As the Statistician Manager for The University of Iowa College of Nursing, I provide dedicated support for the research efforts of collegiate faculty. My office is located within the College of Nursing, and I supervise a Data Manager who assists faculty in developing and managing databases and graduate nursing students who assist with data cleaning and basic analyses. In addition, I partner with College of Nursing grants management staff in developing grant proposals. I have performed statistical analyses for a variety of experimental and observational studies, including developing models for longitudinal data with complex hierarchical structures
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The effect of work shift and sleep duration on various aspects of police officers' health (with Sandra L. Ramey, M. Moon, L. Budde, H. C. Tseng, and M. Kathleen Clark), Workplace health & safety (2012)
Police officers are prone to cardiovascular disease, overweight, and obesity. Because night-shift work affects sleep,...
A Practical First Step to Integrating Genetics Into the Curriculum (with Sandra Daack-Hirsch, Martha Driessnack, R. Furukawa, and A. Ramirez), The Journal of nursing education (2012)
We conducted a systematic literature review to identify tools that could be used to measure...
Relationship of cardiovascular disease to stress and vital exhaustion in an urban, midwestern police department (with Sandra L. Ramey, Nancy R. Downing, and Kennith Culp), AAOHN journal (2011)
This study explored risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) among 336 officers of a Midwestern...
Relationships Among Stress Measures, Risk Factors and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Law Enforcement Officers (with Sandra L. Ramey, Nancy R. Downing, W. D. Franke, and M. H. Alasagheirin), Biological research for nursing (2011)
Law enforcement officers suffer higher morbidity and mortality rates from all causes than the general...