Yunxi Zhang
Assistant Professor
Department:
SPH-Dept of Data Science
Email:
yzhang4@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 815-3477
Education
| University of Mississippi, MA, Higher Education | 2023 |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, PhD, Biostatistics | 2018 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MS, Statistics | 2013 |
| Shanghai Maritime University, BS, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics | 2011 |
Current Positions
| Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management | 07/2024 - Present |
| Assistant Professor, School of Population Health, Department of Data Science | 02/2020 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Academic Appointments or Other Previous Appointments
| Instructor, School of Population Health | 01/2019 - 02/2020 |
Sponsored Program Funding
| Extramural, Enhancing Healthcare Access and Outcomes: A Comprehensive Analysis of Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and Telehealth Practice, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2024 - Present |
| Extramural, OAT (Office for the Advancement of Telehealth) Measure Evaluation, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2023 - 09/2024 |
| Extramural, Cost, Utilization and Economic Analysis of Telehealth Among Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2022 - Present |
| Extramural, National Telehealth Data Dictionary, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2022 - Present |
| Extramural, Telehealth Center of Excellence, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2021 - Present |
| Extramural, Telehealth Network Grant Program, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2020 - 08/2024 |
| Extramural, Simulation to guide implementation of telemedicine cardiorenal interventions to reduce health disparities, Health Resources and Services Administration | 09/2019 - 09/2021 |
| Extramural, Telehealth Center of Excellence, Health Resources and Services Administration | 01/2019 - 09/2021 |
Publications
Letter | |
| Clark D 3rd, Woods J, Zhang Y, Chandra S, Summers RL, Jones DW, Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring With Remote Hypertension Management in a Rural and Low-Income Population. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979), 2021 Dec;78(6):1927-1929 | 2021 |
Journal Article | |
| Zhang Y, Lal LS, Lin YY, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Jones BF, Chandra S, Ladner ME, Disparities and Medical Expenditure Implications in Pediatric Tele-Mental Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mississippi. The journal of behavioral health services & research, 2025 Jan;52(1):109-122 | 2025 |
| Zhang Y, Lal LS, Lin YY, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Jones BF, Chandra S, Ladner ME, Tele-Mental Health Service: Unveiling the Disparity and Impact on Healthcare Access and Expenditures during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mississippi. International journal of environmental research and public health, 2024 Jun 22;21(7) | 2024 |
| Zhang Y, Peña MT, Lal LS, Lin YY, Summers RL, Saurabh C, Swint JM, Assessing Telemental Health Uptake and Associated Health Care Resource Implications among Mississippi Medicaid Enrollees with Major Depression. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 2024 Sep;30(9):2495-2501 | 2024 |
| Zhang Y, Lin YY, Lal L, Swint JM, Tucker T, Ivory DM, Zhang Y, Chandra S, Collier C, Feasibility of Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring for Detection and Management of Maternal Hypertension in a predominantly Black, Rural and Medicaid Population in Mississippi. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 2024 Jun;30(7):e2096-e2102 | 2024 |
| Zhang Y, Lin YY, Lal LS, Reneker JC, Hinton EG, Chandra S, Swint JM, Telehealth Evaluation in the United States: Protocol for a Scoping Review. JMIR research protocols, 2024 Mar 28;13:e55209 | 2024 |
| Zhang Y, Peña MT, Lal LS, Lin YY, Summers RL, Chandra S, Swint JM, Telemental Health Services Usage and Association with Health Care Utilization and Expenditures Among Vulnerable Medicare Beneficiaries in 2019: A Comparative Study Using Propensity Score Matching. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 2024 Jun;30(7):1848-1856 | 2024 |
| Zhang Y, Peña MT, Fletcher LM, Lal L, Swint JM, Reneker JC, Economic evaluation and costs of remote patient monitoring for cardiovascular disease in the United States: a systematic review. International journal of technology assessment in health care, 2023 Apr 28;39(1):e25 | 2023 |
| Goldwater JC, Zhang Y, Harris Y, Saurabh C, Summers RL, A New Frontier in Telehealth Research: A National Telehealth Data Warehouse. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 2023 Sep;29(9):1426-1429 | 2023 |
| Zhang Y, Chandra S, Peña MT, Lal L, Summers RL, Swint JM, Framework for Evaluating and Developing Sustainable Telehealth Programs. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 2023 Sep;29(9):1421-1425 | 2023 |
| Zhang Y, Pena MT, Fletcher LM, Swint JM, Reneker JC, Cost of remote patient monitoring for cardiovascular disease: a systematic review protocol. JBI evidence synthesis, 2022 Jun 1;20(6):1585-1592 | 2022 |
| Elkin TD, Zhang Y, Reneker JC, Gaze Fixation and Visual Searching Behaviors during an Immersive Virtual Reality Social Skills Training Experience for Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study. Brain sciences, 2022 Nov 18;12(11) | 2022 |
| Reneker JC, Pannell WC, Babl RM, Zhang Y, Lirette ST, Adah F, Reneker MR, Virtual immersive sensorimotor training (VIST) in collegiate soccer athletes: A quasi-experimental study. Heliyon, 2020 Jul;6(7):e04527 | 2020 |
| Dietiker C, Kim S, Zhang Y, Christine CW, Characterization of Vitamin B12 Supplementation and Correlation with Clinical Outcomes in a Large Longitudinal Study of Early Parkinson's Disease. Journal of movement disorders, 2019 May;12(2):91-96 | 2019 |
| Zhang Y, Kim S, Lin Y, Baum G, Basen-Engquist KM, Swartz MD. Comparisons of imputation methods with application to assess factors associated with self efficacy of physical activity in breast cancer survivors. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 2019; 48: 2523-2537 | 2018 |
| Leehey M, Luo S, Sharma S, Wills AA, Bainbridge JL, Wong PS, Simon DK, Schneider J, Zhang Y, Pérez A, Dhall R, Christine CW, Singer C, Cambi F, Boyd JT, Association of metabolic syndrome and change in Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale scores. Neurology, 2017 Oct 24;89(17):1789-1794 | 2017 |
| Zhang Y, Kim S Variable selection for high-dimensional incomplete data using horseshoe estimation with data augmentation Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. 2023; 53(12), 4235–51 | |
| Zhang S, Marsiglia FF, Zhang Y Adolescents’ Substance Use Initiation and Transitions Across Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drugs: A Survival Analysis Approach Families in Society. 2023; 0(0) | |
| Reneker JC, Pruett WA, Pannell WC, Brown M, Babl RM, Shirley HL, Zhang Y Central and Peripheral Attention in Virtual Reality: Test of Visual Efficiency for Concussion Detection Journal of Medical Extended Reality; 1(1): 35-43 | |
| Zhang Y, Kim S Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation and Selection For High-Dimensional Incomplete Data using Multiple Imputation and Horseshoe Estimators Mathematics. 2024; 12(12) | |
| Zhang Y, Lal LS, Lin Y, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Jones BF, Chandra S, Ladner ME Tele-Mental Health Utilization Trends with Rural-Urban Disparities in Mississippi: 2020 – 2023 Journal of rural mental health. 2024; Online First | |
| Bega D, Kim S, Zhang Y, Elm J, Schneider J, Hauser R, Fraser A, Simuni T, Predictors of Functional Decline in Early Parkinson's Disease: NET-PD LS1 Cohort. Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2015;5(4):773-82 | |
| Luthra NS, Kim S, Zhang Y, Christine CW, NINDS NET-PD Investigators, Characterization of vitamin D supplementation and clinical outcomes in a large cohort of early Parkinson's disease. Journal of clinical movement disorders, 2018;5:7 | |
| Davis TC, Allen AS, Zhang Y, Long-term Effects of Remote Patient Monitoring in Patients Living with Diabetes: A Retrospective Look at Participants of the Mississippi Diabetes Telehealth Network Study. Telemedicine reports, 2022;3(1):130-136 | |
| Reneker JC, Zhang Y, Young DK, Liu X, Lutz EA, Use of Telehealth Services for Prenatal Care in Mississippi: Comparison of Pre-COVID-19 Pandemic and Pandemic Obstetric Management. International journal of clinical practice, 2022;2022:3535700 | |
Abstracts | |
| Christine C, Kim S, Zhang Y, Dietiker C Characterization of vitamin b12 supplementation and clinical outcomes in a large longitudinal study of early parkinson's disease Annals of Neurology; 80:S84-S84 | |
| Hillegass WB, Zhang Y, Cain-Shields L, Barefield A, Davis WG, Clark D 3rd Estimated population health and economic impact of statewide implementation of the University of Mississippi Medical Center and telehealth center hypertension remote patient management program Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Brown C, Woods J, Zhang Y, Clark D 3rd Using an evidence-based treatment protocol for hypertension management via telehealth: exploring patterns of protocol deviation Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Davis, T.C., Allen, A.S., & Zhang, Y A retrospective look at the long-term effects of remote patient monitoring Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Reneker J, Zhang Y, Dorthy YK, Liu X, Lutz E Comparison of obstetric management via telehealth prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploration of maternal and birth outcomes in Mississippi Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Wilhelm A, Carlisle A, Mahoney M, Hughes L, Zhang Y, Davis T, Lasource C, Chandra S Paradigm for establishing a multidisciplinary Telehealth team for managing complex multi‐system disorders like Post‐acute Sars‐CoV‐19 Syndrome (PASC) Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Dent E, Zhang Y, Lal L, Swint J, Peña M Evaluation of Patient Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Receiving Medication Nutrition Therapy at a University Health Center in Mississippi Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Goldwater J, Harris Y, Zhang Y, Chandra S, Summers RL New Frontiers in Telehealth Research: A National Telehealth Data Warehouse Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Obi Y, Zhang Y, Chandra S, Tio MC, Wells C, Dossabhoy N, Shafi T Telehealth‐Assisted Home BP Monitoring for In‐Center Hemodialysis Patients: A Pragmatic Implementation Study Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Narmour MA, Lin Y, Zhang Y, Swint JM, Lal L, Chandra