Stephen R. Wisniewski
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Ph.D.
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B.S.
1989-Present University of Pittsburgh, Department of Epidemiology Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Statistician and Project Manager for the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study,
a multi-center clinical trial sponsored by the National Eye Institute of
the National Institutes of Health.
Statistician for a Centers for Disease Control sponsored study on the effects
of nutrition and home cleaning on blood lead levels in children.
Statistician for the NIA sponsored Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Statistician for the Brain Trauma Research Center
Statistician for the Resourse
for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregivers Health (REACH) Coordinating Center
1989 Trilogy Consulting Corp./Monsanto Corp. St. Louis, Missouri Statistician for ongoing animal studies.
1996 Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Measures
of Agreement
1996 Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Survival
Analysis
1996 Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Programming
to Calculate Age-Adjusted in SAS
1996 Chatham College, Physicians Assistance Graduate Program. Guest lectures
on study design, power and analysis of variance.
1995-6 School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Randomized Clinical
Trials and Surveillance Research
1994-5 Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Using
SAS Map for Data Presentations
1994-5 Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Quality
Control in Clinical Trials
1987-1988 Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Introduction
to Statistics & Statistics for Buisness
1996 Carl Sirio, M.D.: A Community-Wide Assessment of Critical Care
Outcomes - Cleveland Health Quality Choice.
1994-6 Henry Rafkin, M.D.: The use of APACHE in ICUs.
1992-6 Frederick Morgan, Ph.D.: Statistics Education through Quantitative
Literacy.
1993-1994 Morris Bierman, M.D.: Evaluation of a Continuous Blood Gas Monitoring
System.
1993 Marian Pokrifka, R.N.: Case Control Study of Vancomycin Resistant
Enterococcus faecium.
1992-1993 Morris Bierman, M.D.: Variability of Bronchodilator Response
in Critically Ill Patients.
1992-1993 David Powner, M.D.: Variables Associated with Primary Cardiac
Failure in Heart Transplant Recipients.
1992 Harvey Zar, M.D.: Surface Chemiluminescence of Isolated Perfused Rat
Liver is Enhanced after 2 Hours of Ischemia vs. 1 Hour.
The Journal of the American Medical Association
Stroke
Controlled
Clinical Trials
Wisniewski SR, Kelsey SF and Doft BH. Proportional Hazards Model for Assessing Visual Acuity Data. Presented at the Society for Clinical Trials, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1996.
Wisniewski SR, Hammer ME, Grizzard WS, Kelsey SF, Everett DA, Doft BH for the EVS Study Group. An Investigation of the Hospital Charges Related to the Treatment of Endophthalmitis in the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study, Presented at the Society for Clinical Trials, Pittsburgh, PA, May 7, 1996.
Wisniewski SR, Kelsey SF and Doft BH. Proportional Hazards Model for Assessing Visual Acuity Data. International Biometrics Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1996.
Kochanek PM, Clark RSB, Obrist WD, Carcillo JA, Jackson EK, MI Z, Wisniewski SR, Bell MJ and Marion DW. The Role of Adenosind During the Period of Delayed Cerebral Swelling after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Humans. Tenth International Symposium on Brain Edema.
Clerici AM, Wisniewski SR, Needleman HL, Kemp LC and Ingraham RR. Efforts to Assess Subject Participation. Society for Clinical Trials, Pittsburgh 1996.
Han DP, Wisniewski SR, Kelsey SF, Doft BD, Barza M, Pavan PR and the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study Group. Comparison of microbiologic yields and complication rates of diagnostic vitreous needle tap and vitreous biopsy in the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1996.
Wisniewski SR and Bost JE. Cost Analysis in Clinical Trials. Society of Clinical Trials , Seattle, 1995.
Wisniewski SR, Kelsey SF and Ohman EM. Angiographic Eligibility Assessment in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation. Society of Clinical Trials, 1995
Rafkin H, Wisniewski SR and Hoyt J. Multidisciplinary 24 Hour Critica Care Services Improves Outcome of Diverse Risk Categoties of Patients. Society of Critical Care Medicine, 1994.
Blair L, Miro A, Kreit J, Wisniewski SR and Bierman M. Effect of the Endotracheal Tube on the Measurement of Bronchodilator Responsiveness. ACCP 1993.
Ohman EM, Kelsey SF, Wisniewski SR, Lee KL, Alderman EL, and Califf RM for the BARI Study Group. Consistency of Assessment of Eligibility for Multivessel Revascularization by Physicians Enrolling in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation.
