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THE YEAR IN REVIEW (2013-2014) ..................................................... 5 FUNDING SOURCES .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

DEPARTMENT ALIGNED FUNDING............................................................................................................................................................ 7

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS .................................................................................................................................................................. 8

EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH GRANTS ......................................................................................................................................................... 9

FUNDING CATEGORIES ..................................................................................................................................................................................11

WE’RE A WISE INVESTMENT FOR MICHIGAN.....................................................................................................................................12

GRANTS SUPPORTING DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING OF FACULTY, STUDENTS & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS . 13

STUDENTS & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS .......................................................................................................................................... 14

SERVICE, OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT BEYOND MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY .......................................................... 15

FACULTY ..................................................................................................... 19 SPECIALISTS...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24

STAFF .......................................................................................................... 25

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS ...................................................................27

DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014 4


THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2013-2014


FIGURE 1: BREAKDOWN OF CONTRACT AND GRANT TYPE Our department faculty participate as lead investigators or co-investigators for biomedical research and research related grants and contracts to MSU totaling $8,423,026. Approximately 81% of these funds are from the National Institutes of Health (Figure 1).

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RESEARCH FUNDING SOURCES

National Institutes of HealthOther FederalStateFoundations and Private Corporations


FIGURE 2: BREAKDOWN OF CONTRACT AND GRANT TYPE Our department faculty’s extramural awards (funds directly aligned with our department) totaled $5,144,836. Approximately 85% of these funds were from the National Institutes of Health (Figure 2).

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DEPARTMENT ALIGNED FUNDING

National Institutes of Health

Other Federal

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Foundations and Private Corporations


FIGURE 3: RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS ACROSS MSU DEPARTMENTS AND OTHER UNIVERSITIES Much of our research is collaborative and involves inter-disciplinary and inter-department or inter-university research teams. Approximately 60% of our research funds included co-investigators in other MSU departments and/or at other universities (Figure 3).

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RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

With other Universities

Michigan State University


EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH GRANTS

FUNDING AGENCY MECHANISM TITLE INVESTIGATORS

NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse

KO5 Senior Scientist Award

Drug Dependence Epidemiology and Enviromics Anthony, James C.

Univ of Colorado - Denver / NIH

Subcontract Implementing Sustainable Diabetes Prevention

and Self-Management in Primary Care Barry, Henry; Luo, Zhehui; Maiti,

Tapabrata

Univ ILL at Urbana Champaign/U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency

Subcontract/Project (PO1)

Novel Methods to Assess the Effects of Chemicals on Child Development

Gardiner, Joseph

Univ ILL at Urbana Champaign/NIH: National Institute of Environmental

Health Sciences

Subcontract/Project (PO1)

Novel Methods to Assess the Effects of Chemicals on Child Development

Gardiner, Joseph

Wayne State Univ/NIH: National Institute of Mental

Health Subcontract

Epidemiology of Late-Life Depression and Ethnicity Research Study

Gonzalez, Hector

NIH R03 Are Live Births Endogenous and Does it Matter? Haider, Steve; Goddeeris, John; Elder,

Todd; Paneth, Nigel

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

R18 A Comparison of Provider Versus Health Plan

Delivered Care Management in Michigan Holtrop, Jodi; Luo, Zhehui; Maiti,

Tapabrata

NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

R01 Preterm Delivery and Maternal Cardiovascular

Disease Risk Holzman, Claudia; Senagore,

Patricia; Sikorskii, Alla

Univ of Rochester / NIH: National Institute of

Neurological Disorders and Strokes

Subcontract A Dose-Escalation, Safety and Feasibility Study of Enteral Levetiracetam for Seizure Control in

Pediatric Cerebral Malaria

Jones, Nicole; Taylor, Terrie; Seydel, Karl; Postels, Douglas; Gardiner,

Joseph

USDA; National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Research Rural Health and Safety Education Kerver, Jean; Earnesty, Dawn;

Santiago, Olga

Univ Boston Medical Ctr./NIH

U01 Cooperative Agreement

Neonatal Biomarkers in Extremity Preterm Babies Predict Childhood Brain Disorders

