About me

I am a biostatistician that leads clinical trials and observational studies using state of the art causal inference techniques. In addition to my PhD training, my previous experiences include holding a statistical analyst position at a non-profit in the field of regulatory toxicology and a research scientist position focused on randomized experiments of agricultural pests. The culmination of my experiences has led me to be skilled in constructing narratives from data to uncover ways to enhance patient outcomes and care. These patient-focused narratives are told through Bayesian inference. My go-to tool is R (RStudio), where I have the most experience in data wrangling (cleaning, parsing, transforming), data analysis, simulations (Monte Carlo), and data visualization.

CV and Publications

  1. Latam Collaborative Colorectal Surgery Consortium, The European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) Global Reach Committee,Nguyen AD. (2026) Outcomes of urgent gastrointestinal-related procedures in Latin America (LATAM-URG): a prospective multicentre study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. Paper link

  2. Styrvoky K, Levine A, Nguyen AD, Vollenweider M, Jiwani A. (2025) Apneic oxygenation during robotic-assisted bronchoscopy: a retrospective study on safety and diagnostic yield. Journal of Thoracic Disease. Paper link

  3. Cruz Z, Nguyen AD, Baker S, et al. (2025) Impact of Nurse Navigation on Overall Survival and Timeliness to Care in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer in Advanced Stages. Journal of Oncology Navigation & Survivorship. Online access

  4. Chin MM, Nguyen AD, Jones A, et al.(2025) Electronic Health Record–Enabled Identification and Targeted Multipronged Intervention to Reduce Readmission and Length of Stay Among Patients With Metastatic Cancer. JCO Oncol Pract. doi:10.1200/OP-24-00708 Paper link

  5. Petersen, E. J., Nguyen, AD., et al. (2021) “Characteristics to consider when selecting a positive control material for an in vitro assay”, ALTEX - Alternatives to animal experimentation. doi: 10.14573/altex.2102111. *Both authors contributed equally; Paper link

  6. Nguyen AD et al. 2019. Trade-Offs in Cold Resistance at the Northern Range Edge of the Common Woodland Ant Aphaenogaster picea (Formicidae). The American Naturalist. 194:6.Paper link

  7. Nguyen AD, Gotelli NJ, Helms Cahan S. 2016. The evolution of heat shock protein sequences, cis-regulatory elements, and expression profiles in the eusocial Hymenoptera. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:15.PDF

  8. Nguyen AD, DeNovellis K, Resendez S, Pustilnik JD, Gotelli NJ, Parker JD, Cahan SH. 2017. Effects of desiccation and starvation on thermal tolerance and the heat-shock response in forest ants. J Comp Physiol B:1–10. Paper link

  9. Powell THQ, Nguyen AD, et al. 2020. A rapidly evolved shift in life‐history timing during ecological speciation is driven by the transition between developmental phases. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33:10. Paper link

  10. Helms Cahan S, Nguyen AD, Zhou Y. Population genomics supports multiple hybrid zone origins of socially hybridogenetic lineages of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants. Evolution (N Y). 2022;76(5):1016-1032. doi:10.1111/evo.14481

  11. Helms Cahan S, Nguyen AD, Stanton-Geddes J, Penick CA, Hernáiz-Hernández Y, DeMarco BB, Gotelli NJ. 2017. Modulation of the heat shock response is associated with acclimation to novel temperatures but not adaptation to climatic variation in the ants Aphaenogaster picea and A. rudis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 204:113–120.Paper link Data

  12. Stevens L, Lima-Cordón RA, Helms Cahan S, Nguyen AD, et al. Catch me if you can: Under-detection of Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatida) infections in Triatoma dimidiata s.l. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from Central America. Acta Trop. 2021;224:106130. doi:10.1016/J.ACTATROPICA.2021.106130

  13. Stanton-Geddes J, Nguyen A, Chick L, Vincent J, Vangala M, Dunn RR, Ellison AM, Sanders NJ, Gotelli NJ, Cahan SH. 2016. Thermal reactionomes reveal divergent responses to thermal extremes in warm and cool-climate ant species. BMC Genomics 17:171. PDF Github repo

  14. Cicconardi F,..,Nguyen AD,..,Steiner FM,Schlick-Steiner, BC. 2020. Genomic signature of shifts in selection in a sub-alpine ant and its physiological adaptations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa076

  15. Lau MK, Ellison AM, Nguyen A, Penick C, DeMarco B, Gotelli NJ, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Helms Cahan S. 2019. Draft Aphaenogaster genomes expand our view of ant genome size variation across climate gradients. PeerJ 7:e6447 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6447