MIHAELA OBREJA

Office: Department of Statistics

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University of Pittsburgh

Sunnyvale, CA, 94085

Pittsburgh, PA, 15260

Cell-Phone: 412-***-****

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Email: ablwcq@r.postjobfree.com

Education

University of Pittsburgh, USA - Ph.D. Student, Department of Statistics

> Research in "Motion Correction in Two Photon Laser Scanning

Microscopy", supervised by Prof. William Eddy, Carnegie Mellon

University, Pittsburgh, USA (expected graduation in Fall 2010).

University of Pittsburgh, USA - M.A. in Statistics (August 2007),

Department of Statistics

University of Bucharest, Romania - B.Sc. in Mathematics (June 2000),

Faculty of Mathematics

Professional Experience

July 2008 - Present: Statistician, UPMC, Western Psychiatric Institute

Duties: Providing data analytic support for BIOS research project, and

other related projects (e.g., new grant submissions) as designated by

investigators: assistance with study design and methodology, data

management, statistical analysis and interpretation, co-authoring

manuscripts and/or posters for publication/presentation; determining

appropriate data analytic strategies.

January 2007 - May 2008: Statistical Consultant, Center for Statistics,

University of Pittsburgh

Duties: Assisting clients with statistical help in understanding the

problem, setting -up the design, formulation of research questions,

computational strategies and interpreting the results on projects from

various fields (under the supervision of Prof. Allan Sampson and Prof.

Satish Iyengar):

. Bioengineering ("Comparing the trajectories of the movement of a

monkey's hand under two experimental conditions" or "Estimating

coefficients of a flux equation")

. Critical Care Medicine ("Impact of Biosign Monitoring upon

patients' instability and outcomes")

. Institutional Advancement ("Analysis of University of Pittsburgh

major donors")

. Psychology ("The effect of alcohol on memory ")

. Communication Science and Disorders ("ABR in normal hearing

children")

. Politics ("Terrorist attacks worldwide")

August 2005 - Present: Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics,

University of Pittsburgh

Courses: Basic practice of Statistics and Statistics and Probability

for Business Management

Duties: leading recitations both in the classroom and computer lab

(using Minitab or EXCEL), assisting students outside of class,

designing quizzes and lab assignments, grading quizzes and homework.

June 2007 - August 2007: Instructor, Department of Statistics, University

of Pittsburgh

Course: Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

Duties: presenting lectures that help students familiarize with

statistical thinking and practice, preparing quizzes and exams that

apply the theoretical information to interesting problems.

August 2003-April 2005: Statistical Research Assistant, Mapamond

Consulting Co, Bucharest, Romania

Duties: interacting with agents and clients, managing and analyzing

financial data: modeling, estimation, and prediction, reporting the

results to the financial advisors of the company.

October 2000-February 2003: Assistant of the Logistic manager, Hyacinth,

Bucharest, Romania

Duties: developing and maintaining the data bases, assisting the

manager with the customers/agents relationships and transactions with

some financial institutions.

Publications:

Lifetime Psychiatric Disorders in School-aged Offspring of Parents with

Bipolar Disorder: the Pittsburgh Bipolar Offspring study.-with B Birmaher,

D Axelson, K Monk, C Kalas, B Goldstein, HB Hickey, M Obreja,M Ehmann, S

Iyengar, W Shamseddeen, D Kupfer, D Brent; Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009

66(3):287-296.

Psychiatric Disorders in Preschool Offspring of Parents with Bipolar

Disorder: the Pittsburgh Bipolar Offspring Study (BIOS)- B Birmaher, D

Axelson, B Goldstein, K Monk, C Kalas, M Obreja, HB Hickey, S Iyengar, D

Brent, W Shamseddeen, R Diler, D Kupfer; Am J of Psychiatry. 2010 167:321-

330.

In progress:

Child Behavior Checklist Profiles in Offspring of Bipolar Parents- with R

Diler, MD

Aggression in Adults with Bipolar Disorder - with J. Ballester, MD

Risk for Suicidal Ideation Among Offspring of Bipolar Parents - with T

Goldstein, PhD

Sleep Patterns in School-aged Offspring of Parents with Bipolar Disorder-

with D Axelson, MD

Psycho-Social Functioning Problems in Offspring of Parents with Bipolar

Disorder- with T. Bella, MD

Posters/Presentations:

Motion Correction in Two Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy, poster at ENAR,

New Orleans, March 2010, and at MMDS, Stanford, June 2010.

Awards

SPEC, TCE, VITA Recognition, Internal Revenue Service, Department of

Treasury (April 2009)

Best Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Statistics

(April 2008)

Representative Course Work

Statistical Inference, Linear Models Theory/ Experimental Designs,

Probability Theory, Data Mining, Survival Analysis, Advanced Modern

Statistical Computing I, Time Series, Stochastic Calculus and Financial

Applications, Topics in Clinical Trials, Meta-Analysis, Large Sample

Theory, Multivariate Analysis.

Languages

English (fluent), French (fluent), Romanian (native)

Computer Skills

Programming: R/Splus, SAS, SPSS, FIASCO, Minitab, MSOffice, M-Plus, SQL,

some C and UNIX/LINUX

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