Lenski, Madeleine; Paneth Nigel

WK Kellogg Foundation Research Breastfeeding Support for Low-Income Mothers Kerver, Jean

NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse

KO1 Career Award Gene-Gene/Gene-Environment Interactions

Associated with Nicotine Dependence Lu, Qing(PI); Anthony, James; Breslau, Naomi; Friderici, Karen

National Institute Child Health and Human Dev

R03 Maternal Physical Activity during Pregnancy,

Lipid Levels and Birth Weight Mudd, Lanay; Gardiner, Joseph; Kerver, Jean; Pivarnik, James


NIH R03 A High-dimensional Statistical Genetic Approach for Family-based Orofacial Clefts Risk Prediction

Lu, Qing

MDCH Research Assessment of Cost Containment & Efficacy of

Services for Medicare/Medicaid Eligible Population of Michigan

Oberst, Kathleen; Given, Charles; You, Zhiying; An, Hong; Luo, Zhehui

Univ MI/Univ Research Corridor

Research Integrated Proteomics and Genomics Analysis of

Newborn Blood Spots Paneth, Nigel

Research Foundation of Cerebral Palsy Alliance

Research Distinguished Research Award for Cerebral Palsy

Research Paneth, Nigel

Univ MI/Univ Research Corridor

Research The Michigan Bloodspot Environmental

Epidemiology Project Paneth, Nigel

Univ Wisconsin/ NIH: National Cancer Institute

Subcontract Life Course Energy Balance and Breast Cancer

Risk in Black/White Women Under 50 Pathak, Dorothy; Houang, Richard;

Olson, Lawrence

Michigan Health & Hospital Association

Research MHA Keystone Center for Patient Safety &

Quality Reeves, Mathew

Veterans Administration Research Quality of Care Veterans with TIA and Minor

Stroke Reeves, Mathew

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

R18 Research Demonstration and

Dissemination Grants

Demonstration of a Community System of Care for Medicaid Insured Pregnant Women

Roman, Leeanne; Meghea, Cristian; Holmes Rovner, Margaret; Gardiner,

Joseph; Luo, Zhehui

Amana Pharmaceuticals Corp

Research General Research Saeed, A. Mahdi

NIH: National Cancer Institute

R01 Life Course Energy Balance and Breast Cancer

Risk in Black/White Women under 50 Velie, Ellen

MDCH Research GLRI Biomonitoring Wirth, Julia

MDCH Research Climate change Wirth, Julia

NIH R01 Home-Based Symptom Management via Reflexology for Advanced Breast Cancer

Patients

Wyatt, Gwen; Sikorskii, Alla; Holmstrom, Amanda; Luo, Zhehui


FIGURE 4: BREAKDOWN OF RESEARCH FUNDS BY TYPE

Approximately 80% of our funding was derived from research projects, 8% was through Training Grants and 12% through Career Development Grants (Figure 4).

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FUNDING CATEGORIES

Training Career Development All Other Research


WE’RE A WISE INVESTMENT FOR MICHIGAN

$2,466,487 $390,480 $6,690,478 $7,183,609

GENERAL FUND

TUITION FROM OUT OF STATE STUDENTS

GRANT FUNDS BROUGHT INTO MICHIGAN*

TOTAL FUNDS BROUGHT TO MICHIGAN

Approximation based on student place of origin

Excludes funds paid to subcontractors outside of Michigan and grants from

Michigan-based funding sources

* Our department faculty participated as lead investigator or co-investigator in grants totaling this amount.


