Susan Paddock - Curriculum Vitae
Susan M. Paddock    RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 USA tel: (310) 393-0411 ext. 7628 email: paddock at rand dot org web: http://www.susanpaddock.net Citizenship: USA   Education Ph.D. Statistics, Duke University, 1999       M.S. Statistics, Duke University, 1997 B.A. (summa cum laude) Mathematics & Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 1994   Professional Positions 2008–present Head, Statistics Group, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica CA 2007–present Senior Statistician, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica CA 2006–present Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School 2004–present Statistician, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica CA 1999–2003 Associate Statistician, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica CA 1996–1999 Research Assistant, ISDS, Duke University, Durham NC 1998–1998 Summer Intern, AT&T Laboratories, Florham Park NJ 1997 summer Research Assistant, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, RTP NC 1996 summer Summer Intern, Chemoinformatics Group, Glaxo Wellcome, RTP NC 1994–1995 Actuarial Intern, EW Blanch Company, Bloomington MN 1993–1994 Undergraduate Intern, Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota    Research Interests   Statistical methodology: Bayesian methodology; Bayesian nonparametrics; hierarchical (multilevel) models; longitudinal analysis; missing data; multiple imputation; non-ignorable nonresponse; prior elicitation   Substantive areas: Drug policy; health care policy; Medicare; mental health; patient safety; substance abuse treatment and preventions   Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles   Tanielian T. Jaycox L, Paddock SM, Chandra A, Meredith L, Burnam MA (to appear). Improving Treatment Seeking Among Adolescents with Depression: Understanding Readiness for Treatment. Journal of Adolescent Health. Jaycox LH, Stein BD, Paddock S, Miles JNV, Chandra A, Meredith LS, Tanielian T, Hickey S, Burnam MA (2009). Impact of Teen Depression on Academic, Social, and Physical Functioning, Pediatrics, to appear. Meredith LS, Stein BD, Paddock SM, Jaycox LH, Quinn VP, Chandra A, Burnam A. (to appear) “Perceived Barriers to Treatment for Adolescent Depression,” Medical Care. Hunter SB, Paddock SM, Ebener P, Burkhart AR, Chinman M (2009). Promoting Evidence Based Practices: The adoption of a prevention support system in community settings. Journal of Community Psychology, 37(5), 579-593. Polsky D, Doshi JA, Escarce J, Manning W, Paddock SM, Cen L, Rogowski J (2009) The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured. Health Services Research, 44 (3), 926-945. Lin R, Louis TA, Paddock SM, Ridgeway G (2009) Ranking USRDS provider specific SMRs from 1998-2001. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 9, 22-38. Paddock SM, Ebener P (2009) Subjective prior distributions for modeling longitudinal continuous outcomes with non-ignorable dropout. Statistics in Medicine, 28, 659-678. Nuckols TK, Bell DS, Paddock SM, Hillborne LH (2009) Comparing Process-Oriented and Outcome-Oriented Approaches to Voluntary Incident Reporting in Two Hospitals. Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches, 35(3), 139-145. Nuckols TK, Bell D, Paddock SM, Hillbourne LH (2008) Contributing factors identified by hospital incident report narratives.  Quality and Safety in Health Care, 17, 368-372. Nuckols TK, Bower AG, Paddock SM, Hilborne LH, Wallace P, Rothschild JM, Griffin A, Fairbanks RJ, Carlson B, Panzer RJ, Brook RH (2008) Programmable infusion pumps in ICUs: An analysis of corresponding adverse drug events. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23 Suppl. 1, 41-45. Chandra A, Marshall GN, Shetty V, Paddock SM, Wong EC, Zatzick D, Luo G, Yamashita D-DR (2008) Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Care Following Treatment For Orofacial Injury at a Large, Urban Medical Center: Concordance of Patient and Provider Perspectives.  Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care, 65(1), 196-202. Chinman M, Hunter SB, Ebener P, Paddock SM, Stillman L, Imm P, Wandersman A (2008)  The Getting To Outcomes Demonstration and Evaluation: An Illustration of the Prevention Support System.  American Journal of Community Psychology, 41, 206-224. Nuckols TK, Paddock SM, Bower AG, Rothschild JM, Fairbanks RJ, Carlson B, Panzer RJ, Hilborne LH (2008) Costs of Intravenous Adverse Drug Events in Academic and Non-academic ICUs.  