Alfa-Ibrahim Yansane, PhD
Associate Professor
Preventive & Restor Dent Sci
School of Dentistry

Education & Training

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• Ph.D Biostatistics Harvard University 2012
• AM Biostatistics Harvard University 2007
• B.A Applied Mathematics University of California, at Berkeley 2002

Interests

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• Electronic Health Records (EHR)
• Dental Quality
• Patient Safety
• Biostatistics
• Data Science

Grants and Projects

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• Implementing Dental Quality Measures in Practice, NIH, 2015-2026
• Open Wide Learning Lab (OWLL): Improving Patient Safety in Dentistry, NIH, 2019-2023
• Understanding Pain after Dental Procedures, NIH, 2019-2021
• Optimizing Acute Post-Operative Dental Pain Management Using New Health Information Technology, NIH, 2018-2021
• Developing A Patient Safety System For Dentistry, NIH, 2013-2018
• Measuring Occurrence of and Disparities in Dental Clinic Adverse Events, NIH, 2015-2018
• A whole systems approach to implementing standardized dental diagnostic terms, NIH, 2013-2018
• A Cognitive Approach to Refine and Enhance Use of a Dental Diagnostic Terminology, NIH, 2010-2016

Publications (22)

Top publication keywords:
Burnout, ProfessionalDental CariesPit and Fissure SealantsMedical ErrorsInsurance, DentalDental ClinicsDental CareProfessional PracticeTerminology as TopicElectronic Health RecordsDentistsDental OfficesWork EngagementPatient HarmMolar

• Burnout, Engagement, and Dental Errors Among U.S. Dentists.
  Journal of patient safety 2021 Yansane A, Tokede O, Walji M, Obadan-Udoh E, Riedy C, White J, Kalenderian E
• Quantifying Dental Office-Originating Adverse Events: The Dental Practice Study Methods.
  Journal of patient safety 2021 Tokede O, Walji M, Ramoni R, Rindal DB, Worley D, Hebballi N, Kumar K, van Strien C, Chen M, Navat-Pelli S, Liu H, Etolue J, Yansane A, Obadan-Udoh E, Easterday C, Enstad C, Kane S, Rush W, …
• Classifying Adverse Events in the Dental Office.
  Journal of patient safety 2021 Kalenderian E, Obadan-Udoh E, Maramaldi P, Etolue J, Yansane A, Stewart D, White J, Vaderhobli R, Kent K, Hebballi NB, Delattre V, Kahn M, Tokede O, Ramoni RB, Walji MF
• Burnout and Work Engagement Among US Dentists.
  Journal of patient safety 2021 Calvo JM, Kwatra J, Yansane A, Tokede O, Gorter RC, Kalenderian E
• Measuring sealant placement in children at the dental practice level.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2020 Kumar SV, Yansane A, Neumann A, Johnson TR, Olson GW, Bangar S, Kookal KK, Kim A, Obadan-Udoh E, Mertz E, Simmons K, Mullins J, White JM, Kalenderian E, Walji MF

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• Increasing value, reducing waste: tailoring the application of dental sealants according to individual caries risk.
  Journal of public health dentistry 2020 Yansane A, Listl S, Dawda D, Brandon R, White J, Spallek H, Walji MF, Kalenderian E
• Number of Pregnant Women at Four Dental Clinics and the Care They Received: A Dental Quality eMeasure Evaluation.
  Journal of dental education 2019 Neumann A, Obadan-Udoh E, Bangar S, Kumar SV, Tokede O, Kim A, Yansane A, Mertz E, Panwar S, Gharpure A, Kookal KK, Mullins J, Even JB, Simmons K, White JM, Walji MF, Kalenderian E
• Predictors of dental care utilization in north-central Appalachia in the USA.
  Community dentistry and oral epidemiology 2019 Chen M, Wright CD, Tokede O, Yansane A, Montasem A, Kalenderian E, Beaty TH, Feingold E, Shaffer JR, Crout RJ, Neiswanger K, Weyant RJ, Marazita ML, McNeil DW
• Authors' response.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2019 Walji MF, Kumar SV, Bangar S, Neumann A, Kookal KK, Yansane A, Tokede O, Obadan-Udoh E, Mertz E, Simmons K, Even J, Mullins J, White J, Kalenderian E
• Tobacco screening and cessation efforts by dental providers: A quality measure evaluation.
  Journal of public health dentistry 2018 Neumann A, Kumar S, Bangar S, Kookal KK, Spallek H, Tokede O, Simmons K, Even J, Mullins J, Mertz E, Yansane A, Obadan-Udoh E, White J, Walji M, Kalenderian E
• Feasibility of Electronic Health Record-Based Triggers in Detecting Dental Adverse Events.
  Applied clinical informatics 2018 Kalenderian E, Obadan-Udoh E, Yansane A, Kent K, Hebballi NB, Delattre V, Kookal KK, Tokede O, White J, Walji MF
• Assessing the validity of existing dental sealant quality measures.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2018 Kumar SV, Bangar S, Neumann A, Kookal KK, Yansane A, Tokede O, Obadan-Udoh E, Mertz E, Simmons K, Even J, Mullins J, White J, Kalenderian E, Walji M
• Burnout and study engagement among medical students at Sun Yat-sen University, China: A cross-sectional study.
  Medicine 2018 Liu H, Yansane AI, Zhang Y, Fu H, Hong N, Kalenderian E
• Vaccine Hesitancy and Online Information: The Influence of Digital Networks.
  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 2017 Getman R, Helmi M, Roberts H, Yansane A, Cutler D, Seymour B
• Influence of the Posterior Mandible Ridge Morphology on Virtual Implant Planning.
  The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants 2017 Gallucci GO, Khoynezhad S, Yansane AI, Taylor J, Buser D, Friedland B
• Evaluating quality of dental care among patients with diabetes: Adaptation and testing of a dental quality measure in electronic health records.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2017 Neumann A, Kalenderian E, Ramoni R, Yansane A, Tokede B, Etolue J, Vaderhobli R, Simmons K, Even J, Mullins J, Kumar S, Bangar S, Kookal K, White J, Walji M
• Adoption of dental innovations: The case of a standardized dental diagnostic terminology.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2017 Ramoni RB, Etolue J, Tokede O, McClellan L, Simmons K, Yansane A, White JM, Walji MF, Kalenderian E
• Quantitative evaluation of maxillary alveolar cortical bone thickness and density using computed tomography imaging.
  American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics : official publication of the American Association of Orthodontists, its constituent societies, and the American Board of Orthodontics 2017 Ohiomoba H, Sonis A, Yansane A, Friedland B
• How dental team members describe adverse events.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2016 Maramaldi P, Walji MF, White J, Etolue J, Kahn M, Vaderhobli R, Kwatra J, Delattre VF, Hebballi NB, Stewart D, Kent K, Yansane A, Ramoni RB, Kalenderian E
• Dental clinical research: an illustration of the value of standardized diagnostic terms.
  Journal of public health dentistry 2015 Kalenderian E, Tokede B, Ramoni R, Khan M, Kimmes N, White J, Vaderhobli R, Yansane A, Feilzer A, Walji M
• Soya products and serum lipids: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
  The British journal of nutrition 2015 Tokede OA, Onabanjo TA, Yansane A, Gaziano JM, Djoussé L
• Attitudes toward and beliefs about the use of a dental diagnostic terminology: A survey of dental care providers in a dental practice.
  Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) 2015 Ramoni RB, Walji MF, Kim S, Tokede O, McClellan L, Simmons K, Skourtes E, Yansane A, White JM, Kalenderian E