Jeffrey M. Albert
Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1990; M.S., 1986, University of Michigan. Longitudinal data analysis; design and analysis of randomized trials; mediation analysis; causal inference.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-37
Phone: (216) 368-1968
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Elaine A. Borawski
Professor, Angela Bowen Williamson Professor in Community Nutrition.  PI and Director, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods. Ph.D., 1992; M.A., 1989, Case Western Reserve University; MA, University of South Florida, 1983. Health behavior interventions (HIV prevention, physical activity, tobacco prevention and control); adolescent health (teen pregnancy prevention); survey methodology; health status measurement; outcome-based community evaluations.
Location: 4th Floor, Bioenterprise Building, 11000 Cedar Avenue (Between MLK and Stokes/Fairhill)
Phone: (216) 368-1024
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Sara M. Debanne
Professor. Ph.D., 1976; M.S., 1972, Case Western Reserve University; Lic., Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1969. Statistical modeling; spread of tuberculosis in the community; Alzheimer's disease.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-51
Phone: (216) 368-3895
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Robert C. Elston, Department Chair, Amasa B. Ford, MD Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Distinguished University Professor
Professor and Chair. Ph.D., Cornell University, 1959; MA, Cambridge University, 1956. Development of statistical measures for analyzing family and pedigree data for the identification of genes that cause disease, implementing them in computer programs, and applying them in collaborative research with others who collect family data.
Location: Wolstein Research Building, 1304
Phone: (216) 368-5630
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Jinbo Fan

Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2003, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. Research interests include: Genetic and molecular mechanisms that underlie serious mental illness with a primary focus on bipolar disorder; Meta-analysis; High-throughput DNA sequencing; Medical comorbidities; Pharmacogenomics.
Location: Wolstein Research BLDG, Rm. 1314
Phone: (216) 368-3196
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Scott H. Frank
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine; Director of Health, City of Shaker Heights, Ohio. Research areas include behavior change, smoking cessation, substance abuse, clinical assessment of stress and the role of spirituality and religion in the medical setting.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-74
Phone: (216) 368-3725
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Pingfu Fu
Associate Professor. Ph.D., 2001, Case Western Reserve University.
Research interests: Survival analysis, design and data analysis of clinical trials.
Location: Case School of Medicine, BRB-G19
Phone: (216) 368-3911
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Rob Igo
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Utah, 1997; M.S., University of Washington, 2005. Dr. Igo is currently working on developing statistical methods for genetic linkage and association analysis, and is involved in collaborative projects searching for genetic determinants of complex diseases, including Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy, diabetic nephropathy, age-related macular degeneration and abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Location: Wolstein Research Building, 1302
Phone: (216) 368-4562
E-mail: rpi(at)case.edu

 

Sudha Iyengar
Professor. Ph.D., 1992; M.S., 1988, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Iyengar is currently working on studies involving age-related macular degeneration, age-related cataract, Fuchs' dystrophy, diabetic and non-diabetic nephropathy and speech sound disorder. Dr. Iyengar is a member of several large consortia to map genes for complex traits such as diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy and sarcoidosis.
Location: Wolstein Research Building, 1315
Phone: (216) 368-5636
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Paul K. Jones
Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1972; M.S., 1969, University of Iowa. Linear and generalized linear models; quantitative models for studies in health care/health services research.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-49
Phone: (216) 368-3893
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Siran M. Koroukian
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2002; M.H.A., Cornell University, 1987; M.S. Nursing, Universite St. Joseph, 1986; B.S. Nursing (Licence en Soins Infirmiers), Universite St. Joseph, 1982. Research interests include methodological issues in the use of large databases in health services research; Medicare and Medicaid programs; Health Disparities.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-49
Phone: (216) 368-5816
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Sana Loue
Professor; Director of the Center for Minority Public Health. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2004; Ph.D., UCLA School of Public Health, 1993; M.P.H., San Diego State University, 1988; J.D., University of San Diego, 1980; MA University of West Florida, 1976. Immigration law and health; HIV in underserved populations; ethics in research; the impact of HIV on the family; ethics and needle exchange programs; forensic epidemiology; public health and the law.
Location: School of Medicine, WG74
Phone: (216) 368-3743
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Nathan Morris
Instructor. Ph.D., 2009, Case Western Reserve University; M.S., 2004, University of Akron. Statistical Genetics; Structural Equation Models; Genetic Linkage Analysis; Multivariate Analysis.
Location: Wolstein Research Building, 1303
Phone: (216) 368-5634
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Duncan V. Neuhauser
Professor. Professor of Medicine. Professor of Family Medicine. Professor of Organizational Behavior. Keck Foundation Senior Research Scholar. Co-Director, Health Systems Management Center. The Charles Elton Blanchard, M.D. Professor of Health Management. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971; M.B.A., 1966; M.H.A., 1963, University of Michigan. Clinical decision analysis; health services research; medical technology assessment; continuous quality improvement.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-49B
Phone: (216) 368-3726
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Nora Nock
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2005;
Location: Wolstein Research Building, 1301
Phone: (216) 368-5653
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Ralph O’Brien

