Dawn Peters, PhD

Associate Professor, GCRC Biostatistician

Phone: (503) 494-8528
Fax: (503) 494-0165
E-mail: petersd@ohsu.edu

Education
PhD (1988) University of Florida, Gainesville FL, Statistics
MS (1984) University of Florida, Gainesville FL, Statistics
BS(1979) University of Florida, Gainesville FL, Psychology

Experience and Interests
Before joining OHSU, Dr. Peters was Associate Professor of Statistics at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR, where she conducted methodological research and taught undergraduate and graduate statistics courses. She took a leave of absence from Oregon State University in 2001, via a NIH K-25 Career Development Award, in order to pursue a career shift toward medical research. Working at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (KPCHR) for two years, she collaborated with investigators on a variety of projects and conducted research in randomization for clinical trials. She joined the Division of Biostatistics, OHSU Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, in 2003and serves as one of the biostatisticians for the General Clinical Research Center. Her areas of interest include clinical trial methodology and randomization techniques.

Recent Publications
Rindal BD, Rush WA, Peters D, Maupomé G, “Antidepressant xerogenic medications and restoration rates”, Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, in press.

Maupomé G, Peters D, White BA, “Longitudinal utilization of services associated with perceptions of and levels of satisfaction with oral health status”, Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2004, 64(2):88-95.

Lyons B, Peters D, Lyons B. Applying Skovgaard’s modified directed likelihood statistic to mixed linear models. J Statistical Computation Simulation 2000, 65: 225-242.