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Heidi J Sucharew, PhD

Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-803-1920

Email: Heidi.Sucharew@cchmc.org

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Specialties

structural equation modeling, latent profile analysis, and latent variable modeling

Biography

Dr. Sucharew's areas of applied research include infant neurobehavioral outcomes, stroke severity, adolescent menstrual symptoms and depression, and glucose control during pregnancy. Her research has been funded by the NINDS, NIH/NIEHS, and NIMH. To date, she has authored 12 publications and has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. Part of Dr. Sucharew’s dissertation work on Item Response Theory and skin prick testing has been selected to be highlighted as Editor’s Choice in the March 2012 edition of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Sucharew has been very active as a teacher. She contributes to the Biostatistics and Epidemiology modules of the Pediatrics Fellowship Core curriculum. She has also developed and is the primary instructor of "Introduction to Biostatistics" online course and has served as an invited lecturer in "Design and Management of Field Studies in Epidemiology" in the graduate program in Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Department of Environmental Health.

Education and Training

BA: Statistics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, 2000

MS: Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002

PhD: Biostatistics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2009

Publications

Sucharew H, Khoury JC, Rao MB, Succop P, Bernstein D, Ryan PH, LeMasters G. Predicting allergic disease at age four using an atopy predisposition score at age two: the application of Item Response Theory. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2012.

VanDyke R, Ren Y, Sucharew H, Miodovnik M, Rosenn B, Khoury JC. Characterizing maternal glycemic control: a more informative approach using semiparametric regression. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med, 25(1): 15-9. 2012

Flaherty ML, Kissela B, Sucharew H, Alwell K, Moomaw CJ, Woo D, Khatri P, Ferioli S, Adeoye O, Mackey J, Broderick JP, Kleindorfer D. The practice of carotid revascularization within a large metropolitan population. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2011.

Mackey J, Kleindorfer DO, Sucharew H, Moomaw CJ, Kissela BM, Alwell K, Flaherty ML, Woo D, Khatri P, Adeoye O, Ferioli S, Khoury JC, Hornung R, Broderick JP. Population-based study of wake-up strokes. Neurology, 76(19), 1662-7. 2011.

Sucharew H, Ryan PH, Bernstein D, Succop P, Khurana Hershey GK, Lockey J, Villareal M, Reponen T, Grinshpun S, LeMasters G. Exposure to traffic exhaust and night cough during early childhood: the CCAAPS birth cohort. Pediatr Allergy Immunol, 21(2), 253-9. 2010.

Lerner S, Tangen C, Sucharew H, Wood D, Crawford ED. Failure to achieve a complete response to induction BCG therapy is associated with increased risk of disease worsening and death in patients with high risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Urol Oncol, 27(2), 155-159. 2009.

Iossifova Y, Reponen T, Sucharew H, Succop P, Vesper S. Use of (1-3)-beta-d-glucan concentrations in dust as a surrogate method for estimating specific fungal exposures. Indoor Air, 18(3), 225-232. 2008.

Lerner S, Tangen C, Sucharew H, Wood D, Crawford ED. Patterns of recurrence and outcomes following bacillus calmette-guerin for high risk TA, T1 bladder cancer. J Urol, 177(5), 1727-1731. 2007.

Sucharew H, Goss CH, Millard SP, Ramsey B. Respiratory adverse event profiles in placebo subjects in short and long-term inhaled therapy trials. Contemp Clin Trials, 27(6), 561-70. 2006.

Brody AS, Sucharew H, Campbell JD, Millard SP, Molina PL, Klein JS, Quan J. Computed tomography correlates with pulmonary exacerbations in children with cystic fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 172(9), 1128-32. 2005

Grants

Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke Among Blacks and Whites. Biostatistician. National Institute of Health / National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. July 2009 – June 2014.

Recanalization Therapies and Markers of Stroke Outcome. Co-Investigator. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. July 2008 – April 2013.

Medication Continuity in Children Treated for ADHD. Biostatistician. National Institute of Mental Health. Jan 2010 – Nov 2014.

Neurobehavioral Effects of Insecticide Exposure in Pregnancy and Early Childhood. Biostatistician. National Institute of Health / National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Sept 2009 – Aug 2012.