Emily Jean Mastej, PhD

Senior Biostatistician

Emily joined the QSU in November of 2024. 

Emily received her Ph.D. in Computational Bioscience from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Her thesis work focused on high dimensional mediation methods and their application to transcriptomic data. She also focused on data visualizations to aid in mediation result interpretation. Additionally, Emily has participated in a variety of projects ranging from COPD biomarker discovery using multi-omic networks to scoring bronchiectasis in lung imaging using machine learning methods.

Clinical interests:  Radiology and pulmonology

Methodological areas of interest: Causal inference, data visualization, and multi-omic data analysis.

Selected publications: 

Ghosh D, Mastej E, Jain R, Choi YS. Causal Inference in Radiomics: Framework, Mechanisms, and Algorithms. Front Neurosci. (2022) Jun 20;16:884708. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.884708.

Mastej EJ, Leppert MH, Poisson S, Ritchey Z, Barry M, Rundek T, Liebeskind DS, Mirsky D, Bernard TJ, Stence NV. Thalamic Volume Loss Is Greater in Children Than in Adults Following Middle Cerebral Artery Territory Arterial Ischemic Stroke. J Child Neurol. 2022 Oct;37(10-11):882-888. doi: 10.1177/08830738221118807. 

Mastej, E., Gillenwater, L., Zhuang, Y., Pratte, K. A., Bowler, R. P., & Kechris, K. (2020). Identifying protein–metabolite networks associated with COPD phenotypes. Metabolites, 10(4), 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo10040124

Mastej EJ, DeBoer EM, Humphries SM, Cook MC, Hunter KS, Liptzin DR, Weinman JP, Deterding RR. Lung and airway shape in neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy. Pediatr Radiol. (2018) Nov;48(12):1745-1754. doi: 10.1007/s00247-018-4189-6. 

McGraw MD, Osborne CM, Mastej EJ, Di Paola JA, Anderson DR, Holmes WW, Paradiso DC, Garlick RB, Hendry-Hofer TB, Rancourt RC, Smith RW, Burns C, Roe GB, Rioux JS, White CW, Veress LA. Editor's Highlight: Pulmonary Vascular Thrombosis in Rats Exposed to Inhaled Sulfur Mustard. Toxicol Sci. (2017) Oct 1;159(2):461-469. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfx151.