Medical Care, 46(1), 17-24. Paddock SM (2007) Bayesian Variable Selection for Longitudinal Substance Abuse Treatment Data Subject to Informative Censoring (corr. 57(2), 251-252).  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 56, 293-311 Paddock SM, Edelen MO, Wenzel SL, Ebener P, Mandell W, Dahl J (2007) Measuring Changes in Client-Level Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community with the Dimensions of Change Instrument.  American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 33(4) 537-546. Nuckols TK, Bell D, Liu H, Paddock SM, Hillbourne LH (2007) Rates and Types of Events Reported to Established Incident Reporting Systems in Two U.S. Hospitals.  Quality and Safety in Health Care, 16, 164-168 Edelen MO, Tucker JS, Wenzel SL, Paddock SM, Dahl J (2007) Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community: Associations with Retention and Outcomes among Adolescent Residential Clients Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 32, 415-421   Paddock SM, Escarce JJ, Hayden O, Buntin MB (2007) Did the Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Result in Changes in Relative Patient Severity and Relative Resource Use? Medical Care, 45(2), 123-130   Lin R, Louis TA, Paddock SM, Ridgeway G (2006) Loss Function Based Ranking in Two-Stage, Hierarchical Models. Bayesian Analysis, 1(4), 915-946   Paddock SM, Ridgeway G, Lin R, Louis, TA (2006) Flexible Distributions for Triple-Goal Estimates in Two-Stage Hierarchical Models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 50(11), 3243-3262   Watkins KE, Paddock SM, Zhang L, Wells K (2006) Improving Care for Depression in Patients with Comorbid Substance Misuse.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 163, 125-132 D’Amico EJ, Paddock SM, Burnam A, and Kung FY (2005) Identification of and Guidance for Problem Drinking by General Medical Providers: Results from a National Survey.  Medical Care, 43(3), 229-236   Beeuwkes Buntin M, Datar Garten A, Paddock SM, Saliba D, Totten M, Escarce JJ (2005)  How Much is Post-Acute Care Use Affected by its Availability?  Health Services Research, 40(2), 413-434   Paddock SM, Wynn BO, Carter GM, Beeuwkes Buntin M (2004) Identifying and Accommodating Statistical Outliers when Setting Prospective Payment Rates for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities.  Health Services Research, 39(6), 1859-1880   Galvan FH, Collins R, Burnam MA, Kanouse DE, Paddock SM, Beckman R, Mitchell S (2004) Abuse in the Close Relationships of People with HIV.  Aids & Behavior, 8(4), 441-451   Watkins KE, Hunter SB, Wenzel SL, Tu W, Paddock, SM, Griffin A, Ebener P (2004) Prevalence and Characteristics of Clients with Co-occurring Disorders in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment.  American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 30(4) 749-764   Buchanan JL. Andres P, Haley SM, Paddock SM, and Zaslavsky A. (2004) Evaluating the Planned Substitution of the Minimum Data Set-Post Acute Care for Use in the Rehabilitation Hospital Prospective Payment System. Medical Care, 42(2), 155-163   Caulkins JP, Pacula RL, Paddock S, Chiesa J (2004). What We Can – And Cannot – Expect From School-Based Drug Prevention. Drug and Alcohol Review, 23, 79-87   Buchanan JL, Andres P, Haley SM, Paddock SM, Zaslavsky A. (2003) An Assessment Tool Translation Study. Health Care Financing Review, 24(3), 45-60   Paddock SM, Ruggeri, F, Lavine M, West M (2003) Randomized Polya Tree Models for Nonparametric Bayesian Inference. Statistica Sinica, 13(2), 443-460   Paddock SM (2002) Bayesian Nonparametric Multiple Imputation of Partially Observed Data with Ignorable Nonresponse. Biometrika, 89(3), 529-538   Morral AR, McCaffrey DF, Paddock SM (2002) Reassessing the Marijuana Gateway Effect (with Discussion).  Addiction, 97, 1493-1503 Watkins KE, Burnam MA, Kung FY, Paddock SM (2001) Care for Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: A National Sample. Psychiatric Services, 52(8) 1062-1068 Tengs T, Winer E, Paddock SM, Aguilar Chavez O, Berry DA (1998) Testing for the BRCA1 Breast-Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Gene: A Decision Analysis. Medical Decision Making, 18(4), 365-380 Peer-Reviewed Reports & Chapters Paddock SM, Escarce JJ, Hayden O, Beeuwkes Buntin M (2005)  Changes in Patient Severity Following Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System. TR-258-CMS, RAND    Paddock SM, Wynn BO, Carter GM, Zhou AJ (2005) Possible refinements to facility-level payment adjustments for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System. TR-219-CMS, RAND   Carter GM, Paddock SM (2005) Preliminary Analyses of Changes in Coding and Case Mix Under the Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System.  