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Resume:
Folefac Desire Atem PhD
Email:************@*****.***
(Local to Malden, MA and available for in-person interview)
Summary:
. A multi tasker with strong analytic and quantitative skill.
. Efficiency to improve experimental processes through the application of
various mathematical and statistical methodologies.
. Highly organized individual with strong oral and written communication
skills.
Fluent in English and French
Skills:
. IBM PC and MTS.
. Proficient programming skills in SAS,S-Plus, R, Mplus JAVA, PASCAL,
SPSS, MINITAB,LATEX, Computer hardware and Software
Education:
. PhD in Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of
Public Health, Pittsburgh PA, June 2010
. Master of Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright
State University, Dayton OH, June 2006
. Bachelor of Science, Physics, Concentration in Physics, Minors in
Mathematics and Computer Science University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
June 2002
Experience:
Allegheny Singer Research Institute
Jan 10 - August 11
Consulting Statistician
Responsibilities:
. Developed research questions, hypotheses, survey and clinical trial
design.
. Planned data analysis, power analysis and sample size justification,
and performed statistical analysis on their data.
Pfizer Inc, Kalamazoo, MI
Mar 11 - May 11
Contract Biometrician(
Responsibilities:
. Advise on all aspects of experimental design, statistical methodology
and data collection storage and retrieval.
. Conduct statistical analyses and develop SAS programs to allow
individual scientists to generate their own analyses where
appropriate.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 07 - Jun 10
Research Assistant
Responsibilities:
. Pre-Doctorate mentor, University Of Pittsburgh.
. Performed statistical analysis for the department of Behavioral/
Community Health Science.
. Mentor SIBS training, Worked on VIRAHEP-C
Summer 2010.
. Planned data analysis.
West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 06 - Feb 11
Primary consulting Statistician
Responsibilities:
. Reviewed an average of forty new protocols (60-70 percent are Oncology
research, 10-20 percent are Cardiology research and the rest are on
pharmaceutical medical devices and other) per annum.
. Developed research questions, hypotheses, survey and clinical trial
design.
. Planned data analysis, power analysis and sample size justification,
and performed statistical analysis on their data.
. Conduct statistical analyses in a timely manner and develop SAS
programs to allow individual scientists to generate their own analyses
where appropriate.
. Write documents and/ or make presentations of a high scientific
standard to meet project or department needs.
Mecoyoda, Buena, Cameroon
Jun 02 - Jan 05
Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
. Analyzed data on competitors and developed product promotions.
. Conducted advanced statistical analyses including Regression, ANOVA,
ANCOVA, Logistics model, Log linear model, Spline Model, hypothesis
tests.
. Assisted in the national promotion, developed advertising brochures,
kept follow-up client contact.
. Worked with partner groups finishing promotion report.
. Used written and oral reports, graphs and tables to present findings
to clients.
. Conducted demand forecasting analysis, Information was used to
determine seasonal promotion strategy.
. Assisted a professor in cleaning data and performing quantitative
analysis on a project.
. Extracted individual measures from 1998-2002 panel of the Survey on
Income and Program Participation.
. Analyzed time series data using ARMA model, ARIMA model.
Honors and Awards:
. Pre-Doctorate fellowship, NIH-NCI training grant: Fall 2008-Summer
2010.
. Dean's List of Distinguished Students: Fall 1999-Spring 2002.
Presentations/ Abstracts:
. Defining survival for patients with breast cancer with brain
metastases. Neeta Pathe, M.D, Sanaullah Khalid, M.D, Cyrus Khan, M.D,
Folefac D. Atem, MS Ph.D, Mark Trombetta, M.D, Charles E Geyer Jr,
M.D.Committee for the 2011 Breast Cancer Symposium 86598-258.
September 8 10, 2011.
. Defining Survival for Breast cancer patients with brain metastases.
Neeta Pathe, M.D, Sanaullah Khalid, M.D, Cyrus Khan, M.D, Folefac D.
Atem, MS Ph.D, Mark Trombetta, M.D, Charles E Geyer Jr, M.D. ASCO June
2011.
