Dr. Mark Goldberg
Division of clinical Epidemiology,
Tel: (514) 934-1934 x36917 Fax: (514) 843-1493 Email: mark.goldberg@mcgill.ca
Alternative web site: http://www.clinepi.mcgill.ca/goldbergmark.htm
WHAT’S NEW
I am proud to
announce the publication of the third edition of Medical Uses of Statistics,
edited by John C. Bailar and David C. Hoaglin. I have two chapters in this
book, as does Prof. Nancy Mayo, Division of Clinical Epidemiology. It is
published by John Wiley and sponsored by the New England journal of Medicine.
Risk of heart attack in middle-aged athletes
See presentations for how to minimize your risk
Dr. Goldberg is an occupational and environmental
epidemiologist. He obtained a B.Sc. in
physics (1975), a MSc degree (1985) and PhD degree (1991) in epidemiology and
biostatistics from
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Past
My
research has and continues to be multi-faceted, including both clinical and
environmental epidemiological studies.
In the past, I have obtained grants, conducted studies, and/or published
that includes: 1) the accuracy of assessing occupational exposure in case-control
studies (my masters thesis); 2) cancer incidence and mortality in a cohort of
synthetic textiles workers (my doctoral dissertation) and Australian textile
manufacturing workers; 3) the long-term health effects of adolescent idiopathic
scoliosis; 4) health effects arising from exposures to ambient biogas produced
in municipal solid waste sites; 5) environmental and occupational causes of
disease, including investigations of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colon
cancer, lung cancer; 6) the long- and
short-term health effects from exposures to pollutants in ambient air; 7)
biostatistical and epidemiologic methodological investigations; 8) the effects
of smoking on back pain; 9) the health effects of diagnostic radiographs in
women diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; 10) health services
related to treatment for breast cancer surgery; 11) stroke; 12) estimating the
need for radiotherapy in cancer; 12) a cohort study to estimate age-, gender-
and risk factor-specific incidence rates of stroke and heart disease using
longitudinal cohorts; and 13) a study in palliative medicine of patterns of
care among cancer patients in end-of-life (Bruno Gagnon, PI (McGill)).
Current
My
current research program consists of completing a number of ongoing research
projects as well as initiating new ones. The following projects are currently
underway: 1) a case-control study of gene-environment interactions in
postmenopausal breast cancer; 2) a longitudinal study of the acute effects of
air pollution on health among persons potentially susceptible to urban air
pollution; 3) a panel study in congestive heart failure to determine whether
air pollution affects essential indicators of health status; 4) a cohort study
of persons with implanted cardioverter defibrillators to identify triggers for
interventions for ventricular tachycardia; 5) a population-based cohort study
in Ontario to investigate long-term effects of air pollution; 6) a study of
traffic-related air pollution and socioeconomic gradients in the incidence of
cancer; and 7) a panel in childhood asthma to determine whether air pollution
from refineries affects respiratory health.
Research Opportunities for Graduate Students and
Postdoctoral Fellows
For more information please see:
Current Scientific Operating Grants
SAS Macro for Ordinal Regression
Case-control power program (FORTRAN)
Cohort power program (FORTRAN)
"Splus function for natural splines in GLM (and Cox) models - For a
copy of the paper describing the functions, please email me or see Comp Methods
and Programs in Biomedicine
Documentation to the Splus functions for natural
splines
Splus function for natural splines- numerical calculation(GLM version)
Splus function for natural splines- plot function(GLM
version)
Splus function for natural splines- numerical
calculation(Cox version)
Splus function for natural splines- plot function(Cox
version)
Scannable daily diary for CHF study
Courses
513-676B - Special Topics: The Design, Conduct, &
Analyses of Cohort Studies
513-606 - Introduction to Epidemiology
Lecture: Air Pollution, McGill School of Environment,
March 2003
Projects
Breast Cancer Gene-Environment Study
Supplementary material from
review of long term effects of air pollution
Review of Outdoor Air Pollution
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An introductory lecture to environmental epidemiology. This is a 5-part lecture on environmental epidemiology that I developed. It is available on the web at the Epidemiology Supercourse web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ |