Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Director, MS Programs, Biostatistics
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Associate Professor, Clinical & Translational Science
A728 Crabtree Hall, Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 R-znvy: nlbhx@cvgg.rqh Primary Phone: 967-179-0906
I am an Associate Professor in Biostatistics and Director of MS Programs in Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also Senior Biostatistician in the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) Biostatistics and Informatics Core at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. In my roles as Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, and Lead Biostatistician, I have primary responsibility for statistical integrity, including conceptualization, design, and grant development, recruitment/data collection, monitoring, analysis, reporting, and manuscript preparation. I have expertise in regression modelling, longitudinal data analysis, health disparities, clinical research, and statistical computing. I have extensive experience with analyzing data from clinical research projects, analyzing big data from large administrative data systems as well as analyzing large, longitudinal, prospective epidemiology studies, which primarily involve time to event and mixed effects modeling. I have maintained successful research collaborations most recently with VA investigators. In my roles as Educator and Mentor, I teach courses in introductory biostatistics, applied regression analysis, scientific communication skills, mathematical methods for statistics, and mixed models as well as direct the MS Capstone in Biostatistics in Pitt Public Health. I have mentored over 100 students, fellows and early career faculty and 35% of my peer-reviewed publications are with mentees.
1984-88
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
B.A. (Cum Laude), 1988
Mathematics
1988-90
University of Pittsburgh
M.A., 1990
Applied Statistics
1990-96
Ph.D., 1996
Biostatistics
BIOS 2011 Principles of Statistical Reasoning
BIOS 2049 Applied Regression Analysis
BIOS 2058 Scientific Communications Skills
BIOS 2081 Mathematical Methods for Statistics
BIOS 2086 Applied Mixed Models
BIOS 2099 Biostatistics Capstone
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