Shared Resources and Methods Core Members
Mohsen Bazargan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Department of Family Medicine
Module Supervisor for the Survey Research Module in the Biometry/Survey Core
RCMI
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
1731 E. 120th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Phone: 310-761-4722
mobazarg@cdrewu.edu
Dr. Mohsen Bazargan
is a Sociologist/Gerontologist with extensive training in the field of
Research Methodology and Statistics. He earned his Ph.D. from the State
University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and also holds Masters and
Bachelors degrees in Sociology and Demography from SUNY at Buffalo and
University of Tehran, respectively. Dr. Bazargan's research activities
have been concentrated on health-related issues among underserved
minority populations. He has published extensively on health issues of
elderly African Americans. Dr. Bazargan is currently the Principal
Investigator (PI) of Healthy Communities Access Demonstration Program
(HCAP) funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HRSA). In
addition, he is co-investigator in four projects funded by NIH an
HRSA. He also provides methodological and technical support and project
evaluation services to several other investigators that are involved in
research with intervention and evaluation components.
Naihua Duan, Ph.D.
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Professor in Residence
UCLA Department of Biostatistics
Professor in Residence
Center for Community Health
10920 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 350
Los Angeles, CA 90024-6521
Mailcode: 705146
Phone: 310.704.3734
Fax: 310.794.2941
naihua@mednet.ucla.edu
Dr.
Naihua Duan is a Professor in Residence in Psychiatry and Biostatistics
at UCLA. Dr. Duan has published extensively in both methodological and
substantive journals. His research interests include mental health
services research, prevention research, sample design and experimental
design, clinical trials, multilevel modeling and longitudinal (growth
curve) modeling, non-parametric and semi-parametric regression methods,
model robustness, and environmental exposure assessment. He is an
elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics; he is a member of the editorial
board for Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology and
Statistica Sinica, and a former associate editor for the Journal of the
American Statistical Association. He served on a number of national and
international panels, such as the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy, the National Research
Council’s Committee on Carbon Monoxide Episodes in Meteorological and
Topological Problems Areas, and the National Institute of Mental
Health’s Behavioral Sciences Workgroup.
Core Faculty
Susan Ettner, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine and Health Services
911 Broxton Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736
Phone: (310) 794-2289
Fax: (310) 794-0732
SEttner@mednet.ucla.eduDr.
Susan L. Ettner is Professor in the Division of General Internal
Medicine and Health Services Research in the UCLA Department of
Medicine and in the Department of Health Services in the UCLA School of
Public Health. Dr. Ettner obtained her Ph.D. in Economics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. She was on the faculty
of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Health Care Policy prior
to joining UCLA as a tenured Associate Professor in 1999. Her research
interests include reciprocity in the relationship between health and
labor market outcomes, mental health and substance abuse services,
insurance markets and managed care, chronic disability, post-acute and
long-term care. Dr. Ettner was the 2001 recipient of the Alice S.
Hersch New Investigator Award by the Academy for Health Services
Research and Health Policy, given each year to the outstanding new
health services researcher in the country.
Kevin C. Heslin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
RCMI
1731 East 120th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Phone: (310) 761-4726
keheslin@cdrewu.edu
Dr.
Kevin C. Heslin received his PhD. in Health Services Research from the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Heslin was a
predoctoral fellow in the National Institute of Mental Health/UCLA AIDS
Research Training Program. He is currently a principal research
associate in the Research Centers in Minority Institutions at the
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science.
Dr.
Heslin's research focuses on access to health services and health
outcomes in underserved populations, particularly persons with HIV/AIDS
and homeless persons. He was a collaborator on the HIV Costs and
Utilization Study, the first nationally representative study of HIV
patients in the U.S., as well as the UCLA Homeless Women's Health
Study. In 2002 and 2004, he received the Cornelius L. Hopper Award for
Outstanding New Investigator Paper in Health Services Research and
Policy from the University-wide AIDS Research Program, University of
California. He has also received research awards from the American
Statistical Association, the Association of Schools of Public Health,
and the Academy for Health Services Research.
