David B. Allison, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE:
David B. Allison received his Ph.D. from Hofstra University in 1990. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Following this, he completed a second post-doctoral fellowship at the New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center. Dr.Allison served as a scientist at our Center from 1991 to 2001. He is now Professor of Biostatistics, Head of the Section of Statistical Genetics and Associate Director of Clinical Nutrition Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He remains an active consultant and collaborator to our center. He has authored over 100 scientific publications and edited three books. He has won several awards, including the Neal Miller Young Investigator Award, holds several NIH grants, and serves on the Council of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. Dr. Allison's research interests include, human obesity, clinical trial design & analysis, quantitative genetics, and statistical and research methodology.

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Some Projects Dr. Allison Has Been Involved In:

• Method and Computer Program for Controlling the Family-wise Alpha Rate in Gene Association Studies Involving Multiple Phenotypes
• Hypotheses Concerning the U-shaped Relation between Body Mass Index and Mortality
• Prader-Willi syndrome: relationship of adiposity to plasma leptin levels
• Obesity Cost-Of Illness Model
• American Statistical Association New York City Metropolitan Area Chapter
• Examination of "Early Mortality Exclusion" as an Approach to Control for Confounding by Occult Disease in Epidemiologic Studies of Mortality Risk Factors
• Garcinia cambogia (Hydroxycitric Acid) as a Potential Antiobesity Agent
• North American Association for the Study of Obesity
• Archives of Family Medicine - Body Weight and Health Care Among Women in the General Population

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dept of Biostatistics
Ryals Public Health Bldg 327D
University of Alabama at Birmingham
UAB Station
Birmingham, AL 35294
Phone: (205) 934-4905
Fax: (205) 975-2540
E-mail: dba8@columbia.edu

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