Service

Assistant Vice President for Academic Information Systems and Support. Develop policy, implement programs, advise the colleges, supervise reporting units and coordinate information technology in support of six colleges and eighteen administrative units. Reporting units include HealthNet-the central data network provider serving over 6,200 work stations, Biomedical Media Services-a cost-recovery unit for graphics, photography, copy center and video production, Teaching Laboratory Resources-supporting the teaching spaces of the Health Science Center including A/V checkout, lecture halls, distance learning, classrooms and laboratories, the IT Center-a direct support unit providing email, help desk, file/print, application development, web serving and other technology assistance, and IAIMS, an institutional-level strategic planning grant from the National Library of Medicine. In addition, we are developing new resources for compressed video and cable television. Other initiatives and programs are described at the AISS home page.

Member, UF Brain Institute Advisory Committee on Computing and Information Technology

Chair, Enterprise Directory Steering Committee.

Facilitator, HSC Instructional Support Committee

Facilitator, HSC Network Advisory Group.

Member, HealthNet Forum.

Member, HIPAA Planning Team, Shands HealthCare and UF HSC.

Member, UF IAIMS Steering Committee.

Member, University Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC).

Member, University High Performance Computing Committee.

Member, University Task Force on Administrative Services Reorganization.

Member, Advisory Committee on Distance, Contiuing and Executive Education.

Founding Editor, American Statistical Association On-Line. See the American Statistical Association.

Member, American Statistical Association Task Force on Electronic Journals.

Member, American Statistical Association Committee on Electronic Communication.

Associate Editor, Links and Archives, American Statistical Association On-line.

WebMaster, American Universities

WebMaster, Virtual Library: Statistics

Teaching

Not currently teaching. Taught STA6934 Statistical Computing Summer 1997. Have previously taught STA6208, Regression Analysis, STA4175 Statistical Methods in Pharmacy, STA 6900 Special topics, STA 5106 Research Data Management, CAP 3800 SAS Data Management. Guest lectures on study design, statistical analysis, computing, research informatics, on-line clinical trials, conduct of research.

Research

Project Director, UF IAIMS, planning grant from the National Library of Medicine.

Co-investigator, Project Care. A ten year longitudinal study of substance abusing women, matched controls and their children. NIDA funded.

Co-principal investigator, INVEST Trial. An international, controlled randomized trial in hypertension. Funded by Knoll-AG.

Software

On-line Clinical Trials. The INVEST trial is an Internet-based trial in which physicians and trial managers enter trial data and review trial progress using web-based access to an Oracle database located at the Division of Biostatistics. You can visit the home page of the trial.

Minimization software for Randomized Clinical Trials. Performs the Pocock and Simon method of assigning subjects to two-arm randomized clinical trials while controlling for confounders. Code and documentation are freely available here

Multiple Response Optimization. Performs the Khuri and Conlon (Technometrics, 1981) method for multiple response optimization for second order quadratic models. 5,000 line C program, source, examples, technical report included.

DE -- The Data Entry Program. DE is a 6,000 line C program for UNIX, and PCs which can be used to create and perform data entry tasks. DE produces ASCII files and corresponding SAS programs to read those files. It has features for range checking, table look-ups, hierarchical files, date/time stamps, operator logs, double entry verification and other features commonly found in commercial systems. It's available here

MLIB -- Matrix Library for Pascal. The MLIB is a set of 120 plus routines for matrix manipulations in Pascal. It's available here

Tech Transfer

Founder, with Ron Marks, of MarCon Global Data Solutions, a company offering clinical research software services. UF is an equity holder in MarCon.