Dr. Yasui received a Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Kyoto University (Japan) in 1989 and a PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Baltimore, USA) in 1994.

He worked in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Injury Prevention Center, and Health Services and Development Center at Johns Hopkins in 1994-1995, and then in the Cancer Prevention Research Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the Department of Biostatistics at University of Washington (Seattle, USA) in 1995-2004. He joined the Department of Public Health Sciences in November 2004.

His research is focused on developing and applying biostatistical and epidemiologic methods in the intersection of biology and clinical/public health sciences, especially on quantitative issues in biomarker discovery research.

His collaborative research areas include:

•Biostatistical/Epidemiologic Methods
•Cancer Epidemiology & Biomarkers
•Social & Environmental Epidemiology
•Late Effects of Childhood Cancer and its Therapy
•Health Services Research

He has been involved in over 50 peer-review-funded research projects as the principal investigator or a co-investigator, and is an author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He served as a Regular Member in the Cancer Biomarker Study Section of the US National Institute of Health in 2004-2007 and currently serves for the Public, Community and Population Health A Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

He teaches:

•PHS 598 Biostatistics I (2006, 2007, 2008)
•PHS 698 Biostatistics II (2004, 2005)
•PHS 798 Biostatistics III (2008)
•Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award from The Student Assembly, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. May 1995.
•1994 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching/Advising from Student Coordinating Committee, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. May 1995.
•2006-2007 Teaching Award of Excellence from Public Health Sciences Student Association, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta. May 2007.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Savu A, Potter JD, Li S, Yasui Y. (2008) Breast cancer and microbial cancer incidence in female populations around the world: A surprising hyperbolic association. International Journal of Cancer 123(5): 1094-9.

2. Dinu I, Potter JD, Mueller T, Liu Q, Adewale AJ, Jhangri GS, Einecke G, Famulski KS, Halloran P, Yasui Y. (2007) Improving gene set analysis of microarray data by SAM-GS. BMC Bioinformatics 8:242.

3. Robertson CM, Watt MJ, Yasui Y. (2007) Changes in the prevalence of cerebral palsy for children born very prematurely within a population-based program over 30 years. JAMA 297(24):2733-40.

4. Taylor VM, Yasui Y, Tu SP, Neuhouser ML, Li L, Woodall E, Acorda E, Cripe SM, Hislop TG. (2007) Heart disease prevention among Chinese immigrants. J Community Health 32(5):299-310.

5. Liu Q, Dinu I, Adewale AJ, Potter JD, Yasui Y. (2007) Comparative evaluation of gene-set analysis methods. BMC Bioinformatics 8(1):431.

6. Courneya KS, Segal RJ, Mackey JR, Gelmon K, Reid RD, Friedenreich CM, Ladha AB, Proulx C, Vallance JK, Lane K, Yasui Y, McKenzie DC. (2007) Effects of aerobic and resistance exercise in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy: a multicenter randomized controlled trial. J Clin Oncol. 25(28):4396-404.

7. Martinez JM, Benach J, Ginebra J, Benavides FG, Yasui Y. (2007) An Integrated Analysis of Individual and Aggregated Health Data Using Estimating Equations. International Journal of Biostatistics 3:(1):10.

8. Yasui Y, Newcomb PA, Trentham-Dietz A, Egan KM. (2006) Familial Relative Risk Estimates for Use in Epidemiologic Analyses. American Journal of Epidemiology 164(7):697-705

9. Mitchell BL, Yasui Y, Lampe JW, Gafken PR, Lampe PD. (2005) Evaluation of MALDI-TOF MS proteomic profiling: Identification of alpha2-HS glycoprotein B-chain as a biomarker of diet. Proteomics 5:2238-46.

10. Adewale AJ, Dinu I, Potter JD, Liu Q, Yasui Y. Pathway Analysis of Microarray Data via. Regression. Journal of Computational Biology 2008, 15(3): 269-277.

11. Adewale AJ, Liu Q, Dinu I, Lampe PD, Mitchell BL, Yasui Y. A Cautionary Note on the Evaluation of Biomarkers of Subtypes of a Single Disease. American Journal of Epidemiology 2008, 168(6): 559-562.