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Warren Alden Kibbe

Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Translational Biomedical
Duke Box 2721, Durham, NC 27710
2424 Erwin Road, Suite 902, 9025 Hock Plaza, Durham, NC 27705

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


Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics · 2022 - Present Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Translational Biomedical, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Chief, Division of Translational Biomedical Informatics · 2017 - Present Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Biostatistics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute · 2018 - Present Duke Cancer Institute, Institutes and Centers

Recent Publications


Tree-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 Cite

Associations 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 Cite

The Intersections of COVID-19, HIV, and Race/Ethnicity: Machine Learning Methods to Identify and Model Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 in a Large U.S. National Dataset.

Journal Article AIDS Behav · October 2024 We investigate risk factors for severe COVID-19 in persons living with HIV (PWH), including among racialized PWH, using the U.S. population-sampled National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) data released from January 1, 2020 to October 10, 2022. We defined ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Clinical and host microbiome features in the development of acute otitis media

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2028

Analytics & Machine-learning for Maternal-health Interventions (AMMI): A Cross-CTSA Collaboration

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2022 - 2026

RADx-UP CDCC

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

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Education, Training & Certifications


California Institute of Technology · 1990 Ph.D.