Dr. Abebe is involved in education and mentoring within the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE), and he is a graduate faculty member in the School of Medicine. He has directed numerous courses in biostatistics and clinical trials, and he has advised over 40 masters theses.
- BA, Mathematics, Goshen College, 2003
- MA, Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, 2006
- PhD, Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, 2009
Education & Training
- Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award, University of Pittsburgh., 2014
- Most Valuable Player Award, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2022
- Fellow, Society for Clinical Trials, 2023
- Pitt Scientist Well-Being Award, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2025
View Dr. Abebe's full bibliography
Scifres, C.M., Abebe, K.Z., Jones, K.A., Comer, D.M., Costacou, T., Freiberg, M.S., Simhan, H.N., Day, N.L., Davis, E.M. Gestational Diabetes Diagnostic Methods (GD2M) Pilot Randomized Trial. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2014; 19(7): 1472-80.
Abebe, K. Z., Rockhold, F. W. The impact of landscape changes on DSMB oversight of clinical trials. NEJM Evid. 2022; 1(9)
Abebe, K. Z., Althouse, A. D., Comer, D., Holleran, K., Koerbel, G., Kojtek, J., Weiss, J., Spillane, S. Creating an academic research organization to efficiently design, conduct, coordinate, and analyze clinical trials: The Center for Clinical Trials & Data Coordination. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 2019; 16: 100488.
Abebe, K. Z., Scifres, C., Simhan, H. M. N., Day, N., Catalano, P., Bodnar, L. M., Costacou, T., Matthew, D., Illes, A., Orris, S., Duell, J., Ly, K., Davis, E. M. Comparison of two screening strategies for gestational diabetes (GDM2) trial: Design and rationale. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 2017; 62: 43-49.
Schrier, R. W., Abebe, K. Z., Perrone, R. D., Torres, V. E., Braun, W. E., Steinman, T. I., Winklhofer, F. T., Brosnahan, G., Czarncki, P. G., Hogan, M. C., Miskulin, D. C., Rahbari-Oskoui, F. F., Grantham, J. J., Harris, P. C., Flessner, M. F., Bae, K. T., Moore, C. G., Chapman, A. B., The HALT-PKD Trial Investigators. Blood pressure in early autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. NEJM. 2014; 371(24): 2255-2266.
Dr. Abebe's collaborative research focuses on design, conduct, coordination, and analysis of multicenter randomized controlled trials (RCTs). He is the PI of two large NIH-funded consortiums: the COPE-AKI Consortium Scientific & Data Research Center, which is developing and testing interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality in AKI survivors; and the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for the REBIRTH Study, which assesses the effect of bromocriptine on left ventricular ejection fraction in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy.
