ISPU C3FIT Clinical Coordinating Center
Dr. George Howard has focused on being a statistician, working in the overlap of the development and application of statistical methods in the domains of clinical trials and epidemiological studies for several years. In the domain of clinical trials, he is currently the PI of the Statistical and Data Management Center for several trials including Carotid Revascularization for Primary Prevention of Stroke Trial (CREST-2). Since 1994 a major focus of his research has been on geographic and racial differences in stroke risk.
Job Title: Professor
The core of the Statistical and Data Coordinating Center (SDCC) at UAB School of Public Health is an established team that has successfully provided coordination for many clinical trials of primary or secondary stroke prevention that reached successful completion including such SPS3 and CRES. We are currently the SDCC for the CREST-2 funded by NIH-NINDS through an R01 with George Howard as PI. Dr. George Howard has a wealth of experience in biostatistics, data management, and the direction of coordinating centers of multicenter studies. The team also includes Dr. Virginia Howard who has been involved in the successful conduct and management of multicenter stroke clinical trials for over 30 years, most notably as co-investigator for ACAS, VISP, and most recently CREST and CREST-2. The entire Statistical and Data Coordinating Center team consists of investigators, systems developers, statisticians, project managers, clinical nurse manager, and support staff who have worked together in the successful design and conduct of these and other stroke studies. Dr. Russell Griffin, Department of Epidemiology, is the newest team member bringing expertise in linkages with medical records and complex data management processes.
Address:
1665 University Boulevard
Birmingham, AL 35294-0022
Phone: 205-934-4905
Email: ghoward@uab.edu
Job Title: Professor
After receiving a BS in Mathematics from Tennessee Wesleyan College and an MS in Mathematics from Tennessee Technological University, Dr. Long attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for her PhD in Biostatistics. Her doctoral research proposed the marginalized zero-inflated Poisson model, focusing on providing marginal inference for count data with excess zeroes.
She joined the UAB Department of Biostatistics in July 2016. Her research interests include categorical data analysis, particularly zero-inflated models, and meta-analysis for single case design data. She has collaborated across many disciplines, most recently in injury prevention and dental research.
Project Role: Operation Program Manager
Desiree Mitchell is the operational Program Manager for the C3FIT clinical trial at UAB. She will act as liaison between programmers, statisticians, and study staff to assure that the data entry system is set up correctly. Thus, she will assist in creating, testing, training, and trouble-shooting the data entry system, as well as monitor data quality.