Honghu Liu, Ph.D.
UCLA Med-GIM & HSR
BOX 951736, 911 Broxton Plz
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736
Phone: 310-794-0700
Fax: 310-794-0732
hhliu@mednet.ucla.edu
Dr.
Honghu Liu is an Adjunct Professor in the Division of General Internal
Medicine & Health Service Research at UCLA. With statistical,
epidemiological and health service research background, Dr. Liu has
substantial experience in study design, analytical plans and
strategies, statistical analysis and multivariate modeling. His work
has predominantly focused on the statistical method, modeling and
analysis of measurement of health outcomes, patient and physician
characteristics and relationship, treatment and medication compliance,
quality of care, process of care, structure, resource use, racial
disparities, patient satisfaction and quality of life. He has worked
extensively with repeated measures analysis and has developed a new
method for model selection and a new measure for goodness of fit
testing for repeated measures random effects models. Dr. Liu has also
developed new methods for sample size calculation and power analyses
under repeated measures designs for time-averaged difference and change
over time for both continuous and binary outcomes. Dr. Liu has
extensive experience with missing data and imputation methods for
different missing data mechanisms. He has developed an effective
imputation algorithm for imputing SF12 health score for patients with
partial missing data. He is also very familiar with the computation
algorithms of a variety of statistical software products and has
written several statistical procedures (e.g. robust standard error
estimate for clustering data, kappa statistics for incomplete data and
ROC estimates through generalized linear mixed models.) by using macro
and matrix languages for major statistical software. Dr. Liu also has
extensive experience in supervising and mentoring junior statisticians
and programmers. Dr. Liu has a series of publications including
statistical theoretical work and health service applications.
Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Investigator in Informatics
Core
Director, Medical Geographic Information Systems Laboratory
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
2594 Industry Way
Lynwood, CA 90262
Phone: (310) 761-4731
parobins@cdrewu.edu
Dr.
Paul Robinson’s research interests include geographic disparities in
urban health and health services, GIS applications in the urban
environment, the geography of United States metropolitan areas, with
special emphasis on the African American urban experience and the
geographies of Africa and its diaspora populations. In addition to his
research activities, Dr. Robinson directs the Charles Drew
University Geographic Information Systems (CDMGIS) laboratory and has
invested substantial effort in the development of the geo-spatial
infrastructure at Charles Drew University.
Magda A. Shaheen, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Internal Medicine
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
1731 E. 120th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Phone: (310) 761-4727
mashahee@cdrewu.edu
mshaheen@earthlink.net
Dr.
Magda Shaheen received her undergraduate degree in Biology from Cairo
University School of Science. She was awarded her M.D. and her Masters
Degree in Internal Medicine from Cairo University School of Medicine,
and practiced medicine for ten years. She received an Outstanding Award
from the Ministry of Health in Cairo for her service and
accomplishments in the field of Internal Medicine. She participated in
several collaborative research projects between universities in the
United States and institutions in Cairo. She was offered a fellowship
by the UCLA School of Public Health, where she received her Master in
Public Health (MPH) and doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Epidemiology. Dr.
Shaheen has 18 years of experience in research development and
implementation. In collaboration with Professor Ralph Frerichs at UCLA
Department of Epidemiology, she developed a rapid survey methodology
that she utilized in conducting five surveys among the Latino and
African American communities in Los Angeles. Dr. Shaheen is the program
director and an instructor for the Master of Science in Clinical
Research program at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science.
She teaches classes in clinical research and applications, epidemiology
and epidemiologic methods, evidence based medicine, data management and
data analysis, survey research methods and rapid surveys in urban
areas. Dr. Shaheen’s research interests include clinical research,
epidemiologic methods and evaluative research; statistical methods for
epidemiologic data; epidemiologic assessment of medicines and medical
technology, and epidemiologic approaches to the assessment of community
health needs.
