Ronald Gangnon, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Population Health Sciences

Email: ronald@biostat.wisc.edu

Biography:

Ronald Gangnon completed a BA degree in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (1992) and a MS (Statisics, 1994) and PhD (Statistics with emphasis in Biostatistics, 1998) from the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison. He then joined the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics as a Research Scientist in 1998 and since 2005 has been an Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics.

Dr. Gangnon's research interests are in spatial epidemiology, with emphasis on detection and modeling of spatial and spatio-temporal clusters, and in syndromic surveillance. More generally, Dr. Gangnon is interested in the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiologic and clinical research. As such, Dr. Gangnon is a co-investigator on projects in a wide array of disease fields, including geriatrics, ophthalmology, dysphagia, breast, pancreatic and colon cancer and asthma. Of particular note, Dr. Gangnon serves as Director of the Biostatistics Core for the Childhood Origins of ASThma (COAST) project, a prospective birth cohort study of early childhood risk factors for the development of asthma and allergy, and as senior statistician for the Beaver Dam Eye Study and the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retionopathy. (Download CV)

Affiliations/Associations:

• International Biometrics Society
• American Statistical Association
• Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Recent Honors/Awards:

• Outstanding Instructor Award, PHS Graduate Student Association, 2008

Select Publications:

Klein R, Myers CE, Knudtsen MD, Lee KE, Gangnon R, Wong TY and Klein BEK.  The Relationship of Blood Pressure and Other Factors to Serial Retinal Arteriolar Diameter Measurements Over Time: the Beaver Dam Eye Study.  Archives of Ophthlamology.  In Press.

Klein R, Myers CE, Lee KE, Gangnon R and Klein BEK. Changes in Retinal Vessel Diameter and Incidence and Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy.  Archives of Ophthalmology.  In Press.

O’Brian AL, Lemanske RF, Evans MD, Gangnon RE, Gern JE and Jackson DJ. (2012) Recurrent Severe Exacerbations in Early Life and Reduced Lung Function at School Age. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.  DOI:10.1016/jaci.2011.11.046.

Jackson DJ, Evans MD, Gangnon RE, Tisler CJ, Pappas TE, Lee W-M, Gern JE and Lemanske RF. (2011) Evidence for a Causal Relationship Between Allergic Sensitization and Rhinovirus Wheezing in Early Life.  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.  DOI:10.1164/rccm.201104-0660OC. 

Sprague BL, Trentham-Dietz A, Gangnon RE, Buist DSM, Burnside ES, Aiello Bowles EJ, Stanczyk FZ, Sisney GS and Skinner HG. (2011)  The Vitamin D Pathway and Mammographic Breast Density Among Postmenopausal Women.  Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.  DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1726-5. 

Gangnon RE. (2011) Local Multiplicity Adjustment for the Spatial Scan Statistic using the Gumbel Distribution.  Biometrics. DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01643.x.

Malandraki GA, Hind J, Gangnon R, Logemann J and Robbins J. (2011) The Utility of Pitch Elevation in the Evaluation of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: Preliminary Findings.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.  20(4): 262-268. 

Zhan W, Cruickshanks KJ, Klein BEK, Klein R, Huang G, Pankow JS, Gangnon RE and Tweed TS. (2011)  Modifiable Determinants of Hearing Impairment in Adults.  Preventive Medicine. 53(4-5): 338-342. 

Litzelman K, Catrine K, Gangnon R and Witt WP. (2011) Quality of Life in Parents of Children with Cancer or Brain Tumors: The Role of Child Clinical Characteristics and Parental Psychosocial Factors. Quality of Life Research. 20(8): 1261-1269. 

Gulbert TW, Singh AM, Danov Z, Evans MD, Jackson D, Burton R, Roberg KA, Anderson EL, Pappas TE, Gangnon R, Gern J and Lemanske RF. (2011) Decreased Lung Function After Preschool Wheezing Rhinovirus Illnesses in Children At Risk to Develop Asthma.  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 128(3): 532-538.e10. 

Loisel DA, Tan Z, Tisler CJ, Evans MD, Gangnon RE, Jackson DJ, Gern JE, Lemanske RF and Ober C. (2011)  IFNG Genotype and Sex Interact to Influence Risk of Childhood Asthma.  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 128(3): 524-531.  

O’Connor ES, Greenblatt DY, LoConte N, Gangnon R, Liou J,  Heise CP and Smith M. (2011) Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Stage II Colon Cancer with Poor Prognostic Features. Journal of Clinical Oncology.  29(25): 3381-3388. 

Cronk CE, Gangnon R, Cossette S, McElroy JA and Pelech AN. (2011) Modeling Geographic Risk of Complex Congenital Heart Defects in Eastern Wisconsin. Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology. 91(7): 631-641. 

Tattersall M, Karmali KN, Gangnon RE and Keevil JG. (2011) The Population Effects of the Global Cardiovascular Risk Model in United States Adults:  Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Surveys 2005-2006.  Journal of Clinical Lipidology.  5(3): 168-172. 

Witt WP, Litzelman K, Mandic CG, Wisk LE, Hampton JM, Creswell PD, Gottlieb CA and Gangnon R.  (2011) Healthcare-Related Financial Burden among Families in the U.S.: The Role of Childhood Activity Limitations and Income. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 32(2): 308-326.

Binkley N, Gemar D, Engleke J, Gangnon R, Ramamurthy R, Krueger D and Drezner MK. (2011) Evaluation of Ergocalciferol or Cholecalciferol Dosing, 1,6000 IU Daily or 50,000 IU Monthly in Older Adults. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 96(4): 981-988. 

Sprague BL, Trentham-Dietz A, Ramchandani R, Gangnon R, Hampton JM, Remington PL and Newcomb P. (2011) Socioeconomic Status and Survival After an Invasive Breast Cancer Diagnosis.  Cancer.  117(7): 1542-1551. 

Muehrer RJ, Schatell D, Witten B, Gangnon R, Becker BN and HofmannRM. (2011) Factors Affecting Employment at Initiation of Dialysis.  Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.  6(3): 489-496.

Bellazzini MA, Repplinger MD and Gangnon RE. (2011) Web-Based Media for Landing Zone Safety Instruction.  Air Medical Journal. 30(2): 93-96. 

Sprague BL, Trentham-Dietz A, Gangnon RE, Buist DSM, Burnside ES, Aiello Bowles EJ, Stanczyk FZ and Sisney GS. (2011) Circulating Sex Hormones and Mammographic Breast Density Among Postmenopausal Women.  Hormones and Cancer. 2(1): 67-72.

Gangnon RE. (2010) A Model for Space-Time Clustering Using Spatial Clusters with Flexible Temporal Risk Patterns.  Statistics in Medicine. 29: 2325-2337.  

Gangnon RE. (2010) Local Multiplicity Adjustments for Spatial Cluster Detection.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics.  17: 55-71.  

Courses Taught:

• BMI/PHS 551, Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health
• PHS/BMI 552, Regression Methods for Population Health

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