BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

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NAME

Robert M. Elashoff

POSITION TITLE

Professor of Biomathematics/Biostatistics

EDUCATION (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)

 

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

 

DEGREE

(if applicable)

YEAR (s)

 

FIELD OF STUDY

Suffolk University, Boston, MA

Boston University, Boston, MA

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

B.S.

A.M.

Ph.D.

1953

1955

1963

General Science

Mathematics

Statistics

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Concluding with present position, list, in chronological order, previous employment, experience, and honors. Include present membership on any Federal Government public advisory committee. List, in chronological order, the titles, all authors, and complete references to all publications during the past three years and to representative earlier publications pertinent to this application. If the list of publications in the last three years exceeds two pages, select the most pertinent publications. DO NOT EXCEED TWO PAGES.

Principal Positions

1963-65 Lecturer & Asst. Prof. of Statistics, Dept. Of Statistics, UC Berkeley

1965-67 Asst. Res. Biostatistician, UC San Francisco, Office of Info. Systems

1966-70 Lecturer, Epid. & Int’l Health, UC San Francisco

1967-70 Lecturer, Dept. of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco

1967-71 Head, Research Systems Division, Office of Info. Systems, UC San Francisco

1970-75 Assoc. Prof. of Biostatistics in Residence, UCSF, Dept. Of Psychiatry and

International Health

1975-77 Assoc. Prof. of Biomathematics & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UCLA

1975-1996 Head, Biostatistics, Analytic Support & Epid. Unit, Cancer Center, UCLA

1977-Present Professor of Biomathematics & Biostatistics, School of Medicine and Public Health, UCLA

1986-Present Head, AIDS Clinical Research Center Statistics

1988-Present Head, Statistics Unit, General Clinical Research Center

1992-1998 Chairman, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UCLA

1994-1996 Interim Chair, Department of Biomathematics, School of Medicine, UCLA

Awards

1970 Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association

1972 Elected Council Member, American Statistical Association

1972 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1976-77 President, WNAR, Biometric Society

1977 Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

1975-85 Associate Editor, Computers in Biomedical Research

1980-85 Associate Editor, Biometrics

1987 Elected to the International Statistician Institute

Experience

Associate Editor. Cancer Prevention; Member, American Cancer Society Standing Committee on Cancer Prevention; NCI Site Reviewer on several program projects and center grants; Past Member, Chemical Review Committee, Board of Scientific Counselors; Past Member, National Toxicology Program; Past Member, Ad hoc Study Section of Statistics, NIH Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical Cancer. 1995-1996.

