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Francesca Dominici
Professor
Call for the Spiegelman Award 2009
Academic Degrees
PhD
Departmental Affiliation
Biostatistics
Joint Departmental Affiliations
Epidemiology
Departmental Address
E3634 SPH
Phone: 410-614-5107
Fax: 410-955-0958
Research and Professional Experience

Environmental epidemiology

Toxicology and carcinogenicity

Meta-analysis of clinical trials

Health economics

Risk adjustment models

Outcome research

Patient safety

Keywords

Biostatistics, Categorical data; clinical data; computing; dose-response models; environmental pollution; environmental statistics; epidemiologic statistics; hierarchical models; incomplete data analysis; longitudinal data analysis; meta-analysis; missing data; Monte Carlo Markov chain techniques; risk assessment; spatial statistics; statistical computing.

Honors and Awards

Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship Award, Department of Biostatistics,

School of Public Health, Harvard University, 2007

Gertrude Cox Award, Washington DC Chapter of the American Statistical Association and RTI International, 2007

Mortimer Spiegelman Award, Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association, 2006

Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2005

Fellow of the Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence in Public

Health Tracking, Centers for Disease Control, 2005

Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award, Three-Year Fellowship, The Health Effects Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999-2002

Keynote speaker at the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK, 2002

Invitation to address the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK, 2000

Young Investigator Award, The American Statistical Association Section of Statistics in Epidemiology, 2001

Student Award, ENAR International Biometric Society, 1998

Three-Year Fellowship and Award for Study and Research Abroad, Department of Statistics, University of Padua, Italy, 1994-1997

Selected Publications

Please see my CV for details

Crainiceanu C.M. Dominici F. Parmigiani G. Adjustment Uncertainty in Effect Estimation, Biometrika (to appear).

Bell M. Dominici F. Ebisu K. Zeger S.L. Samet J.M.(2007) Spatial and Temporal Variation in PM2.5 Chemical Composition in the United States for Health Effects Studies (2000-2005). Environmental Health Perspectives,115,989–995.

Janes H, Dominici F, Zeger SL. (2007) Trends in Particulate Matter and Mortality in 113 U.S. Counties, 2000-2002: Evidence on the Long Term Effects of Air Pollution. Epidemiology, 18, 416-423 (with discussion).

Dominici F, Peng RD, Zeger SL, White R H., Samet J.M. (2007) Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in the United States: Have the Risks Changed from 1987 to 2000? American Journal of Epidemiology, 166,880-888, (with discussion).

Dominici F, Zeger SL, Parmigiani G, Katz J, Christian P (2007) Does the effect of micronutrient supplementation on neonatal survival vary with respect to the percentiles of the birth weight distribution? Bayesian Analysis (with discussion) , 2, 1-23.

Dominici F Peng D. Bell M. Pham M. McDermott A. Zeger S.L. Samet J.M. (2006) Fine Particulates Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases, Journal of the American Medical Association, March 8, 295:1127-1135.

Katz J, Christian P, Dominici F, Zeger SL (2006) Treatment Effects of Maternal Micronutrient Supplementation vary by Percentiles of the Birth Weight Distribution in rural Nepal, Journal of Nutrition, 136:1389-1394.

Bell M, Peng R, Dominici F (2006) The Exposure-Response Curve for Ozone and Risk of Mortality and the Adequacy of Current Ozone Regulations, Environmental Health Perspectives,114: 532-536.

Peng R, Dominici F, Zeger SL (2006) Reproducible Epidemiological Research, American

Journal of Epidemiology, 163: 783-789.

Symons JM, Wang L, Guallar E, Howell E, Dominici F, Schwab M, Ange BA, Samet JM, Ondov J, Harrison D, Geyh A (2006) A Case-Crossover Study of Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Congestive Heart Failure Hospitalization, American Journal of Epidemiology, 164: 421-433.

Dominici F, Zeger SL, Parmigiani G, Katz J, Christian P (2006) Estimating Percentile-Specific Effects in Counterfactual Models: A Case Study of Micronutrient Supplementation, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 55:1-20.

