Education

Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., M.S., Statistics, 1991
Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium, M.S., Biostatistics, 1992
University of Washington, Seattle, M.S., Biostatistics, 1995
University of Washington, Seattle, Ph.D., Biostatistics, 1997

Professional Positions

1992, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Brussels, Belgium, Internship
1992 - 1993, Biostatistics Unit, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium, Assistant
1993 - 1997, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Research Assistant
1998 - 1999, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Affiliate Research Scientist
2000 - 2003, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Research Assistant Professor
1998 - 2009, Dept. of Probability and Statistics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Assistant Professor
2010 - present, Dept. of Probability and Statistics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Associate Professor

Collaborative research projects

Awards and honors:

Bolzano Award for best paper in mathematics. Bernard Bolzano Foundation, Prague, 2001.
Best written paper. IBS-WNAR Student Paper Competition, Salt Lake City, 1997.
Donovan J. Thompson Award. Dept. of Biostatistics, UW, Seattle, 1995.

Professional interests:

Design and analysis of case-cohort and case-control studies and clinical trials. Analysis of survival data, discrete data and longitudinal data. Estimation of disease incidence from cross-sectional biological samples. Applications of statistics in occupational epidemiology, oncology, cardiology, pediatrics and HIV/AIDS prevention.

Professional activities:

American Statistical Association, member.
Czech Statistical Society, member.
International Biometric Society, member.
International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, member.

Reviewer for American Journal of Epidemiology, Annals of Statistics, Biometrical Journal, Biometrika, Biometrics, Controlled Clinical Trials, Czech Sociological Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Kybernetika, Lifetime Data Analysis, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Statistica Sinica, Statistics, Statistics and Probability Letters.

Refereed publications:

