Biostatistics in Public Health Using Stata (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367341480)

Erick L. Suárez is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health. He has more than 25 years of experience teaching biostatistics at the graduate level and has co-authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications in chronic and infectious diseases. Dr. Suarez has been a co-investigator of several NIH-funded grants related to cancer, HPV, HCV, and diabetes. He has extensive experience in statistical consulting with biomedical researchers, particularly in the analysis of microarrays data in breast cancer.

Cynthia M. Pérez is a professor of epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health. She has taught epidemiology and biostatistics for over 20 years. She has also directed efforts in mentoring and training to public health and medical students at the University of Puerto Rico. She has been the principal investigator or co-investigator of research grants in diverse areas of public health including diabetes, metabolic syndrome, periodontal disease, viral hepatitis, and HPV infection. She is the author or co-author of more than 75 peer-reviewed publications.

Graciela M. Nogueras is a statistical analyst at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She is currently enrolled in the PhD program in biostatistics at the University of Texas--Graduate School of Public Health. She has co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications. For the past nine years, she has been performing statistical analyses for clinical and basic science researchers. She has been assisting with the design of clinical trials and animal research studies, performing sample size calculations, and writing the clinical trial reports of clinical trial progress and interim analyses of efficacy and safety data to the University of Texas MD Anderson Data and Safety Monitoring Board.

Camille Moreno-Gorrín is a graduate of the Master of Science Program in Epidemiology at the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health. During her graduate studies, she was a research assistant at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Puerto Rico where she co-authored several articles in biomedical journals. She also worked as a research coordinator for the HIV/AIDS Surveillance System of the Puerto Rico Department of Health, where she conducted research on intervention programs to link HIV patients to care.