Peng R. Dominici F Louis T. (2006) Model Choice in Multi-Site Time Series Studies of Air Pollution and Mortality, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 169, Part 2:179- 203.

Basu R, Dominici F, Samet JM (2005) Characterizing the Relationship Between Temperature and Cardio-Respiratory Mortality Among the Elderly U.S. Population, Epidemiology, 16:58-66.

Huang IC, Frangakis C, Dominici F, Diette GB, Wu A (2005) Application of a Propensity Score Approach for Risk Adjustment in Multiple Physician Group Profiling on Asthma Care, Health Services and Research, 40, 253-278.

Huang IC, Dominici F, Frangakis C, Diette GB, Damberg CL, Wu A (2005) Is risk-adjustor selection more important than statistical approach for provider profiling? Asthma as an

example, Medical Decision Making, 25:20-35

Huang IC, Diette GB, Dominici F, Frangakis C, Wu A (2005) Variations of physician group profiling indicators, American Journal of Managed Care, 11:38-49.

Peng R, Dominici F, Pastor-Barriuso R, Zeger SL, Samet JM (2005) Seasonal Analyses of Air Pollution and Mortality in 100 U.S. cities, American Journal of Epidemiology, 161:585-594.

Merialdi M, Caulfield LE, Zavaleta N, Figueroa A, Costigan KA, Dominici F, DiPietro JA (2005) Randomized, Controlled Trial of Prenatal Zinc Supplementation and Fetal Bone Growth, Obstet Gynecol Surv, 60:13-15.

Merialdi M. Caulfield L.E. Zavaleta N. Figueroa A. Costigan K. A. Dominici F DiPietro J.A. (2005) Fetal growth in Peru: Comparisons with international fetal size charts and implications for fetal grow assessment, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2:123-128.

Dominici F, Levy J, Louis TL (2005) Methodological Challenges and Contributions in Disaster Epidemiology, Epidemiologic Review, 27:1-4.

Bell M, Dominici F, Samet JM (2005) A Meta-Analysis of Time-Series Studies of Ozone and Mortality with Comparison to the National Morbidity Mortality Air Pollution Study, Epidemiology with discussion, 16:436-445.

Huang Yi Dominici F Bell M. (2005) Bayesian Hierarchical Distributed Lag Models for Summer Ozone Exposure and Cardio-Respiratory Mortality, Environmetrics, 16:547-562.

Dominici F, Cope L, Naiman D, Zeger SL (2005) Smooth Quantile Ratio Estimation (SQUARE), Biometrika, 92:543-557.

Choi L, Dominici F, Zeger SL (2005) Estimating Treatment Efficacy Over Time: a Logistic Regression Model for Binary Longitudinal Outcomes, Statistics in Medicine 24:2789-2805.

Dominici F, Zeger SL (2005) Smooth Quantile Ratio Estimation with Regression: Estimating Medical Expenditures for Smoking Attributable Diseases, Biostatistics, 6:505-519.

Dominici F, Zanobetti A, Zeger SL, Schwartz J, Samet JM (2004) Hierarchical Bivariate Time-Series Models: A Combined Analysis of the Effects of Particulate Matter on Morbidity and Mortality, Biostatistics, 5, 341-360.

Dominici F, Cole S, Spiegelman D (2004) Methodological contributions to the American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Epidemiology, 160:197-198.

Yurk R.A. Diette G.B. Skinner E. A. Dominici F Clark R.D. Steinwachs D.M. Wu A (2004) Predicting Patients Reported Asthma Outcomes for Adults in Managed Cares, American Journal of Managed Care, 11:322-328.

Bell M, Samet JM, McDermott A, Zeger SL, Dominici F (2004) Ozone and Mortality in 95 U.S. Urban Communities from 1987 to 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association, 292:2372-2378.

Dominici F, McDermott A, Hastie T (2004) Improved Semi-parametric Time Series Models of Air Pollution and Mortality, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 468:938-948.

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