2014 Publications

Babette Brumback, Ph.D.

Classen S, Brumback B, Monahan M, Malaty II, Rodriguez RL, Okun MS, McFarland NR. (2014).   “Driving errors in parkinson’s disease: Moving closer to predicting on-road outcomes.” American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68:77-85.

Freeman MC, Classen T, Dreibelbis R, Saboori S, Greene LE, Brumback B, Muga R, Rheingans R. (2014). “The impact of a school-based water supply and treatment, hygiene, and sanitation programme on pupil diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial.”  Epidemiology and Infection, 142: 340-351.

Brumback BA, He Z*, Prasad M*, Freeman MC, Rheingans R. (2014). “Using structural nested models to estimate the effect of cluster-level adherence on individual-level outcomes with a three-armed cluster-randomized trial.” Statistics in Medicine, 33(9): 1490-1502.

Alam MT, Weppelmann TA, Weber CD, Johnson JA, Rashid MH, Birch CS, Brumback BA, Beau de Rochars VEM, Morris JG, Ali A. (2014).  “Monitoring of Water Sources for Environmental Reservoirs of Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1, Haiti.” Emerging Infectious Diseases, 20(3): 356-363

Brumback BA, Cai Z, Dailey AB (2014).   “Methods of estimating or accounting for neighborhood associations with health using complex survey data.”   American Journal of Epidemiology, 179(10):1255-63.

Bumsoo A,  Beaver  T,  Martin  T,  Hess  P,  Brumback BA,  Ahmed  S,  Smith  BK, Leeuwenburgh C, Martin AD, Ferreira LF. (2014).   “Phrenic nerve stimulation increases human diaphragm fiber force after cardiothoracic surgery.” American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 190(7): 837-839.

Garn J, Caruso B, Drews-Botsch CD, Kramer M, Brumback B, Rheingans R, Freeman M. (2014).  “Factors associated with pupil toilet use in Kenyan primary schools.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(9): 9694-711.

Huaihou Chen, Ph.D.

Chen, Huaihou, and Donglin Zeng. “Sparse Semiparametric Nonlinear Model With Application to Chromatographic Fingerprints Comment.” (2014). Journal of the American Statistical Association. 1350-1353.

Zhao, Y., Chen, H. and Ogden, R. T. (2014). Wavelet-based weighted LASSO and Screening approaches in functional linear regression. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 21 600-617.

Chen, H., Reiss, P. T., Tarpey, T. (2014).  Optimally Weighted L2 Distance for Functional Data. Biometrics. DOI: 10.1111/biom.12161.

Chen, T., Wang, Y., Chen, H., Marder, K., Zeng, D. (2014). Targeted local support vector machine for age-dependent classification. Journal of the American Statistical Association.  DOI:10.1080/01621459.2014.881743.

Chen, H., Wang, Y., Li, R., Shear, K. (2014). A note on a nonparametric regression test through penalized splines. Statistica Sinica. 24, 1143-1160.

Yueh-Yun Chi, Ph.D.

Chi YY, Gribbin MJ, Johnson JL, and Muller KE (2014) Power Calculations for Overall Hypothesis Testing with High Dimensional Commensurate Outcomes. Statistics in   Medicine,   33(5),   812-827.   PMID   24122945;   PubMed   Central   PMCID: PMC4072336.

DeRatt BN,  Ralat  MA,  Kabil  O,  Chi YY,  Banerjee R,  and  Gregory JF (2014)  Vitamin  B-6  Restriction  Reduces  the  Production  of  Hydrogen  Sulfide  and  its Biomarkers by the Transsulfuration Pathway in Cultured Human Hepatoma Cells. Journal of Nutrition, 144, 1501-1508. PMCID: PMC 4162474.

da Silva VR, Ralat MA, Quinlivan EP, DeRatt BN, Garrett TJ, Chi YY, Frederik Nijhout  H,  Reed  MC,  and  Gregory  JF  (2014)  Targeted   Metabolomics  and Mathematical  Modeling  Demonstrate  that  Vitamin  B6  Restriction  Alters  One – Carbon Metabolism in Cultured HepG2 Cells. American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology  and  Metabolism , 307(1): E93-E101. PubMed PMID: 24824655; PMCID: PMC 4080146.

Meenakshi Devidas, PhD

Amanda M DiNofia, Alix E Seif, Meenakshi Devidas, Yimei Li, Matthew Hall, Yuan- Shung Vera Huang, Rochelle Bagatell, William L Carroll, Naomi J Winick, Stephen P Hunger, Brian T Fisher, Eric C Larsen, Richard Aplenc. Resource Utilization and Cost Analysis by Treatment Arm on the Children’s Oncology Group AALL0232 Phase 3 High- Risk B-Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Trial: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Blood 124 (21), 210-210 (December 2014)

Angiolillo AL, Schore RJ, Devidas M, Borowitz MJ, Carroll AJ, Gastier-Foster JM, Heerema NA, Keilani T, Lane AR, Loh ML, Reaman GH, Adamson PC, Wood B, Wood C, Zheng HW, Raetz  EA,  Winick  NJ,  Carroll  WL,  Hunger  SP.  Pharmacokinetic and  pharmacodynamic properties of  calaspargase pegol Escherichia coli L-asparaginase in the treatment of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: results from Children’s Oncology Group Study AALL07P4. J Clin Oncol. 2014 Dec 1; 32(34):3874-82. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2014.55.5763. Epub 2014 Oct 27. PubMed PMID: 25348002; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4239306.

