Erica E. M. Moodie

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Biostatistics Program Director
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health
 McGill University

Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave West, Montreal, QC H3A 1A2
first_name . last_name @ mcgill . ca
514.398-5520

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Causal inference, optimal dynamic treatment regimes,
longitudinal data, dose-response relationships.

             
TEACHING
BIOS 612:  Advanced Generalized Linear Models: Correlated Data (
Winter 2007, 2009; Fall 2010)
EPIB 659: Current Readings in Statistics (Winter 2008)
EPIB 607: Principles of Inferential Statistics in Medicine (Fall 2007, 2008, 2010)
EDUCATION
2006     Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of Washington.  
                   Thesis: Inference for optimal dynamic treatment regimes.
2004     M.Sc., Biostatistics, University of Washington.
2001      M.Phil., Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, UK.
                       Thesis: Modelling techniques for missing data: Intensive case-management versus standard
                       case-management for severe  psychosis.
2000     B.A. Mathematics and Statistics, University of Winnipeg.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Shortreed, S.M. and Moodie E.E.M. Estimating the optimal dynamic treatment regime for schizophrenia:
Evidence from the sequentially randomized CATIE Schizophrenia Study. To appear in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C.

Moodie, E.E.M. and Stephens D.A.
Estimation of dose-response functions for longitudinal data using the Generalized Propensity Score. To appear in Statistical Methods in Medical Research; available ahead of print online (doi: 10.1177/0962280209340213)

Moodie, E.E.M., Platt R.W., and Kramer, M.S. Estimating response-maximized decision rules with applications to breastfeeding. The Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104:155-165.

Kramer M.S., Moodie E.E.M., Dahhou M., and Platt R.W. (2010) Breastfeeding and infant growth: An empirical demonstration of reverse causality.  American Journal of Epidemiology, 173: 967-975.

Moodie E.E.M. and Richardson T.S. (2010)  Estimating optimal dynamic regimes: Correcting bias under the null. The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 37: 126-146.

Moodie E. E. M.
(2009) A note on the variance of doubly-robust g-estimates. Biometrika, 96: 998-1004. 

Moodie E.E.M., Pai N.P., and Klein M.B. (2009) Is anti-retroviral therapy causing long-term liver damage? Results from an HIV-only and HIV-Hepatitis C co-infected cohort. PLoS One, 4:e4517.

Moodie, E.E.M., Richardson, T.S., Stephens, D.A. (2007) Demystifying optimal dynamic treatment regimes. Biometrics, 63(2): 447-455. 



PAST PROJECTS

Causal Inference in Statistics and the Quantitative Sciences Workshop at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS), 3-8 May, 2009
     Proceedings of the BIRS Workshop: Special Issue of the International Journal of Biostatistics
Statistical Methods for HIV Research Workshop, 14-15 April, 2011
     -- stayed tuned for a special issue of Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases
Causal Inference in Health Research Workshop, 9-13 May, 2011
     Proceedings of the CRM Workshop: Special Issue of the International Journal of Biostatistics

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