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Education:
B.A. Mathematics, Boston University
M.A. Mathematics, Boston University
Ph.D. Biostatistics, University of North Carolina
HONORS and Current National Committees:
Indo-American
Fellowship, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars and the
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, 1983-84
Statistics Section
Award, American Public Health Association, 2001
Chair, Advisory
Committee: Institute of Medicine - Medical Follow-up Agency, 2007-9
Graduate
Students Distinguished Teacher Award, 2007
Recognition by the
Family Service Center of Galveston County for Outstanding Leadership in
Community Research – The Children’s Report Card 2007
Paul Harris Fellow,
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
Active Supported Research
5 R01 CA104949-04 (PI James
Goodwin) 04/01/2004–03/31/2008
Use of Claims Data to Study Quality of
Cancer Care
The project will examine the use of
chemotherapy in older men and women with colon cancer and older women
with breast cancer.
5 P50 CA105631-04 (PI James
Goodwin) 09/01/2003–08/31/2008
NIH/NIA UTMB Center for Population
Health and Health Disparities [SDMSA Core]
The overall theme of the UTMB Center
for Population Health and Health Disparities is to understand the
mechanisms responsible for lower cancer incidence, lower prevalence of
other diseases, and lower mortality associated with the increasing
percent of Hispanics in the neighborhood.
HHSN275200503407C (PI Larry Stanberry) 09/30/2005 – 09/29/2008
NIH/NICHHD Evaluation of Colposcopy
for Use in Vaginal Product Development
The proposed studies will utilize a
mouse model to define the relationship, if any, between colposcopically/optical
coherence tomography observed vaginal/cervical abnormalities and
subsequent susceptibility to transmission of HSV-2 infection.
5 R01 HD051844-2 (PI Elizabeth Protas)
09/25/06-06/30/2011
Gait and Step Training to Reduce Falls
in Parkinson’s Disease
The major goal of the Gait
and Step Training to Reduce Falls in Parkinson’s Disease is to
understand the mechanisms responsible for the disease.
Other Research
Galveston Report
Card Projects. This is a series of community – university – health
district collaborative reports on social and health indictors for
various populations in the City of Galveston. To date seven report
cards on children, two report cards on the elderly
and one on the
vulnerable population.
Recent Publications
1.
Mahnken, Jonathan D., Freeman,
Jr., Daniel H.; DiNuzzo, Anthony R.; Freeman, Jean L.: Mammography use
among older mexican-american women: correcting for over-reports of
breast cancer screening. In press: Women & Health
2.
Luh JY, McDill TL, Karnath BM,
Freeman DH, Speegle DL, Keeney SE: Physician staffing in emergency
departments: results of a Texas survey. Texas Medicine, September
2006; 52-57, with editorial
3.
Tan, A; Freeman, D.H.; Goodwin,
J.S., Freeman, J.L. Variation in accuracy of mammography readings among
1067 radiologists: a population-based assessment of false-positive
rates. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, Published online: 4
July 2006 (the printed version will come in a forthcoming issue).
4.
Lemus FC, Freeman DH, Baja, M,
Freeman, JL: Uncontrolled diabetes in southeast Texas communities: use
of hospital discharge data to assess a Healthy People 2010 goal. TPHA
Journal 58:4: 7-11, 2007.
5.
Tan A,
Freeman JL, Freeman DH. Evaluating health care performance: strengths
and limitations of multilevel analysis. Biometrical Journal. 49(5):
707-718, 2007.
6.
Mahnken, Jonathan D., Freeman,
Jr., Daniel H.; DiNuzzo, Anthony R.; Freeman, Jean L.: Mammography use
among older mexican-american women: correcting for over-reports of
breast cancer screening. In press: Women & Health
7.
Peek, M.K., Cutchin, M.P.,
Freeman, D.H., Perez, N.A., and Goodwin, J.S.: Perceived health change
in the aftermath of a petrochemical accident: An examination of
pre-accident, within accident, and post-accident, Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health, Volume: 62, Issue: 2
8.
Mahnken, JD, Chan, W, Freeman,
DH, Freeman, JL: Reducing the Effects of Lead-Time Bias, Length Bias,
and Over-Detection in Evaluating Screening Mammography: A Censored
Bivariate Data Approach. In Press: Statistical Methods in Medical
Research
Biography
Dr. Daniel H
Freeman holds a tenured professorship in the University Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston’s School of Medicine. Before coming to Galveston he
served on the faculty at Yale University and Dartmouth Medical School.
He has mentored dozens of master of public health students and doctoral
students. His academic interests include aging, adolescent health and
community based participatory research. He has written more than 100
peer reviewed papers, one book and numerous book chapters. He currently
is a referee for the Journal of the American Medical Association, the
American Journal of Public Health, and Medical Care, as well as
statistical editor of the International Journal of Psychiatry in
Medicine.
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