Christian A Fernandez, Colton Smith, Wenjian Yang, Charles G Mullighan, Chunxu Qu, Eric C Larsen, William Paul Bowman, Chengcheng Liu, Laura B Ramsey, Tamara Chang, Seth E Karol, Mignon L Loh, Elizabeth A Raetz, Naomi J Winick, Stephen Hunger, William L Carroll,  Sima Jeha, Ching-Hon Pui, William E Evans, Meenakshi Devidas, Mary V Relling. Genetic Variation in NFATC2 Is Associated with a Higher Risk of Asparaginase Allergy. Blood 124 (21), 63-63 (December 2014)

Fernandez CA, Smith C, Yang W, Daté M, Bashford D, Larsen E, Bowman WP, Liu C, Ramsey LB, Chang T, Turner V, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Winick NJ, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Chen WM, Concannon P, Rich SS, Scheet P, Jeha S, Pui CH, Evans WE, Devidas M, Relling MV. HLA-DRB1*07:01 is associated with a higher risk of asparaginase allergies. Blood. 2014 Aug 21; 124(8):1266-76. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-03-563742. Epub 2014 Jun 26. PubMed PMID: 24970932; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4141516.

Fernandez CA, Colton-Smith S, Yang W, Date M, Bashford D, Larsen E, Bowman WP, Liu C, Ramsey LB, Chang T, Turner V, Loh ML, Raetz E, Winick NJ, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Chen W, Concannon P, Rich SS, Scheet P, Jeha S, Pui CH, Evans WE, Devidas M, Relling MV. (2014). “HLA-DRB1*07:01 is associated with a higher risk of asparaginase allergies”, Blood, 6/26/2014, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2014-03-563742.

Glen Lew, Xiaomin Lu, Rochelle Yanofsky, Susan R Rheingold, James Whitlock, Qi An, Meenakshi Devidas, Caroline A Hastings, Naomi J Winick, William L Carroll, Michael J Borowitz, Stephen Hunger, Michael A Pulsipher. Outcomes after Intermediate-Risk Relapse of Childhood B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL) and the Role of Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT): A Report from Children’s Oncology Group (COG) AALL0433. Blood 124 (21), 684-684 (December 2014)

K Rabin, PA Zweidler-McKay, C Wood, Y Dai, J Gastier-Foster, AJ Carroll, NA Heerema, B Wood, MJ Borowitz, P Brown, J Hilden, A Angiolillo, W Salzer, MJ Burke, EA Raetz, ML Loh, SP Hunger, M Devidas. Implementation of Automated electronic risk assignment for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL): a report from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER 61, S168-S169 (December 2014)

Kadan-Lottick NS, Lu X, Hockenberry M, Whitley MK, Hunger S, Devidas M, Winick NJ, Schore  RJ,  Angiolilo  AL,  Ness  KK.  Prospective assessment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) in children with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (SR ALL): Results of Children’s Oncology Group (COG) AALL0932. Journal of Clinical Oncology; 2014 32(15) suppl (May 20 2014): 7056. American Society of Clinical Oncology 2014.

Kathryn G Roberts, Yongjin Li, Debbie Payne-Turner, Jinghui Zhang, Richard C Harvey, Yung-Li Yang,  Guangchun Song,  Jing  Ma,  Shann-Ching Chen,  Jinjun  Cheng,  Natalia Santiago-Morales, Ilaria Iacobucci, Meenakshi Devidas, I-Ming Chen, Shalini Reshmi, Michael Rusch, Pankaj Gupta, Naomi J  Winick, William L  Carroll, Nyla A Heerema, Andrew J Carroll, Elizabeth A Raetz, Guido Marcucci, Clara D Bloomfield, Wendy Stock, Steven M Kornblau, Elisabeth Paietta, Ching-Hon Pui, Sima Jeha, James Downing, Daniela S  Gerhard, Julie M Gastier-Foster, Mignon L Loh, Cheryl Willman, Stephen P Hunger, Charles  G  Mullighan. The genetic landscape of Ph-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer Research 74 (19 Supplement), 3083-3083 (October 2014)

Lau S, Lu X, Balsamo L, Devidas M, Winick N, Hunger SP, Carroll W, Stork L, Maloney K, Kadan-Lottick N. Family life events in the first year of acute lymphoblastic leukemia therapy: a children’s oncology group report. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014 Dec; 61(12):2277-84. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25195. Epub 2014 Aug 30. PubMed PMID: 25175168; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4282930.

Leonard A Mattano, Meenakshi Devidas, Alison M Friedmann, Elizabeth A Raetz, Mignon Loh, Patrick Buckley, Michael J Borowitz, Andrew J Carroll, Julie Gastier-Foster, Nyla A Heerema, Nina Kadan-Lottick, Yousif Matloub, David T Marshall, Linda C Stork, Brent L Wood, Naomi J Winick, Stephen Hunger, William L Carroll, Kelly Maloney. Outstanding Outcome for Children with Standard Risk-Low (SR-Low) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and No Benefit to Intensified Peg-Asparaginase (PEG-ASNase) Therapy: Results of Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Study AALL0331. Blood 124 (21), 793-793 (December 2014)

