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The
Semel Institute Biostatistics Core (SIStat) is a team of expert biostatisticians,
methodologists and research support staff. The mission of the
Core is to foster
research productivity and quality by helping faculty design sound
research projects, obtain independent funding, and analyze data
correctly. Grant development services such as design and statistical consultation, power analysis, and analyses of pilot data are available to Semel Institute and all UCLA faculty without charge.
Continuing Core services to funded projects and programs are negotiated on a case by case basis. The Core provides investigators from fully-affiliated projects and their statistical staff access to SIStat consultation, data analysis and programming services, up to one year post-funding support for final, "clean-up" data analyses, and permanent archiving of data. SIStat also offers fee-based consulting and data analysis to Semel Institute and all UCLA faculty. From time to time, faculty of the Core also provides education in statistics and research methods to interested faculty, staff and students.
SIStat services are available to:
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Junior faculty who do not have research funding. |
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Any faculty member preparing an application for extramural
grant support. |
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Extramurally funded faculty who want ongoing, fee-based
statistical support for their project(s). |
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Students at all levels enrolled in educational programs
in the Semel Institute. |
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| CENTER
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Senior Research
Scientists |
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Catherine Sugar, Ph.D.
Director
Email:csugar@ucla.edu
Catherine Sugar, Ph.D. is an associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics
and the Director of the Semel Institute Statistics Core (SIStat) in the
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received
her Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1998. Dr. Sugar's methodological
expertise is in clustering, classification, and functional data analysis with
an emphasis on finding patterns in high-dimensional or longitudinal data. She
has also been involved in numerous applied projects in the mental health arena,
particularly in schizophrenia and depression. This work has focused on identifying
patterns of symptoms or functioning in patient populations and exploring how
those patterns evolve over time in response to treatments or other stimuli. |
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Jim
Mintz, Ph.D.
Emeritus director
Email:jmintz@ucla.edu
Dr. Jim Mintz, Professor in UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry, has
been a clinical research methodologist for over 35 years. He received
a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1969 at NYU under the mentorship of Jacob
(“Jack”) Cohen. During the next decade at University of Pennsylvania’s
Department of Psychiatry he established an international reputation as
a psychotherapy and substance abuse researcher. Dr. Mintz moved to UCLA
in 1979, and for almost two decades headed the Methodology and Statistical
Support Unit in the UCLA Center for the Study of Psychosis...
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Affiliated Senior Research Scientists |
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Thomas R.
Belin, Ph.D.
Professor
Email:tbelin@mednet.ucla.edu
Thomas R. Belin, Ph.D., is a Professor jointly affiliated
with the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of
Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He has pursued research
interests in handling missing data, particularly in mental
health services settings, through two research awards funded
by the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Belin earned
his doctorate in Statistics from Harvard in 1991.
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Gang Li, Ph.D.
Professor
Email:vli@ucla.edu
Dr. Gang Li is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California,
Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in statistics from Florida State University
in 1992. His research interests include survival analysis, longitudinal
data analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, ROC analysis,
resampling methods, pharmaceutical statistics, and statistical methods
and applications in clinical trials, biomedical imaging,
cancer research, and ophthalmology. |
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Lynn Fairbanks, Ph.D.
Professor in Rsdn
Email:lfairbanks@mednet.ucla.edu
Dr. Lynn Fairbanks is a Professor of Psychiatry and
Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Semel Institute Center for Primate
Neuroethology. She
received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Washington in 1974
and joined the research faculty of UCLA in 1975. For the past 30 years
she has served as a statistical consultant for the adult division of the
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, resulting in more
than 100 peer-reviewed articles with UCLA faculty, residents and trainees.
Dr. Fairbanks’ expertise is in assisting trainees and young faculty
with research design, statistical analysis, interpretation and presentation
of results. |
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Damla Senturk, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Email: dsenturk@ucla.edu
Damla Senturk, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from University of California Davis in 2004. Dr. Senturk's main methodological research areas are regression model building for repeated measures/ longitudinal data, functional data analysis and semiparametric covariate and error adjustments in regression and correlation models with applications to biomedical data. She works on modeling trends in data that are changing over time and explore dynamical regression relations between variables. Some of her applied work include modeling of molecular inflammation markers, infection status and cardiovascular events in the dialysis population, risk factors for hypertension, genomic markers of disease outcome and association of molecular measures in female carriers of the FMR1 (fragile X mental retardation 1) gene. |
Programming Group |
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Stone
Shih
Programming Group Leader/Web Specialist
Email:kshih@mednet.ucla.edu
Stone Shih is an experienced web developer and designer. Stone gained
his B.A. degree in Fine Arts and has 13 years of working experience in graphic
design and 11 years in web design and application development. He particularly
focuses on web-based Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution for research
studies. The primary aims of development are to develop real-time management
reporting and analysis applications with an intuitive, workflow-based
graphical user interface and to integrate the works of project management,
data collection and analysis in one central station.
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Alan Liang
Programmer/Analyst
Email:alanliang@mednet.ucla.edu
Alan Liang, a software developer and system analyst/administrator,
has dedicated himself to the computer science field for 25 years. He
received his master’s degrees from National
Taiwan University in 1996 and from the University of Southern California
in 2000. During 2000 to 2005 he built up 5 major software product-lines
and successfully consulted many customers upgrade from traditional
biz services to electronic business and helped increase their
profit making capability.
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Susan Oh, M.P.H
Statistician/Programmer
Email:sjoh@mednet.ucla.edu
Susan Oh received her bachelor’s degree in computer
science from Ewha Women University in 1992 and master’s degree in
biostatistics from UCLA in 1995. With her strong data management experience,
she devotes herself to developing systems and handling data. |
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Catherine Sun
Staff Research Associate
Email:csun@mednet.ucla.edu
Catherine Sun has 13 years of experience in many large
web
development
projects.
She is able to provide innovative solutions to maintain high
creative standards throughout the project lifecycle: strategy, brief, concept,
design, development, testing and documentation. Her knowledge of web design concept
and creativity ensures the designs that stand up to heavy traffic and actively
fulfill the purpose of the site. |
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