Personal data
Oliver Kuss (Prof. Dr. sc. hum)
Born on July, 16th, 1969, in Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Married, 1 son
Address
Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum (DDZ)
Leibniz-Zentrum für Diabetes-Forschung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Institut für Biometrie und Epidemiologie
Auf'm Hennekamp 65
Tel.: +49 (0)211 3382-259
Fax: +49 (0)211 3382-677
Email:
oliver.kuss#§$ddz.de (replace
"#§$" with "@")
Education
1975-1979: Fichtenau Primary School
1979-1988: Crailsheim High School (Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium, Abitur)
1990-1996: Study of Mathematics and Geography at the University of Heidelberg (Masters Degree, “Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien”, Master thesis: “A time series model for the prediction of ozone concentrations”, Supervisor: Prof. Dahlhaus)
3/2003: Doctoral degree (Dr. scientiarum humanarum) from the University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty (Thesis: “Global Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Logistic Regression with Sparse Data, Supervisor: Prof. Diepgen, “magna cum laude”) PDF
6/2010: Habilitation from the Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with the permission for lecturing (Venia legendi) for medical biometrics, epidemiology, and informatics (Thesis: “Regressionsmodelle für nichtstetige Zielgrößen und korrelierte Beobachtungen") PDF
Professional experience
8/1994 – 3/1997: Student Scientific Assistant („Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft“) at the Department of Medical Biometry, University of Heidelberg
4/1997 – 12/1999: Assistant (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”) at the Department of Dermatology, University of Erlangen
1/2000 – 12/2000: Assistant (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”) at the Department of Clinical Social Medicine, University of Heidelberg
1/2001 – 09/2013: Assistant (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”) at the Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Informatics, University of Halle-Wittenberg
10/2013
–
Professor for Biometrics, Epidemiology,
and
Health Outcome Research at the Medical
Faculty of the
Heinrich
Heine University
Düsseldorf and
Head of the Institute
of Biometrics
and Epidemiology at the German
Diabetes Center, Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
10/2016 – 12/2019: Acting Director of the Institute of Medical Statistics, Düsseldorf University Hospital and Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Scientific activity
Citations (via Google Scholar)
Other publications and preprints
Kuss O. Von Geburten und Störchen – Eine Analyse der bundeslandspezifischen deutschen Daten von 1993 bis 2020 Zugehöriger Datensatz
Kuss O, Hoyer A. A Proportional Risk Model for Time-to-event Analysis in Randomized Controlled Trials. (Submitted to Statistical Methods in Medical Research)
Hoyer A, Kuss O. Meta-analysis of full ROC curves with flexible parametric distributions of diagnostic test values. (Submitted to Research Synthesis Methods)
Hoyer A, Kuss O. Meta-analysis of full ROC curves: Additional flexibility by using semiparametric distributions of diagnostic test values. (Submitted to Research Synthesis Methods)
Kuss O, Blettner M, Börgermann J. Propensity Score: an Alternative Method of Analyzing Treatment Effects. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2016; 113(35-36): 597-603; DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2016.0597. German Version.
Medenwald D, Kuss O. Mortality on match days of the German national soccer team: a time series analysis from 1995 to 2009 has been picked as the Editor's Choice in the September 2014 issue of J Epidemiol Community Health. Editor Jim Dunn interviewed D. Medenwald for a Podcast.
Kuss O, Landenberger M, Jahn P. Cluster-randomised Trials in Nursing Research: An Overview, an Example and some Recommendations. (unpublished)
Kuss O. On the association of inrun velocity and jumping width in ski jumping. (rejected by the Journal of Biomechanics)
Kuß O, Jahn P, Renz P, Landenberger M. Cluster-randomisierte Studien in der Pflegewissenschaft. Hallesche Beiträge zu den Gesundheits- und Pflegewissenschaften 2009; 8(1):302-310.
