Mark Schultz, Ph.D.

18 Peterson Rd.

Natick, Ma. 01760

mschult@bu.edu

May 2009 – Present. Health Statistician. Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research (CHQOER). Provided data management/statistical support to several program initiatives. Aided with data analysis on a peer counceling study of factor affecting group attendance, used CART analysis to determine factors relevant to predicting suicidal ideation, Re-analyzed Mental Health Outcome data to determine additional impact of self-reported mental status over GAF ratings alone. Built iterative regression imputation software for data cleaning on Peer Support and Post deployment studies. Performed other analysis and data management tasks as required. Participated in proposal development efforts.

June 2008 – April 2009. Medicaid/Medicare Analysis Center, Veterans Health Administration. Advanced data management programming using SAS. Made significant use of SAS macros and the ODS. Responsible for quality assurance on Medicaid, Medicare, CCW, and MCBS datasets. Performed analysis tasks for the Veterans rural health initiative.

Nov 2007 – June 2008 Biostatistician, MassPro Inc.Project lead on a pay for performance initiative with MassHealth. Responsible for creating SAS based data reduction architecture, designed reports and wrote data analysis plans, directing the work of other SAS programmers. Interfaced with clinicians and IS. Wrote significant portions of a complex proposal to MassHealth for follow-on funding.

2006 - Biostatistician II (Part time)

Harvard School of Public Health

Performed complex data management and statistical analysis tasks on a genetic epidemiology cancer cohort study using SAS. (SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ACCESS)2003 – 2007: Research Analyst/Post Master’s Graduate Student

Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging: Boston UniversityResponsible for the analysis of neuropsychological and other types of measurements that are being collected on a large group of Vietnam era twins in a research project funded by the National Institute on Aging.

Worked 20 hrs/per week as a biostatistician in support of Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging project. Conducted analyses of the data collected using SAS/SPSS and MX, a specialized tool for Structural Equation Modeling. In addition, I’ve collaborated on several papers (two first author) published in peer reviewed journals, writing/editing the methods and results sections and performing the supporting statistical analyses. Helped to coordinate a multi-institution grant proposal (lead IRB application team) to study schizophrenia in discordant MZ twins to NIMH worth several million dollars (which received a excellect study section score (4^th percentile) but was not funded due to the cost).  

Tutored several graduate students in data analysis and statistical techniques as well as consulted with other doctoral candidates on statistical issues (hierarchical linear regression models/logistic regression/power analysis, GEE). Helped other PhD students with stat analysis to prepare posters for professional conferences.Alcohol Vulnerability Study

Lead author on a retrospective analysis of ADHD using twin data collected during this study which used SEM and Latent Class Analysis. Investgated relationship between ADHD and subsequent vulnerability to substance abuse (smoking and alcohol abuse). Paper published in Twin Research.Harvard Drug Study

Mentored two Master’s level students on statistical approaches to twin data analysis (random effects models). Assisted in editing and performing data analysis for their directed study projects.

2002-2003 Visiting Scientist: Boston UniversityWorked with a professor in the school of biomedical engineering. Together we wrote research grants for a number of funding sources including: NIST, the department of the ARMY and NIH. I also assisted in writing the methods and results sections of papers for publication on the genetic aspects of schizophrenia.

1997 – 2001 The Foxboro Company

Custom applications development using Foxboro’s Intelligent Automation data acquisition system (C, SAS, VB, JAVA, ODBC, various RDBMS)

Architected three tier distributed manufacturing application (MES) using Java/C++, TCP/IP and a object oriented database, customized for lab applicationsProject manager for large software development effortTesting/documenting Foxboro’s control/system identification package

1994-1999 Northeastern UniversityAdjunct faculty. Taught courses (C++, Java, OO Design) in the NEU “state-of-the-art” program related to computer and database technology as well as software project management. Performed various software technology and project management teaching assignments through Corporate Consulting at Northeastern University and Clark University in Worcester.

1995-1997 Tri-State Research Corp. 

Started own technology based consulting firm. Succeeded in acquiring over $350k in funding from Federal agencies including DARPA, NIST and the Air Force. Closed after two years due to Air Force cancellation of major contract (Air Force needed the money for other commitments).

1992-1995 Motorola/Codex Corporation

As a principal engineer, I provided support to the manufacturing aspects of the business.

Pre 1990 Significant Achievements

Scientific Systems   Worked on a number of data analysis efforts using very large HHS Government databases

Helped the company secure almost $1 million in contract fundingCo-taught seminars in advanced statistical and forecasting techniques

 Principal data analyst in a contract applying statistical forecasting techniques to Holter monitor dataThe Analytic Sciences CorporationBuilt energy related databases for EPRI and assisted statisticians in modeling using SAS and FOCUS. Built a database of GPS sea trials performance data

Built a hydrologic simulation program and stored results in SAS databasesStatistical Laboratory, SUNY, Buffalo, NY.  Scientific programmer/analyst; Assisted statisticians in the data mangement of clinical trial cancer research data using SPSS and custom software. Provided programming support for data management.

 Helped analyze clinical trial outcome data

Software Languages and Packages

SAS, SPSS, R (a public domain S plus clone), C, C++, Java, Informix, Oracle, MS-Access, SQL-Server, ODBC, LISREL (SEM), WinBugs

Education

Finished Doctorate in Mathematical Psychology, May 2009. Boston University. 

Graduate courses in Epidemiological methods, genetic epidemilogy, psychiatric epidemiology, forensic psychology, behavioral genetics, statistics (advanced regression and multivariate techniques) and statistical genetics Northeastern University: project management

M.S. Operations Research/Applied Statistics, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York

B.A. Liberal Arts (Magna Cum Laude), State University of New York, Fredonia, New YorkProfessional seminars in Advance SAS programming techniques, DBMS techniques, UNIX systems programming and UNIX distributed systems, software development methodology, generalized linear models, Introduction to Mx for twin modeling,  genetics.

Dissertation Topic

A Methodological Analysis of Several Approaches to Understanding Rapid Memory Decline in a sample of Middle Aged Twins

Selected Publications

Nguyen GH, Bouchard J, Boselli MG, Tolstoi LG, Keith L, Baldwin C, Nguyen NC, Schultz M, Herrera VL, Smith CL. DNA stability and schizophrenia in twins. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2003 July 1:120(1):1-10.

Lyons MJ, Schultz M, Neale M, Brady K, Eisen S, Toomey R, Rhein A, Faraone S, Tsuang M. Specificity of Familial Vulnerability for Alcoholism versus Major Depression in Men. Accepted by the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, Oct. 2005.

Schultz M, Rabi K, Faraone S, Kremen W, Lyons M. Smoking and retrospectively assessed ADHD in a sample of middle aged veterans. Poster presented at the 7^th Annual Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco European Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. March 2005.

Schultz M, Faraone S, Kremen W, Lyons M. Efficacy of retrospective recall of ADHD symptomatology: A Twin Study. Published by Twin Research, April 2006.

Schultz M, Kremen W, Franz C, Lyons M. Early effects of APOE e4 on memory performance: a twin study. Accepted by Neurology, June, 07

Schultz M, Kremen W, Grant M, Lyons M. Early effects of APOE e4 on memory performance: a twin study. Poster presentation at Gerontological Society of America in Dallas, November 2006.

Papers Reviewed

Attention and Executive function profile in drug naïve ADHD Subtypes for Brain and Development