Leonard A Mattano, Meenakshi Devidas, Si Chen, Natia Esiashvili, Barbara Asselin, Naomi J Winick, Mignon Loh, Elizabeth A Raetz, Stephen Hunger, William L Carroll, Stuart S Winter, Kimberly P Dunsmore. Effect of High-Dose Methotrexate (HD-MTX) Vs Capizzi Methotrexate/Pegaspargase (C-MTX/ASNase) on Osteonecrosis (ON) Incidence in Children and Young Adults with T-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (T-ALL): Results of Children’s  Oncology  Group  (COG)  Study  AALL0434.  Blood  124  (21),  3649-3649 (December 2014)

Lew G, Lu X, Yanofsky R, Rheingold SR, Whitlock J, Gulig SD, Devidas M, Pulsipher M, Hastings CA, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Borowitz MJ, Hunger S. The significance of minimal residual disease (MRD) in relapsed childhood B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL): A report from Children’s Oncology Group (COG) protocol AALL0433.  Journal of Clinical Oncology; 2014 32(15) suppl (May 20 2014):  10014.  American Society of Clinical Oncology 2014.

M Chang, SH Jung, and M Devidas (2014). Designs for Randomized Phase II Clinical Trials with two arms: Agent A vs. Agents A plus B. Journal of Biometrics and Biostatistics. Doi:10.4172/2155-6180.S6-001.

Maloney K, Larsen E, Devidas M, Mattano L, Friedmann A, Gastier-Foster JM, Carroll A, Borowitz M, Wood B, Whitlock J, Loh M, Raetz E, Winick N, Hunger S, Carroll W. Event Free  (EFS) and overall survival (OS) for Children with Down Syndrome (DS) and B- Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL) in Children’s Oncology Group (COG) clinical trials AALL0232 and AALL0331.Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 2014 May 1: 61 S3-S3. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology 2014.

Myers RM (f), Balsamo L, Lu X, Devidas M, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Winick NJ, Maloney KW, Kadan-Lottick N, (2014). A prospective Study of Anxiety, Depression, and Behavioral changes in the First year after Diagnosis of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Children’s Oncology   Group Study. Cancer, published online 01/28/2014, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28578

Raetz E, Wood B, Borowitz M, Winick N, Hunger S, Carroll W, Loh M, Devidas M, Maloney K, Mattano L, Larsen E, Carroll A, Heerema N, Gastier-Foster J. Corticosteroid pretreatment is not an independent risk factor in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed B- Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL): Results from Children’s Oncology Group (COG) study AALL03B1.  Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 2014 May 1:  S5-S5.  Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology 2014.

Roberts KG, Li Y, Payne-Turner D, Harvey RC, Yang YL, Pei D, McCastlain K, Ding L, Lu C, Song G, Ma J, Becksfort J, Rusch M, Chen SC, Easton J, Cheng J, Boggs K, Santiago-Morales N, Iacobucci I, Fulton RS, Wen J, Valentine M, Cheng C, Paugh SW, Devidas M, Chen IM, Reshmi  S,  Smith A,  Hedlund E,  Gupta P,  Nagahawatte P,  Wu  G,  Chen  X,  Yergeau D, Vadodaria B,  Mulder H,  Winick NJ,  Larsen EC,  Carroll WL,  Heerema NA,  Carroll AJ, Grayson G, Tasian SK, Moore AS, Keller F, Frei-Jones M, Whitlock JA, Raetz EA, White DL, Hughes  TP,  Guidry   Auvil  JM,  Smith  MA,  Marcucci  G,  Bloomfield  CD,  Mrózek  K, Kohlschmidt J, Stock W, Kornblau SM, Konopleva M, Paietta E, Pui CH, Jeha S, Relling MV, Evans WE, Gerhard DS, Gastier-Foster JM, Mardis E, Wilson RK, Loh ML, Downing JR, Hunger SP, Willman CL, Zhang J, Mullighan CG. Targetable kinase-activating lesions in Ph- like acute lymphoblastic leukemia.  N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 11; 371(11):1005-15. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1403088. PubMed PMID: 25207766; PubMed Central    PMCID: PMC4191900.

Salzer W, Burke M, Devidas M, Gore L, Larsen E, Zaoutis T, Fisher B, Steinbach W, Hilden J, Loh M, Winick N, Carroll W, Raetz E, Sung L, Hunger S. Induction mortality and its association with invasive fungal infection(IFI) in children and young adults with high risk (HR) B-lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL): Early results from Children’s Oncology Group study  AALL1131. Pediatric Blood & Cancer; 2014 May 1:S5-S5. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology 2014.

Schultz KR, Devidas M, Bowman P, Aledo A, Slayton WB, Sather HN, Zheng HW, Davies SM, Gaynon PS, Trigg M, Rutledge R, Jorstad D, Carroll AJ, Hereema N, Winick N, Borowitz M,  Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Camitta BM, (2014) “Philadelphia Chromosome Negative Very High Risk  Acute  Lymphoblastic Leukemia  in  Children  and  Adolescents:  results  from Children’s  Oncology Group Study AALL0031,” Letter to the Editor, Leukemia, published online 1/17/2014, doi: 10.1038/leu.2014.29

Schultz KR, Carroll A, Heerema NA, Bowman WP, Aledo A, Slayton WB, Sather H, Devidas M, Zheng HW, Davies SM, Gaynon PS, Trigg M, Rutledge R, Jorstad D, Winick N, Borowitz MJ, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Camitta B; Children’s Oncology Group. Long-term follow-up of imatinib in pediatric Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Children’s Oncology Group study AALL0031.  Leukemia. 2014 Jul; 28(7):1467-71.  doi:10.1038/leu.2014.30. Epub 2014 Jan 20. PubMed PMID: 24441288; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4282929.

