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Susan M. Sereika, PhD
Associate Professor, Associate Director for Statistical Support Services
Health and Community Systems
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School of Nursing 360 Victoria Building 3500 Victoria St Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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Research
My area of research is statistics. The area of statistics that particularly interests me is the modeling and assessment of longitudinal data. I have collaborated as a co-investigator and statistician on a number of research projects with either intramural or extramural funding in the health sciences, many of which have targeted regimen adherence using multiple modes of monitoring.Teaching
I have taught statistics at the master`s and doctoral levels in both the School of Nursing and the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently I teach a doctoral level theory course offered in the School of Nursing on advanced quantitative methods, covering such topics as data screening; missing data analysis and imputation; correlational analysis; regression analysis; categorical data analysis; logistic regression; MANOVA/MANCOVA; repeated measures analysis; and meta-analysis. This course is web-based, using a web server that I have developed and maintain (http://cre.nursing.pitt.edu/ssereika/) as well as BlackBoard 7. Students can participate in seminars remotely using VoIP. In the past I have taught statistical computing/programming and applied regression in the Department of Biostatistics. I also guest lecture on a number of statistical topics such as basic statistics, sample size and effect size estimation, data mining, meta-analysis, and exploratory/confirmatory factor analysis. I have also conducted independent studies with doctoral students choosing to focus on specific areas of statistics such as survival analysis, repeated measures analysis, structural equation modeling, and logistic/ordinal/polychotomous regression. I have served on a number of thesis and dissertation committees in nursing, biostatistics, education, and epidemiology and have mentored post-doctoral fellows who have interest in advanced quantitative methods.Service
In addition to functioning as a faculty statistician to the researchers in the School of Nursing, I serve as the Associate Director for Statistical Support Services in the School of Nursing. I am the Director of the Data Management and Analysis Core in the Center for Research in Chronic Disorders, a federally funded NIH core center (P30) from NINR. In addition, I am the Core Leader of the Statistics Core for a longstanding NHLBI-funded program project (P01) in the Department of Psychology. I participate on committees focusing on issues related to information technology within the University of Pittsburgh at school and University levels and outside the University in several professional organizations. I am the statistical consulting editor for the Annals of Behavioral Medicine and have served as a statistical reviewer for a number of behavioral and health science journals.Education
| BS | Illinois Benedictine College , Lisle, IL |
| Mathematics and Biology | |
| MPH | University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI |
| Biostatistics | |
| PhD | University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI |
| Biostatistics (cognate: Epidemiology) |