Undergraduate and Graduate Faculty
Dissertation Member & Chair

COURSES TAUGHT:
Healthcare Finance and Statistics
Biostatistics
Healthcare Administration
Healthcare Quality Management
Healthcare Delivery Systems
Research Methods in Health Administration
Health Service Organization and Delivery
Issues and Trends in Healthcare
Healthcare Governance
Public Health Organization and Management
Health Promotion
Physical Education

DATA ANALYSIS

SAS

Solucient Polaris

Quality Control Analysis –
     Control Chart Creation which is also possible with SPSS (below)
     Six Sigma Applications
     List of Analyses:
     SPC Charts - c chart, np chart, p chart, q chart, u chart,
     Analysis of Means, Cusum, Levey Jennings, Moving Average, EWMA,
     XmR chart, XbarR chart, XmedianR chart, XbarS chart

SPSS
     Data distribution analysis (e,g., histograms, boxplots)

T-test

Z-test
     Effect Size Calculations
     Power and Sample Size Estimations
     Correlation
     Linear Regression (simple and multiple regression)
     Logistic Regression (binary and multinomial)
     Ordinal Regression

Probit Regression

Loglinear Regression
     ANOVA (Post hoc tests)

ANCOVA

Factorial ANOVA

Repeated Measures Designs

Mixed Model Design ANOVA

MANOVA

Log Linear Analysis

General Linear Model

Generalized Estimating Equations

HLM (Linear Mixed Models)

Non-parametric Tests:
     Wilcoxon Rank-Sum and Mann-Whitney
     Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
     Kruskal-Wallis Test
     Friedman’s ANOVA
     Chi-Square and Risk Analysis
     Ratio Analysis

Control Chart Analysis and Creation (created thousands of Control Charts across many studies and applications) – Quality Control Analysis (Six Sigma Applications and other process control applications)

Factor Analysis

Reliability Analysis

Survival Analysis

Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Curve Analysis

Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Analysis

Decision Tree Creation and Analysis (Probability)

BACKGROUND:

Biostatistics and Dissertation Chair and Committee Member, Walden University

Graduate Business Statistics, Indiana Wesleyan University

Consultant Biostatistician for North Carolina Cardiac and Pulmonary Outcomes Research Committee
Serve as biostatistician and study design reviewer using SPSS and SAS for large clinical data set. Presented longitudinal outcomes data results at 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 (pending) National Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Conference, North Carolina State Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Conference, and the South East American College of Sports Medicine Conference.

South University
Consultant and subject matter expert for course development In the Health Systems Management Department

Consultant Statistician with a background in hospital administration for 10 years. Research projects in quality, hand hygiene, infection control, wait time analyses, nursing retention, physician comparison and quality analysis, staffing effectiveness, JCAHO, restraints, falls, and medication error analyses. Also, market share, patient satisfaction, and survey design studies.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Appalachian State University, 05/94
Exercise Science

Master of Science, United States Sports Academy, 01/98
Sport Facility Management/Exercise Physiology

Doctor of Science, Tulane University, 12/2004
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Department of Health Systems Management/Research
Areas of Research: Clinical Outcomes/Econometrics/Experience conducting a wide variety of prospective and retrospective data analysis and study design.
Major emphasis on research study from the qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
Dissertation – Estimating Hospital Choice for Pneumonia Patients Using Conditional Multinomial Logit Analysis

PRESENTATIONS
Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation National Conference, 2005
Longitudinal Outcomes

Thomson Healthcare National Conference, 2007 and 2008
Navigating to Performance Improvement

PUBLICATIONS list on request