T Horton, X Lu, M O’Brien, M Borowitz, M Devidas, E Raetz, P Brown, HUI Zeng, S Hunger, J Whitlock.  AALL07P1:  Bortezomib with reinduction chemotherapy for first relapse pediatric ALL.  A  Children’s Oncology Group study.  PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER 61, S137-S138 (December 2014)

Tamara Chang, Wenjian Yang, L Sara Van Driest, Sue C Kaste, Erica A Bowten, Melissa Basford, Lisa Bastarache, Dan M Roden, Joshua C Denny, Leonard A Mattano, Eric C Larsen, Naomi  J  Winick,  William  L  Carroll,  Cheng  Cheng,  Deqing  Pei,  Christian  A Fernandez,  Chengcheng  Liu,  Colton  Smith,  Mignon  Loh,  Elizabeth  A  Raetz,  Stephen Hunger, Paul Scheet, Sima Jeha, Ching-Hon Pui, William E Evans, Meenakshi Devidas, Mary   V   Relling.  Glutamate Receptor Polymorphisms Contribute to Glucocorticoid-Associated Osteonecrosis. Blood 124 (21), 367-367 (December 2014)

Thompson P, Wheeler HE, Delaney SM, Lorier R, Broeckel U, Devidas M, Reaman GH, Scorsone  K,  Sung  L, Dolan  ME,  Berg  SL.  Pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics f daunorubicin in children: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2014 Oct; 74(4):831-8. doi: 10.1007/s00280-014-2535-4. Epub  2014 Aug 14. PubMed PMID: 25119182; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4282931.

Tower RL, Jones TL, Camitta BM, Asselin BL, Bell BA, Chauvenet A, Devidas M, Halperin EC, Pullen J, Shuster JJ, Winick N, Kurtzberg J. Dose intensification of methotrexate and cytarabine during intensified  continuation  chemotherapy  for  high-risk  B-precursor  acute lymphoblastic leukemia: POG 9406: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group. J Pediatr Hematol  Oncol.  2014  Jul;  36(5):353-61.  doi:  10.1097/MPH.0000000000000131. PubMed PMID: 24608079; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4120865.

Winick NJ, Devidas M, Maloney KW, Larsen EC, Mattano LA, Borowitz MJ, Carroll AJ, Gastier-Foster JM, Heerema NA, Willman CL, Wood BL, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Hunger S, Carroll WL. The impact of initial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings on outcome among patients with NCI standard (SR) and high-risk (HR) B-lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL): A report from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) studies AALL0331 and AALL0232. Journal of Clinical Oncology; 2014 32(15) suppl (May 20 2014): 10016. American Society of Clinical Oncology 2014.

Wray L, Vujkovic M, McWilliams T, Cannon S, Devidas M, Stork L, Aplenc R. TPMT and MTHFR  genotype  is  not  associated  with  altered  risk  of  thioguanine-related  sinusoidal obstruction syndrome in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014 Nov; 61(11):2086-8. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25057. Epub 2014 Apr 16. PubMed PMID: 24737678; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4283196.

Xiaotu Ma, Mignon L Loh, Michael Rusch, Michael Edmonson, Richard C Harvey, David A Wheeler, Oliver A Hampton, John Easton, Donald Yergeau, Bhavin Vadodaria, Gang Wu, William L Carroll, I-Ming Chen, Daniela S Gerhard, Julie M Gastier-Foster, Mary V Relling, Malcolm A Smith, Meenakshi Devidas, Jaime M Guidry Auvil, James R Downing, Cheryl L Willman, Charles G Mullighan, Stephen P Hunger, Jinghui Zhang. Rise and fall of subclones from diagnosis to relapse in pediatric B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL): A report from the children’s oncology group (COG)-Target-St.  Jude Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. Cancer Research 74 (19 Supplement), 998-998 (October 2014)

John Kairalla, Ph.D.

Cara-Fuentes G., Kairalla J.A., Ishimoto T., Rivard C., Johnson R.J., and Garin E.H. (2014). Rituximab in Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome: Does it Make Sense? Pediatric Nephrology, 29:1313-1319. doi10.1007/s00467-013-2534-4. PMC3856183

Eben Kenah, Ph.D.

Yang, M. E. Halloran, Y. Chen, and E. Kenah (2014). A pathway EM algorithm for estimating vaccine efficacy with a non-monotone validation set. Biometrics 70(3): 568–578. PMCID: PMC4209209

D Sugimoto, A. A. Kroepke, E. Kenah, M. E. Halloran, F. Chowdhury, A. I. Khan, R. C. LaRocque, Y. Yang, E. T. Ryan, F. Qadri, S. B. Calderwood, J. B. Harris, and I. M. Longini, Jr. (2014). Household transmission of Vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8(11): e3314. PMCID: PMC4238997

Ira Longini, Ph.D.