GRANTS SUPPORTING DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING OF FACULTY, STUDENTS & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

NIDA R25 James C. Anthony, PhD (PI) National Hispanic Science Network Early Stage Career Mentoring for NIDA Research (ESCM-NIDA) Supports 7 ESCM Fellows. NIDA D43 James C. Anthony, PhD (PI) NIDA Epidemiology Training Program: ICOHRTA This training grant links faculty and students of Michigan State University with those at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, with participation of faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health NIDA T32 James C. Anthony, PhD (PI) NIDA Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training - Michigan State University Supports 6 trainee positions—3 Predoctoral and 3 Postdoctoral Fellowships NIH K12 Claudia Holzman, DVM, MPH, PhD (PI) Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) at Michigan State University The BIRCWH program is designed to increase the number and diversity of investigators in women’s health. This award supports 75% effort of four MSU Assistant Professors. NIH T32 Nigel Paneth, MD MPH (PI) Training Program in Perinatal Epidemiology Supports 6 trainee positions—2 Predoctoral and 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships


STUDENTS & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

(JULY 2013 -JUNE 2014)

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Specialization inGlobal Public Healthand Epidemiology

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SERVICE, OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT BEYOND

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Our department faculty have been engaged in service to the profession and communities at-large. Examples include:

STUDY SECTIONS AND REVIEW PANELS

• NIH Directors Early Independence Award Final Evaluation Board (DP5 Mechanism) • IOM panel on Place of Birth • Review panel for all NICHD T32 training grants • Michigan Nutrition Network at the Michigan Fitness Foundation

o Review Panel for Award of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) Partner Projects

Professional Organizations; Administrative Role

• Executive Steering Committee, National Hispanic Science Network • Board of Directors of the Lansing Latino Health Alliance • Steering Committee, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section • Ingham County (MI) Board of Health • Program Chair-Elect, 2015, Section on Mental Health Statistics, ASA • Scientific Program Committee, International Federation on Psychiatric Epidemiology • Scientific Program Committee, World Psychiatric Association Section on Epidemiology & Public

Health • International Committee, College on Problems of Drug Dependence • American Stroke Association, Get With the Guidelines Executive Steering Committee • American Stroke Association, Get With the Guidelines- Database Committee • American Stroke Association, Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Scientific Sub-committee • Executive Planning Committee for the American Heart Association Quality Care, Outcomes and

Research (QCOR) meeting • VA Stroke QUERI (Quality Enhancement Research Initiative) Executive Committee Member • National Scientific Advisory Committee, March of Dimes Foundation


REVIEW AND ADVISORY BOARDS

• Reviewer, IOM report on design of the National Children’s Study • Reviewer, NIH/CSR Early Career Reviewer Program • MDCH Asthma Evaluation Committee (LOS) • MDCH Asthma Epidemiology and Surveillance Committee • Statistical Advisory Board, PLOS ONE • NIH/NIDA National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program Advisory Council • Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC), CMS • External Advisory Committee, University of Pennsylvania MPH Program • Scientific Advisory Board, Burroughs Welcome Fund Research Consortium on Preterm Birth • Scientific Advisory Panel for the Michigan Birth Defects Registry • National Advistory Board, NIH/NIDA National Diversity Scholars Mentoring Program

COMMUNITY EDUCATION

• Cancer prevention and nutrition lecture for Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church • The Michigan Bulletin, writing their monthly “Health Notices” section • Health, science and research seminars to The Middle School Girls Club at Shabazz Academy and the

Z Club at Everett High School • Division C Coordinator for the Disease Detectives event, Michigan Science Olympiad State

Tournament

CONSULTATIONS

• American Heart Association-Get With the Guidelines quality improvement programs • MSU Extension Health and Nutrition Institute

COMMITTEES

• CHM Cardiology Fellows • Mentorship Committee, Geisinger Health Systems • Data Safety Monitoring Committee, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. • Data Safety Monitoring Committee, Amgen, Inc. • PhD adjudication committee, Pal Suren, University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine • Program committee member, 2014 Uncertainty in AI Conference (UAI) • Board of Directors, Biomedical Sciences Career Program, Harvard Medical School • Priority Health (HMO), Technology Assessment Committee • Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology, Planning Committee Member, University of Michigan • International Conference on Aging in the Americas


EDITORIAL BOARDS

• Annals of Biometrics and Biostatistics, Editor-in-Chief • Developmental Medicine Children Neurology • Drug and Alcohol Dependence • Frontiers in Applied Genetic Epidemiology • Frontiers in Genetic Architecture • JAMA Psychiatry • Journal of Aging and Health • Journal of Statistics and Applications • Pediatric Research • Psychological Medicine • Substance Use and Misuse

