Jose-Miguel Yamal

Jose-Miguel Yamal is a Professor and Director of the Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. His work focuses on clinical trial design, data science, and statistical analysis in public health research.

• Current Roles: Professor, Director of Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials
• Key Projects: PI for BEST-MSU trial (mobile stroke units), Statistical Core PI for NIH EPO-TBI trial, developer of TexasPandemic.org dashboard, and machine learning methods for cervical pre-cancer detection

Research Expertise spans clinical trials, big data analytics, and translational studies in cardiovascular and chronic diseases. He collaborates on multi-site trials and applies advanced statistical methods to public health challenges.

Academic Leadership includes NIH grant review and DSMB committee memberships. His methodological work involves optical imaging technologies and machine learning for high-dimensional data classification.