Education

Degree	Institution	Major
B.A.	University of Haifa	Statistics and Economics
Ph.D.	The Pennsylvania State University	Statistics

Post-Graduate Training

Training	Institution	Specialty
Internship	Statistical Consulting Center, University of Haifa	Internship, Consulted on research projects with graduate students and faculty, Compared a Random Digit Dialing (RDD) system to the existing system in the survey center at the Statistical Consulting Center
Postdoctoral	Biostatistics Department, University of Washington	Postdoctoral fellow, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence VA Puget Sound Health Care System, and The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center

Awards

Name of Award/Honor	Awarding Organization
Program Chair-Elect of the Health Policy Statistics Section	American Statistical Association
Nominated for office at the Statistics section of the American Public Health Association	American Public Health Association
The paper “Assessing privacy using AUC metric” by Matthews, G., Harel, O. and Aseltine, R. won the ASA Health Policy & Statistics Section’s (HPSS) student paper competition	ASA Health Policy & Statistics
AAUP Excellence Award (Research Promise)	Association of American University Professors
State of Connecticut General Assembly Official Citation	State of Connecticut
Statistics in Epidemiology section of ASA, Travel award	American Statistical Association
CHIP/CHCM Grant Development Stipend Competition	University of Connecticut
Nominated for office at the Epidemiology section of the American Statistical Association	American Statistical Association
Young Researcher travel award, IBC conference	International Biometric Conference
Young Researcher travel award, Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society conference	International Biometric Society
Seventh North American New Researchers Conference travel award	North American New Researchers Conference
Young Researcher travel award, Summer institute on longitudinal methods	The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate student travel award, Department of Statistics	Pennsylvania State University
Graduate student travel award, The Methodology Center	Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. award for young researchers	University of Haifa, Israel

Name & Description	Category	Role	Type	Scope	Start Year	End Year
Environmental Health & Safety committee, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2011	2011
Statistics department head search committee, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2011	2011
Organizer and discussant of the roundtable “ Data confidentiality: health policy perspective.” Section on Health Policy Statistics, Joint Statistical Meeting, August 1, 2011	Workshop/Conference	Member	External	National	2011	2011
Judge at 2011 Statistical Poster Competition of the Connecticut chapter of the American Statistical Association April 2, 2011	Workshop/Conference	Judge	External	State	2011	2011
Session chair at the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society (IBS) meeting	Workshop/Conference	Session chair	External	National	2011	2011
Connecticut Chapter of the American Statistical Association	Professional/Scientific Organization	President	External	State	2010	2011
Statistics search committee, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2010	2010
Member of the scientific organizing committee for the International Conference for Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), 2011	Workshop/Conference	Member	External	National	2010	2011
Organizer of the 8th annual ASA, CT chapter mini-conference “The analysis of incomplete data – from past to future,” Storrs, CT	Workshop/Conference	Organizer	External	State	2010	2010
Invited session organizer (Data Confidentiality: Do We Really Want to Disturb a Sleeping Bear?) at the the International Conference for Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS)	Workshop/Conference	Session Organizer	External	National	2010	2010
Connecticut Chapter of the American Statistical Association	Professional/Scientific Organization	Vice President	External	State	2009	2010
Colloquium committee, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2009	2012
Faculty oversight committee for the learning communities (Public Health House)	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2009	2011
Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) member of the Ethel Donaghue Center for Translating Research into Practice and Policy (TRIPP Center)	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2009	2011
Biostatistics search committee, University of Connecticut Health Center	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2009	2010
Member of the scientific organizing committee for the International Conference for Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), 2010	Workshop/Conference	Organizer	External	International	2009	2010
Topic contributed session organizer and chair (Data Confidentiality: Do We Really Want to Disturb a Sleeping Bear?) at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) of the American Statistical Association.	Workshop/Conference	Session Organizer and Chair	External	National	2009	2009
Biostatistics search committee, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2008	2011
Biostatistics program development committee, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2008	2011
Planning/Advisory committee: design, biostatistics, & clinical research ethics in clinical and translational research (CTSA), University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2008	2010
Invited session organizer (Methods and applications for incomplete data) at the 21st New England Statistics Symposium	Workshop/Conference	Session Organizer	External	Regional	2007	2007
Organizing committee Mini Symposium on Bayesian Nonparametrics, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Workshop/Conference	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2006	2006
Library committee, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Education Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2006	2009
Planning/Advisory committee: Pre-doctoral (T32) training program in clinical and translational research, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2006	2007
Center of applied statistics – Consulting, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2005	2012
Social committee, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2005	2012
Library committee, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University	Advisory Committee	Member	UConn-Storrs	University	2001	2003
The Center for Public Health and Health Policy	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	UConn-Storrs	University
The Institute for Public Health Research	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	UConn-Storrs	University
The Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	UConn-Storrs	University
The Connecticut Center for Eliminating Health Disparities among Latinos	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	UConn-Storrs	University
The Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	UConn Health	University
Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technology	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	UConn-Storrs	University
American Statistical Association	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
Institute of Mathematical Statistics	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	International
International Society for Bayesian Analysis	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	International
American Public Health Association	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
The Mathematical Association of America	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
The Open Medical Informatics Journal	Editorial Board	Member	External	National
AIDS and Behavior	Editorial Board	Statistical Consulting editor	External	National
Biometrika	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Biometrics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Journal of Official Statistics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Statistics in Medicine	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Computational Statistics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Bulletin of Statistics&Economics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Communications in Statistics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	International
International Conference on Intelligent Systems & Knowledge Engineering	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Biological Psychiatry	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
American Journal of Epidemiology	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Psychological Methods	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Journal of the American Statistical Association	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Twin Research and Human Genetics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Journal of Applied Statistics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Epidemiology	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
The Open Medical Informatics Journal	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Annals of Applied Statistics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	National
Thomson/Brooks Cole	Professional/Scientific Organization	Book Reviewer	External	National

Journal Articles

Books

Book Chapters

Conference Papers

Other

Title or Abstract	Type	Sponsor/Event	Date/Year	Location
Assessing the inferential privacy of synthetic data	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2011	Miami Beach, FL
Data confidentiality: health policy perspective	Panel Discussion	Joint Statistical Meeting	2011	Miami Beach, FL
Generating multiple imputations from multiple models to incorporate model uncertainty in nonignorable missing data problems	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2011	Miami Beach, FL
The use of multiple imputation for data subject to limits of detection	Talk	5th Annual International Conference on Mathematics & Statistics	2011	Athens, Greece
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Statistics seminar Tel-Aviv University	2011	Tel-Aviv, Israel
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	The Department of Statistics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	2011	Jerusalem, Israel
New concepts in the analysis of incomplete data	Panel Discussion	Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference	2011	Storrs, CT
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Ce	2011	Seattle, WA
Designed missingness to better estimate efficacy of behavioral studies	Talk	10th Conference on Health Survey Research Methods	2011	Atlanta, GA
Comparing regression coefficients between nested linear models for clustered data with generalized estimating equations	Talk	Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society	2011	Miami, FL
Inferences on missing information under multiple imputation and two-stage multiple imputation	Talk	Biostatistics seminar UCLA	2011	Los Angeles, CA
Are we missing the importance of missing values in HIV prevention RCTs? A literature review	Talk	Statistics in AIDS seminar UCLA	2011	Los Angeles, CA
A review of disclosure limitation methods employed by web-based data query systems	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2011	Miami Beach, FL
Diagnostic accuracy of a binary test with two types of missing values	Talk	Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference	2011	Storrs, CT
Missing data techniques for multilevel data: implications of model misspecification	Talk	Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference	2011	Storrs, CT
Examining the robustness of fully synthetic data techniques for data with binary variables	Talk	Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference	2011	Storrs, CT
Assessing database privacy using the area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve	Talk	25rd New England Statistics Symposium	2011	Storrs, CT
Generating multiple imputations from multiple models to incorporate model uncertainty in nonignorable missing data problems	Talk	Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society	2011	Miami, FL
Assessing privacy using the area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve	Poster	Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society	2011	Miami, FL
Generating multiple imputations from multiple models to incorporate model uncertainty in nonignorable missing data problems	Talk	Prevention Science and Methodology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University o	2010	Coral Gables, FL
Assessing privacy using the area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2010	Vancouver, Canada
The War at Home: Detecting Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in PTSD Treatment-Seeking Veterans	Talk	Annual Forensic Nursing Conference, University of Washington	2010	Seattle, WA
Comparing the performance of three small-sample approximations to the multiple imputation degrees of freedom	Talk	Department of Human Development and Family Studies, State College	2010	State College, PA
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Treatment-Seeking Veterans	Talk	Grand Rounds, Philadelphia, VAMC	2010	Philadelphia, PA
Inferences on missing information under multiple imputation and two-stage multiple imputation	Talk	Missing data approaches in the health and social sciences: a modern survey meeting, McGill Universit	2010	Montréal, QC
How to complete the incomplete; a statistical antidote for incomplete data sets	Talk	Epidemiology/Biostatistics seminar University of Massachusetts	2010	Amherst, MA
Inferences on missing information under multiple imputation and two-stage multiple imputation	Talk	NIH/NIAID	2010	Rockville, MD
Assessing privacy using the area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve	Talk	The 8th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS)	2010	Washington, DC
Generating multiple imputations from multiple models to incorporate model uncertainty in nonignorable missing data problems	Talk	Department of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics), Northwestern University	2010	Chicago, IL
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration	Talk	2nd Annual Trauma Spectrum Disorders Conference: NIH	2009	Bethesda, MD
The war at home: preventing family violence in military families	Talk	Family Violence Prevention Fund national conference on domestic violence and health care	2009	New Orleans, LA
Promoting the health and safety of military families facing abuse	Talk	Family Violence Prevention Fund national conference on domestic violence and health care	2009	New Orleans, LA
