Overview
Warren A. Kibbe, PhD, is chief for Translational Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Chief Data Officer for the Duke Cancer Institute. He joined the Duke University School of Medicine in August after serving as the acting deputy director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and director of the NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology where he oversaw 60 federal employees and more than 600 contractors, and served as an acting Deputy Director for NCI. As an acting Deputy Director, Dr. Kibbe was involved in the myriad of activities that NCI oversees as a research organization, as a convening body for cancer research, and as a major funder of cancer research, funding nearly $4B US annually in cancer research throughout the United States.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
A community-engaged approach to developing common data elements: a case study from the RADx-UP Long COVID common data elements Task Force.
Journal Article JAMIA Open · June 2025 OBJECTIVES: In response to requests from several Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) community-engaged research projects to include Long COVID common data elements (CDEs) in the existing RADx-UP CDEs, the RADx-UP Coordinatio ... Full text Link to item CiteTree-based classification model for Long-COVID infection prediction with age stratification using data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative.
Journal Article JAMIA Open · December 2024 OBJECTIVES: We propose and validate a domain knowledge-driven classification model for diagnosing post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), also known as Long COVID, using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) data. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We developed ... Full text Link to item CiteAssociations of County-Level Social Determinants of Health with COVID-19 Related Hospitalization Among People with HIV: A Retrospective Analysis of the U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C).
Journal Article AIDS Behav · October 2024 Individually, the COVID-19 and HIV pandemics have differentially impacted minoritized groups due to the role of social determinants of health (SDoH) in the U.S. Little is known how the collision of these two pandemics may have exacerbated adverse health ou ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Clinical and host microbiome features in the development of acute otitis media
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2028Analytics & Machine-learning for Maternal-health Interventions (AMMI): A Cross-CTSA Collaboration
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2022 - 2026RADx-UP CDCC
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025View All Grants