WORKSHOPS

• Survival Analysis: Overview of Parametric, Nonparametric and Semiparametric approaches and New Developments. 2013. FDA/Industry Workshop

• Madonna University, Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health Workshop • Michigan Urban African American Aging Research, University of Michigan and Wayne State

University, 2013. • Ferris State University; NIH Area R15 Mechanism



FACULTY


FACULTY JAMES C. (Jim) ANTHONY, MSc, PhD / Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Winner of multiple awards for mentoring of new and early stage investigators, Jim also is recognized for high impact work in neuropsychiatry and the behavioral & social sciences at their intersections with epidemiology. His work yields increasingly definitive evidence on suspected hazards attributed to tobacco, alcohol, and internationally regulated drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, and the opioids, and their prevention. His work on Alzheimer's type and other dementias also is highly cited.

DAVID A. BARONDESS, PhD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Barondess’ research is centered on the intersection of drug dependence epidemiology and skeletal health and disease. A main interest is exploring ethnic disparities, gene-environment interactions, ageing, and socioeconomic factors vis-à-vis patterns of drug/polydrug use, including tobacco-alcohol exposures. This drug-drug combination focus underpins a longer-term research interest in the epidemiology of, and the variability in, patterns of adolescent growth and development.

NAOMI BRESLAU, PhD / Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Breslau is a highly cited psychiatric epidemiologist and Ph.D.-trained sociologist who makes major contributions and scientific advances in the epidemiological study of numerous psychiatric conditions and behavioral disturbances, most prominently post-traumatic stress disorder and tobacco dependence. She also has been an important contributor of epidemiological evidence on long-term effects of low birth weight, with respect to problem-solving capacities as disclosed by intelligence and other cognitive testing.

WENJIANG FU, PhD / Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Fu is a biostatistician with expertise in a wide range of statisitcal modeling and applications to biomedical research, computational and social sciences. He has been leading research to solve a long term unsetted age-period-cohort analysis of incidence and mortality rates of chronic diseases. His work in variable selection via the LASSO has been well recognized. He has developed numerous methods in genome research and has been granted a US patent in microarray technology.

JOSEPH C GARDINER, PhD / Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Gardiner has been a faculty member at MSU since 1978 where his primary research interests are in outcomes research, survival analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. He has published widely on methodological aspects of statistics as well as in many applied areas. Dr. Gardiner is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute and recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award from MSU in 2002.


HECTOR GONZÁLEZ, PhD / Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. González is a licensed clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist, and his scholarly works are informed by his clinical experiences and life as an ethnic minority in the United States. As such, his clinical research emphases are on neuropsychiatric disorders. His work has focused on Major Depressive Disorders and Neurocognitive Disorders (Alzheimer’s disease and dementias). He has also defined and extensively examined depression and cancer healthcare inequalities among African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians.

CLAUDIA HOLZMAN, DVM, MPH, PhD / Dept. Chair, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Holzman’s research focuses on pregnancy outcomes, women’s health, and health disparities. She is Principal Investigator (PI) of an NIH-funded, longitudinal study, the Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health (POUCH) Study, which began by enrolling 3,019 women at mid-pregnancy from 52 clinics in 5 Michigan communities. Dr. Holzman is also PI for a K-12 award, Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH), and co-investigator for a T-32 Perinatal Epidemiology training grant.

JEAN KERVER, PhD, MSc, RD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Kerver's primary research goals are to 1) understand the nutritional determinants of health using nutritional and epidemiologic methods and 2) find ways to translate that understanding into public health programming—with a special focus on maternal and child health. Dr. Kerver serves as the Lead Nutrition Scholar for MSU Extension where she provides epidemiologic expertise for statewide nutrition programming.

CHENXI LI, PhD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr Li's primary research works focus on statistical analysis of interval-censored failure time data and multivariate survival analysis including competing risks analysis, frailty models and multi-state models. His research interests also include quantile regression, longitudinal data analysis and statistical genetics. Beside methodological research in biostatistics, Dr Li has been collaborating with medical researchers at MSU in grant applications, data analyses and manuscript writing.