Assessing dangerousness and responding to it when your patient is a perpetrator of intimate partner violence	Other	Family Violence Prevention Fund national conference on domestic violence and health care	2009	New Orleans, LA
Health care practitioner detection of IPV perpetration among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder	Poster	Family Violence Prevention Fund national conference on domestic violence and health care	2009	New Orleans, LA
Determination of IPV perpetration in a health care setting: who’s asking and who’s telling?	Poster	Family Violence Prevention Fund national conference on domestic violence and health care	2009	New Orleans, LA
Responsible data releases	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2009	Washington, DC
Examining the robustness of fully synthetic data techniques for data with binary variables	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2009	Washington, DC
Accounting for two types of missing data to estimate the accuracy of a binary diagnostic-test	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2009	Washington, DC
A Monte Carlo comparison of modern missing data techniques for multilevel data	Poster	Annual Meeting of American Psychological Assosiation	2009	Toronto, Canada
Intimate partner violence and military-related PTSD: assessment practices and implications for intervention	Talk	Ambulatory Care Conference	2009	Seattle, WA
Examining the robustness of fully synthetic data techniques for data with binary variables	Talk	23rd New England Statistics Symposium	2009	Storrs, CT
Accounting for two types of missing data to estimate the accuracy of a binary diagnostic test	Talk	23rd New England Statistics Symposium	2009	Storrs, CT
Analysis of extreem drinking in patients with alcohol dependence using Pareto regression	Talk	Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society	2009	San Antonio, TX
Examining the robustness of fully synthetic data techniques for data with binary variables	Poster	Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society	2009	San Antonio, TX
The war at home: preventing family violence in military families	Other	Webinar presentation given for the Defense Centers of Excellence	2009
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Statistics seminar Hasselt University	2009	Hasselt, Belgium
The impact of model mis-specification on the outfluence	Talk	4th International ISKE Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering	2009	Hasselt, Belgium
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Biostatistics seminar UCLA	2009	Los Angeles, CA
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity	Talk	Statistics seminar Tel-Aviv University	2009	Tel-Aviv, Israel
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity	Talk	Biostatistics seminar University of Pennsylvania	2009	Philadelphia, PA
Inferences on missing information under multiple imputation and two-stage multiple imputation	Talk	NIH/NICHD	2009	Rockville, MD
Methodological issues in the analysis of new biomarkers	Talk	41st Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research	2008	Chicago, IL
How well quantified is the limit of quantification?	Talk	41st Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research	2008	Chicago, IL
Analyzing extreme drinking behavior of patients suffering alcohol dependence disorder using Pareto regression	Talk	22nd New England Statistics Symposium	2008	Boston, MA
Examining the robustness of fully synthetic data techniques for data with binary variables	Talk	22nd New England Statistics Symposium	2008	Boston, MA
Monitoring quality control: can we get better data?	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2008	Denver, CO
Using multiple assays subject to detection limits in assessing the relationship between exposure and outcome using regression modeling	Talk	Symposia presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society of Epidemiologic Research	2008	Chicago, IL
Multiple imputation for the comparison of two screening tests in two-phase Alzheimer studies	Talk	7th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS)	2008	Philadelphia, PA
How does death affect the assessment of verification bias in two-phase Alzheimer studies	Talk	22nd New England Statistics Symposium	2008	Boston, MA
Alcohol dependence associated SNPs in genes encoding GABA-A subunits predict post-treatment drinking behavior in project MATCH	Poster	The International Society of Psychiatric Genetics meeting	2007	New York, NY
DHA-functional food in pregnancy decreases infant Ponderal index and cord blood insulin concentration	Talk	Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)	2007	Washington, DC
Multiple imputation in practice: a comparison of two imputation approaches (work in progress)	Talk	21st New England Statistics Symposium	2007	Storrs, CT
Shadow zone capture during purging and its impact on contaminant concentration averaging in monitoring wells	Talk	Northeastern section of the Geological Society of America – 42nd Annual Meeting	2007	Durham, NH
Inferences on missing information under multiple imputation and two-stage multiple imputation	Talk	Joint UCONN-UMASS Statistics Colloquium, University of Massachusetts	2007	Amherst, MA
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity	Talk	Pfizer	2007	New London, CT