TR-213-CMS, RAND    Beeuwkes Buntin M, Carter GM, Hayden O, Hoverman C, Paddock SM, Wynn BO (2005) Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Care Use Before and After Implementation of the IRF Prospective Payment System.  TR-257-CMS, RAND    Beeuwkes Buntin M, Escarce JJ, Hoverman C, Paddock SM, Totten M, Wynn BO (2005)  Effects of Payment Changes on Trends in Access to Post-Acute Care. TR-259-CMS, RAND    Caulkins J, Pacula RL, Arkes J, Reuter P, Paddock S, Iguchi M, Riley J (2004) The Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs:  1981 through the Second Quarter of 2003.  Office of National Drug Control Policy, Washington DC: Executive Office of the President (Publication Number NCJ 207768)    Arkes J, Pacula RL, Paddock S, Caulkins J, Reuter P (2004) Technical Report for the Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs Through 2003.  Office of National Drug Control Policy,  Washington DC: Executive Office of the President (Publication Number NCJ 207769)   Buchanan JL, Andres P, Haley S, Paddock SM, Young DC, Zaslavsky A (2002) Final Report on Assessment Instruments for a Prospective Payment System. MR-1501-CMS, RAND   Buchanan JL, Andres P, Haley S, Paddock SM, Young DC, Zaslavsky A (2002) Final Report on Assessment Instruments for a  Prospective Payment System: Appendices.  MR-1501/1-CMS, RAND   Carter GM, Beeuwkes Buntin M, Hayden O, Kawata JH, Paddock SM, Relles DA, Ridgeway G, Totten ME, Wynn BO (2002) Analyses for the Initial Implementation of Medicare’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System. MR-1500-CMS, RAND    Carter GM, Beeuwkes Buntin M, Hayden O, Kawata J, Paddock SM, Relles D, Ridgeway G, Totten M, Wynn BO (2002) Executive Summary of Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System. MR-1500/1-CMS, RAND   Caulkins JP, Pacula RL, Paddock SM, Chiesa J (2002) School-Based Drug Prevention: What Kind of Drug Use does it Prevent?  MR-1459-RWJ, RAND    Paddock SM, West M, Young SS, Clyde M (1998) Mixture Models in Exploration of Structure-Activity Relationships in Drug Design. Bayesian Statistics in Science and Technology: Case Studies 4, (eds: C. Gatsonis et al), Springer-Verlag, New York   Non-Peer Reviewed Articles and Technical Reports    Arkes J, Pacula RL, Paddock SM, Caulkins JP, Reuter P. (2008) Why the DEA Stride data are still useful for understanding drug markets. Working Paper 14224, National Bureau of Economic Research. (http://www.nber.org/papers/w14224) Paddock SM, Edelen MO, Wenzel SL, Ebener P, Mandell W (2007)  Pattern-mixture models for addressing non-ignorable non-response in longitudinal substance abuse treatment studies.  WR-441-HLTH, RAND Corporation   Polsky D, Doshi JA, Escarce J, Manning W, Paddock SM, Cen L, Rogowski J (2006) The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured. NBER Working Paper No. 12511 (http://www.nber.org/papers/w12511)   Wenzel SL, Ebener PA, Watkins KE, Hunter S, Gilmore J, Griffin B, Paddock SM, Tu W (2006). A collaboration between researchers and practitioners to improve care for co-occurring mental health disorders in outpatient substance abuse treatment. WR-328, RAND (http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2006/RAND_WR328.pdf)   Lin R, Louis TA, Paddock SM, Ridgeway G (2006) Ranking USRDS Provider-Specific SMRs from 1998-2001. http://www.bepress.com/jhubiostat/paper67/ Beeuwkes Buntin M, Partha D, Escarce J, Hoverman C, Paddock S, Sood N (2005) Comparison of Medicare Spending and Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Lower Extremity Joint Replacements. WR-271-MedPac, RAND (http://www.rand.org/publications/WR/WR271/)   Paddock SM (2003) A Bayesian Instrumental Variables Model with a Categorical Endogenous Covariate.  Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 3160-3162   Carter GM, Hayden O, Paddock SM, Wynn BO (2003)  Case Mix Certification Rule for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities. DRU-2981-CMS, RAND   Beeuwkes Buntin M, Carter GM, Escarce J, Hayden O, Labor R, Paddock S, Popovic J, Relles D, Ridgeway G, Saliba D, Totten M, Wynn, B (2003). Workplan for the Monitoring and Refinement of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System – Year 2.  DRU-2940-CMS, RAND Beeuwkes Buntin M, Carter GM, Buchanan J, Hayden O, Paddock S, Relles DA, Ridgeway G, Saliba D, Totten M, Wynn B (2002) Workplan for the Monitoring and Refinement of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System.  