Bornkamp B, Fritsch A, Kuss O, Ickstadt K: Penalty Specialists Among Goalkeepers: A Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis of 44 Years of German Bundesliga. (To appear in: Schipp B, Kräer W [eds.]: Statistical Inference, Econometric Analysis and Matrix Algebra, Festschrift in Honour of Götz Trenkler. Physica, Heidelberg, 63-76, 2009)
The paper has received some attention in the media, see for example
ARD
Morgenmagazin
Kuss O, Kuehn A: Lunar Cycle and the Number of Births: A Spectral Analysis of 4,071,669 Births from South-Western Germany (accepted, Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica)
The paper has received some attention in the media, see for example
FAZ,
Mitteldeutsche
Zeitung, Frankfurter
Rundschau,
Tagesspiegel,
Die
Welt, WDR
2, WDR
4, MDR
(Sachsen-Anhalt heute), Radio
SAW, HR1
Kuss
O, Kluttig A, Stoll O:
"The
fouled player should not take the penalty himself": An empirical
investigation of an old German football myth.
The paper has received some attention in the media, see for example
SPIEGEL,
SZ,
Mitteldeutsche
Zeitung,
Bolzen,
MDR
Info,
MDR
Sputnik, Neon
Kuss, O:
A
SAS/IML-Macro for Goodness-of-Fit Testing in Logistic Regression Models
with
Sparse Data. Proceedings of the
26th
Annual SAS
Users Group
International Conference, CD-Rom Version, 2001, Paper 265-26.
Kuss, O:
How
to Use
SAS for Logistic Regression with Correlated Data.
Proceedings
of the
27th
Annual SAS
Users Group
International Conference, CD-Rom Version, 2002, Paper 261-27.
Kuss O:
Modelling
Physicians' Recommendations for Optimal Medical Care by Random Effects
Stereotype Regression. In:
Verbeke G, Molenberghs G, Aerts M,
and Fieuws S
[Eds.]: Proceedings of the 18th
International
Workshop on Statistical
Modelling. Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2003, 245-249.
Kuss
O, Koch A:
Meta-analysis
macros for SAS. Computational
Statistics & Data
Analysis, 1996, 22(3), 325-333.
Member of
German Society for Medical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology (GMDS)
International Biometric Society, German Region (IBS-DR)
Reviewer for
Acta Diabetologica
Advances in Nutrition
Advances in Statistical Analyses
Annals of Applied Statistics
Archives of Public Health
Artificial Intelligence Review
Biometrical Journal
Biometrics
Biostatistics
BMC Bioinformatics
BMC Medical Research Methodology
BMC Medicine
BMJ
BMJ Open
BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
BioData Mining
Cancer Epidemiology
Circulation
Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Contact Dermatitis
Contemporary Clinical Trials
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Deutsches Ärzteblatt
Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung e.V. (DZHK)
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Diabetic Medicine
Diabetologia
Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel
Drug Safety
European Journal of Epidemiology
GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie
Heart and Vessels
International Journal of Biometeorology
International Journal of Epidemiology
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Journal of Diabetes Research
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
Journal of Sports Sciences
Journal of Statistical Software
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society)
Methods of Information in Medicine
Molecular Psychiatry
Nature Communications
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO/ZonMw)
Pharmaceutical Statistics
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
PLOS ONE
Primary Care Diabetes
Psychological Methods
Psychometrika
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
Sociological Methods and Research
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Statistics in Medicine
Systematic Reviews
The American Statistician
Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science
Current scientific and administrative activities
Member of the DFG Review Group "Clinical Trials", 2020-
Member of the Working Group "Heart Transplantion" of the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer), 2020-
Member of the DFG Review Board 205-01 "Epidemiology and Medical Biometry/Statistics", 2019-
Co-chair of the expert group "Statistical Analysis" of the German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie), 2019-
Member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Association of North Rhine, 2019 -
Member of the Certificate Commission “Epidemiology” of the scientific societies DGEpi, GMDS, DGSMP and IBS-DR, 2019 -
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the IQWIG (Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care), 2018-
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Diabetes-Surveillance, RKI Berlin, 2017-
Member of the Board of the Coordination Center for Clinical Trials at Düsseldorf University Hospital, 2017-
Member of the Centre for Health and Society (chs), Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, 2014-
Principal Investigator for the Study Center Düsseldorf of the German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitssudie), 2013-
Editorial Board Member for GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, 2011-
Past scientific and administrative activities
Auditor ("Kassenprüfer") for the GMDS (German Society for Medical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology), 2015-2021
Member of the Research Coordination Board (RCB) of the German Center for Diabetes Research, 2013-2016
Member of the Programme Committee of the 58th Biometrical Conference of the German Region of the International Biometric Society, March, 13 – 15th, 2012, Berlin
Associate Editor for BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2011-2016
Council member ("Beiratsmitglied") of the German Region of the International Biometric Society, 2009-2013.
