I got an email from someone at UMKC with the title, Director of Undergraduate Research. She was

“looking through the abstract booklet from the Faculty Research Symposium sponsored by Lawrence Dreyfus’s office at the end of last semester, and I was really intrigued by your presentation on the likelihood ration slide rule. That’s just the kind of innovative work that undergraduate students would like to be involved with, and you would be an awesome mentor for undergraduate researchers.”

Flattery always works with me, so I took her suggestion of setting a faculty profile that undergraduate students at UMKC could review. Here’s what I put on that profile. Continue reading →

I was asked by a colleague to write a chapter for a book he was editing, Big Data Analysis for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Discoveries. My chapter was “R for Big Data Analysis.” It just about killed me to write that chapter, but I got it done about nine months ago, and now the book is out officially. Continue reading →

A while back, I set up a publication list in Google Scholar. It tracks the number of citations received by each article that I published. One of my articles has a massive 287 citations. I’m not the first author on this or on an of the other articles that received 100+ citations. So I’m mostly riding on the coattails of some very good researchers. Continue reading →

It’s a silly number, perhaps, but I tried to calculate my H-index today. The H-index lists your publications in order from the most cited to the least cited and then finds the value where rank order equals the number of citations. My h-index is 24 which means that I have 24 papers that have been cited 24 or more times. Confused? Here’s a better explanation from Wikipedia. Anyway, I used Research Gate to get an approximation to this (I’m not sure if Research Gate has an accurate citation count). Continue reading →

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a new biosketch format where they ask you to summarize “up to five of your most significant contributions to science.” Here’s a first draft of my research contributions to patient accrual models. Continue reading →

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a new biosketch format where they ask you to summarize “up to five of your most significant contributions to science.” Here’s a first draft of my research contributions to Evidence Based Medicine. Continue reading →

I get requests for a short biography from people asked to introduce me. I like to store these on my website so that I can refer to them and update them. Here’s the latest short bio. Continue reading →

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a new biosketch format where they ask you to summarize “up to five of your most significant contributions to science.” Here’s a first draft of my research contributions to reproductive toxicology. Continue reading →