Associate Prof. Evrim ORAL

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program

EDUCATION:

Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics: Hacettepe University, June 2002.      

Dissertation Title: Stochastic and Nonstochastic Covariates in Binary Regression.

Advisor: Moti Lal Tiku, PhD. McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

Master of Science in Statistics: Hacettepe University, September 1998.

Thesis Title: Comparing Estimators Using Pitman’s Measure of Closeness.

Advisor: Suleyman Gunay, PhD. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

Bachelor of Science in Statistics: Hacettepe University, June 1995.

 (Summa cum laude)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & EMPLOYMENT:

Associate Professor (with Tenure): 07/2018-Present

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, New Orleans, LA.

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track): 08/2012-06/2018

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, New Orleans, LA.

Assistant Professor (Research-Track): 08/2008-08/2012

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, New Orleans, LA.

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track): 08/2006-08/2008

Middle East Technical University, Department of Statistics, Ankara-Turkey.

Visiting Scholar: 09/2004-02/2006

University of Washington Department of Biostatistics, Seattle, WA.

Visiting Scholar: 09/2004-09/2005

University of Washington, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, WA.

Instructor: 05/2003-08/2006

Middle East Technical University, Department of Statistics, Ankara-Turkey. 

Research Assistant: 02/1996-05/2003

Hacettepe University, Department of Statistics, Ankara-Turkey.

PUBLICATIONS:

Book Chapters

1. Oral E., 2007, Recent Developments in Robust Statistical Methods in "Recent Advances in Statistics", Turkish Statistical Institute Press, Chapter 12, pp. 151-166. ISBN: 978-975-01606-0-8. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles (* indicates Advisor/Corresponding Author)

2. Oral E. and Danos D., 2018, Modeling Binary Regression with Stochastic Covariates. To appear in: Communication in Statistics-Theory and Methods.

3. Spiers S., Oral E.*, Fontham, E., Peters E.S., Mohler J.L., Bensen J.T., and Brennan C., 2018, Modelling Attrition and Nonparticipation in a Longitudinal Study of Prostate Cancer. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 18:60 DOI: 10.1186/s 12874-018-0518-6

4. Rung A.L., Oral E., Fontham E., Harrington D.J., Trapido E.J. and Peters E.S., 2017, The Long-term Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Women’s Depression and Mental Distress. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2018.14.

5. Sullivan S.M., Peters E.S., Trapido E.J., Oral E., Scribner, R. and Rung, A.L., 2017, Neighborhood Environment Measurements and Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity: Results from the Women and their Children’s Health (WaTCH) Study. Environment and Behavior. DOI: 10.1177/0013916517726827.

6. Ardah I.H. and Oral E*. 2017, Model Selection in Randomized Response Techniques for Binary Responses, Communication in Statistics-Theory and Methods. DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2017.1353626.

7. Peters E.S., Rung, A.L., Bronson, M.H., Brashear, M.M., Peres, L.C., Gaston S., Sullivan S.M., Peak, K. Abramson, D.M., Fontham, T.H., Harrington, D., Oral E. and Trapido E.J., 2017, The Women and Their Children’s Health (WaTCH) Study: Methods and Design of a Population-based Cohort Study to Examine the Health Effects from the BP Oil Spill, BMJ Open. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014887.

8. Oral E., 2017, Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Poisson Regression, Biom Biostat Int J 6(1): 00154. DOI:10.15406/bbij.2017.06.00154.

9. Oral E., Simonsen N., Brennan C., Berken, J., Mohler J.L., Bensen J.T., Mishel M. and Fontham, E., 2016, Unit Nonresponse in a Population-Based Study of Prostate Cancer,  PLoS ONE 11(2): e0168364. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0168364.

10. Sullivan S.M., Peters E.S., Trapido E.J., Oral E., Scribner, R. and Rung, A.L., 2016, Assessing Mediation of Behavioral and Stress Pathways in the Association between Neighborhood Environments and Obesity Outcomes, Preventive Medicine Reports, (4) 248-255.

11. Rung A.L., Gaston S., Oral E., Robinson W.T.,  Fontham, E., Harrington, D.J., Trapido, E.J. and Peters E.S., 2016, Depression, Mental Distress and Domestic Conflict among Louisiana Women Exposed to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Women and Their Children’s Health Study, Environmental Health Prespectives, DOI:10.1289/EHP167.