QING LU, PhD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Lu has been actively involved in statistical genetics research and training, and has two NIH-funded lines of research. One area of research is the development and application of new statistical methods for genetic association analysis (e.g., gene-gene interaction analysis). In parallel with this line of research, Dr. Lu has also developed statistical methods for designing and evaluating risk prediction models. In addition to his research, he is also involved in three NIH T32 programs as training faculty.


ZHEHUI LUO, MS, PhD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Luo joined the Department as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2009. With a Ph.D. in economics and an M.S. in statistics, Dr. Luo has extensive experience in epidemiological studies and health services research, collaborating with a broad range of investigators in a multidisciplinary environment. Her primary research interest is to develop new econometric and statistical methodologies for heterogeneous treatment effects in comparative effectiveness research with observational data.

CLAIRE MARGERISON-ZILKO, PhD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Claire Margerison-Zilko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Margerison-Zilko’s research examines the relationships between macro- and individual-level social and economic factors and maternal, infant, and child health. Her work focuses on understanding the determinants of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in perinatal and early life health, drawing on theory and methods from across disciplines.

JANET OSUCH, MD / Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Janet Rose Osuch (M.D., 1979, Michigan State University (MSU); M.S. 2000, MSU) is Professor of Surgery and Epidemiology at MSU and has served as Assistant Dean of Preclinical Curriculum in the College of Human Medicine since 2006. She currently practices breast cancer risk counseling and conducts research in environmental epidemiology. She is the author of several journal articles on breast cancer, topics in medical education, and the health effects of in utero DDE and PCB exposure.

DOROTHY PATHAK, PhD, MS / Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Pathak has been involved in epidemiologic and biostatistical research for the past 35 years. The principal focus of her research is breast cancer etiology and prevention. She is the PI of an NCI-funded international study of breast cancer in women of Polish ancestry evaluating contributions of nutritional exposures to breast cancer risk. She has published about the dual effect of pregnancy on breast cancer risk, the cross-over in breast cancer incidence for young Black and White women, as well as on the serotonergic mediation of estrogen-related physiology and pathology.

NIGEL PANETH, MD, MPH / Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Paneth studies childhood neurodevelopmental handicap in relation to exposures in pregnancy and the perinatal period. He leads a case-control study of cerebral palsy examining gene expression in archived newborn blood spots. He has assembled pregnancy cohorts in Michigan and Jamaica with archived biological material to examine early influences on disease or development. He teaches 3 courses – Introductory Epidemiology, Perinatal Epidemiology, and Research Proposal Development (EPI 935).


JAMES M. PIVARNIK, PhD / Professor of Kinesiology and Epidemiology and Biostatistics

James Pivarnik is a professor of Kinesiology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Physical Activity and Health. As an exercise physiologist and epidemiologist, he studies the exercise responses of females, particularly during pregnancy, and children, both healthy and those with chronic diseases. His focus is on the role of physical activity in reducing the risk factors for chronic disease development (e.g., cardiovascular disease) and morbidity and mortality

MAT REEVES, BVSc, PhD / Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mathew Reeves academic interest in chronic disease epidemiology stems from a desire to blend the quantitative aspects of epidemiology and biostatistics with practical aspects of disease prevention and public health. He has a broad range of research interests but his primary focus is on health services research in the area of hospital based acute stroke care. He teaches cardiovascular disease epidemiology to graduate students and Evidence-Based Medicine to first and second year medical students.

MAHDI SAEED, DVM, MPH, PhD / Prof Large Animal Sciences, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Mahdi Saeed is a professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases with a joint appointment in large-animal clinical sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology in the College of Human Medicine and the National Food Safety Center at Michigan State University. His main areas of research are the causes and prevention of food borne illnesses. Dr. Saeed designed and has been teaching LCS 830 (Public Health Impact of Foodborne Diseases), and EPI 813 (Outbreak Investigation) .