  1. Downey, L., Ryan, R., Roffman, R., and Kulich, M. (1995). How could I forget? Inaccurate memories of sexually intimate moments. Journal of Sex Research, 32, 177-191.
  2. Kulich, M. (1998). Additive hazards model with errors in variables. (In Czech). ROBUST 1998, Proceedings of the 10th Winter School of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, 115-128.
  3. Kulich, M. and Lin, D.Y. (2000). Additive hazards regression with covariate measurement error. JASA, 95, 238-248.
  4. Kulich, M. and Lin, D.Y. (2000). Additive hazards regression for case-cohort studies. Biometrika, 87, 73-87.
  5. Kulich, M. (2001). Asymptotic tests with nuisance parameters. (In Czech). In: Antoch, J., Dohnal, G. (Eds.) ROBUST 2000, Proceedings of the 11th Summer School of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, 125-134.
  6. Kulich, M., Rosenfeld, M., Goss, C.H., and Wilmott, R. (2003). Improved survival among young patients with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Pediatrics, 142(6), 631-636.
  7. Kulich, M. and Lin, D.Y. (2004). Improving the efficiency of relative risk estimation in case-cohort studies. JASA, 99(467), 832-844.
  8. Kulich, M. (2004). Estimation of regression parameters with incomplete data. (In Czech). In: Antoch, J., Dohnal, G. (Eds.) ROBUST 2004, Proceedings of the 13th Summer School of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, 467-474.
  9. Kulich, M., Rosenfeld, M., Campbell, J., Kronmal, R., Gibson, R.G., Goss, C.H., and Ramsey, B. (2005) Disease-specific reference equations for lung function in patients with cystic fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 172, 885-891.
  10. Řeřicha, V., Kulich, M., Řeřicha, R., Shore, D., and Sandler, D. (2006). Incidence of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma in Czech uranium miners: a case-cohort study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(6), 818-822.
  11. Sumnik Z., Cinek O., Bratanic N., Kordonouri O., Kulich M., Roszai B., Arato A., Lebl J., Soltesz G., Danne T., Battelino T., and Schober E. (2006) Risk of Celiac Disease in Children With Type 1 Diabetes Is Modified by Positivity for HLA-DQB1*02-DQA1*05 and TNF-308A. Diabetes Care, 29(4), 858-63.
  12. Hubáček, P., Cinek, O., Kulich, M., Zajac, M., Keslová, P., Formánková, R., Starý, J., and Sedláček, P. (2006) EBV quantification in children undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation [In Czech]. Časopis lékařů českých, 145, 301-306.
  13. Klášterecký, P. and Kulich, M. (2006) A note on parameter estimation in regression models for case-cohort data. In: Antoch, J., Dohnal, G. (Eds.) ROBUST 2006, Proceedings of the 14th Winter School of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, 127-134.
  14. Kulich, M. (2006). Estimation of pulmonary function percentile curves by quantile regression [In Czech]. In: Antoch, J., Dohnal, G. (Eds.) ROBUST 2006, Proceedings of the 14th Winter School of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, 189-196.
  15. Sedláček, P., Formánková, R., Keslová, P., Šrámková, L., Hubáček, P., Król, L., Kulich, M., and Starý, J. (2006) Low mortality of children undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from 7 to 8/10 human leukocyte antigen allele-matched unrelated donors with the use of antithymocyte globulin. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 38, 745-750.
  16. Hughes, J.P. and Kulich, M. (2006) Cluster randomized trials for HIV prevention. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 1, 471-475.
  17. Cinek, O., Hradský, O., Ahmedov, G., Slavcev, A., Koloušková, S., Kulich, M., and Šumník, Z. (2007) No independent role of the -1123 G>C and+2740 A>G variants in the association of PTPN22 with type 1 diabetes and juvenile idiopathic arthritis in two Caucasian populations. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 76(2), 297-303.
  18. Hubáček, P., Sedláček, P., Keslová, P., Formánková, P., Starý, J., Kulich, M., and Cinek, O. (2008) Incidence of HHV7 in donors and recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 50(4), 935.
  19. Chingono, A., Lane, T., Chitumba, A., Kulich, M., and Morin S. (2008) Balancing science and community concerns in resource-limited settings: Project Accept in rural Zimbabwe. Clinical Trials, 5(3), 273-274.
  20. Tapia, G., Cinek, O., Witso, E., Kulich, M., Rasmussen, T., Grinde, B., Ronningen, K.S. (2008) Longitudinal Observation of Parechovirus in Stool Samples From Norwegian Infants. Journal of Medical Virology, 80(10), 1835-1842.
  21. Genberg, B., Kulich, M., Kawichai, S., Modiba, P., Chingono, A., Kilonzo, G., Richter, L., Pettifor, A., Sweat, M. and Celentano, D. (2008) HIV risk behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa and Northern Thailand: Baseline behavioral data from Project Accept. Journal of AIDS, 49(3), 309-319.
  22. Breslow, N.E., Lumley, T., Ballantyne, C.M., Chambless, L.E., and Kulich, M. (2009) Using the whole cohort in the analysis of case-cohort data. American Journal of Epidemiology, 169(11), 1398-1405. doi:10.1093/aje/kwp055
  23. Breslow, N.E., Lumley, T., Ballantyne, C.M., Chambless, L.E., and Kulich, M. (2009) Improved Horvitz-Thompson estimation of model parameters from two-phase stratified samples: Applications in epidemiology. Statistics in Biosciences, 1(1), 32-49. doi:10.1007/s12561-009-9001-6
  24. Klášterecký, P. and Kulich, M. (2009) Logistic regression in case-cohort studies [In Czech]. In: Antoch, J., Dohnal, G. (Eds.) ROBUST 2008, Proceedings of the 15th Summer School of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, 185-192.
  25. Šedová, M. and Kulich, M. (2009) Maximum likelihood estimators and linear regression under survey sampling designs [In Czech]. In: Antoch, J., Dohnal, G. (Eds.) ROBUST 2008, Proceedings of the 15th Summer School of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists, 409-416.
  26. Hendriksen, E.S., Hlubinka, D., Chariyalertsak, S., Chingono, A., Gray, G., Mbwambo, J., Richter, L., Kulich, M., and Coates, T.J. (2009) Keep Talking About It: HIV/AIDS-Related Communication and Prior HIV Testing in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Thailand. AIDS and Behavior, 13(6), 1213-1221. doi:10.1007/s10461-009-9608-0
  27. Srithanaviboonchai, K., Celentano, D.D., Visaruratana, S., Kawichai, S., Wichajarn, M., Genberg. B., Chariyalertsak, C., Kulich, M., Chariyalertsak, S. (2010) Awareness about antiretroviral treatment, intentions to use condoms, and decisions to have an HIV test among rural Northern Lowland Thai and ethnic minority young adults. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 22(2), 212-218. http://aph.sagepub.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=20457650
  28. Kulich, M., Řeřicha, V., Řeřicha, R., Shore, D., and Sandler, D. (2011) Incidence of non-lung solid cancers in Czech uranium miners: A case–cohort study. Environmental Research, 111(3), 400-405. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2011.01.008
  29. Sweat, M., Morin, S., Celentano, D., Mulawa, M., Singh, B., Mbwambo, J., Kawichai, S., Chingono, A., Khumalo-Sakutukwa, G., Gray, G., Richter, L., Kulich, M., Sadowski, A., Coates, T., and the Project Accept study team (2011) Community-based intervention to increase HIV testing and case detection in people aged 16-32 years in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Thailand (NIMH Project Accept, HPTN 043): a randomised study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 11(7), 525-532. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70060-3
  30. Treggiari, M.M., Retsch-Bogart, G., Mayer-Hamblett, N., Khan, U., Kulich, M., Kronmal, R., Williams, J., Hiatt, P., Gibson, R.L., Spencer, T., Orenstein, D., Chatfield, B.A., Froh, D.K., Burns, J.L., Rosenfeld, M., Ramsey, B.W. (2011) Comparative Efficacy and Safety of 4 Randomized Regimens to Treat Early Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in Children With Cystic Fibrosis. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 165(9), 847-856. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.136
  31. Piwowar-Manning, E., Fiamma, A., Laeyendecker, O., Kulich, M., Donnell, D., Szekeres, G., Robins-Morris, L., Mullis, C.E., Vallari A., Hackett Jr, J., Mastro, T.D., Gray, G., Richter, L., Alexandre, M.W., Chariyalertsak, S., Chingono A., Sweat, M., Coates, T., and Eshleman, S.H. (2011) HIV Surveillance in a Large, Community-Based Study: Results from the Pilot Study of Project Accept (HIV Prevention Trials Network 043) BMC Infectious Diseases, 11:251 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-11-251