12. Peres, L. C., Trapido, E. J., Rung A.L., Harrington D. J, Oral E., Fang, Z., Fontham, E. T. and Peters E. S., 2016, The Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Physical Health Among Adult Women in Southern Louisiana, Environmental Health Perspectives, DOI:10.1289/ehp.1510348.

13. Krishnamoorthy K. and Oral E., 2015, Standardized Likelihood Ratio Test for Comparing Several Log-normal Means and Confidence Interval for the Common Mean, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, DOI: 10.1177/0962280215615160.

14. Rung A. L., Oral E. Fontham E., Harrington D. J., Trapido E.J. and Peters E. S., 2015, Mental Health Impact of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Among Wives of Clean-up Workers, Epidemiology, 26(4), e44-e46.

15. Oral E. and Oral E., 2012, Analyzing High Frequency Financial Data and Modeling Volatility Using GARCH Models with Normal and Stable Paretian Distributions: An Example from an Emerging Market, International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 93, 56-66.

16. Brennan C., Oral E., Fontham E., Mohler J. L., Bensen J. T., Mishel M., and Simonsen N., 2012, The Differences in Quality of Life in Prostate Cancer Project: Methods and Design of a Multidisciplinary Population-Based Follow-up Study, American Medical Journal, 3(2), 104-114.

17. Oral E., 2012, Robust Estimation in Non-normal Samples with Known Detection Limits, International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 12(2), 16-37.

18. Oral E. and Kadilar C., 2011, Robust Ratio-type Estimators in Simple Random Sampling, Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 40(4), 457-467.

19. Oral E. and Oral E., 2011, A Robust Alternative to the Ratio Estimator under Non-normality, Statistics and Probability Letters, 81(8), 930-936.

20. Oral E. and Kadilar C., 2011, Improved Ratio Estimators via Modified Maximum Likelihood, Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 27(3), 269-282.

21. Hanna E. B., Glancy D. L. and Oral E., 2010, Sensitivity and Specificity of Frequently Used Electrocardiographic Criteria for Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Patients with Anterior Wall Myocardial Infarction, Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent), 23(1), 15-18.

22. Oral E., 2006, Binary Regression with Stochastic Covariates, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 35(8), 1429-1447.

23. Troen A. M., Mitchell B., Sorensen B., Wener, M., Johnston A., Wood B., Selhub J., McTiernan A., Yasui Y., Oral E., Potter J. D. and Ulrich C. M., 2006, Unmetabolized Folic Acid in Plasma Is Associated with Reduced Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity among Postmenopausal Women, Journal of Nutrition, 136(1), 189-194.

24. Oral E. and Gunay S., 2004, Stochastic Covariates in Binary Regression, Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 33, 97-109.

25. Erk G., Oral E. and Gogus N., 2001, The Comparison of Anesthesia Induction, Maintenance, Recovery and Cognitive Functions in Geriatric Patients during Midazolam-fentanly and Sevoflurane Anesthesia, Journal of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Selcuk, 17, 7-15.

Proceedings Articles (Non peer-reviewed)

26. Oral E., and Ardah H. I., 2015, A Two-Stage Sampling Model for the Estimation of Population Proportion and Cheating with Randomized Response and Direct Questioning, In: JSM Proceedings, Survey Research Methods Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 2598-2605.

27. Danos M.D., Oral E.*, Simonsen N., and Fontham E., 2012, Lung Cancer Risk Prediction with Stochastic Covariates, In JSM Proceedings, Biometrics Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 34-41.

28. Oral E., 2011, Parameter Estimation in Generalized Linear Models through Modified Maximum Likelihood, International Statistical Institute: Proc. 58^th World Statistical Congress, 4632-4637.

29. Oral E. and Oral E., 2011, Volatility of High-frequency Returns on Foreign Exchange and Stable Innovations, Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute.

30. Oral E., 2011, Non-normal Type-I Censored Samples in Logistic Regression, In JSM Proceedings, Biometrics Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 1944-1952.

31. Oral E., 2010, Improving Efficiency of Ratio-Type Estimators through Order Statistics, In JSM Proceedings, Section on Survey Research Methods. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 4231-4239.

32. Oral E., 2009, Estimation in Logistic Regression Models with Bivariate Stochastic Covariates, Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute.

