Panpan Zhang, PhD

Dr. Panpan Zhang is a biostatistician and an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on the development of novel statistical methods for assessing dementia risk in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. Specifically, Dr. Zhang investigates new statistical methods for biomarker evaluations and imaging data analysis, with particular interest in the missing data, high dimensional data, longitudinal data analysis problems that arise from Alzheimer’s disease and other collaborative research. Dr. Zhang serves as a co-investigator with the Vanderbilt Memory and Aging Project and the Data Management & Statistics Core Co-Leader for the Vanderbilt Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Dr. Zhang received his master’s degree in mathematics from Wake Forest University, and a PhD in statistics from the George Washington University. Dr. Zhang joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut as a Visiting Assistant Professor and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2022.