Other publications:

  1. Kulich, M. (1992). The value of breast conserving therapy in stage I and II breast cancer: statistical analysis of EORTC 10801 trial. Master's Thesis. Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek.
  2. Kulich, M. (1997). Additive hazards regression with incomplete covariate data. PhD dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle.
  3. Kulich, M. (1999). Excess risk estimation under generalized case-cohort design. ASA 1999 Proceedings, Biometrics Section, 105-110.
  4. Kulich, M. (2004). Analysis of group-dependent data. (In Czech) In: K. Kupka, ed. Data Analysis 2004/II. TriloByte, Pardubice, 205-216.
  5. Klášterecký, P. and Kulich, M. (2005) A note on parameter estimation in regression models for case-cohort data. Technical report #47. Dept. of Probability and Statistics, Charles University.
  6. Kulich M., Rosenfeld M., Ramsey B. (2006) Cystic fibrosis disease-specific centiles in 2000 and 2005. (Reply) American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 173(9), 1047.
  7. Kulich, M., Řeřicha, V., Řeřicha, R., Shore, D.L., and Sandler, D.P. (2007). Lymphohematopoietic malignancies in uranium miners. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(4), A184-A185.
  8. Šedová, M. and Kulich, M. (2007) Statistical methods for analysis of survey data. In: Šafránková, J. and Paulů, J. (eds.) WDS'07 Proceedings of Contributed Papers. Matfyzpress, Praha, pp. 181-186.

Published abstracts:

  1. Campbell, J.D., Kulich, M., Rosenfeld, M., Kronmal, R. (2002) Pulmonary function reference curves for cystic fibrosis patients. Pediatric Pulmonology, 34(S24), 332.
  2. Kulich M. (2006) Applying the stratified case-cohort design. American Journal of Epidemiology, 163(S11), 680.
  3. Cinek, O., Kulich, M., Šumník, Z. (2008) The trend curve of type 1 diabetes incidence in Czech children has flattened. Diabetologia, 51, S156-S157.