Lisa M. Sullivan

Associate Professor of

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Phone   (617) 353-9403

Fax       (617) 353-4767

E-mail   lsull@bu.edu

Mailing Address

Statistics and Consulting Unit

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

111 Cummington Street

Boston, MA 02215

Degrees:      B.A. Mathematics, University of New Hampshire (1983);
                    M.A. Mathematics/Statistics, Boston University (1986);
                    Ph.D. Mathematics/Statistics, Boston University (1992)


Research Interests:

•           Robustness and Power of Statistical Tests Applied To Data With Floor/Ceiling Effects and to Ordinal Scaled Data.
•           Hierarchical Modeling and Longitudinal Data Analysis.
•           Clinical Trials.

Professional Activities:

•           Member, American Statistical Association (ASA), Health Policy Section of the ASA,
            Boston Chapter of the ASA; Member, American Public Health Association (APHA).
•           Reviewer, Statistics in Medicine, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, The American Statistician.
•           Co-Director of Graduate Program in Biostatistics at Boston University.

Teaching Activities:

•           Introductory Biostatistics at the BU School of Public Health.
•           Statistics I and II at the BU College of Arts and Sciences.

Honors and Awards:

•           Boston University School of Public Health Norman A Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching 2000.
•           Boston University School of Public Health Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Faculty Development
            Program Faculty Fellow 1998-1999; Boston University School of Medicine Center for Substance Abuse
            Prevention Faculty Development Program Faculty Fellow 1998.
•           Boston University School of Public Health Excellence in Teaching Award 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001.
•           University of New Hampshire- Robert Perry Student Athlete Award 1983.

Selected Publications:

Sullivan LM, Stein MD, Savetsky JB, Samet JH
(2000). The doctor-patient relationship and HIV-infected patients' satisfaction with primary care physicians.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 15, 462-471.

Beiser A, D’Agostino RB, Seshadri S, Sullivan LM, Wolf PA
(2000). Computing estimates of incidence, including lifetime risk: Alzheimer’s disease in the Framingham Study.
The Practical Incidence Estimates (PIE) Macro. Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 19, 1495-1522.

Sullivan LM, Dukes KA & Losina E
(1999): TUTORIAL IN BIOSTATISTICS: An introduction to hierarchical linear modeling. Statistics In
Medicine Vol. 18(7), 855-888.

Wilson IB, Sullivan LM, Weissman J
(1998): Costs and outcomes of AIDS care: Comparing a health maintenance organization with fee-for-service
systems in the Boston health study. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Human
Retrovirology Vol. 17, 424-432.

Kaplan SH, Sullivan LM, Dukes KA, Phillips CF, Kelch RP, Schaller JG
(1996): Sex differences in academic advancement: Results of a national study of academic pediatricians.
New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 335 (17), 1282-1289.

Sullivan LM & D'Agostino RB
(1996): Robustness and Power of Analysis of Covariance Applied To Data Distorted From Normality
by Floor Effects: Homogeneous Regression Slopes. Statistics In Medicine Vol. 15, 477-496

Sullivan LM, Dukes KA, Harris L, Dittus RS, Greenfield S, Kaplan SH
(1995): A comparison of various methods of collecting self-reported health outcomes data among low
income and minority patients. Medical Care Vol. 33(4), AS183-AS194.

Greenfield S, Sullivan LM, Dukes KA, Silliman R, D'Agostino RB, Kaplan SH
(1995): Development and testing of a new measure of case mix for use in office practice. Medical
Care Vol 33(4), AS47-AS55.

Eckman ME, Greenfield S, Mackey WC, Wong JB, Kaplan SH, Sullivan LM, Dukes KA, Pauker SG
(1995): Foot infections in diabetic patients: Decision and cost-effectiveness analyses. Journal of the
American Medical Association Vol. 273(9), 712-720.

Sullivan LM & D'Agostino R
(1992): Robustness of the t-test applied to data distorted from normality by floor effects. Journal of
Dental Research Vol. 71(12), 1938-1943

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