General Clinical Research Center

Judy A. Bean, PhD, MPH

Title

Biostatistician

Appointment

Professor of Pediatrics

Email

judy.bean@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-3430

Fax

513-636-4402

Bio

Judy A. Bean, PhD, MPH, is director of the Biostatistics Program at Children's Hospital Medical Center. She has more than 25 years of experience in research and management.

Dr. Bean has consulted and collaborated with clinicians and basic scientists on data management, design and analyses in various areas, including cancer epidemiology, cancer prevention trials, clinical trial in liver transplantation, clinical trial on caregivers of Alzheimer's disease, marine toxins, identification of teens at high risk of AIDS, mortality and cancer incidence in pesticides applicators.

Currently, Dr. Bean is the statistician for the General Clinical Research Center at Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati Medical School and the statistician on a project concerning imaging of brains in children. She is collaborating on the establishment of a rotavirus surveillance system and the effects of microsomal epoxide hydrolase polymorphism on pregnancy outcomes in carbamazepine-treated patients.

Dr. Bean's main research focus is in general statistical methods, sample surveys, environmental epidemiology and cancer epidemiology. She has conducted studies concerning health effects on pollutants in drinking water as well as developed an approach to sample size determination for case-control studies.

Dr. Bean has served on three study sections for National Institutes of Health (NIH) and currently is on the CDRC Study Section, Communication Disorders.

Dr. Bean has finished six years on the Drinking Water Committee of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Dr. Bean is currently a member of the NSABP Data and Safety Monitoring Committee and on the Editorial Board of Statistical Methods in Medical Research.

Credentials

BA: Murray State College, Murray, Ky., 1963.

MPH: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1965.

PhD: University of Texas, Houston, Texas, 1973.

Awards and Honors

PHS Fellowship to the University of Michigan
Graduated with High Distinction from Murray State College
Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities
Statistics Section Recognition Award for 1987, APHA

Research

General statistical methods

Research Grants and Contracts

Thomas Boat, M.D., Principal Investigator: "General Clinical Research Center".
NIH/NCRR M01 RR 08084, $1,114,343, Dec. 1, 1996 to Nov. 30, 2001. (30 percent effort).

Scott K. Holland, Ph.D., Principal Investigator: "FMRI of Normal Language Development in Children". NIH/R01 -- CD, $1,000,748, Dec. 1, 1999 to Nov. 30, 2004. (10 percent effort).

Professional Organization Memberships

1996 to 2000, Communication Disorders Review Committee, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
1994 to present, NSABP Data Monitoring and Safety Committee
1992 to present, Drinking Water Committee, Scientific
Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Memberships