S, Gangadhara S Inpatient Teleneurology Consultation Service in a Rural Hospital Following Physician Shortage Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Elkin TD, Zhang Y, Reneker JC, Ivory D Measuring Gaze Fixation in Children with Autism Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Ivory D, Chandra S, Collier C Launching Remote Maternal Blood Pressure Monitoring into an Established Telehealth System Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Lal LS, Lin Y, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Chandra S Tele-Mental Health (TMH) Utilization Trend with Rural-Urban Differences in Mississippi 2020 – 2022 Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Lal LS, Lin Y, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Chandra S Tele-Mental Health Service Usage and Impact on Healthcare Utilization and Costs in Mississippi Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Lin Y, Lal LS, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Chandra S Sociodemographic Factors Associated with No-Shows in Tele-Mental Health Services Telemedicine and e-Health | |
| Zhang Y, Lin Y, Lal LS, Swint JM, Zhang Y, Summers RL, Barbara BF, Chandra S, Ladner ME Disparities of Pediatric Tele-Mental Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mississippi Telemedicine and e-Health | |
Electronic Publications | |
| Zhan C, Zhang L, Zhong Z, Sher D-O, Lin Y, Zhang Y, Huang S, Wang C Deep Learning Approach in Automatic Iceberg - Ship Detection with SAR Remote Sensing Data SEG Library | |
| Zheng Y, Christman BD, Morris MC, Hillegass WB, Zhang Y, Douglas K, Kelly C, Zhang L Adolescent Behavioral Risk Analysis and Prediction Using Machine Learning: A Foundation for Precision Suicide Prevention SPIE Digital Library | |
Presentations
| Invited Symposia, Telehealth Research, Artisight/UMMC Clinical Summit, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 08/2024 |
| Poster Presentation, Assessing Telehealth Uptake and Impact on Healthcare Resource Utilization and Expenditures Among Mississippi Medicaid Beneficiaries with Major Depression: A Comparative Study Using Propensity Score Matching, AcademyHealth 2024 Annual Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD | 06/2024 |
| Platform Presentations, Disparities of Pediatric Tele-Mental Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mississippi, American Telemedicine Association 2024 Nexus/American Telemedicine Association | 05/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, A New Frontier in Telehealth Research: A National Telehealth Data Warehouse, Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center 2024 Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 04/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, Remote Maternal Blood Pressure Monitoring in A Predominantly Black, Rural, Medicaid Population: A Feasibility Study at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center 2024 Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 04/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, Innovative Telehealth Solutions: Sustainable Telehealth Programs for Underserved Communities., 2024 Conference for Agricultural Worker Health/National Association of Community Health Centers, Atlanta, GA | 04/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, National Telehealth Data Warehouse and RPM programs at UMMC, Tulane University and UMMC Telehealth Collaboration, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA | 03/2024 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Advancing Telehealth: Innovations in Data Standardization, Rural Access, and School-Based Services, National Telehealth Center of Excellence Webinar Series/Telehealth Centers of Excellence, Virtual | 03/2024 |
| Platform Presentations, National Telehealth Data Warehouse – Status Update, OAT (Office for the Advancement of Telehealth) Telehealth Research Directors Meeting/Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Virtual | 03/2024 |
| Platform Presentations, Tele-Mental Health Service Usage and Impact on Healthcare Utilization and Costs in Mississippi, SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA | 11/2023 |
| Poster Presentation, Launching Remote Maternal Blood Pressure Monitoring into an Established Telehealth System, SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA | 11/2023 |
| Platform Presentations, Sociodemographic Factors Associated with No-Shows in Tele-Mental Health Services, SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA | 11/2023 |
| Poster Presentation, Tele-Mental Health (TMH) Utilization Trend with Rural-Urban Differences in Mississippi 2020 – 2022, SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA | 11/2023 |
| Platform Presentations, CMS data and national telehealth data dictionary projects, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) Rural Telehealth Research Directors Meeting/Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Virtual | 04/2023 |
| Platform Presentations, Economic evaluation of remote patient monitoring for cardiovascular disease: a systematic review, American Public Health Association 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo, Boston, MA | 11/2022 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Meeting with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CTeL Digital Health Summit/CTeL, Virtual | 06/2022 |
