusetts General Hospital 2016 - 2018
- Duke CTSA (UL1) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2018
- National Surveillance of Stroke Outcomes and Quality of Care using the Get With the Guidelines(GWTG) Stroke Registry awarded by University of California - Los Angeles 2017 - 2018
- Statistical Methods for Complex Data in Cardiovascular Disease awarded by North Carolina State University 2013 - 2018
- Duke CTSA (UL1): Statistical methods for complex data in CV disease research awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2018
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Conference Papers
  - Kon, ZN, Bittle, GJ, Pasrija, C, Vemulapalli, S, Grau-Sepulveda, MV, Matsouaka, RA, Taylor, B, Gammie, JS, and Griffith, BP. "Incidence and Outcomes of Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy in the United States: An Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgery Database." October 2017. Full Text
  - Sherwood, M, Xiang, Q, Matsouaka, R, Hughes, GC, Vemulapalli, S, Vora, A, Peterson, E, and Rao, S. "Incidence and Outcomes of Vascular Complications and Bleeding Events in Patients undergoing TAVR in contemporary US practice: Insights from the STS/ACC TVT Registry (R)." November 1, 2016. Full Text Link to Item
  - Don, CW, Johnson, A, Stebbins, A, Vemulapalli, S, Matsouaka, R, Burke, C, Le, S, Verrier, E, Dean, L, Reisman, M, and Aldea, G. "PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IS ASSOCIATED WITH WORSE TAVR OUTCOMES INDEPENDENT OF COPD: REPORT FROM THE TVT REGISTRY." April 2016. Full Text
- Journal Articles
  - Chang, LL, Xu, H, DeVore, AD, Matsouaka, RA, Yancy, CW, Fonarow, GC, Allen, LA, and Hernandez, AF. "Timing of Postdischarge Follow-Up and Medication Adherence Among Patients With Heart Failure." Journal of the American Heart Association 7, no. 7 (April 2018). Full Text
  - Joseph, L, Bashir, M, Xiang, Q, Yerokun, BA, Matsouaka, RA, Vemulapalli, S, Kapadia, S, Cigarroa, JE, and Zahr, F. "Prevalence and Outcomes of Mitral Stenosis in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Findings From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapies Registry." JACC. Cardiovascular interventions 11, no. 7 (April 2018): 693-702. Full Text
  - McCarthy, FH, Vemulapalli, S, Li, Z, Thourani, V, Matsouaka, RA, Desai, ND, Kirtane, A, Anwaruddin, S, Williams, ML, Giri, J, Vallabhajosyula, P, Li, RH, Herrmann, HC, Bavaria, JE, and Szeto, WY. "Association of Tricuspid Regurgitation With Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Outcomes: A Report From The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry." The Annals of thoracic surgery 105, no. 4 (April 2018): 1121-1128. Full Text
  - Selvaraj, S, Fonarow, GC, Sheng, S, Matsouaka, RA, DeVore, AD, Heidenreich, PA, Hernandez, AF, Yancy, CW, and Bhatt, DL. "Association of Electronic Health Record Use With Quality of Care and Outcomes in Heart Failure: An Analysis of Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure." Journal of the American Heart Association 7, no. 7 (March 30, 2018). Full Text
  - Echouffo-Tcheugui, JB, Xu, H, Matsouaka, RA, Xian, Y, Schwamm, LH, Smith, EE, Bhatt, DL, Hernandez, AF, Heidenreich, PA, and Fonarow, GC. "Diabetes and long-term outcomes of ischaemic stroke: findings from Get With The Guidelines-Stroke." European heart journal (February 9, 2018). Full Text
  - Brescia, AA, Rankin, JS, Cyr, DD, Jacobs, JP, Prager, RL, Zhang, M, Matsouaka, RA, Harrington, SD, Dokholyan, RS, Bolling, SF, Fishstrom, A, Pasquali, SK, Shahian, DM, Likosky, DS, and Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative, . "Determinants of Variation in Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting." The Annals of thoracic surgery 105, no. 2 (February 2018): 513-520. Full Text
  - Inohara, T, Xian, Y, Liang, L, Matsouaka, RA, Saver, JL, Smith, EE, Schwamm, LH, Reeves, MJ, Hernandez, AF, Bhatt, DL, Peterson, ED, and Fonarow, GC. "Association of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Among Patients Taking Non-Vitamin K Antagonist vs Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants With In-Hospital Mortality." JAMA 319, no. 5 (February 2018): 463-473. Full Text
