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Christine Stidley, PhD –
Core Leader
Assistant Professor
1 University of New Mexico
Department of Family & Community Medicine
MSC09-5050
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505)272-8704
Fax: (505)272-4494
cstidley@salud.unm.edu
Christine
A. Stidley, PhD,
a
Biostatistician with over ten years of experience in medical and
epidemiologic research, serves as Leader of the Biostatistics Core.
Her primary research interests are in renal disease, breast and
lung cancer, and biostatistical methods in epidemiology. She is
currently a co-investigator on two NIH funded projects with Dr. Philip
Zager of Research Core I on research on renal disease, the Zuni Kidney
Project and the Zuni Kidney Project: Family Studies. These studies are
examining the epidemiology of kidney disease among the Zuni Indians, a
population with excessively high rates of kidney disease.
The first study is assessing the extent of the epidemic of renal
disease and examining potential risk factors, while the second study is
assessing possible genetic factors involved in the disease. Dr. Stidley
also collaborates with Drs. Steve Belinsky and Richard Crowell of
Research Core 2 on lung diseases, through the NIH funded project, Markers
for Lung Carcinogenesis in Bronchial Epithelium, and pilot projects.
Dr. Stidley also has conducted research on the effects of measurement
error in the assessment of the effects of radon exposure on lung cancer
risk. She has experience conducting research using large patient
databases, including renal disease using the patient database from
Dialysis Clinic Inc. and cancer research using the patient database from
Lovelace Health Systems, a health maintenance organization. This
research in renal disease has been done in collaboration with Dr. Philip
Zager of Research Core 1, while the cancer research has been done in
conjunction with Drs. Floyd Frost and Kristine Tollestrup of Research
Core 3. Dr. Stidley also is a member of Research Core 3.
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Edward J. Bedrick, PhD
Professor of Applied Statistics
1 University of New Mexico
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
MSC03-2150
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505)277-2911
Fax: (505)277-5505
bedrick@stat.unm.edu
Dr. Bedrick is a
Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, conducting
research on biostatistical methods and collaborating in biomedical
research.
He has developed statistical methods for use with logistic
regression models, including matched case-control studies; methods
for analyzing categorical data; methods for survival analysis,
including mixed models; and Bayesian methods.
Dr. Bedrick collaborates with Dr. Richard Crowell of Research Core 2
on risk factors for COPD. He also collaborates on research involving
brain imaging techniques. Previous research includes the development
of injury severity scoring in trauma. Dr. Bedrick also is director
of the UNM Statistics Clinic. He also works with the Albuquerque
High Performance Computing Center to enhance the statistical
capabilities of the research conducted by the center, including
genomic and other medical research.
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Margaret Ménache,
PhD
Research Assistant Professor
1 University of New Mexico
Department of Pediatrics
MSC10-5590
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 272-5551
mmenache@salud.unm.edu
Dr. Ménache is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Pediatrics.
Dr. Ménache has been working in the area of human health risk
assessment with an emphasis on respiratory effects of inhaled air
pollutants for over 20 years.
She has provided statistical collaborations for many human
health and animal toxicology studies performed by or for the US EPA.
Her research has focused on various aspects of determining
dosimetry.
She has developed empirical models to predict deposition of
particulate matter in the lungs of laboratory animals and to
estimate effects of complex mixtures based on data on the component
compounds only.
She is currently working on an empirical model to predict
exposure concentration and time since exposure based on biomarker
levels.
Dr. Ménache is also interested in describing the
architecture of the human lung mathematically for use in dosimetry
models.
She is currently developing a geometry model of the entire
lung for children.
In other projects, she is evaluating limited data from
subjects with various diseases to begin development of geometry
models for the compromised lung.
Such models are of critical importance to the US EPA which is
mandated to protect health in sensitive populations and may prove to
be of value therapeutically in determining appropriate strategies
and dosing regimens for inhaled medicinal drugs. Dr. Menache is a
member of Research Core 3.
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Orrin Myers, PhD
Sr. Research Scientist II
1 University of New Mexico
Department of Internal Medicine
MSC10-5550
Albuquerque,
NM 87131
Phone: (505)272-4185
Fax: (505)272-4186
omyers@unm.edu
Dr. Myers
is an Ecotoxicologist working on ecosystems and free-ranging
nonhuman populations.
He uses general linear modeling approaches to investigate
effects of environmental conditions like protein or contaminant
content of diet on fertility, juvenile growth rate, mortality rate,
and immune system function.
He has used nonlinear models to estimate parameters for
toxicant dynamics models in rodents. Dr. Myers is collaborating with
Dr. Johnnye Lewis of Research Core 3. They are developing databases
and conducting spatial analyses of exposure factors, including the
uranium concentration in environmental media and locations of
unregulated water sources, which is being developed to foster
collaboration with Native American communities in the Southwest.
With Dr. Lewis he is also working on studies of the toxicity or
inhaled manganese and inhaled depleted uranium. Dr. Myers is
experienced in the use of GIS methods.
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