. Rationale for choosing explicit Correlation Structure in a Multilevel
Analysis with Bivariate Out-comes. ENAR Spring 2010: Folefac D. Atem
and Stewart J. Anderson.
. Visualization of distal spinal cord on FDG PET/CT: Annual Meeting of
the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Toronto June 2009 (151263): Robin
L. Greenspan, MD, Valmore Suprenant, MD and Folefac D. Atem, MS.
. Poor prognostic significance of unamplified chromosome 17 polysomy in
invasive breast carcinoma,
. USA/ Canada Academy of Pathology, April 2007. Uma Krishnamurti and
Folefac D. Atem april
. 2007.
. Correlation of chromosome 17 polysomy with HER2/NEU
immunohistochemistry status, USA/Canada Academy of Pathology (45180).
Uma Krishnamurti and Folefac D. Atem april 2007.
Publications:
. Roy Cho, Venkatram Srinivasan, Nosheen Javed, Darren Traub, Sobhan Kodali
and Folefac D.
Atem. A review of the Hydrate Trial. Cardiology Treatment Strategies
Cardiology Vol 3 Issue 1 2011 (64-65).
. Rubens Costa MD, Haifaa Abdulhaq MD, Bushra Haq MD,Richard K. Shadduck
MD1, Joan Latsko,
. MSN, CRNP, OCN1, Folefac D. Atem, James M. Rossetti DO, Entezam Sahovic
MD, John Lister MD1. Activity of Azacitidine in Chronic Myelomonocytic
Leukemia.. Cancer 12/2010. DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25759.
. Folefac D. Atem, Ravi K. Sharma and Stewart J. Anderson . Fitting
Bivariate Multilevel Models To Assess Long Term Changes in Body Mass
Index(BMI) and Cigarrate Smoking. . Journal of Applied Statistics. ISSN
0266-4763 print/ISSN 1360-0532 0nline 2010 Taylor Francis.
. Roy Cho, Nosheen Javed, Darren Traub, Folefac Atem and Venkatraman
Srinivasan. Oral Hy-dration and Alkalinization is Non-Inferior to
Intravenous Therapy Prevention of Contrast Induced Nephropathy in
Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (HYDRATE TRIAL). A Randomized
Prospec-tive Single Center Study,Sobhan Kodali., (JOIC 585),Wiley
Interscience, Aug 2010 .
. Uma Krishnamurti1, Alireza Zarineh2, Folefac D Atem and Jan F.Silverman
Correlation of Im-munohistochemical Expression of p53. 3 Unamplied
Chromosome 17 Polysomy in Invasive Breast Carcinoma. Appl Immunohistochem
Mol Morphol . 2010 Sep.
. Krishnamurti U, Hammers JL, Atem FD, Storto PD, Silverman JF. Poor
prognostic significance of unamplied chromosome 17 polysomy in invasive
breast carcinoma. Modern Pathology. 22(8):1044-8, 2009 Aug.
. Robin L. Greenspan, Valmore Suprenant and Folefac Atem. Visualization of
distal spinal cord on FDG PET/CT. Advance online publication, Nuclear
medicine.
REFERENCES
Stewart J. Anderson, PhD
Department Of Biostatistic
Graduate School of Public Health University Of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15261
Tel: 412-***-****
Email: ***@****.***
Howard E. Rockette Jr, PhD
Department Of Biostatistics
Graduate School of Public Health
University Of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15261
Tel: 412-***-****
Email: ******@****.***
Ravi K. Sharma, PhD
Associate Director of Public Health Informatics Graduate School of Public
Health,
Institute for Evaluation Science in Community Health,
Department of Behavioral Community Health Sciences,
Graduate School of Public Health
University Of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15261
Tel:412-***-****
Email: *******@****.***
Jake Moni, PhD
Sr. Oracle DBA
Email: *******@*****.***
arry M. Jones, M.D., FACS
Director, West Penn Burn Center
The Western Pennsylvania Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA
Email: *******@*****.***
Tel:412-***-****
Robin L. Greenspan, M.D
Department of Radiology,
The Western Pennsylvania Hospital,
West Penn Allegheny.
Tel: 412-578-531
Fax: 412-***-****
E-mail: ********@*****.***
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