  - Gupta, A, Allen, LA, Bhatt, DL, Cox, M, DeVore, AD, Heidenreich, PA, Hernandez, AF, Peterson, ED, Matsouaka, RA, Yancy, CW, and Fonarow, GC. "Association of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Implementation With Readmission and Mortality Outcomes in Heart Failure." JAMA cardiology 3, no. 1 (January 2018): 44-53. Full Text
  - Jalnapurkar, S, Zhao, X, Heidenreich, PA, Bhatt, DL, Smith, EE, DeVore, AD, Hernandez, AF, Matsouaka, R, Yancy, CW, and Fonarow, GC. "A Hospital Level Analysis of 30-Day Readmission Performance for Heart Failure Patients and Long-Term Survival: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (Accepted)." American Heart Journal (January 1, 2018). Full Text
  - Malaisrie, SC, McCarthy, PM, Kruse, J, Matsouaka, R, Andrei, AC, Grau-Sepulveda, MV, Friedman, DJ, Cox, JL, and Brennan, JM. "Burden of preoperative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (Accepted)." Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (January 1, 2018). Full Text
  - Vemulapalli, S, Holmes, DR, Dai, D, Matsouaka, R, Mack, MJ, Grover, FL, Makkar, RR, Thourani, VH, and Douglas, PS. "Valve hemodynamic deterioration and cardiovascular outcomes in TAVR: A report from the STS/ACC TVT Registry." American heart journal 195 (January 2018): 1-13. Full Text
  - Mavromatis, K, Thourani, VH, Stebbins, A, Vemulapalli, S, Devireddy, C, Guyton, RA, Matsouaka, R, Ghasemzadeh, N, Block, PC, Leshnower, BG, Stewart, JP, Rumsfeld, JS, Lerakis, S, and Babaliaros, V. "Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Regurgitation." The Annals of thoracic surgery 104, no. 6 (December 2017): 1977-1985. Full Text
  - Smith, EE, Saver, JL, Cox, M, Liang, L, Matsouaka, R, Xian, Y, Bhatt, DL, Fonarow, GC, and Schwamm, LH. "Increase in Endovascular Therapy in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke After the Publication of Pivotal Trials." Circulation 136, no. 24 (December 2017): 2303-2310. Full Text
  - Abramowitz, Y, Vemulapalli, S, Chakravarty, T, Li, Z, Kapadia, S, Holmes, D, Matsouaka, RA, Wang, A, Cheng, W, Forrester, JS, Smalling, R, Thourani, V, Mack, M, Leon, M, and Makkar, RR. "Clinical Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry." Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions 10, no. 11 (November 2017). Full Text
  - Hyman, MC, Vemulapalli, S, Szeto, WY, Stebbins, A, Patel, PA, Matsouaka, RA, Herrmann, HC, Anwaruddin, S, Kobayashi, T, Desai, ND, Vallabhajosyula, P, McCarthy, FH, Li, R, Bavaria, JE, and Giri, J. "Conscious Sedation Versus General Anesthesia for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry." Circulation 136, no. 22 (November 2017): 2132-2140. Full Text
  - Shah, KS, Xu, H, Matsouaka, RA, Bhatt, DL, Heidenreich, PA, Hernandez, AF, Devore, AD, Yancy, CW, and Fonarow, GC. "Heart Failure With Preserved, Borderline, and Reduced Ejection Fraction: 5-Year Outcomes." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 70, no. 20 (November 2017): 2476-2486. Full Text
  - Hansen, JW, Foy, A, Yadav, P, Gilchrist, IC, Kozak, M, Stebbins, A, Matsouaka, R, Vemulapalli, S, Wang, A, Wang, DD, Eng, MH, Greenbaum, AB, and O'Neill, WO. "Death and Dialysis After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: An Analysis of the STS/ACC TVT Registry." JACC. Cardiovascular interventions 10, no. 20 (October 2017): 2064-2075. Full Text
  - Keeling, B, Thourani, V, Aliawadi, G, Kim, S, Cyr, D, Badhwar, V, Jacobs, JP, Brennan, JM, Meza, J, Matsouaka, R, and Halkos, ME. "Conversion From Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting to On-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting." The Annals of thoracic surgery 104, no. 4 (October 2017): 1267-1274. Full Text
  - Reeves, MJ, Fonarow, GC, Xu, H, Matsouaka, RA, Xian, Y, Saver, J, Schwamm, L, and Smith, EE. "Is Risk-Standardized In-Hospital Stroke Mortality an Adequate Proxy for Risk-Standardized 30-Day Stroke Mortality Data? Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke." Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 10, no. 10 (October 2017). Full Text
