Francesca Dominici

Professor
Call for the Spiegelman Award 2009

PhD in Statistics, University of Padua (Italy) 1997, Laurea (BS) in Statistics, University La Sapienza Rome (Italy) 1993

School/Organization
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Department / Division
Biostatistics

Departmental Address
E3634 SPH

Email: fdominic@jhsph.edu
Phone: 410-614-5107
Fax: 410-955-0958

For more information visit my personal web page.

• Environmental epidemiology
• Toxicology and carcinogenicity
• Meta-analysis of clinical trials
• Health economics
• Risk adjustment models
• Outcome research
• Patient safety

• Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship Award, Department of Biostatistics,
• School of Public Health, Harvard University, 2007
• Gertrude Cox Award, Washington DC Chapter of the American Statistical Association and RTI International, 2007
• Mortimer Spiegelman Award, Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association, 2006
• Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2005
• Fellow of the Johns Hopkins Center of Excellence in Public
• Health Tracking, Centers for Disease Control, 2005
• Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award, Three-Year Fellowship, The Health Effects Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999-2002
• Keynote speaker at the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK, 2002
• Invitation to address the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK, 2000
• Young Investigator Award, The American Statistical Association Section of Statistics in Epidemiology, 2001
• Student Award, ENAR International Biometric Society, 1998
• Three-Year Fellowship and Award for Study and Research Abroad, Department of Statistics, University of Padua, Italy, 1994-1997