NICOLE TALGE, PhD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Nicole Talge is a developmental psychologist investigating links between pregnancy health and the development of childhood cognitive and socio-emotional problems. Her most recent efforts investigate the antecedents and consequences associated with global markers of gestational health (e.g., birth weight for gestational age; preterm birth). A major area of interest involves understanding the source(s) of variability in childhood behavioral outcomes following exposure to perinatal health risks.

DAVID TODEM, MSPH, PhD / Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr Todem’s current line of research in methods evolve around the following topics: 1) Models for longitudinal, clustered and functional data; 2) Inferential techniques for non-identifiable models in the context of non-random missing data paradigm; and 3)Testing procedures for evaluating mixture models. Primary applications are in the area of Alzheimer’s disease, Cancer, and Dental Caries research.


ELLEN VELIE, PhD, MPH / Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Velie obtained her BA from Harvard and Ph.D in Epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley. She was a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute before joining the faculty at MSU in 2000. Dr. Velie's research focuses on life course sociocultural and early life nutritional risk factors for obesity and breast cancer. She is the PI for a large $14 million NIH study entitled, ‘Life course course energy balance and breast cancer risk in young Black/White women' (YWHHS).

ELIZABETH (Betsy) WASILEVICH, PhD, MPH / Asst Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Wasilevich’s research examines health services for the diagnosis and management of chronic disease. Her work focuses on understanding the determinants of high quality and efficient health care during treatment, survivorship, and end of life periods for persons with cancer. She also leads studies to identify opportunities to improve clinical asthma management and emergency department care.

JULIE WIRTH, PhD / Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Wirth’s research has focused on the effects of exposure to environmental contaminants on male infertility and the modification of this relationship by common genetic variants. I’m also interested in the effects of these chemicals on neurodevelopmental problems such as autism. Another interest is how these chemicals affect development of the infant gut microbiome and early life development of allergies.

SPECIALISTS MADELEINE LENSKI, MS / Research

Madeleine Lenski has been a Research Specialist at MSU for over 15 years, as both study manager and PI for perinatal and cerebral palsy research studies, both international and domestic. These projects have largely focused on etiology and outcomes of very premature births and of cerebral palsy, including follow-up at preschool and school age.

JAMIL B. SCOTT, PhD, MPH / Research

Dr. Scott joined the faculty in 2013. Her primary research interests have centered on the potential diseases related to vitamin D deficiency, such as colorectal cancer, hypertension and adverse birth outcomes, especially among African-Americans. Completing her graduate work in cell and developmental biology, Dr. Scott takes a special interest in understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms of disease and how they can be used to inform disease outcomes on the population level.


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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS 2013-2014


FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Faculty names appear in bold print and are arranged alphabetically by first author. Undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows working closely with department faculty within the last 5 years are indicated by the following symbol *

1. Abdulla AA*, Arshad MM*, & Saeed AM.2014. Salmonella Enteritidis Flagella may Enhance Attachment and Invasion of Hen Ovarian Granulosa Cells and Induce Protective Immune Response in Egg-laying Hens. British Microbiology Research Journal. 2014. Vol:4. No.4. pp: 418-427. Original research.

2. Abdulla AA*, Thikra A, Abed TA, & Saeed AM. 2014. Adhesion, Autoaggregation and

Hydrophobicity of Six Lactobacillus Strains. British Microbiology Research Journal. 4 (4). 381-391. Original research.

3. Ahern J, Margerison-Zilko CE, Hubbard A, & Galea S. 2013. Alcohol outlets and binge

drinking in urban neighborhoods: the implications of non-linearity for intervention and policy. American Journal of Public Health. 103(4):e81-7.

4. Ahmedani BK, Kubiak SP, Kessler RC, de Graaf R, Alonso J, Bruffaerts R, Zarkov Z, Viana

MC, Huang YQ, Hu C, Posada-Villa JA, Lepine JP, Angermeyer MC, de Girolamo G, Karam AN, Medina-Mora ME, Gureje O, Ferry F, Sagar R, & Anthony JC. Embarrassment when illness strikes a close relative: a World Mental Health Survey Consortium Multi-Site Study. Psychol Med. 2013 Jan 9; 1-12. [Epub ahead of print]PubMed PMID: 23298443.