Rashed, S., Azman, A., Alum, M. Li, S., Sack, D., Morris, J.G., Longini, I.M., et al.:  Genetic Variation of Vibrio cholerae during Outbreaks, Bangladesh, 2010-2011. Emerging Infectious Dis. 2014 January; 20(1):54-60, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2001.130796. PMCID: PMC3884724

Chao, D.L., Longini, I.M. and Morris, J.G.:  Modeling cholera outbreaks. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 379, 195-209 (2014).  PMCID: PMC4238032

Gomes MFC, Pastore y Piontti A, Rossi L, Chao DL, Longini IM, Halloran ME, Vespignani A:  Assessing the international spreading risk associated with the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak. PLOS Currents Outbreaks. 2014 Sep 2. Edition 1. doi: 0.1371/currents.outbreaks.cd818f63d40e24aef769dda7df9e0da5.  PMCID: PMC4169359

Halloran ME, Longini IM:  Emerging, evolving, and established infectious diseases and interventions. Science 12 1292-4 . doi: 10.1126 (2014). PMCID: PMC4408765.

Sugimoto JD, Allen AL, Kenah EE, Halloran ME, Chowdhury F, Khan AI, LaRocque RC,  Yang Y, Ryan ET, Qadri F, Calderwood SB, Harris JB, Longini IM :  Household transmission of Vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003314 (2014). PMCID: PMC4238997

Dimitrov DT, Troeger C, Halloran ME, Longini IM, Chao DL.  Comparative effectiveness of different strategies of oral cholera vaccination in Bangladesh: A modeling study. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003343 (2014). PMCID: PMC4256212

Tran CH, Sugimoto JD, Pulliam JRC, Ryan KA, Myers PD, Hughes P, Castleman JB, Doty R, Johnson J, Stringfellow J, Kovacevich N, Brew J, Cheung LL, Caron B, Alexander C, Lincicome S, Longini IM, Halloran ME, Morris JG, Small PA: Targeting School-age Children with Influenza Vaccination Provides Community-level Protection in Alachua County, Florida. PLoS One, 2014. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114479 (2014). PMCID: PMC4260868

Poletto C, Gomes MFC, Pastore y Piontti A, Rossi L, Bioglio L, Chao D, Longini IM, Halloran ME, Colizza V, Vespignani A:  Assessing the impact of travel restrictions on international spread of the 2014 West Africa Ebola epidemic. Eurosurveill. 2014 19, http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20936. PMCID: PMC4415609 

Halloran ME, Vespignani A, Bharti N, Feldstein LR, Alexander KA, Ferrari M, Shaman J, Drake JM, Porco T, Eisenberg JNS, Del Valle SY, Lofgren E, Scarpino SV, Eisenberg MC, Gao D, Hyman JM, Eubank S, Longini IM:  Ebola: Mobility data, Science, 2014 October 24, 346(6208), 433. DOI: 10.1126/science.346.6208.433-a. PMID: 25342792 [PubMed – indexed for Medline].

Xiaomin Lu, Ph.D.

Ali, A. K. (g), Winterstein, A., Hendeles, L., Lu, X., Segal, R. and Hartzema, A. (2014) Comparison of rates of prescribing oral corticosteroids for asthma exacerbations between step-down therapy approaches among initiators of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta-agonist combination therapy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. February 2014; 133(2S):AB177 [Abstract No. 611].

Anton, S. D., Embry, C., Marsiske, M., Lu, X., Doss, H., Leeuwenburgh, C. and  Manini, T. M. (2014) Safety and metabolic outcomes of resveratrol supplementation in older adults: results of a twelve-week, placebo-controlled pilot study. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Vol. 57, pp. 181-7, DOI:  10.1016/j.exger.2014.05.015.

Boston, S. E., Lu, X., Culp, W., TN., Montinaro, V., Romanelli, G., Dudley, R. M., Liptak, J.  M., Mestrinho, L. A. and Buracco, P. (2014) Evaluation of Efficacy of Systemic Adjuvant Therapy for Canine Oral Malignant Melanoma after Surgical Excision: a VSSO Retrospective Study of 151 cases. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Vol. 245, No. 4, pp. 401-7.

Dobkin, B. H., Nadeau, S. E., Behrman, A. L., Wu, S. S., Rose, D., Bowden, M., Studenski, S., Lu, X. and Duncan, P. W. (2014) Prediction of responders for outcome measures of Locomotor Experience Applied Post Stroke trial. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development. Vol. 51, No. , pp. 39-50. (PMID: 24805892)

Hastings, C., Gaynon, P. S., Nachman, J. B., Sather, H. N., Lu, X., Devidas, M. and Seibel, N. L. (2014) Increased post induction intensification improves outcome in children and adolescents with a markedly elevated white blood cell count (>200 x 109/L) with T cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia but not B cell disease: A report from the Children’s Oncology Group. British Journal of Haematology. Vol. 168, No. 4, pp. 533-46. DOI: 10.1111/bjh.13160  Epub 2014  Oct  13.  PubMed  PMID:  25308804; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4314336.

Kadan-Lottick, N. S., Lu, X., Hockenberry, M., Whitley, M., Hunger, S., Devidas, M., Winick, N. J., Schore, R. J., Angiolillo, A. L. and Ness, K. K. (2014) Prospective assessment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) in children with standard risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (SR ALL): Results of Childrens oncology group (COG) AALL0932. Selected for poster presentation American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Lau S, Lu X, Balsamo L, Devidas M, Winick N, Hunger SP, Carroll W, Stork L, Maloney K, Kadan-Lottick N. Family life events in the first year of acute lymphoblastic leukemia therapy: a children’s oncology group report. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014 Dec; 61(12):2277-84. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25195. Epub 2014 Aug 30. PubMed PMID: 25175168; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4282930.

