Ronald E.
LaPorte
CURRICULUM VITAE: GRADUATE STUDENT DISSERTATIONS
- Janice Dorman, Ph.D., completed 1984, The Mortality of 1966 Patients
with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: The Pittsburgh Experience.
- Jane A. Cauley, Dr.P.H., completed 1984, Determinants of High Density
Lipoprotein Cholesterol Subfractions in Post-Menopausal Women.
- Lucile Adams, Ph.D., completed 1984, Blood Pressure Determinants in an
Upwardly Mobile Population: Black College Freshmen.
- Mark Eberhardt, Ph.D., completed 1984, An Epidemiologic Perspective of
the Factors Associated with the Presentation of IDDM.
- H.K. Lee, Ph.D., completed 1986, An Epidemiological Look of Serum
Retinol Carotenoids and Vitamin E in Different Populations: Relationship to Serum Cholesterol Levels.
- Karen Cruickshanks, Ph.D., completed 1987, A Prospective Study of
Siblings of Individuals with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: HLA Sharing Status as a Determinant of Metabolic Alterations.
- Andrea Kriska, Ph.D., completed 1988, Assessment of Current and
Historical Physical Activity in the Pima Indians.
- Suzanne Cook, Ph.D., completed 1988, Cardiovascular Reactivity in
College Males at Risk for Essential Hypertension.
- Wen Ta Chiu, Dr.P.H., completed 1989, Epidemiology of Head Injuries in
Hualien County, Taiwan.
- Claudia S. Moy, Ph.D., completed 1989, The Incidence of IDDM in the
Community of Madrid, Spain.
- Thomas Songer, Ph.D., completed 1990, The Socioeconomic Impact of
Diabetes upon Families with Insulin Dependent Children.
- Jeffery Gavard, Ph.D., completed 1990, Historical-Prospective Study of
the Secondary Attack Rate of IDDM in Siblings of Probands Diagnosed 1950-1981 in Allegheny, County, Pennsylvania.
- Rebecca Lipton, Ph.D., completed 1990, The Distribution of HLA-DQB
Position 57 Alleles among First-Degree Relatives of IDDM Patients with and without Islet Cell Antibodies: A Case-Control Study.
- Anne Sweeney, Ph.D., completed 1991, A Prospective Study of Physical
Activity during Pregnancy and Birth Weight.
- Sarah L. Patrick, Ph.D., completed 1992, The Effects of Gender, Age,
Time and Ethnicity on the Incidence of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus on the Island of O'ahu, Hawaii 1980-1990.
- Toomadher Mohammed Dokheel, Dr.P.H., completed 1992, Analysis of
Temporal Variaion in Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Incidence in Allegheny County, 1965-89.
- Robyn Anderson, Ph.D., completed 1993, The Relationship of Physical
Activity and Injury Liability in Adolescents.
- Todd Olsen, Ph.D., completed 1993, The Epidemiology of Low Back Pain in
an Adolescent Population.
- Debra Aaron, Ph.D., completed 1994, The Reproducibility and Validity of
an Epidemiologic Questionnaire to Assess Past Year Physical Activity in Adolescents.