• Please see my CV for details
• Crainiceanu C.M. Dominici F. Parmigiani G. Adjustment Uncertainty in Effect Estimation, Biometrika (to appear).
• Bell M. Dominici F. Ebisu K. Zeger S.L. Samet J.M.(2007) Spatial and Temporal Variation in PM2.5 Chemical Composition in the United States for Health Effects Studies (2000-2005). Environmental Health Perspectives,115,989–995.
• Janes H, Dominici F, Zeger SL. (2007) Trends in Particulate Matter and Mortality in 113 U.S. Counties, 2000-2002: Evidence on the Long Term Effects of Air Pollution. Epidemiology, 18, 416-423 (with discussion).
• Dominici F, Peng RD, Zeger SL, White R H., Samet J.M. (2007) Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in the United States: Have the Risks Changed from 1987 to 2000? American Journal of Epidemiology, 166,880-888, (with discussion).
• Dominici F, Zeger SL, Parmigiani G, Katz J, Christian P (2007) Does the effect of micronutrient supplementation on neonatal survival vary with respect to the percentiles of the birth weight distribution? Bayesian Analysis (with discussion) , 2, 1-23.
• Dominici F Peng D. Bell M. Pham M. McDermott A. Zeger S.L. Samet J.M. (2006) Fine Particulates Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases, Journal of the American Medical Association, March 8, 295:1127-1135.
• Katz J, Christian P, Dominici F, Zeger SL (2006) Treatment Effects of Maternal Micronutrient Supplementation vary by Percentiles of the Birth Weight Distribution in rural Nepal, Journal of Nutrition, 136:1389-1394.
• Bell M, Peng R, Dominici F (2006) The Exposure-Response Curve for Ozone and Risk of Mortality and the Adequacy of Current Ozone Regulations, Environmental Health Perspectives,114: 532-536.
• Peng R, Dominici F, Zeger SL (2006) Reproducible Epidemiological Research, American
• Journal of Epidemiology, 163: 783-789.
• Symons JM, Wang L, Guallar E, Howell E, Dominici F, Schwab M, Ange BA, Samet JM, Ondov J, Harrison D, Geyh A (2006) A Case-Crossover Study of Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Congestive Heart Failure Hospitalization, American Journal of Epidemiology, 164: 421-433.
• Dominici F, Zeger SL, Parmigiani G, Katz J, Christian P (2006) Estimating Percentile-Specific Effects in Counterfactual Models: A Case Study of Micronutrient Supplementation, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 55:1-20.
• Peng R. Dominici F Louis T. (2006) Model Choice in Multi-Site Time Series Studies of Air Pollution and Mortality, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 169, Part 2:179- 203.
• Basu R, Dominici F, Samet JM (2005) Characterizing the Relationship Between Temperature and Cardio-Respiratory Mortality Among the Elderly U.S. Population, Epidemiology, 16:58-66.
• Huang IC, Frangakis C, Dominici F, Diette GB, Wu A (2005) Application of a Propensity Score Approach for Risk Adjustment in Multiple Physician Group Profiling on Asthma Care, Health Services and Research, 40, 253-278.
• Huang IC, Dominici F, Frangakis C, Diette GB, Damberg CL, Wu A (2005) Is risk-adjustor selection more important than statistical approach for provider profiling? Asthma as an
• example, Medical Decision Making, 25:20-35
• Huang IC, Diette GB, Dominici F, Frangakis C, Wu A (2005) Variations of physician group profiling indicators, American Journal of Managed Care, 11:38-49.
• Peng R, Dominici F, Pastor-Barriuso R, Zeger SL, Samet JM (2005) Seasonal Analyses of Air Pollution and Mortality in 100 U.S. cities, American Journal of Epidemiology, 161:585-594.
• Merialdi M, Caulfield LE, Zavaleta N, Figueroa A, Costigan KA, Dominici F, DiPietro JA (2005) Randomized, Controlled Trial of Prenatal Zinc Supplementation and Fetal Bone Growth, Obstet Gynecol Surv, 60:13-15.
• Merialdi M. Caulfield L.E. Zavaleta N. Figueroa A. Costigan K. A. Dominici F DiPietro J.A. (2005) Fetal growth in Peru: Comparisons with international fetal size charts and implications for fetal grow assessment, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2:123-128.
• Dominici F, Levy J, Louis TL (2005) Methodological Challenges and Contributions in Disaster Epidemiology, Epidemiologic Review, 27:1-4.
• Bell M, Dominici F, Samet JM (2005) A Meta-Analysis of Time-Series Studies of Ozone and Mortality with Comparison to the National Morbidity Mortality Air Pollution Study, Epidemiology with discussion, 16:436-445.
• Huang Yi Dominici F Bell M. (2005) Bayesian Hierarchical Distributed Lag Models for Summer Ozone Exposure and Cardio-Respiratory Mortality, Environmetrics, 16:547-562.
• Dominici F, Cope L, Naiman D, Zeger SL (2005) Smooth Quantile Ratio Estimation (SQUARE), Biometrika, 92:543-557.
• Choi L, Dominici F, Zeger SL (2005) Estimating Treatment Efficacy Over Time: a Logistic Regression Model for Binary Longitudinal Outcomes, Statistics in Medicine 24:2789-2805.
• Dominici F, Zeger SL (2005) Smooth Quantile Ratio Estimation with Regression: Estimating Medical Expenditures for Smoking Attributable Diseases, Biostatistics, 6:505-519.
• Dominici F, Zanobetti A, Zeger SL, Schwartz J, Samet JM (2004) Hierarchical Bivariate Time-Series Models: A Combined Analysis of the Effects of Particulate Matter on Morbidity and Mortality, Biostatistics, 5, 341-360.
• Dominici F, Cole S, Spiegelman D (2004) Methodological contributions to the American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Epidemiology, 160:197-198.
• Yurk R.A. Diette G.B. Skinner E. A. Dominici F Clark R.D. Steinwachs D.M. Wu A (2004) Predicting Patients Reported Asthma Outcomes for Adults in Managed Cares, American Journal of Managed Care, 11:322-328.
• Bell M, Samet JM, McDermott A, Zeger SL, Dominici F (2004) Ozone and Mortality in 95 U.S. Urban Communities from 1987 to 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association, 292:2372-2378.
• Dominici F, McDermott A, Hastie T (2004) Improved Semi-parametric Time Series Models of Air Pollution and Mortality, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 468:938-948.