Lew, G., Lu, X., Yanofsky, R., Rheingold, S. R., Whitlock, J., Gulig, S. D., Devidas, M., Pulsipher, M., Hastings, C. A., Winick, N. J., Carroll, W. L., Borowitz, M. J. and Hunger, S. (2014) The significance of minimal residual disease (MRD) in relapsed childhood blymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL): A  report from Childrens oncology group (COG) protocol AALL0433. Selected for oral presentation American Society of Clinical Oncology; 2014 32(15) suppl (May 20 2014): 10014.

Myers, R. M. (g), Balsamo, L., Lu, X., Devidas, M., Maloney, K. W., Carroll, W. L.,  Winick, N. J., Hunger,  S.  P. and Kadan-Lottick, N.  S. (2014) A Prospective Study of Anxiety, Depression, and Behavioral Changes in the First Year after Diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Cancer. Vol. 120, No. 9, pp. 1417-25, online 01/28/2014, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28578

Nadeau SE, Lu X, Dobkin B, Wu SS, Dai YE, Duncan PW; LEAPS Investigative Team. (2014). A prospective test of the late effects of potentially antineuroplastic drugs in a stroke rehabilitation study. Int J Stroke. 9(4):449-56. (PMID: 23088350)

Rose, D., Patten, C., McGuirk, T., Lu, X. and Triggs, W. J. (2014) Does Inhibitory Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Augment Functional Task Practice to Improve Arm Recovery in Chronic Stroke?. Stroke Research and Treatment. Vol. 2014. DOI: 10.1155/2014/305236

Roxanne, E., Lau, S., Lu, X., Balsamo, L., Devidas, M., Winick, N., Hunger, S., Carroll, W., Maloney, K. and Kadan-Lottick, N. (2014) Family life events in the first year of acute lymphoblastic leukemia:  a Childrens Oncology Group report. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. Vol. 61, No. 12, pp. 2277-84.  doi: 10.1002/pbc.25195

Sliesoraitis, S. (f), Desai, N. V., Trevino, J. G., Hughes, S. J., Zlotecki, R., Lightsey, J. L., Ivey, A. M., Allegra, C. J., Dang, L. H., Daily, K. C., Behrns, K., Liu, C., Chauhan, S., Collinsworth, A. L., Lu, X. and George,  T.  J.  (2014)  Final  results  for  gemcitabine  with  nab-Paclitaxel  (Abraxane)  in  neoadjuvant treatment of resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma GAIN-1 study. Selected for E-publication American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Susan McGorry, PhD

McManus CM, Levy JK, Anderson LA, McGorray SP, Leutenegger CM, Gray LK, Hilligas J, Tucker SJ (2014). Prevalence of upper respiratory pathogens in four management models for unowned cats in the Southeast United States. The Veterinary Journal 2014 May 15

Chisari JR, McGorray SP, Nair M, Wheeler TT (2014). Variables affecting orthodontic tooth movement with clear aligners. american Journal of Ortodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. 2014 Apr, 145 s82-91.

Arlene Naranjo, Ph.D.

Teshiba, R., Kawano, S., Wang, L.L., He, L, Naranjo, A., London, W.B., Seeger, R.C., Gastier-Foster, J.M., Look, A.T., Hogarty, M.D., Cohn, S.L., Maris, J.M., Park, J.R., and Shimada, H. (2014). Age-Dependent Prognostic Effect by Mitosis-Karyorrhexis Index (MKI) in Neuroblastoma: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Pediatric and Developmental Pathology 17: 441-9. DOI: 10.2350/14-06-1505-OA.1.

Hamilton, T.E., Barnhart, D., Gow, K., Ferrer, F., Kandel, J., Glick, R., Dasgupta, R., Naranjo, A., He, Y., Gratias, E., Geller, J., Mullen, E., and Ehrlich, P. (2014). Inter-rater Reliability of Surgical Reviews for AREN03B2: A COG Renal Tumor Committee Study. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 49(1): 154-158. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2013.09.047.

Karlsson, J., Mengelbier, L.H., Ciornei, C., Naranjo, A., O’Sullivan, M.J., and Gisselsson, D. (2014). Clear Cell Sarcoma of the Kidney Demonstrates an Embryonic Signature Indicative of a Primitive Nephrogenic Origin. Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer 53(5): 381-91. DOI: 10.1002/gcc.22149.

Libes, J.M., Seeley, E.H., Li, M., Axt, J.R., Pierce, J., Correa, H., Newton, M., Hansen, E., N’Dungu, J., Oruko, O., Githanga, J., Abdullah, F., Musimbi, J., Njuguna, F., Patel, K., Ellsworth, G., Mwachiro, M., White, R., Judd, A., McDonald, H., Caprioli, R.M., Naranjo, A., Huff, V., O’Neill, J.A., and Lovvorn, H.N. (2014). Race Disparities in  Peptide Profiles of North American and Kenyan Wilms Tumor Specimens. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 218(4): 707-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2013.12.044.

Ferrer, F.A., Herbst, K.W., Fernandez, C.V., Khanna, G., Dome, J.S., Naranjo, A., Mullen, E.A., Geller, J.I., Gratias, E., Shamberger, R., Ritchey, M., and Ehrlich, P.F. (2014). Feasibility of Using CT Volume as a Predictor of Specimen Weight in a Subgroup of Patients with Low Risk Wilms Tumors Registered on COG Study AREN03B2: Implications for Central Venous Catheter Placement. Journal of Pediatric Urology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.02.006.

