Kayla Kilpatrick

Kayla earned her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021. Her dissertation work focused on causal inference with interference in cluster-randomized trials and observational studies. Currently, she collaborates with the Department of Head and Neck Surgery. Her research interests include causal inference, clinical trials, observational studies, and analyzing longitudinal and categorical data.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Biostatistician III Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Basic Science Departments

Recent Publications

A Cross-Biomeasure Study to Optimize Antiretroviral Adherence Estimation.

Journal Article Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · March 2025 BackgroundIncomplete adherence to daily tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) reduces effectiveness. Adherence biomeasures (ie, drug concentrations in biological specimen) are more accurate than self-report. TDF/FTC's intracellular ... Full text Cite

Opportunity Cost of Surgical Management of Craniomaxillofacial Trauma: A Longitudinal Study.

Journal Article Craniomaxillofac Trauma Reconstr · October 16, 2024 STUDY DESIGN: Single-institution retrospective financial analysis. OBJECTIVE: Trauma care is consistently linked to inadequate reimbursement, posing a significant financial burden for large trauma centers. Data show that declining Medicare reimbursement ra ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

G-formula for observational studies under stratified interference, with application to bed net use on malaria.

Journal Article Statistics in medicine · July 2024 Assessing population-level effects of vaccines and other infectious disease prevention measures is important to the field of public health. In infectious disease studies, one person's treatment may affect another individual's outcome, that is, there may be ... Full text Cite

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