DRU-2769-CMS, RAND   Ebener P, Paddock S, Khosla S, McCaffrey D, Chien S (2001)  Assessing Need for Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Among the California Household Population.  DRU-2740, RAND   Carter GM, Relles DA, Wynn BO, Kawata JH, Paddock SM, Sood N, Totten ME (2000)  Interim Report on an Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System. DRU-2309-HCFA, RAND   Paddock S, Abrams J, Muss H, Aisner J, Berry DA (1998) Choosing Dose of Megestrol Acetate in Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Bayesian Approach to Clinical Problem Solving. Discussion Paper 98-12, ISDS Duke University Commentaries & Media   Quoted inThe Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124821547930269995.html), July 22, 2009 Polsky D, Doshi JA, Thompson CE, Paddock S (2005) Differential Loss to Follow-up by Insurance Status in the Health and Retirement Study: Implications for National Estimates on Health Insurance Coverage.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 165, 2537-2538   Ghosh Dastidar B, Paddock S (2005) Comment on “The impact of technology on the scientific method.”  Chance, 18, 9-12   Congressional Testimony   School-Based Drug Prevention and Other Strategies to Reduce Drug Use.  Oregon State House and Senate Judiciary Committees, March 2005. Documented in RAND Publication CT-237 Presentations   An Alternative Framework for Measuring the Economic Cost of Drug Abuse College on Problems of Drug Dependence, San Juan, Puerto Rico 6/08 Using Microsimulation Modeling to Capture Heterogeneity in Marijuana Use International Society for the Study of Drug Policy Conference, Lisbon, 3/08 College on Problems of Drug Dependence, San Juan, Puerto Rico 6/08 A Statistician in Public Policy Research Panelist at Careers Day, Southern California American Statistical Association, Duarte CA 3/08 Subjective Prior Distributions for Modeling Change in Substance Abuse Treatment Process Scores with Non-Ignorable Dropout Poster at Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics 9 Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, 10/07 Bayesian Variable Selection for Analyzing Longitudinal Substance Abuse Treatment Data Subject to Informative Censoring WNAR/IMS Meeting, 6/07 Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, Salt Lake City, 7/07 University of Nevada at Reno Department of Resource Economics, 11/07 UCLA Department of Biostatistics, 12/07 Assessing Multiple Inferential Goals Using Flexible Prior Distributions in Two-Stage Hierarchical Models Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics & Statistics, St. Louis, MO 5/07 Discussion of “Improving FBI Crime & Homicide Databases”     American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Los Angeles CA 11/06   Hierarchical Modeling of Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Responses to Prospective Payment     International Conference on Health Policy Research, Boston MA 10/05   Addressing Missing Data Bias in Longitudinal Health Services Research Studies:  Pattern-mixture Models for Measuring Substance Abuse Treatment Process     Addiction Health Services Research Meeting, Santa Monica, CA 10/05    School-Based Drug Prevention and Other Strategies for Reducing Drug Use (Invited) Methamphetamine community training: “Meth in Your Communities  – What Can YOU Do About It?” Salem, Oregon, 3/05 Chamber of Commerce, Salem, Oregon 3/05    Flexible Prior Distributions and Triple-Goal Estimates in Two-Stage Hierarchical Models     Invited Talk, UCLA Biostatistics Seminar, 11/04     Invited Talk, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1/05     Contributed Talk, WNAR Regional Meeting, Fairbanks AK, 6/05     Invited Talk, Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, Minneapolis, 8/05     Invited Talk, Baskin School of Engineering, Applied Math & Statistics, UC Santa Cruz, 1/06    Advances and Applications in Causal Inference Session Discussant and Organizer, Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, Toronto 8/04    Loss Function Based Ranking in Two-Stage, Hierarchical Models     International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Viña del Mar, Chile 5/04    Propensity Score Methods     Invited Talk to Journal Club, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, UCLA, 9/03    A Bayesian Instrumental Variables Analysis With a Categorical Endogenous Covariate     Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, San Francisco, CA 8/03    