Last update: January, 20th, 2022

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Education

• Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 2022
• M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 2019
• M.S. in Statistics, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, 2016
• B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, 2012

Work experience

Advisor Statistics, Diabetes, October 2022-present

Graduate Student Research Assistant, January 2018-October 2022

PhD Research Scientist (Internship), June 2021-August 2021

Senior Scientist, September 2016-August 2017

Independent Statistical Consultant, February 2015-present

Data Science Manager, June 2012-July 2014 & Data Science Analyst, January-May 2012

Junior Consultant, September-December 2011

Social Service as Research Assistant, January-May 2011

Research Interests

Clinical trials, data integration, health disparities, high dimensional data analysis, and statistical modeling for biomedical data.

Skills

• Software: R, R studio, Linux, Plink, Python
• Statistical methods: generalized linear models, mixed effects models, statistical inference, bayesian statistics, longitudinal data analysis, data integration.
• Language: native Spanish, English.

Publications

1. Gasca N, Reyes-Garza J, Lozano-Esparza S, Orozco-del-Pino P, Olivas-Martinez A, Ulloa-Pérez E, Garbuno-Inigo A, Arroyo J. Effect of Mexico’s vaccination programon Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations,and deaths among older adults in Mexico City.
2. Simonin-Wilmner I, Orozco-del-Pino P, Bishop T, Iles M, Robles-Espinosa D. An overview of strategies for detecting genotype-phenotype associations across ancestrally diverse populations.
3. Del-Pino-Flores ME, López-Garza M, Orozco-del-Pino P. Increase in Demodex sp infestations during the first confinement period, March to November 2020, during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Acta Med. 2021;19(Suppl: 1):s76-79. doi:10.35366/101033.
4. Lozano-Esparza S, Orozco-del-Pino P, Gasca N, Olivas A, Arroyo J, Ulloa E, Garbuno A, Las vacunas: ¿qué son? ¿podemos confiar en ellas?, Punto Decimal
5. Gasca N, Lozano-Esparza S, Arroyo J, Olivas A, Ulloa E, Orozco-del-Pino P, Pruebas para detectar covid-19, ¿qué son, cuándo hacerlas y cómo interpretarlas?, Taller de Datos de la Revista Nexos. 2020
6. Ulloa E, Arroyo J, Gasca N, Lozano-Esparza S, Olivas A, Orozco-del-Pino P, Descifrar el Modelo Centinela, Taller de Datos de la Revista Nexos. 2020.
7. Salazar Herrera D, Ferreira Jaime T, Guzmán-Valdivia-Gómez G, Nuñez-del-Prado-Alcoreza J, Orozco-del-Pino P, Orozco-Gutiérrez, Post-Birth umbilical cord blood content in premature and term infants, Acta Médica Grupo Ángeles. 2019, DOI:10.35366/95403
8. Orozco-Gutiérrez A, Sánchez-Gómez R, Orozco-del-Pino P, Nuñez-del-Prado-Alcoreza J. Respiratory Distress Management with Pulmonary Recruitment in Preterm Newborns, Preliminary Report. Acad J Ped Neonatol. 2018; 6(3): 555739. DOI: 10.19080/AJPN.2018.06.555739

Manuscripts in preparation

1. Orozco-del-Pino P, Zöllner S, Impact of linkage disequilibrium in the transferability of European most significant variants.
2. Orozco-del-Pino P, Boonstra P, Comparative analysis of data integration methods.
3. Orozco-del-Pino P, Zöllner S, Improving predictive ability of Polygenic Risk Scores by integrating GWAS summary statistics from different populations.

Talks

1. American Society of Human Genetics Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 2020. “Applying European polygenic risk scores to non-European populations: What is the role of Linkage Disequilibrium?” (Poster)
2. International Laboratory for Human Genome Research, Querétaro, México, February 2020. “Role of Linkage Disequilibrium in the Transferability of European Polygenic Risk Scores into Other Populations” (Seminar)
3. American Society of Human Genetics Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 2019. “Quantifying the Impact of Linkage Disequilibrium on Transferability of European GWAS to non-European populations” (Platform Talk)
4. Midwest Population Genetics meeting, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, August 2019. “Impact of Linkage Disequilibrium on the Transferability of Polygenic Risk Scores” (Talk)
5. Michigan Students Symposium on Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences, Ann Arbor, March 2019. “Equitable Genomics: Transferring Genetic Risk Scores Across Populations” (Talk)
6. First Workshop on Interdisciplinary Statistics University of Arizona and CIMAT, Guanajuato, México, August 2016. “Towards statistical analysis of extinction based on the fossil record” (Talk)

Teaching

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Graduate Student Instructor, September 2017-December 2017
    • Taught coding labs for the course “Biostatistics Methods in Epidemiology” for the Masters in Epidemiology
• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City
  • Lecturer, January 2017-May 2017
    • Taught the course “Simple and Multiple Linear Regression” course for undergraduates
• Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C. (CIMAT), Mexico City
  • Teaching Assistant, August 2015-May 2016
    • Taught problem sets sessions for “Mathematical Statistics” and “Statistical Inference” for the Masters in Statistics

Service and leadership

• Eli Lilly and Company, Remote
  • Co-chair of Workgroup In Statistical Education (WISE) in Diabetes, November 2022- present
• Biostatistics Department University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Co-founder and member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Student Committee, August 2020- September 2021
  • Michigan Public Health Alumni Mentor, September 2019- present
  • Departamental Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee member, January 2019-present
  • School of Public Health Admission Ambassador, Fall 2021-present
  • Advised first year students during the “Incoming students retreat”, September 2019
  • Peer mentor for first year PhD students, Fall 2018, 2019, 2020
  • Co-founder Biostatistics Students Journal Club
• “Mexicanos en Estadística y Salud” (Mexicans in Statistics and Health), Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Founding member, May 2020- present
    • Group of Mexican graduate and postdoctoral scholars from different fields and universities committed to the dissemination of scientific information to the general population. https://mxciencia.github.io
• Reviewer for the following journals
  • Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
  • Acta Médica Grupo Ángeles
  • BMC Research Notes
  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Awards and Scholarships

• Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellow. From August 2017 to August 2020
• Rackham Conference Travel Grant. Awared on 2019.
• Outstanding performance Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Biostatistics of University of Michigan. Awarded on December 2018
• PepsiCo’s Global Functions Governance and Compliance Socrates Award for knowledge sharing. Awarded on May 2017
• CONACYT Scholarship (No 401351 y register No 572797). From January 2015 to May 2016