Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
CJ Alverson
Education:
(1987) BS (Applied
Mathematics, cum laude, Georgia Institute of Technology)
(1989) MS (Applied
Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology)
(1996) MS (Biostatistics,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Employment/Teaching:
(2003-Present)
Mathematical Statistician (CDC/National Center
on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities)
(2000-2003)
Biostatistician (EDS/CDC)
(1996-2000)
Biostatistician (KAG/CDC)
(1998-Present)
Instructor
(Adjunct) of Mathematics (Kennesaw State Univ.)
(1991-1994)
Instructor of Mathematics
(Kennesaw State College)
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
NIH, Env.
Health Statistics Program Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Course Assistant (Sample
Survey Design Theory) to Dr. William Kalsbeek
Kennesaw State College
Faculty Advisor, Blue Key
National Honor Society, 1991-1994
Outstanding Faculty Advisor
Award, 1994
Faculty Member, Blue Key
National Honor Fraternity, 1991-1994
Advisor, CAPS
Georgia Institute of Technology
Golden Key National Honor
Society
(GBF) Gamma Beta Phi National Honor Society
(FES) Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society
Student Government
Association
Graduate Student Government
Association
US Japan Society (Charter
President)
Student SIAM Chapter (Charter
President)
STEP Program Tutor
School of Mathematics Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Web Pages
CJ Alverson's
Ugly Statistics Resource Page. Alverson,
CJ, updated and published online at www.mindspring.com/~cjalverson.
Completely documented course pages. (1998-Present.)
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS):
Adult Self-Reported Lifetime and Current Asthma Prevalence. Moorman, J, Falter, KF, Alverson, CJ. Online at: http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/asthma/brfss/brfssdata.htm
, http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/asthma/brfss99/brfssdata.htm
Articles
Alverson, Clinton J., Strickland, Matthew J., Gilboa,
Suzanne M., Correa, Adolfo. Maternal Smoking and Congenital Heart Defects in the
Baltimore-Washington Infant Study. Pediatrics
2011 127: e647-e653
Matthew E. Oster
MD, Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso MD, Clinton J. Alverson MS and Adolfo
Correa MD, PhD. Associations
Between Maternal Fever and Influenza and Congenital
Heart Defects. The Journal of
Pediatrics - 24 January 2011 (10.1016/j.jpeds.2010.11.058)
Survey of Knowledge, Attitudes, and
Practice Management Patterns of Atlanta-Area Obstetricians Regarding Stillbirth Wes
Duke, Mikyong Shin, Adolfo Correa, Clinton J. Alverson.
Women's Health Issues - September 2010 (Vol. 20, Issue 5, Pages 366-370, DOI:
10.1016/j.whi.2010.06.004)
Reporting birth defects surveillance data 1968-2003. Correa A, Cragan JD, Kucik JE, Alverson CJ, Gilboa SM, Balakrishnan R, Strickland MJ, Duke CW, O'Leary LA, Riehle-Colarusso T, Siffel C, Gambrell D, Thompson D, Atkinson M, Chitra J. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2007 Feb;79(2):65-186. Erratum in: Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2008 Jan;82(1):41-62.
Use of Spline Regression in an Analysis of Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Adverse Birth Outcomes: Does It Tell Us More Than We Already Know? Suzanne M. Gilboa, Adolfo Correa, Clinton J. Alverson. Annals of epidemiology 1 March 2008 (volume 18 issue 3 Pages 196-205 DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2007.09.005)
Are encephaloceles neural tube defects? Rowland CA, Correa A, Cragan JD, Alverson CJ. Pediatrics. 2006 Sep;118(3):916-23.
Does a
Multifaceted Environmental Intervention Alter the Impact of Asthma on
Inner-City Children? Seymour G. Williams, MD; Clive M. Brown, MBBS; Kenneth H. Falter, PhD;
Clinton J. Alverson, MSc;
Carol Gotway-Crawford,
PhD; David Homa, PhD; Donna S. Jones, MD; E. Kathleen
Adams, PhD and Stephen C. Redd, MD Journal
of the National Medical Association Vol. 98, No. 2, February 2006 pp 249-260
Cardiorespiratory hospitalizations associated with smoke exposure
during the 1997 Southeast Asian forest fires. JA
Mott, DM Mannino, CJ Alverson, A Kiyu, J Hashim, T Lee, K Falter, SC Redd. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental
Health, 2005, Vol. 208, Iss. 1-2, pp 75-85
Epidemiology
of gastroschisis in metropolitan Atlanta, 1968
through 2000. Williams LJ, Kucik
JE, Alverson CJ, Olney RS, Correa A. Birth Defects Res A Clin
Mol Teratol. 2005 Mar;73(3):177-83.
Prenatal
diagnosis, pregnancy termination, and prevalence of Down syndrome in Atlanta. Siffel C, Correa A, Cragan J, Alverson CJ. Birth Defects Research (Part A)
(2004)70:565–571.
Sex differences in chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer mortality trends―United
States, 1968–1999. Kazerouni NN, Alverson
CJ, Redd SC, Mott JA, Mannino DM.. Am
J Respir Crit Care Med 2003;167(7):A946.
The 1997 Malaysian forest fires: respiratory
hospitalizations in persons with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease. Mott JA, Alverson CJ, Mannino DM, Kiyu A, Hashim J, Falter K, Redd
SC. Am J Respir
Crit Care Med 2003;167(7):A498.