Characterizing Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities by Patterns of Care     AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Nashville, TN 6/03    Identifying and Accommodating Unduly Influential Facilities in Developing a Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Rehabilitation Care International Society for Bayesian Analysis Meeting, Tenerife, Spain 6/02 Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, New York City 8/02    A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Multiple Imputation of Partially Observed Data     Invited Talk, New Researcher's Conference, International Mathematical Society 8/01     Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association 8/01     International Society for Bayesian Analysis Regional Meeting, Laguna Beach, CA 4/01     Invited Talk, UCLA Biostatistics Seminar, 11/00   Randomized Polya Trees: Bayesian Nonparametrics for Multivariate Data Analysis     Invited Talk, Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, 8/00     Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association,  8/99     Invited Talk, Royal Statistical Society Workshop on Nonparametric Bayes, 7/99     Invited Talk, RAND Statistics Group, 1/99     Invited Talk, UCLA Department of Biostatistics, 1/99     Invited Talk, University of Minnesota Department of Statistics, 1/99     Invited Talk, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Statistics, 2/99     Invited Talk, University of Connecticut Department of  Statistics, 2/99     Invited Talk, AT&T Shannon Laboratories Statistics Group, 2/99     Invited Talk, Los Alamos National Laboratory Statistics Group, 2/99     Invited Talk, University of Washington Department of Statistics, 2/99    Determining Customer Availability     Summer Intern Talk, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ 8/98    Exploring Multivariate Data Structures using Nonparametric Bayesian Trees     6th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, Spain 6/98    Mixture Models of Chemical Activity and Binding in Drug Design Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics 4, Carnegie Mellon University, 9/97 Readings in Statistical Science, ISDS Duke University, 9/97 Graduate Student Seminar Series, ISDS Duke University, 2/97    Teaching Experience Pardee RAND Graduate School, Instructor:     - Empirical Analysis II (Regression), Winter 2007 & Winter 2008 RAND Corporation Statistics Short Course Series, Instructor:     - Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, April 2003     - Introduction to Regression Diagnostics, August 2008 Duke University - Teaching Assistant:     - Applied Regression Analysis, Spring 1997     - Statistics for Public Policy Makers, Fall 1996     - Introduction to Statistics, Fall 1995   Editorial Positions   Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association – Applications & Case Studies, 2010-present Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2007-present Statistical Reviewer, Medical Care, 2004-2008 Corresponding Editor, International Society for Bayesian Analysis Newsletter, 2001-2003   Refereeing   Biometrics, Health Policy, Health Services Research, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Medical Care, Statistics in Medicine, Survey Methodology    Grant Review   Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality Review Panel of Ambulatory Care Patient Safety Proactive Risk Assessment (HS-07-003), May 2007 National Institute of Mental Health Review Panels:  Review of applications for RFA-MH-06-001: Antidepressant Use and Suicidality, 2006 Review of applications for PA-06-154: Collaborative R01s for Clinical and Services Studies of Mental Disorders and AIDS, 2006 Reviewer of grants for the ASA/Bureau of Justice Statistics Small Grant Program, 2004-07   Professional Affiliations   American Statistical Association: Section on Bayesian Statistical Science Section on Nonparametric Statistics Section on Government and Social Statistics Section on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Health Policy in Statistics Section Survey Research Methods Section Southern California Chapter International Society for Bayesian Analysis Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society   Organizing Roles in Scientific Meetings   • Program Chair, Health Policy in Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, 2010 • Program Committee Member, 8th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), to be held January 2010 in Washington, DC • Program Chair-Elect, Health Policy in Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, 2009 • Program Committee Member, 7th International Conference on Health Policy Research (ICHPR), to be held January 2008 in Philadelphia, PA • Topic Contributed Session Organizer, “Bayesian Methods for Longitudinal or Survival Data with Missing Data,” Joint Statistical Meetings, ASA, Salt Lake City 7/07 • Member, ASA Southern California Chapter, Annual Workshop Organizing Committee, 2007-2008 • Program Committee Member and Session Organizer, “Defense & Security,” Interface 2006, Pasadena CA • Topic Contributed Session Organizer and Discussant, “Advances and Applications in Causal Inference,” Joint Statistical Meetings, ASA, Toronto 8/04   Grants and Contracts   “Enhancing Prevention Capacity with Developmental Assets and Getting to Outcomes.” National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant 5R01DA023277; 6/1/08-3/31/13. Role: Statistician (M. Chinman, PI) “Getting to Outcomes and Underage Drinking.” Centers for Disease Control, Grant 5R18CE001335, 4/1/08-3/31/11. Role: Statistician (M. Chinman, PI) “Evaluation of Services for Seriously Mentally Ill Patients in the Veterans Health Administration.” Subcontract from Altarum to RAND Corporation (Contract ALTARUM-6-25-06) of a Department of Veterans Affairs-funded contract, $4,993,438 (PI: Harold Pincus); 6/14/06-8/31/10. Role: Statistician (K. Watkins, PI) “Bayesian Pattern-Mixture Models For Quality Of Care Data.” Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Grant R03HS014805 , $99,951, 9/30/05-9/29/08.  Role: Principal Investigator “Group CBT for Depression and AOD Disorders.” National Institute on Drug Abuse, Grant R01DA02159, $1,424,184, 9/20/06-5/31/10. Role: Statistician (K. Watkins, PI)    “Group CBT for Depression in Clients with AOD Disorders.” National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA), Grant R01AA014699, $3,802,851, 9/20/05-6/30/10. Role: Statistician (K. Watkins, PI)    “Building Community Capacity to Conduct Effective Violence Prevention.”  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Grant, $899,184, 9/01/05-8/31/08.  Role: Statistician (M. Chinman, PI)    “Evaluating the Economic and Clinical Impact of MEDLEY Medication Smart IV Stem, with the Guardrail Safety Software.” Alaris Medical Systems, Inc. (now Cardinal Health), Contract 03-0122, $1,600,000, 4/15/03-12/31/05.  Role: Statistician (A. Bower, PI)    “Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Monitoring: Assess and Refinements.” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  Contract 500-2004-00033C, $767,552, 9/30/04-12/31/06.  Roles: Statistician; co-PI from 5/29/06-12/31/06 (M. Beeuwkes Buntin, PI).    “Life Cycle Effects of Health Insurance on Elderly Health.”  National Institutes of Aging.  Grant R01AG024451. 9/15/04-6/30/08. Role: Statistician (D. Polsky, PI)    “Hierarchical Models in Health Services Research. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.” Grant R01 DK61662, $299,916. 12/1/02-8/31/05; 8/1/07-7/30/10. Role: Co-Principal Investigator (T.A. Louis, PI)                                     “Improving Care for Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders.” Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration. Contract KD1TI12545, $319,668, 9/01/00 - 3/01/04. Role: Statistician (K. Watkins, PI)    Appointments and Elected Positions and Honors   Program Chair, Health Policy in Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, 2010 Member, American Statistical Association (ASA) Committee on Career Development, 2010-2012 Program Chair-Elect, Health Policy in Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, 2009 Media Expert, American Statistical Association, 2008- Member, American Statistical Association Committee on Law and Justice, 2004-2008 Secretary/Treasurer, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, American Statistical Association, 2004-2005 Graduate Fellowship and Scholarship, Duke University, 1995-1999 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Minnesota, 1994 Women's Club Scholarship, University of Minnesota, 1994 Waller Scholarship, University of Minnesota, 1992 President's Student Leadership Award, University of Minnesota, 1991 Presidential Scholarship, University of Minnesota, 1990-1992 President, Minnesota Freshman Council, University of Minnesota, 1990-1991   Service to the RAND Corporation Statistician Recruiting Committee, 2003-present Statistics Group Seminar Series organizer, 2000-2002 Mentor to 3 Ph.D. Statisticians, 2 M.S. 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