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Lucy D'Agostino McGowan
Biostatistics PhD Student


“There are those who
look at things the way they are
and ask why…I dream of things
that never were, and ask why not?”

- Bobby Kennedy paraphrasing
George Bernard Shaw


Education

Vanderbilt University
PhD Student, Biostatistics

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
M.S., Biostatistics, December 2013

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. with Distinction and Highest Honors in Religious Studies and Italian Studies, May 2012


Research Interests

  • Predictive models
  • Health disparities
  • Clinical Trials
  • Propensity scores
  • Statistical computing


Conference Presentations

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Melody S. Goodman, Kimberly A. Kaphingst “Using SAS/STAT® Software to Validate a Health Literacy Prediction Model in a Primary Care Setting” Oral presentation at SAS Global Forum, Washington D.C. March 2014.

Bettina F. Drake, Katherine Brown, Jennifer Haslag-Minoff, Lucy D’Agostino-McGowan , Kimberly Kaphingst, “Secondary Consent to Research Use of Biospecimens Among Men” Poster presentation at the Sixth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved. Atlanta, GA, December 2013.

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Melody S. Goodman, “Developing County-Level Estimates of Racial Disparities in Obesity Using Multilevel Reweighted Regression” Poster presentation at the 141st American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, November 2013.

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Melody S. Goodman, “Small Areal Estimation of Racial Disparities in Diabetes Using Multilevel Reweighted Regression” Oral presentation at 141st American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2013.

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan, Patrick J. McGowan, "Mining Through Resumes: Utilizing SAS to Increase Efficiency and Objectivity in the Hiring Process" Poster presentation at SAS Analytics. Orlando, Florida. October 2013.

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, “SAS ® for Budgeting an Ideal Wedding” Poster presentation at North East SAS Users Group Conference. Burlington, Vermont. September 2013.

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Melody S. Goodman, “Using PROC GLIMMIX and PROC SGPLOT to Demonstrate County-level Racial Disparities in Obesity in North Carolina” Oral presentation at North East SAS Users Group Conference. Burlington, Vermont. September 2013.

Lucy D’Agostino, Melody S. Goodman, “Multilevel Reweighted Regression Models to Estimate County-Level Racial Health Disparities Using PROC GLIMMIX” Oral presentation at SAS Global Forum, San Francisco, CA. April 2013.


Papers

Kaphingst, KA, Stafford JD, D'Agostino McGowan, L, Seo J, Lachance CR, Goodman MS. Effects of racial and ethnic group and health literacy on responses to genomic risk information in a medically underserved population. Health Psychology. 2015 Feb; 34(2):101-10. doi: 10.1037/hea0000177.

Griffey, RT, Kennedy SK, McGowan, L, Goodman, M, Kaphingst KA. Is Low Health Literacy Associated With Increased Emergency Department Utilization and Recidivism? Acad Emerg Med. 2014; 21(10):1109-1115. doi: 10.1111/acem.12476.

Fisher, MJ, Loguidice, M., Gutmann, DH, Listernick, R, Ferner, RE, Ullrich, NJ, Packer, RJ, Tabori, U, Hoffman, RO, Ardern-Holmes, SL, Hummel, TR, Hargrave, DR, Bouffet, E, Charrow, J, Bilaniuk, LT, Balcer, LJ, D'Agostino McGowan, L, and Liu, GT, Gender as a disease modifier in neurofibromatosis type 1 optic pathway glioma. Ann Neurol. 2014; 75: 799–800. doi: 10.1002/ana.24157

Colditz GA, D’Agostino McGowan L, James AS, Bohlke K, Goodman MS. Screening for colorectal cancer: using data to set prevention priorities. Cancer Causes & Control. 2013; 1-6.

D'Agostino-McGowan L, Gennarelli RL, Lyons SA, Goodman MS. Using Small-Area Analysis to Estimate County-Level Racial Disparities in Obesity Demonstrating the Necessity of Targeted Interventions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2014; 11(1):418-428.

For all papers:
Link to PubMed


Teaching Experience

  • Modern Regression Analysis (2015)
  • Principles of Modern Biostatistics Teaching Assistant (2014)
  • Introduction to SAS Teaching Assistant (2013)
  • Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology Teaching Assistant (2013)
  • Randomized Controlled Trials Teaching Assistant (2013)


CV

DAgostino_McGowan_CV.pdf
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