Servaes, S., Khanna, G., Naranjo, A., Geller, J.I., Ehrlich, P., Gow, K., Perlman, E., Dome, J.S., and Mullen, E. (2014).  Comparison of Diagnostic Performance of CT and MRI for Abdominal Staging of Pediatric Renal Tumors: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Pediatric Radiology. DOI: 10.1007/s00247-014-3138-2.

Qinglin Pei, Ph.D.

George SZ, Beneciuk JM, Bialosky JE, Lentz TA, Zeppieri G Jr, Pei Q, Wu SS,  Development of a Review-of-Systems Screening Tool for Orthopaedic Physical Therapists: Results From the Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome (OSPRO) Cohort, Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, July, 2015, 45(7):512-26.

Liphart J, Gallichio J, Tilson JK, Pei Q, Wu SS, Duncan PW. Concordance and discordance between measured and perceived balance and the effect on gait speed and falls following stroke, Clinical Rehabilitation, March, 2015

Bega D, Wu SS, Pei Q, Schmidt PN, Simuni T.  Recognition and Treatment of Depressive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease: The NPF Dataset, Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, July, 2014, 4(4):639-43

Simuni T, Schmidt PN, Weaver FM, Pei Q, Kletzel SL. Utilization And Effectiveness Of Cognitive Enhancers In Parkinson’s Disease: NPF Registry, Movement Discorder, June, 2014, 8-1

Williams CL, McIntyre JC, Norris SR, Jenkins PM, Zhang L, Pei Q, Verhey K, Martens JR. Direct evidence for Bbsome-associated intraflagellar transport reveals distinct properties of native mammalian cilia, Nature Communications, December, 2014

Pei Q, Zuleger CL, Boswick BL , Albertini MR and Newton MA. A Conditional predictive p-value to compare a multinomial with an overdispersed multinomial in the analysis of T-cell populations. Biostatistics, January, 2014 , 15(1): 129-39.

Peihua Qiu, PhD

Qiu, P. (2014), Introduction to Statistical Process Control, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Kang, Y.*, and Qiu, P. (2014), “Jump Detection In Blurred Regression Surfaces,” Technometrics, 56, 539–550.

Li, Z., and Qiu, P. (2014), “Statistical Process Control Using Dynamic Sampling,” Technometrics, 56, 325–335.

Qiu, P. (2014), “Editor’s Report,” Technometrics, 56, 417–418.

Qiu, P. (2014), “Technometrics Highlights: Regression Diagnostics, Control Charts, and Bayesian Methods Featured in August Issue,” Amstat News, August 2014, online.

Qiu, P., and Xiang, D. (2014), “Statistical Process Screening System: An Approach For Dynamically Identifying Irregular Individuals,” Technometrics, vol.56, 248–260.

Ka-Young Park and Peihua Qiu, (2014) Model Selection and Diagnostics For Joint Modeling Of Survival And Longitudinal Data With Crossing Hazard Rate Functions. Statistics in Medicine, vol. 33:26, 20 November 2014, 4532-4546. DOI: 10.1002/sim.6259

Samuel Wu, Ph.D.

Okun, MS, Wu SS, Fayad S, Ward H, Bowers D, Rosado C, Bowen L, Jacobson C, Butson C, Foote KD. (2014). Acute and chronic mood and apathy outcomes from a randomized study of unilateral STN and GPi DBS. PLoS One. 9(12):e114140. (PMID: 25469706)

Nadeau SE, Rose DK, Dobkin B, Wu SS, Dai YE, Schofield R, Duncan PW; The LEAPS Investigative Team. (2014). Likelihood of myocardial infarction during stroke rehabilitation preceded by cardiovascular screening and an exercise tolerance test: the Locomotor Experience Applied Post-Stroke (LEAPS) Trial. Int J Stroke. 9(8):1097-104. (PMID: 25156340)

Waid-Ebbs JK, Daly J, Wu SS, Berg WK, Bauer RM, Perlstein WM, Crosson B. (2014). Response to goal management training in veterans with blast-related mild traumatic brain injury. J Rehabil Res Dev. 51(10):1555-66. (PMID: 25860148)

Okun, MS, Wu SS, Jennings D, Marek K, Rodriguez RL, Fernandez HH. (2014). Testosterone level and the effect of levodopa and agonists in early Parkinson disease: results from the INSPECT cohort. Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders. 1:8.

Valencia C, Fillingim RB, Bishop M,Wu SS, Wright TW, Moser M, Farmer K, George SZ. (2014). Investigation of central pain processing in post-operative shoulder pain and disability. Clin J Pain. 30(9):775-86. (PMID: 24042347)

George SZ, Parr JJ, Wallace MR, Wu SS, Borsa PA, Dai Y, Fillingim RB. (2014). Inflammatory genes and psychological factors predict induced shoulder pain phenotype. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 46(10):1871-81. (PMID: 24598699)

Nadeau SE, Davis SE, Wu SS, Dai Y, Richards LG. (2014). A pilot randomized controlled trial of d-cycloserine and distributed practice as adjuvants to constraint-induced movement therapy after stroke. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 28(9): 885-95. (PMID: 24769437)

Wu SS, Tu Y, He Y. (2014). Testing for efficacy in adaptive clinical trials with enrichment. Statistics in Medicine. 33(16):2736-45. (PMID: 24577792)

Bega D, Wu SS, Pei Q, Schmidt PN, Simuni T. (2014). Recognition and treatment of depressive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease: the NPF dataset. J Parkinsons Dis. 165: 1-8. (PMID: 25038641)