| Platform Presentations, LDC 2021 GWIMS LDP Participant Perspectives Panel, GWIMS (Group on Women in Medicine and Science) Leadership Development Program Conference/UMMC, Jackson, MS | 04/2022 |
| Poster Presentation, Utilization of Tele-Psychiatry during the COVID-19 Pandemic at the only academic medical center in Mississippi, Mississippi Public Health Association Annual Conference, Flowood, MS | 04/2022 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Use of telehealth to improve population outcomes in Mississippi, Mississippi State Department of Health Grand Rounds/Mississippi State Department of Health, Virtual | 02/2022 |
| Regional Invited Seminars/Lectures, Variable Selection and Imputation for High-Dimensional Incomplete Data, Division of Biostatistics Seminar Series, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN | 03/2020 |
| Poster Presentation, Variable Selection and Imputation in the High-Dimensional Setting, Research Day/School of Graduate Studies, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 10/2019 |
| Platform Presentations, Incomplete High-Dimensional Inverse Covariance Estimation, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO | 07/2019 |
| Platform Presentations, Variable Selection with Missing Data Imputation in the High Dimensional Setting, Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, Canada | 07/2018 |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Nominated for Early Career Investigator Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2024 |
| Distinguished Reviewer, mHealth Journal | 2024 |
| Reviewer of the Month (August 2024), mHealth Journal | 2024 |
| Nominated for the Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award in Population Health, Interdisciplinary Association For Population Health Science (IAPHS) | 2024 |
| Nominated for the GWIMS Early-Career Faculty Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2022 |
| Research Day Poster Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences | 2019 |
| Keith D. Burau PhD. Scholarship, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 2017 |
| Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai Maritime University | 2011 |
| Outstanding Student Scholarship, Shanghai Maritime University | 2011 |
| Outstanding Student Scholarship, Shanghai Maritime University | 2010 |
| Mathematical Modeling Competition Award, Shanghai Maritime University | 2010 |
| Outstanding Student Scholarship, Shanghai Maritime University | 2009 |
Professional Membership and Service
| Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS), Member | 2024 - Present |
| AcademyHealth, Member | 2024 - Present |
| Mississippi Public Health Association (MPHA), Member | 2022 - Present |
| American Public Health Association (APHA), Member | 2022 - Present |
| Group on Women in Medicine and Science, Member | 2020 - Present |
| International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), Member | 2017 - Present |
| American Statistical Association (ASA), Member | 2013 - Present |
Committee Service
| Faculty Search Committee, Department of Data Science, Member | 2024 - Present |
| MEDICAL CENTER-FACULTY SENATE, Faculty Senate | 2023 - Present |
| MEDICAL CENTER-FACULTY SENATE, Faculty Senate Alternate | 2022 - 2023 |
| SOPH Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Member | 2022 - Present |
| SOPH Awards and Recognition Committee, Member | 2022 - Present |
| Biospecimen Access Committee, Member | 2020 - Present |
| Biostatistics and Data Science Curriculum Committee, Member | 2020 - Present |
Other Service
| mHealth | 06/2024 - Present |
| Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) | 05/2024 - Present |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 04/2024 - Present |
| Digital Health | 01/2024 - Present |
| Communications Medicine (Nature Portfolio) | 01/2024 - Present |
| Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association | 08/2023 - Present |
| JBI Evidence Synthesis | 08/2023 - Present |
| SAGE Open Medicine | 07/2023 - Present |
| Frontiers in Public Health | 06/2023 - Present |
| Frontiers in Endocrinology | 03/2023 - Present |
| BMJ Open | 01/2023 - Present |
| Biostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series, Organizer | 07/2022 - Present |
| Heliyon | 04/2021 - Present |
| Journal of Official Statistics | 03/2020 - Present |
| Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine | 2020 - Present |
| Statistics Education/History Booth, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Volunteer | 08/2019 - 08/2019 |
| Journal of Korean Statistical Society | 2018 - Present |
Teaching Experience
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2024 - 2024 |
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2023 - 2023 |
| BDS 797, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Biostatistics & Data Science Internship | Summer 2022 - 2022 |
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2022 - 2022 |
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2021 - 2021 |
| BDS 791, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Special Topics | Summer 2021 - 2021 |
| BDS 739, Population Health, Course, Course Director, Computational Statistics | Spring 2020 - 2020 |
Directed Student Learning
| Academic Advisor, Advised: Rui Xu | 2023 - Present |
| Academic Advisor, Advised: Hunter Sylvester | 2021 - 2023 |
| Academic Advisor, Advised: David Lee | 2020 - 2022 |