33. Oral E., 2006, Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Proportional Odds Model, 2006 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 307-314.

34. Oral E., 2005, Parameter Estimation in Poisson Regression via Modified Maximum Likelihood Method, 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 347-355.

35. Oral E., 2003, Nonlinear Relationship in Binary Regression, Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, 60 (2) 196-197.

36. Oral E. and Gunay S., 1998, Comparing Estimators via Pitman’s Measure of Closeness, Proceedings of Research Symposium’98 of State Institute of Statistics, Prime Ministry Republic of Turkey, 167-176.

37. Oral E. and Gunay S., 1998, Pitman’s Measure of Closeness, Proceedings of the Statistics Conference held by Gazi University, 69-83.

Published Abstracts (Peer Reviewed)

38. Spiers, S. and Oral E.*, 2017, Limits of Propensity Score Weighting Adjustment for Unit Nonresponse, Annals of Epidemiology, 27(8): 526.

39. Lilje C., Cardinale J.P., Cronan J., Kashyap L., , Clesi P., Oral E., Gomez R.,Hempe J., Chalew, S., 2015, Femoral and aortic intima-media thickness but not carotid or brachial intima-media thickness are abnormal in children with type 1 diabetes. Cardiology, 131: 179-179.

40. Lilje C., Cronan J.C., Leone K., Oral E., Patel, S., 2015, Morphologic severity does not predict myocardial contractile function in pediatric noncompaction cardiomyopathy, Cardiology 131: 42-42.

Selected Presentations at Professional Meetings

Oral E. and Spiers L.S., 2018, Utilizing the Best Link Function in Propensity Score Weighting Adjustment. International Total Survey Error Workshop, June, Durham, NC.

Oral E. and Spiers L.S., 2017, Drawbacks of Utilizing the Logit Link in Propensity Score Weighting Adjustment. International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research, October, Normal, IL.

Oral E. and Ardah H.I., 2016, A New Two-Stage Sampling Design for Sensitive Questions through Randomized Response Technique and Direct Questioning. The 2016 International Indian Statistical Association Conference on Statistics, August, Corvallis, OR. (INVITED)

Danos D. and Oral E.*, 2015, Inference in Binary Regression with Stochastic Covariates. 2015 Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference: Statistics, November, Lafayette, LA.

Ardah H.I. and Oral E.*, 2015, Improving the Efficiency of Randomized Response Techniques by a Two-Stage Model for Binary Responses. 2015 Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference: Statistics, November, Lafayette, LA.

Oral E., Ardah H.I. and Trapido, E.J., 2015, A Two-Stage Sampling Model for the Estimation of Population Proportion and Cheating with Randomized Response and Direct Questioning. The 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings, August, Seattle, WA.

Simonsen, N., Oral E. Brennan C. S., Berken J., Hayden J. and Fontham, E. T. H., 2012, Challenges in Surveying Elderly African-American Men. International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard to Reach Populations, November, New Orleans, LA.

Oral E., and Kadilar C., 2012, Robust Estimation in Survey Sampling via Modified Maximum Likelihood Methodology. The International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, October, Greensboro, NC. (INVITED)

Leonardi, C., Oral E.* and Robinson W. T., 2012, Mean and Sensitivity Estimation Using an Alternative Randomized Response Method. The International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, October, Greensboro, NC.

Oral E., 2012, Stochastic and Nonstochastic Explanatory Variables in Generalized Linear Models. The 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings, August, San Diego, CA.

Danos M.D., Simonsen N., Fontham E. and Oral E.*, 2012, Lung Cancer Risk Prediction with Stochastic Covariates. The 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings, August, San Diego, CA.

Korez M. K., Oral E., Akdogan Y. and Kus C., 2012, Simulation Study for Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimators in Poisson Regression. The 25^th European Conference on Operational Research, July, Vilnius-Lithuania.

Akdogan Y., Oral E., Korez M. K. and Kus C., 2012, Simulation Study for the Comparison of Maximum Likelihood and Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimators in Logistic Regression. The 25^th European Conference on Operational Research, July, Vilnius-Lithuania.

Oral E., 2012, Estimation in Binary and Linear Regression Models with a Stochastic Predictor Variable. Louisiana American Statistical Association Chapter Spring 2012 Meeting, April, New Orleans, LA.

