Graduates
Before formally established as the COBE, members of our group served as advisors or committee members for students whose thesis or dissertation topics were related to occupational or environmental health. Most of these students served as graduate student researchers in our group. The following list includes such students who graduated from the Graduate School of Public Health from 1990 to the present:
Year | Student | Degree | Title |
1992 | Jing Xu | M.S. | Reanalysis of Respiratory System Cancer mortality at a copper smelter |
1994 | Kyung Yul Lee | Ph.D. | Methods for assessing the adequacy of the Cox model with time dependent covariates |
1994 | Laura Cassidy Schall | M.S. | A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of a bladder cancer screening program |
1996 | Ada Owens Youk | Ph.D. | Iterative allocation of partially classified data in occupational epidemiologic studies |
1997 | Leslie Ann Wayne | M.S. | A reanalysis of the NAIMA rock wool and slag wool cohort study using job-based classifications of exposure |
2000 | Richard Mierzejewski | M.S. | An analysis of the health outcomes and survey results of the Drake screening participants |
2000 | Laura Cassidy Schall | Ph.D. (Epid) | Predicting levels of compliance in a bladder cancer screening program for occupationally exposed workers |
2001 | Christine Krol Gause | Ph.D. | Methods for combining covariate data obtained by multiple sampling schemes in occupational cohort studies |
2003 | Jennifer Lynn Barkin | M.S. | An empirical evaluation of how odds ratios estimated from nested case-control studies are affected by the algorithm used to select matched controls |
2004 | Weilian Sang | M.S. | Empirical comparison of US Census Bureau population estimates used in the Mortality and Population Data System of the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biostatistics |
2005 | Rosemarie Ramos | Ph.D. (Epid) | Adult Asthma: The Novel Use of Public Health Methods to Investigate the Prevalence of Environmental Risk Factors |
2006 | Michael Cunningham | M.S. | Reanalysis of the National Cancer Institute’s Acrylonitrile cohort study by imputation of missing smoking information /td> |
2006 | Adina Soiata | Dr.PH. | GEE models for the longitudinal analysis of the effects of occupational radiation exposure on the lymphocyte counts in Russian nuclear workers |
2009 | Hui Xu | M.S. | Evaluation of non-response in a case-control study of brain cancer among jet engine manufacturing workers |
2013 | Sarah Downing Zimmerman | M.S. | Evaluation of lung cancer risk in relation to acrylonitrile exposure with control for potential confounding by smoking via Monte Carlo simulation |
2013 | Yimeng Liu | M.S. | Review and comparison of statistical methods for analyzing data sets containing variables with detection limits |
2013 | Fangfang Chen | M.S. | Evaluation of mortality rates from polycythemia vera in several PA counties. |