Dr. Gishe is an associate professor in the department of Public Health, Health Administration and Health Sciences at Tennessee State University, in Nashville, TN. Prior to this appointment, he was a biostatistician at Momentum Research Inc. in Durham, N.C. and an assistant professor at Western Kentucky University. He earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Addis Ababa University and Advanced Diploma from Interna- tional Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste in Italy. He received Ph.D. in mathematics and biostatistics from University of South Florida. He was a recipient of German Academic Exchange Scholarship (DAAD) and UNESCO funded scholarship at ICTP.

As a Biostatistician, he has experience working in the area of clinical trials for a Con- tract Research Organization, Momentum Research Inc., Durham, North Carolina. He has the expertise, experience, and interest in the applications of statistical methodolo- gies: categorical, survival and longitudinal data analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and generalized linear mixed models. He collaborates in the area of public health, agriculture, sports & nutrition, health disparity studies, prostate cancer, obesity, and community-driven interventions.

He is a Co-PI in NIH grant to address health disparity and health equity; authored and co-authored research articles in peer-reviewed journals, technical reports, and a book chapter. He consults in the area of study designs, statistical methods, and data analysis. He is a user of many statistical application soft wares such as R, SAS, and SPSS.