Oral E., Thompson H. and Farris H., 2011, Analytic Problems in Two Photon Microscopy Data. International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research, December, Portland, OR. (INVITED)

Oral E., 2011, Robust Estimation in Simple Random Sampling. 2011 Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference, November, Lafayette, LA.

Oral E., 2011, Parameter Estimation in Generalized Linear Models through Modified Maximum Likelihood. The 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, August, Dublin-Ireland.

Oral E. and Oral E., 2011, Volatility of High-frequency Returns on Foreign Exchange and Stable Innovations. The 58th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, August, Dublin-Ireland.

Oral E., 2011, Non-normal Type-I Censored Samples in Logistic Regression. The 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings, August, Miami, FL.

Oral E., 2010, Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimators for Left Censored Bivariate Data under Non-normality. The XXVth International Biometric Conference, December, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina-Brazil.

Oral E., 2010, Improving Efficiency of Survey Sampling Procedures through Order Statistics. The 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings, August, Vancouver, B.C.-Canada.

Oral E., Beyl R. A. and Robinson W. T., 2010, Estimation in Type I Censored Viral Load Assays Under Non-normality. IBS-ENAR Spring Meetings, March, New Orleans, LA.

Oral E., 2009, Estimation in Logistic Regression Models with Bivariate Stochastic Covariates. The 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute, August, Durban-South Africa.

Oral E. and Kadilar C. ,2009, Modified Ratio Estimators in Simple Random Sampling. The 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, August, Washington D.C.

Oral E., 2007, Multinomial Logistic Regression Models with a Stochastic Design Variable. The 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings, July, Salt Lake City, UT.

Oral E., 2006, Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Proportional Odds Model. The 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings, August, Seattle, WA.

Oral E., 2006, Robust Estimation in Multinomial Logit Models. The XXIIIrd International Biometric Conference, July, Montreal, Quebec-Canada.

Oral E., 2005, Parameter Estimation in Poisson Regression via Modified Maximum Likelihood Method. The 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings, August, Minneapolis, MN.

Oral E. and Miglioretti  D. L., 2005, Multivariable Binary Regression with Stochastic Covariates. IBS-ENAR Spring Meetings, March, Austin, TX.

Oral E., 2003, Nonlinear Relationship in Binary Regression. The 54th Session of International Statistical Institute, August, Berlin-Germany.

Oral E., 2003, Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimators in Binary Regression. The 2nd International Biometric Society Conference of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, January, Antalya-Turkey.

Oral E. and Gunay S., 1998, Comparing Estimators via Pitman’s Measure of Closeness. Research Symposium’98 of State Institute of Statistics, Prime Ministry Republic of Turkey, November, Ankara- Turkey.

Oral E. and Gunay S., 1998, Pitman’s Measure of Closeness. Gazi University Statistics Conference, October, Ankara-Turkey.

Selected Posters

Spiers, S. and Oral E.*, 2017, Limits of Propensity Score Weighting Adjustment for Unit Nonresponse. The 2017 Annual Meeting of American College of Epidemiology: The Methods of Translating and Disseminating Epidemiology into Public Health, September, New Orleans, LA.

Spiers, S. and Oral E.*, 2017, Effects of Link Misspecification in Propensity Score Weighting Adjustment. The 2017 ASA Joint Statistical Meetings, August, Baltimore, MD.

Oral E. and Danos D., 2016, Link Misspecification in Binary Regression. The 2016 International Indian Statistical Association Conference on Statistics, August, Corvallis, OR.

Danos D. and Oral E.*, 2015, Noncanonical Links in Binary Regression. LSUHSC-SOM Graduate Research Day 2015, November, New Orleans, LA.

Danos D. and Oral E.*, 2015, The effect of Link Misspecification in Binary Regression. 2015 LSUHSC School of Public Health 2015 Honors-Research Day, May, New Orleans, LA.

Leonardi C., Oral E.* and Robinson W.T., 2013, A Two-Stage Randomized Response Technique for Surveying Sensitive Topics. The 27^th Annual LSUHSC Graduate Research Day, November, New Orleans, LA.

Simonsen N.R., Oral E., Berken J., Brennan C.S.,  Hayden, J. and Fontham E.T.H., 2013, Predicting Enrollment in a Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Study. The Sixth Health Disparities Conference “Improving Medical Effectiveness and Health Outcomes to Achieve Health Equity Through Interprofessional Collaborations”, March, New Orleans, LA.