DiGiorgio CJ, Orenstein SR, Shalaby TM, Mahoney TM, Wisniewski SR and Becich MJ. Quantitative Computer Assisted Image Analysis of Suction Biopsy in pediatric Gastroesophageal Reflux. Pediatric Pathology, 14:653-664, 1994.
Doft BH, Kelsey SF, Wisniewski SR, Metz DJ, Lobes L, Rinkoff J, Davis M and Kassoff A. Treatment of Post Cataract Extraction Endophthalmitis. Retina, 14:297-304, 1994.
The Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study Group. Results of the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study: A Randomized Trial of Immediate Vitrectomy and of Intravenous Antibiotics for the Treatment of Post-Operative Bacterial Endophthalmitis. Archives of Ophthalmology. 1995;113:1479-1496.
Doft BH, Kelsey SF and Wisniewski SR. Response to letter to the editor by Hascom T and LeClaire. Archives of Ophthalmology, 1996;114:1028-1029.
Clark RSB., Kochanek PM, Obrist WD, Wong HR, Billiar TR, Wisniewski SR and Marion DW. Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma Nitrite and Nitrate Concentrations After Head Injury in Humans. Critical Care Medicine, 1996; 24:1243-151.
Han DP, Wisniewski SR, Wilson LA, Barza M, Vine AK, Doft BH, Kelsey SF, and the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study Group. "The Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study: Spectrum and Susceptibilities of Microbiologic Isolates." American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1996;122:1-17.
Doft BH, Kelsey SF, and Wisniewski SR. Reply letters to the editor from LeClaire JE and Hanscom T. Archives of Ophthalmology, 114; 1030:1996.
The Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study Group. The Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study: Microbiologic Factors in Visual Outcome. American Journal of Ophthalmology, 122;833-855:1996.
Johnson MW, Doft BH, Kelsey SF, Barza M, Wilson LA, Barr CC, Wisniewski SR and the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study Group. The Endophthalmisits Virectomy Study: Relationship Between Cliunical Presentation and Microbiologic Spectrum. In Press, Ophthalmology, 1996.
Saxton J, Becker JT and Wisniewski SR. The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure and Dementia in The Handbook of Rey-Osterrieth Complex figure Usage: Clinical and Research Applications. J.A. Knight & E.F. Kaplan (Eds.) Odessa, Fl: Psychological Assessment Resources (in press).
Marion DW, Penrod LE, Kelsey SF, Obrist WD, Kochanek PM, Palmer AM, Wisniewski SR and DeKosky ST. Improved Outcome After Traumatic Brain Injury with the Use of Moderate Hypothermia, The New England Journal of Medicine, 1996 (in press).
Wisniewski SR, Hammer ME, Grizzard WS, Kelsey SF, Everett D, Packo KH, Yarian DL, Doft BH for the EVS Study Group. An Investigation of the Hospital Charges Related to the Treatment of Endophthalmitis in the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study. Ophthalmology, 1996 (in press).
Clark RSB, Carcillo JA, Kochanek PM, Obrist WD, Jackson EK, Mi Z, Wisniewski SR, Bell MJ and Marion DW. Increased Cerebrospinal Fluid Adenosine Concentrations is Associated with Uncoupling of Cerebral Blood Flow and Oxidative Metabolism and Mortalilty After Severe Head Injury. Submitted to Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 1996.
Forbes ML, Hendrich KS, Kochanek PM, Williams DS, Schiding JK,Wisniewski SR, Kelsey SF, DeKosky ST, Graham SH, Marion DW and Ho C. Assessment of Cerebral Blood Flow and CO2 Reactivity After Controlled Cortical Impact by Perfusion magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Arterial Spin-Labeling in Rats. Submitted to Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 1996.
Bell MJ, Kochanek PM, Doughty LA, Carcillo JA, Adelson D, Clark RSB, Wisniewski SR, Whalen MJ and DeKosky ST. Interleukin-6 and Interleukin-10 in Cerebrospinal Fluid After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children. Submitted to Journal of Neurotrauma, 1996.
Lopez OL, Wisniewski SR, Becker JT, Boller F, DeKosky ST. Subtle extrapyramidal signs in patients with probable Alzhiemer's disease. Submitted to Archives of Neurology, 1997.
Adelson PD, Clyde B, Kochanek PM, Wisniewski SR, Marion DW and Yonas W. Cerebrovascular Response in Young Children Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Submitted to Pediatric Neurosurgery, 1997.
Wisniewski SR, Kelsey SF and Groer-Fitzgerald. Proportional Hazards Models for Assessing Factors Independently Associated with Visual Acuity Score. Submitted to the American Statistician, 1997.
Epidemiology Data Coordinating Center Network Steering Committee
Epidemiology Data Coordinating Center New Technologies Group