Dr. Stephanie Dixon received her MSc (2004) and PhD (2009) in statistics at the
University of Guelph under the supervision of Dr. Gerarda Darlington. In the fall of
2007, she came to the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UWO to work with
Dr. Allan Donner as a research associate, a collaborative position with the Population
Health Intervention Research Centre at the University of Calgary. In this role she was
involved in research relevant to population health, namely statistical methods for
correlated observations, with a focus on community-intervention trials. Additionally, she
contributed to collaborative research on a school-based mental-health trial (University
of Calgary) and ethical considerations in public health (University of Ottawa). 

In December 2009, Stephanie was awarded postdoctoral funding through the Ministry of
Research and Innovation to develop methodology for cluster randomization trials with
time-to-event outcomes. Additionally, Stephanie has been actively involved with the UWO
community as President of the Postdoctoral Association at Western
(http://www.postdocs.uwo.ca/).

Articles

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Impact of CONSORT Extension for Cluster Randomised Trials on Quality of Reporting and Study Methodology: Review of Random Sample of 300 Trials, 2000-8 (with N. M. Ivers, M. Taljaard, C. Bennett, A. McRae, J. Taleban, Z. Skea, J. C. Brehaut, R. F. Boruch, M. P. Eccles, J. M. Grimshaw, Charles Weijer, M. Zwarenstein, and A. Donner), British Medical Journal (2011)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of the 2004 extension of the CONSORT guidelines on the...

 

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Inadequate Reporting of Research Ethics Review and Informed Consent in Cluster Randomised Trials: Review of Random Sample of Published Trials (with Monica Taljaard, Andrew D. McRae, Charles Weijer, Carol Bennett, Julia Taleban, Zoe Skea, Martin P Eccles, Jamie C. Brehaut, Allan Donner, Raphael Saginur, Robert F. Boruch, and Jeremy M. Grimshaw), British Medical Journal (2011)

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the extent to which authors of cluster randomised trials adhered to two...

 

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Multiple Decrement Modeling in the Presence of Interval Censoring and Masking (with Peter Adamic and Daniel Gillis), Scandinavian Actuarial Journal (2010)

A self-consistent algorithm will be proposed to non-parametrically estimate the cause-specific cumulative incidence functions (CIFs)...

 

Forthcoming Articles

A competing risk model for correlated data based on the subdistribution hazard (with G. Darlington and A. Desmond) (2011)
 

Applying a marginalized frailty model to competing risks (with G. Darlington and V. Edge) (2011)