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias	Talk	University of Haifa	2007	Haifa, Israel
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias	Talk	21st New England Statistics Symposium	2007	Storrs, CT
How to complete the incomplete; a statistical antidote for incomplete data sets	Talk	Department of Statistics student seminar University of Connecticut	2007	Storrs, CT
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity	Talk	NIH/NICHD	2007	Rockville, MD
Analysis of longitudinal data with attrition and mortality	Talk	fifth annual ASA Connecticut chapter mini-conference	2007	New Haven, CT
DHA functional food in pregnancy: benefit to infant problem solving at 9 months	Talk	7th Congress of International Society for Study Fatty Acids & Lipids	2006	Cairns, Australia
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Boston University	2006	Boston, MA
Inferences on missing information and the number of imputation	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2006	Seattle, WA
Multiple imputation for the comparison of two screening tests in two-phase Alzheimer studies	Talk	XXIII International Biometric Conference	2006	Montreal, QC*
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity	Talk	13th Tel-Aviv University Alzheimer’s Disease Conference	2006	Tel-Aviv, Israel
How to complete the incomplete; a statistical antidote for incomplete data sets	Talk	Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Seminar Series	2006	Farmington, CT
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Colorado State University	2006	Fort Collins, CO
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	NIH/NICHD	2006	Rockville, MD
DHA functional food during pregnancy results in more mature infants states at birth	Talk	7th Congress of the International Society for Study Fatty Acids & Lipids	2006	Cairns, Australia
DHA functional food in pregnancy: benefit to infant problem solving at 9 months	Talk	97th American Oil Chemical Association Meeting & Expo.	2006
Analysis of longitudinal data with attrition and mortality	Talk	University of Connecticut School of Medicine	2005	Farmington, CT
How to complete the incomplete; a statistical antidote for incomplete data sets	Talk	University of Connecticut Department of Nutrition Sciences	2005	Storrs, CT
Correcting for verification bias in the assessment of the accuracy of the clinical diagnosis of AD	Poster	57th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology	2005	Miami, FL
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Brown University	2005	Providence, RI
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Vanderbilt University	2005	Nashville, TN
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	2005	New York, NY
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	University of Connecticut	2005	Storrs, CT
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity	Talk	Joint VA/Group Health Biostats Seminar	2005	Seattle, WA
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Technion	2005	Haifa, Israel
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity	Talk	2005 International Conference on Health Policy Research	2005	Boston, MA
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias in estimating sensitivity and specificity	Talk	Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society	2005	Fairbanks, AK
Impact of time scale choice on rate of cognitive decline: A case study from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center minimum data set	Poster	Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Prevention of Dementia	2005	Washington, DC
Pathology of subjects clinically diagnosed with vascular dementia: data from the U.S. National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center	Talk	2nd Congress of The International Society for Vascular Behavioral and Cognitive Disorders	2005	Florence, Italy
Strategies for data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	University of Haifa	2004	Haifa, Israel
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias	Talk	2004 Joint Statistical Meeting	2004	Toronto, Canada
Analysis of longitudinal data with death and drop out	Talk	Seventh North American New Researchers Conference	2004	Toronto, Canada
Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias	Talk	International Conference on: Statistics in health Sciences	2004	Nantes, France
Analysis of survey data by two-stage multiple imputation	Talk	Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Conference	2003	Arlington, VA
Statistical methods for the analysis of incomplete datasets	Talk	Health Services Research Methodology Seminar, VA Puget Sound Health Care System	2003	Seattle, WA
Data analysis with two types of missing values	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2003	San Francisco, CA
Analysis of longitudinal data with death and drop out	Talk	Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society	2003	Tampa, FL
Two-stage multiple imputation	Talk	Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society	2003	Los Angeles, CA
Analysis of longitudinal data with attrition and mortality	Talk	Gerontological Society of America Conference	2003	San Diego, CA
Two-stage multiple imputation	Talk	Joint Statistical Meeting	2002	New York, NYX
Two-stage multiple imputation for missing data	Talk	Society for Prevention Research	2002	Seattle, WA