5. Anthony JC. Understanding Psychiatric Comorbidities and Addictions. Chapter 4 in The

Wiley- Blackwell Handbook of Addiction Psychopharmacology (eds J. MacKillop and H. de Wit), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. 2013.

6. Anthony JC, Barondess DA, Radovanovic M, & Lopez-Quintero C*. Polydrug Use:

Research Topics and Issues. The Oxford Handbook of Substance Use Disorders, Volume 2. Oxford University Press. 2013; (invited chapter).

7. Arshad MM*, & Saeed AM. Antimicrobial Resistance among Salmonella Enteritidis Isolates

from Egg lying Flocks in the United States. IJAPR. 2013; Vol.1 pp: 1-6. Original Research.

8. Austin PC, & Reeves MJ. Effect of provider volume on the accuracy of hospital report cards: a Monte Carlo study. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2014 Mar;7(2):299-305.

9. Austin PC, & Reeves MJ. The relationship between the C-statistic of a risk-adjustment model and the accuracy of hospital report cards: a Monte Carlo Study. Med Care. 2013 Mar; 51(3):275-84.


10. Austin PC, & Reeves MJ. In response. The relationship between the C-statistic of a risk-adjustment model and the accuracy of hospital report cards: a Monte Carlo Study Med Care. 2013 Jul; 51(7):633-5.

11. Bauer PW, Pivarnik JM, Feltz DL, Paneth N, & Womack CJ. Relationship of past

pregnancy physical activity and self-efficacy on current physical activity and postpartum weight retention. Am J Lifestyle Med 8: 68-73, 2014.

12. Belanger K, Buka S, Cherry DC, Dudley DJ, Elliott MR, Hale DE, Hertz-Picciotto I, Illuzzi JL,

Paneth N, Robbins JM, Triche EW, & Bracken MB. Implementing provider-based sampling for the National Children's Study: opportunities and challenges. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2013 Jan; 27(1):20-6.

13. Bonner JD, Fisher R, Klein J, Lu Q, Wilch E, Friderici KH, Elfenbein JL, Schutte DL, &

Schutte BC. Pedigree structure and kinship measurements of a mid-Michigan community: A new North American Population Isolate Identified. Human Biology (Accepted).

14. Bozoki A, Radovanovic M, Winn B, Heeter C, & Anthony JC. Effects of a computer-based

cognitive exercise program on age-related cognitive decline. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2013 Jul-Aug; 57(1): 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2013.02.009. Epub 2013 Mar 29. PubMed PMID: 23542053.

15. Bracken MB, Baker D, Cauley JA, …… Paneth N, ….., & Wyatt S. New models for large

prospective studies: is there a risk of throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Am J Epidemiol. 2013 Feb 15; 177(4):285-9.

16. Bracken MB, Hertz-Picciotto I, Elliott MR, Dudley DJ, Buka S, Robbins JM, & Paneth N.

Response to Professor Olsen's commentary on 'random sampling - is it worth it?'. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2013 Jan; 27(1):29-30.

17. Breslau N; Chen Q, Luo ZH. The Role of Intelligence in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder:

Does it Vary by Trauma Severity? PLOS ONE. 2013; 8(6): Article Number: e65391 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065391.

18. Breslau N, Koenen KC, Luo Z, Agnew-Blais J, Swanson SA, Houts RM, Poulton R, & Moffitt

TE. (2014) Childhood maltreatment, juvenile disorders and adult posttraumatic stress disorder: a prospective investigation. Psychological Medicine.

19. Breslau N, & Schultz L. Neuroticism and post-traumatic stress disorder: a prospective

investigation. 2013. Psychological Medicine. 43: 1697-1702.

20. Breslau N. The role of trauma in drug use disorders. Addiction. 2013; 108(4): 669-670. DOI: 10.1111/add.12025.

21. Breslau N, Troost JP*, Bohnert K*, & Luo, Z. Influence of predispositions on post-

traumatic stress disorder: does it vary by trauma severity? Psychological Medicine. 2013; 43(2): 381-390. DOI: 10.1017/S0033291712001195.

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