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Master of Psychiatric
Epidemiology (MPE)
Edward L. Spitznagel,
Jr., PhD
Faculty Member
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Dr. Spitznagel is a Professor in the Department
of Mathematics with a joint appointment in the Division of Biostatistics.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1965 and was an
Assistant Professor at Northwestern University from 1965-1969. He joined
the faculty of the Washington University Department of Mathematics in
1969.
Professor Spitznagel has been a proponent of realistic, active data
analysis in statistics for over thirty years. His first paper on the
subject was given in 1971 at the Second Annual Conference on the
Undergraduate Curriculum at Dartmouth College, while on his honeymoon.
He has worked extensively with medical school faculty in more than twenty
different disciplines, including anesthesiology, cardiology, infectious
diseases, oncology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and psychiatry. Over
100 of his 169 publications are indexed in The National Library of
Medicine's indexing service ("Medline").
He has published in four of the five flagship English-language
medical journals: NEJM, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Lancet.
In addition, he has consulted extensively for such companies as
MasterCard, Price Waterhouse, SmithKline Beecham, Anheuser-Busch, and
Mallinckrodt.
These activities have led to numerous internship opportunities for his
students, as well as in-depth teaching examples for his courses. Most
recently he has used pharmacokinetics as the core around which to build
Math 1323 Calculus II with Statistics. Each year he uses a different drug
that is being tested for the generic market, and the students perform all
the necessary pharmacokinetic and statistical computations needed for
submission to the FDA Office of Generic Drugs.
He has received nine awards for teaching, including the 2000 Missouri-MAA
Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2002 Deborah and Franklin Tepper
Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of
Mathematics (given by the Mathematical Association of America).
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Director
Linda B. Cottler, PhD, MPH
Associate Director
Catherine Striley, PhD, MSW, ACSW, MPE
Faculty
Laura Bierut, MD
Kelly Botteron, MD
Kathleen K. Bucholz, PhD, MPE
C. Robert Cloninger, MD
Danielle Dick, PhD
Karen Dodson
Mehmet Dokucu, MD, PhD
Nuri B. Farber, MD
Anne Glowinski, MD, MPE
Julia Grant, PhD
Rick Gruzca, PhD, MPE
Gitry Heydebrand, PhD
Lee Hoffer, PhD, MPE
Barry Hong, PhD
Joan Luby, MD
Michael Lynskey, PhD
Pam Madden, PhD
Rosalind Neuman, PhD
Rumi Price, PhD, MPE
Lee N. Robins, PhD
Norman Sartorius, MD, PhD
Jeffery Scherrer, PhD
Edward Spitznagel, PhD
Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD
Melissa Swallow, MD
Richard Todd, MD, PhD
Richard Wetzel, PhD |
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