Professor; Director, MS Program in Biostatistics; PhD (Psychometrics) 1975, U. North Carolina; MS (Operations Research) 1972 UNC, BA (Math & Econ) Claremont McKenna College. Education in statistical science (http://stattrak.amstat.org/2010/10/01/csspart1/), sample-size analysis for study planning, direct inference requiring only a touch of Bayes. Fellow, American Statistical Association.
Location: WG 37-D
Phone: (216) 368-1927
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Tomas Radivoyevitch
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina, 1996; M.S., Case Western Reserve University, 1992. Interests: Leukemia. In leukemogenesis these interests range from biophysical models of misrejoining DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) to epidemiological analyses of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors. In leukemia therapy these interests are in biochemical system analyses of DNA microarray data.
Location: Case School of Medicine, BRB-G19
Phone: (216) 368-1965
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Alfred A. Rimm
Professor. Ph.D., Rutgers University. 1963. Ecological studies of cancer incidence; effectiveness studies in Medicare patients; black-white disparity in quality and access to health care; studies of obesity in women; utilization of large databases to study the U.S. health care system.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-49
Phone: (216) 368-2600
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Abdus Sattar
Assistant Professor. Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.
Research Interests: Longitudinal and Survival Data analysis.
Location: Case School of Medicine, BRB-G19
Phone: (216) 368-1501
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Mark Schluchter
Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1982
Research Interests: Design and analysis of clinical trials, analysis of longitudinal and incomplete data Location: Case School of Medicine, BRB G-19
Phone: (216) 368-2651
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Mendel E. Singer
Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1991; M.S., 1984, Case Western Reserve University. Methodologic interests include community health interventions, cost-effectiveness analysis, large databases and quality of life. Content areas of special interest include obesity, infectious disease, and mental health.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-51
Phone: (216) 368-1951
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Kathleen A. Smyth
Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1984, MA, 1973, Case Western Reserve University. Effects of dementia disease characteristics and care giving requirements on care giver burden, quality of life, and resource use; use of computer mediated communication in the provision of health and social services.
Location: University Memory and Aging Center, Fairhill Center for Aging
Phone: (216) 368-7579
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Catherine M. Stein
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2004.
In general, my research focuses on complex genetic disorders. Specifically, I am interested in multivariate statistical methods and study designs for gene mapping. I am currently involved in studies of tuberculosis, HIV, and speech-sound disorder.
Location: Wolstein Research Building, 1316
Phone: (216) 368-5631
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Jiayang Sun
Professor; Director, Center of Statistical Research, Computing and Collaboration. Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989.
Simultaneous inference & Multiple testing; Biased sampling & Measurement errors; Mixtures & Imaging; Bioinformatics, Data mining, Longitudinal & High-dimensional data; Statistical computing; Semiparametric & Random fields. Others: cancer, astronomy, computer science, law, neuroscience, and surgery.
Location: Case School of Medicine, Wood Building WG-43
Phone: (216) 368-0630
E-mail: jsun at case edu

 

Daniel J. Tisch
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2004; M.P.H., University of Michigan, 2000.
Epidemiology of lymphatic filariasis, malaria, and schistosomiasis. Meta-analysis and mathematical modeling of parasite control strategies. Evaluation of integrated parasite control programs.
Location: Case School of Medicine, WG-37C
Phone: (216) 368-0875
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Erika S. Trapl
Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2007.
Health behavior measurement and surveillance; Survey-based data collection methods and technology; Built environment and obesity; Adolescent sexual behavior; Health literacy; Community-based Interventions.
Location: BioEnterprise Building, 4th Floor
Phone: (216) 368-0098
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Xiaofeng Zhu
Professor. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1998;
Research interests include: Genetic mapping studies of hypertension, obesity; development of statistical methods for association studies avoiding the effect of population stratification; admixture mapping.
Location: Wolstein Research Building, 1317
Phone: (216) 368-0201
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