Professor
Senior Biostatistician, Health Services Research and Development and
Northwest Center for Cooperative Studies in Health Services, Portland
VA Medical Center
Phone: (360)
759-1636
Fax: (360) 759-1638
E-mail: kennethjames@compuserve.com
PhD (1969) University of Minnesota
MS (1967) University of Minnesota
BS (1965) Walla Walla College
Dr. James
has taught biostatistics, medical research design and mathematics
since 1969. He currently teaches a course in clinical trials, serves
as a course advisor for two MPH students and is a member of the
MPH advisory committee. He is an experienced researcher and administrator
in biomedical and health services clinical trials, being responsible
for the management of clinical trials coordinating centers for eighteen
years and involved in the conduct of multicenter studies in clinical
and health services research since 1971. He is a Senior Biostatistician
in the Portland Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development
Program and the and the VA Cooperative Studies Program. He is associated
with the Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center in Palo Alto,
California. He serves as the biostatistician to two multicenter center
behavioral science and provides biostatistical consulting to investigators
in basic and clinical research at the Portland VA Medical Center.
(click below for a full list of publications)
Welch, H.G., Chapko, M.K., James, K.E., Schwartz,L.M., Woloshin,
S., for the Telephone Care Study Group. The role of patients and
providers in the timing of follow- up visits. J Gen Intern Med (14):223-229,
1999.
Welch, H.G., Johnson,
D.J., Edson R. writing for the Telephone Care Study Group. Telephone
care as an adjunct to routine medical follow-up: a negative trial.
Effect. Clin. Practice (3):123-130, 2000.
White, R.F., James,
K.E., Vasetrling, J.J., Letz, R., Marans, K., Delaney, R., Krengel,
M., Rose, F., Kraemer, H.C. Neuropsychological screening for cognitive
impairment using computer-assisted tasks. Accepted by Assessment,
March 2002.
White, R.F., James,
K.E., Vasterling, J.J., Marans, K., Delaney, R., Krengel., M, Rose,
F. Interrater reliability of neuropsychological diagnoses: A Department
of Veterans Affairs cooperative study. In press. Journal of International
Neuropsychology. To be published July, 2002.
James
Publications
Course
schedule, PH541
Course
descriptions, PH
528,
PH 541
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