Selected Invited Talks

Oral E., 2017, Working as a Statistician in the Big Easy. Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ted University, December 18, Ankara, Turkey.

Oral E., 2011, Robust Procedures: A Partial Review and Discussion for Applications in Signal Processing. Research Seminars at Electrical Engineering Department, University of New Orleans, October 27, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Oral E., 2011, Robust Estimators for Type-I Censored Samples under Non-normality. Mathematics Colloquium Series, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, March 24, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Oral E., 2010, Robust Estimation in Logistic Regression via Modified Maximum Likelihood Methodology. Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, March 12, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Oral E., 2005, Stochastic Covariates in Binary Regression. Joint VA/CHS Biostatistics Seminars, Group Health Center for Health Studies, January 7, Seattle, Washington.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Robust Statistical Inference, Survey Sampling, Generalized Linear Models, Statistical Inference for Censored Data.

HONORS, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS:

Travel Grant, The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB), 2011.

Travel Grant, International Statistical Institute (ISI), 2009.

Travel Grant, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2007.

New Faculty Research Grant, Middle East Technical University (METU), 2006.

Travel Grant, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2006.

Postdoctoral Research Scholarship, NATO Science Fellowship by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2004-2005.

Postdoctoral Research Support, Middle East Technical University, 2004-2006.

Travel Grant, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2003.

Second rank among the graduates of the Department of Statistics, 1995.

RESEARCH SUPPORT:

Ongoing Research

LSU-HCSD, Health Care Effectiveness Team, 3/1/2015-

Role: Biostatistician, Effort: variable (2.0%-30.0% max)

Evaluating the Value of Implementing Asthma Guideline Recommendations and Asthma Control,

PI: Nereida Parada, 3/2016-

LSU Health, HCSD Center for Healthcare Effectiveness Project

Role: Co-Investigator, Effort: variable

Completed Research

Improving Osteoporosis Screening for Women in the LSU HCSD Medical Home Patient Population,

PI: Mary Thoesen Coleman, 2/10/2016-

LSU Health, HCSD Center for Healthcare Effectiveness Project

Role: Co-Investigator, Effort: variable

Barriers to Colorectal Screening of Patients in Medical Home Clinics,

PI: Leigh Ann Burns, 2/2016-

LSU Health, HCSD Center for Healthcare Effectiveness Project

Role: Co-Investigator, Effort: variable

The Women and Their Children’s Health (WaTCH) Study, PI: Edward J. Trapido, 7/1/2013-5/1/2016.

National Institute of Health (1U01ES021497)

Role: Biostatistician, Effort: 5%-8.0%

Arterial Intima-Media Thickness and Glucose-Independent Protein Glycation in Children and Adolescents with Diabetes,

PI: Lilje Christian, 6/1/2013-8/31/2016.

Research Institute for Children, Intramural Clinical and Translational Grants Program: Independent Research Grant Application

Role: Biostatistician, Effort: 7.0%

Quality of Life in Prostate Cancer Project (QPCaP), PI: Brennan Christine, 7/1/2010-9/30/2013.
National Institute of Health, NCI

Recovery Act Limited Competition: Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15) NCI R15 CA151031

Role: Co-Investigator, Effort: 7.2%

HHSN261201000030, Louisiana Tumor Registry, 7/1/2012-8/1/2013.

Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Expansion Program
Role: Biostatistician, Effort: 10%

IMEX Study (PI, Ulrich Cornelia M.), 2005-2006.

National Institute of Health (R01 CA69334; T32 CA80416) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative Research Agreement 58-1950-4-401

Role: Biostatistician

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION:

Advisor

MS (completed): Samantha Spiers, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program 2017. Dissertation Title: Propensity Score Weighting Adjustment for Unit Nonresponse. (Mathematical Statistician, US Census Breau)

PhD (completed): Husam Ardah, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2016. Dissertation Title: A New Two-Stage Sampling Design for Sensitive Questions through Randomized Response Technique and Direct Questioning. (Research Scientist, KAIMRC)

PhD (completed): Denise M. Danos, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2016. Dissertation Title: Binary Regression with Stochastic Covariates. (Post-doc, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center.)

