Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.A. Department of Mathematics, Bucknell University, 1975.
• B.A. Department of Economics, Bucknell University, 1975.
• M.Stat. Department of Statistics, University of Florida, 1979.
• Ph.D. Department of Statistics, University of Florida, 1979.

Professional Interests

• Principal Investigator. "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists," NIH funded study to develop and implement a semantic web-based platform for representing faculty interests, activites and accomplishments, and make that data available to search, social networking and a new generation of interoperable collaborative applications.
• Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer. "University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute," NIH funded institute to improve the ability of the University to perform clinical and translational science. See www.ctsi.ufl.edu
• Identity Management. Member of the InCommon work group on federal agency federation. Lots of presentations on issues related to identity management.
• Organizational development and change management. How and why do people and organizations change? How is information technology adopted by people and organizations? How do we introduce change for the benefit of the university and its community?

Recent Presentations

• "VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists," November 11, 2009. Presentation to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
• "More Bang for the Buck: Leveraging Identity Management Infrastructure," with John O'Keefe, November 4, 2009. Invited presentation at Educause 2009, Denver, CO.
• "Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida," October 29, 2009. Invited presentation at the Informatics Key Function Committee meetings of the Clinical and Translational Science Award Consortium, Washington DC.
• "Information Security and Compliance," October 9, 2009. Invited presentation to the deans, Gainesville, FL.
• "Shibboleth Town Hall: Progress, Q&A, and setting a date for sunsetting GLAuth", May 26, 2009. Town Hall presentation, Gainesville, FL.

Sample Publications

• Anderson, G. C., Radjenovic, D., Chiu, S.-H., Conlon, M., and Lane A. E. “Development of an Observational Instrument to Measure Mother-Infant Separation Post Birth,” Journal of Nursing Measurement, 12(3), 2004, pp 215-234.
• Marks, R. G., Bristol, H., Conlon, M., and Pepine, C. J. “Enhancing Clinical Trials on the Internet: Lessons Learned from INVEST,” Clinical Cardiology, 24(V), 2001, V17-V23.
• Wobie, K., Eyler, F. D., Conlon, M., Clarke, L., and Behnke, M. "Women and Children in Residential Treatment: Outcomes for Mothers and Their Infants," Journal of Drug Issues, 1998.
• Conlon, M. and Thomas, R. G. "Algorithm AS 280: The Power Function for Fisher's Exact Test," Applied Statistics. 42(1), 1993, pp 258-260.
• Khuri, A. I. and Conlon, M. "Simultaneous Optimization of Multiple Responses Represented by Polynomial Regression Functions," Technometrics, 23, 1981, pp 363-376.

Sample Courses Taught

• CAP 3800 - Research Data Management
• STA 4170 - Statistical Methods in Pharmacy
• STA 5106 - Research Data Management
• STA 6208 - Regression Analysis
• STA 6905 - Individual Work
• NGR 6930 - Advanced Statistics
• STA 6934 - Statistical Computing

In additon to formal courses, I have taught many short courses on programming and data management, as well as hundreds of guest lectures on computing, data management, ethical conduct of research, study design, programming, data modeling, project management, ERP implementation, system architecture, clinical research informatics, information security, biomedical informatics, electronic data caputre, on-line clinical trials, identity management, and health information technology.

Honors and Professional Activities

• Magna cum laude, Bucknell University, 1975
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1975
• Pi Mu Epsilon, 1975
• Graduate Council Fellow, University of Florida, 1975-76
• Qualifying exam honors, University of Florida, 1979
• Founding Webmaster, American Statistical Association
• Founder and editor, Virtual Library, Statistics
• Founder and editor, American Universities

Some Current Additional Activities

• Interim Division Chief, Biomedical Informatics
• Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
• Member, Computational Biology Advisory Committee