Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, and Certifications

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 2012
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Duke CTSA (UL1): Statistical methods for complex data in CV disease research  awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 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 - 2017
  • Optimizing Prevention of Healthcare-Acquired Infections After Cardiac Surgery  awarded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2015 - 2017
  • Statistical Methods for Complex Data in Cardiovascular Disease  awarded by North Carolina State University 2013 - 2017
• Publications and Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles

    • 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
    • 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).
    • 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).  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
    • 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  Open Access Copy
    • 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.
    • 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
• Teaching and Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • BIOSTAT 702: Applied Biostatistical Methods I 2015

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