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Education and Training
| ScD
| 1989
| Harvard School of Public Health
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| BS
| 1985
| Fairfield University
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Professor of Clinical Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
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Biostatistics Resource Director, General Clinical Research Center
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| Dr. Melissa Begg's primary focus is the development and administration of training programs for clinical investigators. These training opportunities recognize the importance of sound research practices as the foundation for advancing medical treatments for a variety of conditions and disorders. Under her direction, the Clinical Research Methods (CRM) and Patient Oriented Research (POR) tracks (the latter of which is funded by a Clinical Research Curriculum Development Award from the NIH) provide formal, rigorous training in the design and analysis of human research studies. Candidates in these programs are clinicians who are pursuing careers in academic medicine. In addition to clinical research education, Dr. Begg has contributed to research in the areas of oral health, mental health, categorical data analysis, and statistical methods for analyzing clustered data, for which she also received an NIH award. Currently she serves as the director of the Biostatistics Resource for the Irving Clinical Research Center and NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center, where she provides advice and support on the conduct of clinical research studies. She also serves as the director of academic programs for the Department of Biostatistics.
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Selected Professional Affiliations |
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Member, International Biometric Society |
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Member, American Statistical Association |
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Elected member, Task Force on Design & Analysis, Inc. |
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Member, Society for Clinical Trials |
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Founding Member, Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy, CUMC |
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| Selected Honors and Awards |
| ▪ Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University, 2006 |
| ▪ Award for Teaching Excellence, Mailman School of Public Health, 2006 |
| ▪ FIRST Award, National Institutes of Health, 1995 |
| ▪ Calderone Prize, Columbia University, 1990 |
| ▪ Robert B. Reed Student Prize, Harvard University, 1988 |
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Selected Publications |
Brown AS, Begg MD, Gravenstein S, Schaefer CA, Wyatt RJ, Bresnahan M, Babulas V, Susser ES "Serologic evidence of prenatal influenza in the etiology of schizophrenia" Archives of General Psychiatry 61 774-780 2004
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Begg MD, Parides MK "Separation of individual-level and cluster-level covariate effects in regression analysis of correlated data" Statistics in Medicine 22 2591-2602 2003
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Panageas KS, Begg MD, Grbic JT, Lamster IB "Analysis of multiple 2x2 tables with site-specific periodontal data" Journal of Dental Research 82 514-517 2003
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Ahsan H, Hodge SE, Heiman GA, Begg MD, Susser ES "Relative risk for genetic associations: the case-parent triad as a variant of epidemiologic cohort designs" International Journal of Epidemiology 31 669-678 2002
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Matte TD, Bresnahan MA, Begg MD, Susser ES "The influence of birth weight variation in the normal range and within sibships on IQ at age 7" British Medical Journal 323 310-314 2001
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Begg MD, Paykin AB "Performance of and software for a modified Mantel-Haenszel statistic for correlated data" Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 70 175-195 2001
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Jacobson JS, Begg MD, Wang LW, Wang Q, Agarwal M, Norkus E, Singh VN, Young T-L, Yang D, Santella RM "Effects of a 6-month vitamin intervention on DNA damage in heavy smokers" Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 9 1303-1311 2000
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Vaughan RD, Begg MD "Methods for the analysis of paired binary data in school-based intervention studies" Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 24 367-383 1999
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Begg M "Analyzing k(2x2) tables under cluster sampling" Biometrics 55 302-307 1999
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Begg MD, Lamster IB, Panageas KS, Mitchell-Lewis D, Phelan JA, Grbic JT "A prospective study of oral lesions and their predictive value for progression of HIV disease" Oral Diseases 3 176-183 1997
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