Leann Myers
professor

Department(s):
Biostatistics

Email:
myersl@tulane.edu

Research Interests:
Longitudinal data anaylsis; Monte Carlo methods; categorical data analysis; goodness of fit issues

Professional Achievements:
American Statistical Association
International Biometric Society (ENAR)
Caucus for Women in Statistics
Sigma Xi Society for Scientific Research
Delta Omega National Public Health Honor Society

Educational Background:
PhD, biostatistics, 1995, Tulane University
MS, biostatistics, 1993, Tulane University
BA, psychology, 1979, Colorado College

Publications:
Selected Publications

Johnson CC, Webber LS, Myers L, Boris NW, Berenson GS. Co-use of alcohol and tobacco among ninth-graders in Louisiana. Prev Chronic Dis. 2009 Jul;6(3):A85. Epub 2009 Jun 15.

Johnson CC, Myers L, Webber LS, Boris NW, He H, Brewer D. A school-based environmental intervention to reduce smoking among high school students: the Acadiana Coalition of Teens against Tobacco (ACTT). Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2009 Apr;6(4):1298-316.

Kissinger P, Amedee A, Clark RA, Dumestre J, Theall KP, Myers L, Hagensee ME, Farley TA, Martin DH. Trichomonas Vaginalis Treatment Reduces Vaginal HIV-1 Shedding. Sex Transm Dis. 2009 Jan;36(1):11-6.

Manguno-Mire G, Sautter,FJ, Lyons J, Myers L, Perry D, Sherman M, Glynn S, Sullivan G. (2007). Psychological distress and burden among female partners of combat veterans with PTSD. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195: 144-151.

Ho W, Hartley WR, Myers L, Lin M, Lin Y, Lien C, Lin R. (2007). Air pollution, weather, and associated risk factors related to asthma prevalence and attack rate. Environmental Research,104: 402-409.

Lang EK, Myers L, Slakey D, Rogers B, Brammer M, Regenstein F. (2007). Aminocaproic-acid seal to reduce or prevent bleeding after liver biopsy. Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society, 159:46-49.

Ma L, Jensen JS, Myers L, Burnett J, Welch M, Jia Q, Martin DH. (2007) Mycoplasma genitalium: An efficient strategy to generate genetic variation from a minimal genome. Molecular Microbiology, 66:220-236.

Kryczek I, Wei S, Zhu G, Myers L, Mottram P, Cheng P, Chen L, Coukos G, Zou W. (2007). Relationship between B7-H4, regulatory T cells and patient outcome in human ovarian carcinoma. Cancer Research, 67:8900-8905.

Kryczek I, Zou L, Rodriguez P, Zhu, G, Wei S, Mottram P, Brumlik M, Cheng P, Curiel T, Myers, L, Lackner A, Alvarez X, Ochoa A, Chen L, &. Zou W. (2006). B7-H4 expression identifies a novel suppressive acrophage population in human ovarian carcinoma. J Expl Med, 203:871-81.

Lin H-Y & Myers L. (2006). Power and type I error rates of goodness-of-fit statistics for binomial generalized estimating equations (GEE) models. Comput Stats & Data Analysis, 50:3432-3448.

Srinivasan SR, Myers L, & Berenson GS. (2006). Changes in metabolic syndrome variables since childhood in prehypertensive and hypertensive subjects. The Bogalusa heart study. Hypertension, 48:33-39.

Sautter F, Lyons JA, Manguno-Mire G, Perry D, Han X, Sherman M, Myers L, Landis R, & Sullivan, G. (2006). Predictors of partner engagement in PTSD treatment. J Psychopath & Behav Assess, 28:123-130.

Hellstrom WJ, Kendirci M, Matern R, Cockerham Y, Myers L, Sikka SC, Venable D, Honig S, McCullough A, Hakim LS, Nehra A, Templeton LE, Pryor JL. (2006) Single-blind, multicenter, placebo controlled, parallel study to assess the safety and efficacy of intralesional interferon alpha-2B for minimally invasive treatment for Peyronie's disease. J Urology. 176:394-398.

Boris NW, Johnson CC, Huang S, Andrew K, Myers L, Webber LS. Targeting school tobacco policy: Lessons from the Acadiana Coalition of Teens against Tobacco (ACTT). Health Promotion Practice (in press).

Krousel-Wood MA, Berger L, Jiang X, Blonde L, Myers L, Webber L. Does home -based exercise improve risk factors in patients with Type 2 diabetes? Results of a feasibility trial. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (in press).

Muehlenbein MP, Campbell BC, Richards RJ, Watts DP, Svec F, Phillippi-Falkenstein KM, Murchison MA, & Myers L. (2005). Leptin, adiposity, and testosterone in captive male macaques. Am J Phys Anthrop, 27:335-341.

Chaturvedi AK, Myers L, Hammons AF, Clark RA, Dunlap, K,

Weimer MB, Gutierrez A, Baskin GB, Borda JT, Veazey RS, Myers L, Phillippi-Falkenstein KM, Bunnell BA, Ratterree M , England JD (2005). Serial electrophysiologic studies in rhesus monkeys with Krabbe disease. Muscle & Nerve, 32:185-190.

Scheeringa M, Zeanah C, Myers L, & Putnam F. (2005). Predictive validity in a prospective follow-up of PTSD in preschool children. J Amer Acad Child & Adoles Psych, 44:899-906. .

Chaturvedi AK, Myers L, Hammons AF, Clark RA, Dunlap K, Kissinger PJ, Hagensee ME. (2005). Prevalence and clustering patterns of human papillomavirus genotypes in multiple infections. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 14:2439-2445.

Chin A, Myers L, Magnus J. Race, education and breastfeeding initiation in Louisiana, 2000-2004. Journal of Human Lactation (in press).

Contact Information:
Department of Biostatistics
1440 Canal Street, Room 2031
New Orleans LA 70112
Telephone: 504.988.7855
Fax: 504.988.1706
myersl@tulane.edu

Level of Instruction:
graduate