  - O'Byrne, ML, Kim, S, Hornik, CP, Yerokun, BA, Matsouaka, RA, Jacobs, JP, Jacobs, ML, and Jonas, RA. "Effect of Obesity and Underweight Status on Perioperative Outcomes of Congenital Heart Operations in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: An Analysis of Data From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database." Circulation 136, no. 8 (August 2017): 704-718. Full Text
  - Anderson, BR, Wallace, AS, Hill, KD, Gulack, BC, Matsouaka, R, Jacobs, JP, Bacha, EA, Glied, SA, and Jacobs, ML. "Association of Surgeon Age and Experience With Congenital Heart Surgery Outcomes." Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 10, no. 7 (July 2017). Full Text
  - Brennan, JM, Thomas, L, Cohen, DJ, Shahian, D, Wang, A, Mack, MJ, Holmes, DR, Edwards, FH, Frankel, NZ, Baron, SJ, Carroll, J, Thourani, V, Tuzcu, EM, Arnold, SV, Cohn, R, Maser, T, Schawe, B, Strong, S, Stickfort, A, Patrick-Lake, E, Graham, FL, Dai, D, Li, F, Matsouaka, RA, O'Brien, S, Li, F, Pencina, MJ, and Peterson, ED. "Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: Propensity-Matched Comparison." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 70, no. 4 (July 2017): 439-450. Full Text
  - Carroll, JD, Vemulapalli, S, Dai, D, Matsouaka, R, Blackstone, E, Edwards, F, Masoudi, FA, Mack, M, Peterson, ED, Holmes, D, Rumsfeld, JS, Tuzcu, EM, and Grover, F. "Procedural Experience for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Relation to Outcomes: The STS/ACC TVT Registry." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 70, no. 1 (July 2017): 29-41. Full Text
  - Khan, NI, Siddiqui, FM, Goldstein, JN, Cox, M, Xian, Y, Matsouaka, RA, Heidenreich, PA, Peterson, ED, Bhatt, DL, Fonarow, GC, Schwamm, LH, and Smith, EE. "Association Between Previous Use of Antiplatelet Therapy and Intracerebral Hemorrhage Outcomes." Stroke 48, no. 7 (July 2017): 1810-1817. Full Text
  - Matsouaka, RA, and Tchetgen Tchetgen, EJ. "Instrumental variable estimation of causal odds ratios using structural nested mean models." Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 18, no. 3 (July 2017): 465-476. Full Text
  - Ziaeian, B, Heidenreich, PA, Xu, H, DeVore, AD, Matsouaka, RA, Hernandez, AF, Bhatt, DL, Yancy, CW, and Fonarow, GC. "Race/Ethnic Differences in Outcomes Among Hospitalized Medicare Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction." JACC. Heart failure 5, no. 7 (July 2017): 483-493. Full Text
  - Arnold, SV, Spertus, JA, Vemulapalli, S, Li, Z, Matsouaka, RA, Baron, SJ, Vora, AN, Mack, MJ, Reynolds, MR, Rumsfeld, JS, and Cohen, DJ. "Quality-of-Life Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in an Unselected Population: A Report From the STS/ACC Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry." JAMA cardiology 2, no. 4 (April 2017): 409-416. Full Text
  - Kamal, N, Sheng, S, Xian, Y, Matsouaka, R, Hill, MD, Bhatt, DL, Saver, JL, Reeves, MJ, Fonarow, GC, Schwamm, LH, and Smith, EE. "Delays in Door-to-Needle Times and Their Impact on Treatment Time and Outcomes in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke." Stroke 48, no. 4 (April 2017): 946-954. Full Text
  - Gilstrap, LG, Fonarow, GC, Desai, AS, Liang, L, Matsouaka, R, DeVore, AD, Smith, EE, Heidenreich, P, Hernandez, AF, Yancy, CW, and Bhatt, DL. "Initiation, Continuation, or Withdrawal of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction." Journal of the American Heart Association 6, no. 2 (February 11, 2017). Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Pandey, A, Golwala, H, Xu, H, DeVore, AD, Matsouaka, R, Pencina, M, Kumbhani, DJ, Hernandez, AF, Bhatt, DL, Heidenreich, PA, Yancy, CW, de Lemos, JA, and Fonarow, GC. "Association of 30-Day Readmission Metric for Heart Failure Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Quality of Care and Outcomes." JACC. Heart failure 4, no. 12 (December 2016): 935-946. Full Text
