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RESEARCH:
My area of research is statistics, in particular, 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 the research
studies I have participated on have targeted regimen adherence using
multiple modes of monitoring.
TEACHING:
I have taught statistics at the master's and doctoral levels in
both School of Nursing and Graduate School of Public Health. I currently
teach a doctoral level theory course 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; and repeated
measures analysis. This course is web-based, using a web server
that I have developed and maintained (http://cre.nursing.pitt.edu/ssereika/)
as well as CourseInfo, and employs voice-enabled chat to broadcast
the seminar and practicum to students choosing to learn from a distance.
In addition, I have taught statistical computing/programming in
the health sciences and applied regression in the Department of
Biostatistics. I also guest lecture on a number of statistical topics
such as basic statistics, 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 biostatistics, education, epidemiology, and nursing.
SERVICE:
In addition to functioning as a faculty statistician to the research
faculty in the School of Nursing, I serve as the Director for the
Center for Research and Evaluation
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 from NINR. In addition, I am the Core Leader of the
Data Management and Analysis Core in the Pittsburgh Pepper Center,
a federally funded NIH
core center from NIA. 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 a statistical consulting editor for the Annals of Behavioral
Medicine and have served as
statistical reviewer for a number of behavioral and health science
journals.
BACKGROUND:
| Education |
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| BS |
Illinois Benedictine College , Lisle, IL
Mathematics and Biology |
| MPH |
University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI
Biostatistics |
| MN |
Summer Institute for Epidemiology, University of Minneapolis
Graduate Coursework in Epidemiology |
| PhD |
University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI
Biostatistics (cognate:
Epidemiology) |
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