Selected Publications

  1. Fawzy IF, Fawzy NW, Hyun CS, Guthrie D, Elashoff RM, Fahey JL, and Morton D (1993). Malignant Melanoma: Effects of an early structured psychiatric intervention, coping, and affective state on recurrence and survival 6 years later. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50(9):681-689. Heber D, Bagga D, Ashely JM, Elashoff RM (1993). Nutritional strategies for breast cancer prevention. Oncology, 7(11) supplement:43-46.
  2. Heber D, Bagga D, Ashley JM, Elashoff RM (1993). Nutritional strategies for breast cancer prevention. Oncology 7(11) supplement: 43-46.
  3. Lee JJ, Li K-C, and Elashoff RM (1993). On recensoring for censored paired data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88(421):104-118.
  4. Morton DL, Hoon DS, Nizze JA, Foshag LJ, Famatiga E, Wanek LA, Chang C, Irie RF, Gupta RK, Elashoff RM (1993). Polyvalent melanoma vaccine improves survival of patients with metastatic melanoma. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 690:120-134.
  5. DiMatteo MR, Hays RD, Gritz ER, Bastani R, Crane L, Elashoff RM, Ganz P, Heber D, McCarthy W, and Marcus A. (1993). Patient adherence to cancer control regimes: Scaled development and initial validation. Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting Clinic Psychology, 5:102-112.
  6. Wanek LA, Elashoff RM, Goradia TM, Morton DL, and Cochran AJ (1994). Application of multistage Markov modeling to malignant melanoma progression. Cancer, 73(2): 336-343.
  7. Hirji KF, Tang M-L, Vollset SE, Elashoff RM (1994). Efficient power computation for exact and mid-P tests for the common odds ratio in several 2x2 tables. Statistics in Medicine, 13:1539-1549.
  8. Kanders BS, Ullmann-Joy P, Heymsfield S, Heber D, Elashoff RM, Reeves R, Ashley J, Blackburn G (1994). The Black American lifestyle intervention (BALI): a weight loss program for working class African American women. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 94:310-312.
  9. Rutter CM and Elashoff RM (1994). Analysis of longitudinal data: Random coefficient regression modelling. Statistics in Medicine, 13:1211-1231.
  10. Bagga D, Ashley J. Geffrey SS, Wang H-J, Barnard J, Elashoff RM, and Heber D (1994). Modulation of Serum and Breast Ductal Fluid Lipids by a Very Low Fat, High Fiber Diet (VLF/HFi) in Premenopausal Women. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 86(18):1419-1421.
  11. Heber D, Ashley JM, Wang H-J, and Elashoff RM (1994). Clinical Evaluation of a Minimal Intervention Meal Replacement Regimen for Weight Reduction. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 13(6): 608-614.
  12. Miles SA, Wang H-J, and Elashoff RM (1994). Improved Survival for Patients with AIDS-Related Kaposi’s Sarcoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 12(9):1910-1916.
  13. Buzzard IM, Faucett CL, Jeffrey RW, McBane L, McGovern P, Baxter JS, Shapiro AC, Blackburn GL, Chlebowski RT, Elashoff RM, and Wynder EL (1996). Monitering Dietary Change in a Low-fat Diet Intervention Study Advantages of Using 24-Hour Dietary Recalls Vs Food Records. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1996 Jun, 96(6): 574-579.
  14. Leung KM and Elashoff RM (1996). Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Models with Finite-Support Random-Effects Distribution: A maximum-penalized likelihood approach. Biometrical Journal.
  15. Leung KM, Elashoff RM (1996). Estimation of Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Models with Finite-Support Random-Effects Distribution via Gibbs Sampling. Biometrical Journal
  16. Leung KM, Elashoff RM (1996). A Three-State Disease Model with Application to AIDS and Melanoma. J Lifetime Analysis
  17. Leung, KM, Elashoff RM (1996). Left-Interval Censoring Model. J Mathematical Programming
  18. Belin T, Elashoff RM, Leung KM, Nisenbaum R, Bastani R, Nisseri K, and Maxwell A (1996). Combining Information from Multiple Sources in the Analysis of Nonequivalent Control Group Design: Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics II (papers are peer-reviewed). Editors: C Gatsonis, JS Hodges, RE Kass, and ND Singpurwalla. Springer Verlag (NY). pp 241-260.
  19. Heber D., Ingles S., Ashley JM, Maxwell MH, Lyons PF, and Elashoff RM (1996). Clinical Detection of Sarcopenic Obesity by Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 64(3): S472-S478.
  20. Nishikibo CY, Kunkel LA, Figlin R., Belldegrun A., Rosen P., Elashoff RM, Wang H., Territo MC (1996). An Association between Renal Cell Carcinoma and Lymphoid Malignancies—A Case Series of Eight Patients. Cancer, 78(11): 2421-2426.

  21. Leung KM, Elashoff RM, Afifi AA (1997). Censoring Issues in Survival Analysis. Annual Review of Public Health. 18: 83-104.

  22. Grosser S, Elashoff RM, Afifi AA (1997). Nonnormal Mixed Models. Submitted Computing and Data Analyses
  23. Meng YY, Jatulis DE, Elashoff RM, et al. (1997). Validity of Clinical Information from a Medical Survey. American Journal of Medical Quality 12(3): 160-164.
  24. Jatulis DE, Meng YY, Elashoff RM, Schocket AL, Evans RM, Hasan AG, Legorreta AP (1997). Adherence to Pharmacotherapeutic Guidelines among Asthmatics: 5 Years after Publication. Accepted Annuals of Allergy and Asthma.
  25. Leung KM, Elashoff RM, Rees KS, Hasan MM, Legorreta AP (1997). Hospital and Patient Related Characteristic Determining Maternity Length of Stay: A Hierarchial Linear Model Approach. Accepted American Journal of Public Health.
  26. Faucett C, Schenker N, Elashoff RM (1997). Analysis of Censored Survival Data with Intermittently Observed Time Dependent Binary Covariates. Accepted Journal of the American Statistical Association.
  27. Dabrowska D, Elashoff RM, Morton D (1997). Application of Markov Renewal Theory to Identify Prognostic Factors in Malignant Melanoma. Accepted Oncology Reports.
  28. Hoon DSB, Okamoto T, Wang HJ, Elashoff RM, et.al. (1997). Survival of Melanoma Patients Receiving Polyvalent Melanoma

Cells Vaccine Linked to HLA Phenotype of Patients. Accepted Journal of Clinical Oncology.

30. Heber D, Yip I, Ashley JM, Elashoff D, Elashoff RM, Go VL, Liang V (1998). Cholesterol-Lowering Effects of a Proprietary Chinese Red Yeast (Monascus Purpureus Went) Rice Diet Supplement. Accepted American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

  1. Elashoff RM (1998). Modern Statistical Methods in Regression with Application to Compliance Studies. Accepted chapter in Nutritional Oncology, Blackburn, editor.
  2. Elashoff RM, Johnson TD, Winters BL, Yun C (1998). Cancer and Nutrition. Chapter in Modern Statistical Regression Methods for a Longitudinal Dietary Intervetion Feasibility Study, D. Heber, editor. Acad Press, in press.