Head of working group „Statistical Methods in Clinical Research“ of the GMDS, 2007-2013
Member of the Programme Committee of the 55th Biometrical Conference of the German Region of the International Biometric Society, March, 17 – 19th, 2009, Hannover
Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the KSFE 2009 (Kooperation der SAS Anwender in Forschung und Entwicklung), March, 5 – 6th, 2005, Halle (Saale)
Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the 51th Biometrical Conference of the German Region of the International Biometric Society, March, 21 – 23th, 2005, Halle (Saale)
Local organizer of the workshop „Advanced Methods for Survival Analysis and Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and Medicine“ of three working groups of the GMDS and IBS-GR, November, 18 – 19th, 2004, Halle (Saale)
Awards
Beste
Präsentation Biometrie
for
Hoyer A, Kuss O: Meta-analysis to compare two diagnostic tests to a common gold standard: A new approach using quadrivariate copulas. 59. GMDS-Jahrestagung, 07.-10. September 2014, Göttingen.
Best
Poster
for
Kuß O: Mondzyklus und Geburtenzahl: Eine Spektralanalyse von 4.071.669 Geburten in Baden-Württemberg. Statistik2007 – Statistik unter einem Dach. Erste gemeinsame Tagung Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik (DAGStat), 53. Biometrisches Kolloquium, Pfingsttagung der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft, 27.–30. März 2007, Bielefeld.
2. Rank Best Paper Award
for
Bender R, Hildebrandt M, Kuß O: Die Berechnung adjustierter NNEs in Kohortenstudien. KSFE 2006, 10. Konferenz de SAS Anwender in Forschung und Entwicklung, 23.-24.2.2006, Hamburg.
Reichenbachpreis 2005 der Zahnärztekammer Sachsen-Anhalt
for
Gernhardt CR, Kuß O, Schaller HG: Klinische Wirksamkeit des strontiumchloridhaltigen Hyposen auf hypersensiblen Dentinoberflächen. 28. Januar 2006, Magdeburg.
Posterpreis der Norddeutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft
for
Dickel H, Kuss O, John SM, Axt-Hammermeister A, Blome O, Hagemann KH, Gobrecht E, Schwanitz HJ: Kontrollierte Interventionsstudie in Norddeutschland zur Optimierung des Hautarztverfahrens. 76. Tagung der Norddeutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, Hildesheim, 5.-7. September 2003.
Heinz Maurer Award for Dermatological Research 2002, donated by Sebapharma, Boppard, Germany (“Heinz Maurer-Preis für Dermatologische Forschung 2002”)
for
Löffler H, Dickel H, Kuss O, Diepgen TL, Effendy I: Characteristics of self-estimated enhanced skin susceptibility.
Promotion prize „Skin and Environment“ 2001, donated by Grünenthal, Aachen, Germany (Förderpreis „Haut und Umwelt“ 2001 der Fa. Grünenthal, Aachen)
for
Mahler V, Diepgen TL, Kuss O, Leakakos T, Schuler G, Kraft D, Valenta R: Mutual boosting effects of sensitization with timothy grass pollen and latex glove extract on IgE antibody responses in a mouse model.
Honorable Mention in the „Statistics, Data Analysis and Data Mining“ Session, 26th Annual SASâ Users Group International Conference (SUGI 26), Long Beach, California, USA, 22 – 25th, 2001,
for
Kuss O: A SAS/IML-Macro for Goodness-of-Fit Testing in Logistic Regression Models with Sparse Data.
Software
BINOMCI: A SAS macro for confidence interval estimation for binomial proportions
Twelve procedures to do logistic regression in SAS
Data
Geburten und Störche 1993 bis 2020
Data set accompanying "Kuss O. The danger of dichotomizing continuous variables: A visualization. Teaching Statistics. 2013:35(2):78–79."
Last update: 20.06.2022