Nadeau SE, Bowers D, Jones TL, Wu SS, Triggs WJ, Heilman KM. (2014). Cognitive effects of treatment of depression with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cogn Behav Neurol. 27(2):77-87. (PMID: 24968008)

Dobkin BH, Nadeau SE, Behrman AL, Wu SS, Rose DK, Bowden M, Stidenski S, Lu X, Duncan PW. (2014). Prediction of responders to the interventions of the Locomotor Experience Applied Post Stroke trial. Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development. 51(1):39-50. (PMID: 24805892)

Clark DJ, Reid KF, Patten C, Phillips EM, Ring SA, Wu SS, Fielding RA. (2014). Does quadriceps neuromuscular activation capability explain walking speed in older men and women? Exp Gerontol. 55: 49-53 (PMID: 24703887)

O’Dell M, Dunning K., Kluding P, Wu SS, Feld J, Ginosian J, McBride K. (2014). Response and prediction of improvement in gait speed from functional electrical stimulation in persons with poststroke drop foot. PM&R. 6(7): 587-601. (PMID: 24412265)

George SZ, Parr J, Wallace MR, Wu SS, Borsa PA, Dai Y, Fillingim RB. (2014). Biopsychosocial influence on exercise-induced injury: genetic and psychological combinations are predictive of shoulder pain phenotypes. J Pain. 15(1):68-80. (PMID: 24373571)

Nutt JG, Siderowf AD, Guttman M, Schmidt PN, Zamudio JI, Wu SS, Okun MS, Simuni T, Parashos SA, Dahodwala NA, Davis TL, Giladi N, Gurevich T, Hauser RA, Jankovic J, Lyons KE, Marsh L, Miyasaki JM, Morgan JC, Santiago AJ, Tarsy D, Mari Z, Malaty IA, Nelson EC; National Parkinson Foundation Quality Improvement Initiative Investigators. (2014). Mobility, mood and site of care impact health related quality of life in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 20(3):274-9. (PMID: 24182524)

Barak S, Wu SS, Dai Y, Duncan PW, Behrman AL, for The LEAPS Investigative Team. (2014). Adherence to accelerometry measurement of community ambulation poststroke. Physical Therapy. 94(1):101-10. (PMID: 24029299)

Childs JD, Wu SS, Teyhen DS, Robinson ME, George SZ. (2014). Prevention of low back pain in the military cluster randomized trial: effects of brief psychosocial education on total and low back pain-related health care costs. Spine J. 14(4):571-83. (PMID: 23608562)

Nadeau SE, Lu X, Dobkin B, Wu SS, Dai YE, Duncan PW; LEAPS Investigative Team. (2014). A prospective test of the late effects of potentially antineuroplastic drugs in a stroke rehabilitation study. Int J Stroke. 9(4):449-56. (PMID: 23088350)

Wu SS, Chen SG, Burr D, and Zhang L. New Technologies for Full Privacy Protection in Data Collection and Analysis, in Proceedings of 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August 2014.

Yang Yang, Ph.D.

Sugimoto JD, Allen AL, Kenah EE, Halloran ME, Chowdhury F, Khan AI, LaRocque RC, Yang Y, Ryan ET, Qadri F, Calderwood SB, Harris JB and Longini IM. Household Transmission of Vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh. PLoS NTD. 2014; 8: e3314

Tran CH, Sugimoto DJ, Pulliam JRC, Ryan KA, Myers PD, Castleman JB, Doty R, Johnson J, Stringfellow J, Kovacevich N, Brew J, Cheung LL, Caron B, Lipori G, Harle CA, Alexander C, Yang Y, Longini MI, Halloran ME, Morris JG and Small PA. School-located influenza vaccination reduces community risk for influenza-like illness emergence care visits. PLoS One. 2014; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114479.

Yang Y, Halloran ME, Chen Y and Kenah E. A Pathway EM-Algorithm for Estimating Vaccine Efficacy with a Non-Monotone Validation Set. Biometrics. 2014; 70: 568-578

Zhou Y-B, Wang Q-X, Liang S, Gong Y-H, Nie S-J, Nan L, Yang A-H, Liang Q, Yang Y, Song X-X, Jiang Q-W. HIV-, HCV-, and Co-Infections and Associated Risk Factors among Drug Users in Southwestern China: A Township-Level Ecological Study Incorporating Spatial Regression. PLoS One. 2014; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093157

Baming Zou, Ph.D.

S.E. Borst, J.F. Yarrow, C. Fernandez, C.F. Conover, F. Ye, J.R. Meuleman, M. Morrow, B. Zou, and J.J. Shuster (2014). “Cognitive E_ects of Testosterone and Finasteride Administration in Older Hypogonadal Men”. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2014(9): 1327-1333.

L.A. Beggs, J.F. Yarrow, C.F. Conover, J.R. Meuleman, D.T. Beck, M. Morrow, B. Zou, J.J.Shuster, S.E. Borst (2014). “Testosterone Alters Iron Metabolism and Stimulates Red Blood Cell Production Independently of Dihydrotestosterone”. Journals of the American Physiological Society, 307(5): E456-461.

S.E. Borst, J.J. Shuster, B. Zou, F. Ye, H. Jia, A. Wokhlu, J.F. Yarro (2014).  ”Cardiovascular Risks and Elevation of Serum DHT Vary by Route of Testosterone Administration: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”. BMC Medicine, 12:211: 1-16.