PhD (completed): Claudia Leonardi, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2014. Dissertation Title: A Two-Stage Randomized Response Technique for Surveying Sensitive Topics. (Assist. Prof., Behavioral and Community Health Sciences Program, LSUHSC.)

Committee Member

MS candidate: McKensie P. Osborn, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2018-

PhD candidate: Tat Yau, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2017-

PhD candidate: Christie Watters, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2017-

PhD (completed): Uzma Yasmeen, The National College of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Applied Statistics, 2017. (External Reviewer)

PhD (completed): Samaah M. Sullivan, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Epidemiology Program, 2015.

PhD (completed): Jennifer Berken, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2014.

PhD (completed): Robbie A. Beyl, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2013.

MS (completed): Jennifer Hayden, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, 2011.

MS (completed): Vilda Purutcuoglu, METU, Statistics Department, 2003.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Affiliated Institutions

Statistical Consultant: LSUHSC Emergency Medicine Department, New Orleans, LA, 2018-Present.

Statistical Consultant: LSUHSC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New Orleans, LA, 2013-2014.

Adjunct Faculty: Institute of Applied Mathematics, METU, Ankara-Turkey, 2007-2008.

Researcher: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 2004-2006.

Researcher: Group Health Research Institute (Formerly: Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies), Seattle, WA, 2004-2006.

Departmental Service

PhD Comprehensive Exam Committee Member: LSUHSC-SPH, Biostatistics Program, 2009-Present.

Biostatistics Program Seminar Coordinator: LSUHSC-SPH, Biostatistics Program, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 & Fall 2018-Spring 2019.

MS/PhD Admissions Committee Member: Department of Statistics, METU, Ankara-Turkey, 2006-2008.

PhD Qualifying Exam Committee Member: Department of Statistics, METU, Ankara-Turkey, 2006-2008.

Department of Statistics Seminar Coordinator: Department of Statistics, METU, Ankara-Turkey, Fall 2006-Spring 2007.

University Service

Faculty Senator: LSUHSC, 2017-Present.

Evaluation Committee Member: LSUHSC-SPH, 2012-Present.

Grievance Committee Member: LSUHSC-SPH, 2010-2013 & 2018-Present.

The Strategic Planning-Technology/Communication Ad-Hoc Committee Member: LSUHSC-SPH, 2009.

Moodle Implementation Project Ad-Hoc Committee Member: LSUHSC-SPH, 2009.

Academic Assessment and Quality Improvement Committee Member: METU, Ankara-Turkey, 2006-2008.

Professional Service

Associate Editor: Biometrics and Biostatistics International Journal, 2014-

Judge: 31^st Graduate Research Day, LSUHSC, November, 2017.

Secretary/Treasurer: Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2017-2018.

President: Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2016-2017.

Vice President: Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2015-2016.

Secretary/Treasurer: Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2014-2015.

President: Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2013-2014.

Vice President: Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2012-2013.

Organizer of the LA Chapter of the American Statistical Association Spring 2015 Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April, 2015.

Chairman and Organizer of the two Invited Sessions which are entitled “Recent Advances in Survey Sampling I” and “Recent Advances in Survey Sampling II”, International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, Greensboro, North Carolina, October 2012.

Facilitator: ISI Committee on Women in Statistics Meetings (Roundtable Discussions), The 58^th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Dublin-Ireland, August 2011.

Organizing Committee Member, Program Committee Member, and Instructor: The Graduate Summer School on New Advances in Statistics, METU, Ankara-Turkey, August 2007.

Journal Peer Review Activities (Journal, year, number of manuscripts reviewed)

International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics, 2017 (1).

Statistics, Optimization and Information Computing, 2017 (1).

BMJ Open, 2017 (1).

Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 2017 (1).

Involve, 2016 (1).

The American Statistician, 2015 (1).

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2014 (1).

Journal of Official Statistics, 2014 (1).

Plos ONE, 2014 (1).

Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 2013 (2).

Colombian Journal of Statistics, 2012 (1).

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2012 (1).

The American Statistician, 2012 (1), 2015 (1).

Applied Mathematical Modeling, 2011 (1).

Scientific Research and Essays, 2011 (1).

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2010 (1), 2011 (2), 2015 (1).

Statistics, 2009 (1).