  - Medford-Davis, LN, Fonarow, GC, Bhatt, DL, Xu, H, Smith, EE, Suter, R, Peterson, ED, Xian, Y, Matsouaka, RA, and Schwamm, LH. "Impact of Insurance Status on Outcomes and Use of Rehabilitation Services in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke." Journal of the American Heart Association 5, no. 11 (November 14, 2016). Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Sherwood, M, Xiang, Q, Matsouaka, R, Hughes, GC, Vemulapalli, S, Vora, A, Peterson, E, and Rao, S. "TCT-78 Incidence and Outcomes of Vascular Complications and Bleeding Events in Patients undergoing TAVR in contemporary U.S. practice: Insights from the STS/ACC TVT Registry®." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 68, no. 18S (November 2016): B32-. Full Text
  - Hira, RS, Bhatt, DL, Fonarow, GC, Heidenreich, PA, Ju, C, Virani, SS, Bozkurt, B, Petersen, LA, Hernandez, AF, Schwamm, LH, Eapen, ZJ, Albert, MA, Liang, L, Matsouaka, RA, Peterson, ED, and Jneid, H. "Temporal Trends in Care and Outcomes of Patients Receiving Fibrinolytic Therapy Compared to Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) Registry." Journal of the American Heart Association 5, no. 10 (October 6, 2016). Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Alfredsson, J, Stebbins, A, Brennan, JM, Matsouaka, R, Afilalo, J, Peterson, ED, Vemulapalli, S, Rumsfeld, JS, Shahian, D, Mack, MJ, and Alexander, KP. "Gait Speed Predicts 30-Day Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Results From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry." Circulation 133, no. 14 (April 2016): 1351-1359. Full Text
  - Glymour, MM, Nguyen, QC, Matsouaka, R, Tchetgen Tchetgen, EJ, Schmidt, NM, and Osypuk, TL. "Does Mother Know Best? Treatment Adherence as a Function of Anticipated Treatment Benefit." Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 27, no. 2 (March 2016): 265-275. Full Text
  - Matsouaka, RA, Singhal, AB, and Betensky, RA. "An optimal Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test of mortality and a continuous outcome." Statistical methods in medical research (January 2016): 962280216680524-. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Matsouaka, RA, and Betensky, RA. "Power and sample size calculations for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test in the presence of death-censored observations." Statistics in medicine 34, no. 3 (February 2015): 406-431. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Matsouaka, RA, Li, J, and Cai, T. "Evaluating marker-guided treatment selection strategies." Biometrics 70, no. 3 (September 2014): 489-499. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Matsouaka, RA, Li, J, and Cai, T. "Evaluating marker-guided treatment selection strategies." Biometrics 70, no. 3 (January 1, 2014): 489-499. Full Text
  - Hudry, E, Wu, H-Y, Arbel-Ornath, M, Hashimoto, T, Matsouaka, R, Fan, Z, Spires-Jones, TL, Betensky, RA, Bacskai, BJ, and Hyman, BT. "Inhibition of the NFAT pathway alleviates amyloid β neurotoxicity in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease." The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 32, no. 9 (February 2012): 3176-3192. Full Text
  - Qu, J, Matsouaka, R, Betensky, RA, Hyman, BT, and Grosskreutz, CL. "Calcineurin activation causes retinal ganglion cell degeneration." Molecular vision 18 (January 2012): 2828-2838. Open Access Copy
  - Han, X, Yang, N, Xu, Y, Zhu, J, Chen, Z, Liu, Z, Dang, G, and Song, C. "Simvastatin treatment improves functional recovery after experimental spinal cord injury by upregulating the expression of BDNF and GDNF." Neuroscience Letters 487, no. 3 (January 2011): 255-259. Full Text
  - Spires-Jones, TL, Kay, K, Matsouka, R, Rozkalne, A, Betensky, RA, and Hyman, BT. "Calcineurin inhibition with systemic FK506 treatment increases dendritic branching and dendritic spine density in healthy adult mouse brain." Neuroscience letters 487, no. 3 (January 2011): 260-263. Full Text
  - Vaidya, VS, Waikar, SS, Ferguson, MA, Collings, FB, Sunderland, K, Gioules, C, Bradwin, G, Matsouaka, R, Betensky, RA, Curhan, GC, and Bonventre, JV. "Urinary biomarkers for sensitive and specific detection of acute kidney injury in humans." Clinical and translational science 1, no. 3 (December 2008): 200-208. Full Text
  - Atem, F, and Matsouaka, RA. "Linear regression model with a randomly censored predictor:Estimation procedures." Open Access Copy Link to Item

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