Steve Simon, PhD
Department of Informatic Medicine and Personalized Health
University of Missouri-Kansas City
1000 E 24th St (5E-106)
Kansas City, MO 64108-2776
(voice) 816-235-1381
(fax) 816-404-5014
Education
PhD University of Iowa, 1982 Statistics
MSÂ University of Iowa, 1978 Statistics
BA University of Iowa, 1977 Mathematical Sciences
Biography
Steve Simon is an independent statistical consultant and a part-time (25%) faculty in the Department of Informatic Medicine and Personalized Health. He is author of a book (Statistical Evidence in Medical Trials. What Do the Data Really Tell Us.) and of two major website (StATS and P.Mean) that provide information about statistics, evidence-based medicine, and research ethics.
Mentoring Area
I am interested in helping students explore the research process. How do researchers produce research? What are the barriers to good research? What can go wrong with the research process?
Research Publications
Adjei AA, Gaedigk A, Simon SD, Weinshilboum RM, Leeder JS. Interindividual variability in acetaminophen sulfation by human fetal liver: implications for pharmacogenetic investigations of drug-induced birth defects. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2008 Mar;82(3):155-65. [Medline]
Gaedigk A, Simon SD, Pearce RE, Bradford LD, Kennedy MJ, Leeder JS. The CYP2D6 activity score: translating genotype information into a qualitative measure of phenotype. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2008 Feb;83(2):234-42. Epub 2007 Oct 31. [Medline]
Gajewski BJ, Simon SD, Carlson SE. Predicting accrual in clinical trials with Bayesian posterior predictive distributions. Stat Med. 2008 Jun 15;27(13):2328-40. [Medline]
Gajewski BJ, Simon SD. A One-Hour Training Seminar on Bayesian Statistics for Nursing Graduate Students. The American Statistician. August 1, 2008, 62(3): 190-194. [Not indexed in Medline]
Graf WD, Kayyali HR, Alexander JJ, Simon SD, Morriss MC. Neuroimaging-use trends in nonacute pediatric headache before and after clinical practice parameters. Pediatrics. 2008 Nov;122(5):e1001-5. Epub 2008 Oct 6. [Medline]
Jones BL, Abdel-Rahman SM, Simon SD, Kearns GL, Neville KA. Assessment of Histamine Pharmacodynamics by Microvasculature Response of Histamine Using Histamine Iontophoresis Laser Doppler Flowimetry. J Clin Pharmacol. 2009 Mar 24. [Epub ahead of print] [Medline]
Knapp JF, Simon SD, Sharma V. Quality of care for common pediatric respiratory illnesses in United States emergency departments: analysis of 2005 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Data. Pediatrics. 2008 Dec;122(6):1165-70. [Medline]
Sati L, Ovari L, Bennett D, Simon SD, Demir R, Huszar G. Double probing of human spermatozoa for persistent histones, surplus cytoplasm, apoptosis and DNA fragmentation. Reprod Biomed Online. 2008 Apr;16(4):570-9. [Medline]
Schurman JV, Danda CE, Friesen CA, Hyman PE, Simon SD, Cocjin JT. Variations in psychological profile among children with recurrent abdominal pain. J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 2008 Sep;15(3):241-51. Epub 2008 Jul 25. [Medline]
[69 additional publications between 1985 and 2007 not listed.]