State asthma prevalence rates and risk factors for
adults from the 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Gwynn RC, Moorman JE, Alverson CJ, Mannion DM, Redd SC. Resp Crit Care Med 2002;165(8):A488.
An Intermediate Approach to the Use of technology in Teaching : An Active, Case-Based, Web-Based Approach in
Teaching Introductory Statistics. Alverson, CJ. Published
online on the Reaching
Through Teaching online journal. (Fall 2001)
National vehicle emissions
policies and practices and declining carbon monoxide-related mortality in the
United States, 1968 to 1998. Mott JA, Wolfe MI, Alverson CJ, Macdonald
S, Baily, CR, Ball LB, Moorman J, Somers JH, Mannino D, Redd SC. Journal of
the American Medical Association 2002; 288: 8. Online at: http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v288n8/abs/joc10799.html
Smoking and Cotinine Levels Among Children in an Asthma Intervention. Seymour Williams, Kenneth Falter, CJ
Alverson, Tom Bernert. National Center For
Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia. (2002)
Risk Factors for Asthma in
US Adults: Results from the 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. R. Charon Gwynn, Jeanne E. Moorman, David M Mannino, Earl S. Ford, CJ Alverson, Stephen C Redd, National Center For Environmental Health, CDC,
Atlanta, Georgia. (January 2002)
State Asthma Prevalence Rates and Risk Factors for
Adults from the 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. RC Gwynn, JE Moorman, CJ Alverson, DM Mannino, SC Redd, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA. (October 2001)
A Public Health Perspective:
Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States. Thurman, DJ, Alverson, CJ,
et al. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. Vol 14
(no.6). December 1999.
The
epidemiology of traumatic brain injury among children and adolescents. Dunn KA, Thurman DJ, Alverson CJ. In: National
Institutes of Health. Report of the NIH Consensus Development
Conference of the Rehabilitation of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury.
Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health; 1999:B1-B21. Online at: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/traumatic/Appendix_B.htm
Traumatic Brain Injury in
the United States: A Report to Congress
Thurman, DJ, Alverson, CJ, et
al, October 1998. Online at: http://www.neuroskills.com/index.shtml?main=/tbi/congreport.shtml
Posters
Demonstration of Web Dashboard
Concepts – MACDP. Clinton J (CJ) Alverson. NBDPN 2009: Advances and Opportunities for Birth
Defects Surveillance, Research, & Prevention
Congenital Heart Defects and
Associated Anomalies in Atlanta. A Miller, T Riehle-Colarusso, C.J. Alverson,
JL Frías, C Siffel, A Correa. NBDPN 2009: Advances and Opportunities for Birth
Defects Surveillance, Research, & Prevention
Requirements for Reliable
Estimation of Prevalence of Birth Defects. CJ
Alverson, Cara Mai, and Adolfo Correa. NBDPN 2008: Advances
and Opportunities for Birth Defects Surveillance, Research, & Prevention
Is Prior Pregnancy Loss Associated with an Increased
Risk for Birth Defects? James E Kucik, CJ Alverson, Adolfo
Correa. NBDPN 2008: Advances and
Opportunities for Birth Defects Surveillance, Research, & Prevention
Spina bifida prevalence among
children and adolescents in metropolitan Atlanta, 1979-2002. Lilah M. Besser, MSPH, Adolfo Correa, MD, PhD, and C.J. Alverson,
MS. APHA 2005 Meeting.
Prevalence of Maternal
Diabetes in Metro Atlanta, 1968-2000.
Jennifer Lynn Williams, C.J. Alverson,
Kathryn B. Anderson, Margaret A. Watkins, Adolfo Correa. NBDPN 2004: Advances
and Opportunities for Birth Defects Surveillance, Research, & Prevention
Spatial
Analysis of Birth Defects in Atlanta. Csaba Siffel, C.J. Alverson, Adolfo Correa.
NBDPN 2004: Advances and Opportunities for Birth Defects Surveillance,
Research, & Prevention
Maternal
Obesity and Cardiovascular Malformations. A. Correa-Villaseñor,
C.J. Alverson. Teratology Society 2004 Meeting
Maternal
Diabetes and Cardiovascular Malformations. M.K. Thong, A. Correa-Villaseñor, C.J. Alverson. Teratology Society 2004 Meeting
Maternal obesity and
cardiovascular malformations. A Correa,* C J Alverson. Society for Pediatric and
Perinatal Epidemiologic Research 2004 Meeting.
Seasonality and Excess Incidence in MACDP. CJ Alverson. NCBDDD National Conference
2004
SAS Output
Delivery System: Part of an Integrated Project Management Approach. CJ Alverson. NCBDDD National Conference 2004
Filling
in the Gaps: Projecting Asthma Prevalence Estimates. Alverson, CJ and Moorman, J. Presented Poster
(Session II). The 9th Biennial CDC and ATSDR
Symposium on Statistical Methods. January 2003.
Has asthma
prevalence continued to increase? A quantifiable, but
convoluted, answer. In: Population Association of America 2003 Annual
Meeting; Final program and abstracts; 2003 May 1–3; Minneapolis (MN). Moorman
J, Alverson CJ. Silver Spring (MD): Population Association of America; 2003. p. 211.
Adjusting
Surveillance Rates Using Sensitivity and Predictive Value Positive. Alverson, CJ.
Presented Poster (Session II). The 7th
Biennial CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods. January 1999.
Short Courses
Spinning a Project
Web: An integrated approach to organize, manage, archive and reproduce research
by linking objects using available
software. September 2005. (Taught/Developed)