B.S. University of Florida 1999
M.S. University of Florida 2002
Ph.D. University at Buffalo 2011

• The John & Carole Seffrin Endowed Professor of Public Health, Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, IN (2024 -)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Nutrition, College of Public Health, The University of Philippines – Manila, Manila, Philippines (2024 -)
• Nominated as a Member of the National Academies of Medicine (2025)
• Member, American Statistical Association Council of Representatives to the Biometrics Section (2024-2026)
• Indiana University School of Public Health Distinguished Service Award (2024)
• Statistics Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (2024 -)
• Member, Data Monitoring Committee, Eli Lilly (2023 -)
• Associate Editor, Statistics in Medicine (2022-)
• Reviewing Editor, eLife (2022-)
• Statistics Reviewer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy (2020 – 2024)
• Ad hoc Grant Reviewer, National Institutes of Health (2022 -)
• Associate Editor, Statistics in Medicine (2022-)
• Reviewing Editor, E-life (2022-)
• Statistics Reviewer, Center for Disease Control's Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy (2020-2024)
• Scientific Advisor, Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (2022-2025)
• [Impact score 25, 4th percentile] National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney (NIDDK) R01 Measurement error correction approaches to wearable device-based measures of physical activity and self-reported measures of dietary intake in obesity and type 2 diabetes research. Role: Principal Investigator (2022-2026)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/Network of Minority Health Research Investigators Travel Award (2019)
• Academic Scientific Advisor, International Life Sciences Institute - North America (2018 - 2020)
• National Cancer Institute Diversity Supplemental Award to U01-CA057030 (2017-2021)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/Network of Minority Health Research Investigators Travel Award (2019)
• Invited Keynote Speaker at Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society (ENAR) 2019 Spring Meeting
• Inducted into Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society (2015)
• Selected and funded by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) to participate in the "Methods in Cancer Biostatistics Workshop: Clinical Trial Designs for Targeted Agents" (2015)
• Mentor, Joint Statistical Meetings Committee on Diversity (2014)
• Visiting Student Scientist at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation sponsored by the Japanese Department of Health Ministry (2008)

Scholarly Interest

My research interest focuses on developing statistical methods that permit accurate assessments of exposures that appear as latent variables such as dietary intake, physical activity behavior, or true radiation doses on health outcomes.

Tekwe CD, Luan Y*, Li X, Meininger CJ, Bazer FW, Wu G. Dietary supplementation with L-leucine reduces nitric oxide synthesis by endothelial cells of rats. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 2023. 248(18);1537-1549. DOI: 10.1177/15353702231199078

Tekwe CD, Zhang M*, Carroll RJ, Luan Y*, Xue L, Zoh RS, Carter SJ, Allison DB, Geraci M. Estimation of sparse functional quantile regression with measurement error: a SIMEX approach. Biostatistics. 2022;23(4):1218-1241. 

Tekwe CD, Allison DB. Randomization by cluster, but analysis by individual without accommodating clustering in the analysis is incorrect: Comment. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2020;54(2):139.

Tekwe CD, Yao K, Lei J, Li X, Gupta A, Luan Y, Meininger CJ, Bazer FW, Wu G. Oral administration of α-ketoglutarate enhances nitric oxide synthesis by endothelial cells and whole-body insulin sensitivity in diet-induced obese rats. Experimental Biology and Medicine. (Maywood). 2019; 244(13):1081-1088. [Highlight Article]

Tekwe CD, Zoh RS, Yang M, Carroll RJ, Honvoh G, Allison DB, Benden M, Xue L. Instrumental variable approach to estimating the scalar-on-function regression model with measurement error with application to energy expenditure assessment in childhood obesity. Statistics in Medicine. 2019; 38(20):3764-3781.

Tekwe, C.D., Carter, R.L., Ma, C.X, Algina, J., Lucas, M.E., Roth, J., Ariet, J., Fisher, T., and Resnick, B. (2004) An empirical comparison of statistical models for value-added assessment of school performance. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 29, 11-26. DOI: 10.3102/10769986029001011. [Winner of the R.L. Anderson Student Paper Award from the Southern Regional Conference on Statistics and the American Statistical Association]

Tekwe, C.D., Carroll, R.J., Dabney, A.R. (2012) Application of survival analysis methodology to the quantitative analysis of LC-MS proteomics data. Bioinformatics, 28, 1998-2003. PMCID: PMC3400956.

Tekwe, C.D., Lei, J., Yao, K., Li, X, Rezaei, R., Dahanakaya, S., Meininger, C., Carroll, R.J., Meininger, C., Bazer, F., Wu, G. (2013) Oral administration of interferon tau reduces adiposity in Zucker diabetic fatty rats. BioFactors, 39, 552-563. DOI:10.1002/biof.1113.

Tekwe, C.D., Carter, R.L., Cullings, H., Carroll, RJ. (2014) Multiple indicators, multiple causes measurement error models. Statistics in Medicine, 33, 4469-4481.

Tekwe, C.D., Carter, R.L., Cullings, H. (2016) Generalized multiple indicators, multiple causes measurement error models. Statistical Modelling, 16, 140-159.

Tekwe, C.D., Zoh, R.S., Bazer, F.W., Wu, G., Carroll, R.J. (2018) Functional multiple indicators, multiple causes measurement error models. Biometrics, 74(1), 127-134. [**equal contribution]

Tekwe, C.D. (2018). Editorial: Addressing inaccurate measures of body weights in epidemiological and clinical studies involving older adults. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 301-302.