Statistical Consulting

Project/Grant Name: Effect of treatment with branched-chain amino acid supplementation on survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, Investigators: Richard Marshall, MD and Laura E. Kerns, MPH, RD, CSO, LDN, Department of Radiology, LSUHSC, New Orleans, 2017.

Project/Grant Name: LSU Faculty burnout and Well-Being Index, Investigators: Jayne Weiss, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, LSUHSC, New Orleans, 2017.

Project/Grant Name: Does the Y-Balance Test Predict Injury in CrossFit Participants?, Investigators: Thuha Hoang, PT, MHS, Department of Physical  Therapy, LSUHSC, New Orleans, 2014-2015.

Project/Grant Name: Novel Function for DNA-Dependent Protein Kinase in Lung Inflammation. Investigators: Hamid Boulares, PhD, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, LSUHSC, New Orleans, 2014.

Statistical Consulting Services to the Residents and Faculty of the LSUHSC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New Orleans, LA, 2013-2014.

Project/Grant Name: The NICU Microbiome and Gastrointestinal Bacterial Colonization in the Hospitalized Premature Infant, Investigators: Duna Penn, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, 2013.

Project/Grant Name: Factors Affecting Premature Babies’ Alkaline Phosphatase Levels, Investigators: Christy G. Mumphrey, Ricardo Gomez, MD, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, 2013.

Project/Grant Name: Factors Affecting Use of Child Booster Seats, Investigator: Jerussa Aita-Levy, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, 2013.

Project/Grant Name: Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return: Long Term Follow-up, Investigator: Joseph Caspi, MD, LSUHSC, Division of Cardiothoracic Pediatric Surgery, New Orleans, 2013.

Project/Grant Name: Assessment of Myocardial Injury after Pediatric Cardiac Catheterisation by Troponin Assays and Other Markers, Investigator: Christian Lilje, MD, FACC, Pediatric Cardiology, Prenatal Cardiology LSUHSC School of Medicine & Children's Hospital, New Orleans, 2012.

Project/Grant Name: Arsenic Exposure and Pancreatic Cancer in South Louisiana, Investigators: Elizabeth Fontham, PhD and Neal Simonsen, PhD, LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Epidemiology Program, 2012.

Project/Grant Name: Disability in Children with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Fibromyalgia. Investigators: Charles G. Otu-Nyarko, MD and Paul E. Hyman, MD, Pediatric Gastroenterology, LSUHSC, Childrens Hospital of New Orleans, 2011.

Project/Grant Name: Glucose-Independent Protein Glycation and Development of Diabetes Complications (ADA Grant Application), Investigator: Stuart Chalew, MD, Endocrinology Division, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, 2011.

Project/Grant Name: Exploration of Food Groups and Nutrients in Lung Cancer, Investigators: Neal Simonsen, PhD, and Elizabeth Fontham, PhD LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Epidemiology Program, 2011.

Project/Grant Name: The effects of implementation of standardized Medication reconciliation (MR) strategies in an electronic health records (EHR) enabled outpatient clinic on cardiovascular risk factors in diabetic adults. Investigator: Diana McDermott, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, LSUHSC School of Medicine, New Orleans, 2010.

Project/Grant Name: Review of Fracture Patterns in Motor Vehicle Related Maxillofacial Trauma Associated with Method of Restraint. Investigators: Jules A. Walters, III, MD and M. Whitten Wise, MD, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, LSUHSC School of Medicine, New Orleans, 2009.

Project/Grant Name: Quantifying effects of age and gender on vocal fold vibration by using high–speed digital imaging and Phonovibrogram. Investigator: Melda Kunduk, Department of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology, LSUHSC School of Medicine, New Orleans, 2008.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Programming Languages and Statistical Packages: SAS, FORTRAN, S-PLUS, R, MINITAB, SPSS, STATISTICA, STATA, MATLAB, PASS, Python

Operating Systems: Windows, DOS, Unix

Other Packages: Matematica, Mathcad, LaTeX, Scientific Word

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Statistical Association (ASA)

American Statistical Association (ASA)- Louisiana Chapter

International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)

International Biometric Society (IBS)-The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)

National Association of Professional Women (NAPW)

Contact Information:

LSUHSC

School of Public Health

New Orleans, LA 70112

Phone: (504) 568-6094

Fax: (504) 568-5701

e-mail: eoral@lsuhsc.edu