Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist

MONNIE MCGEE

Southern Methodist University [email protected] Department of Statistical Science Phone: (214) 768 2462 P.O. Box 750332 Fax: (214) 768 4035 Dallas, Texas 75275-0332

CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University

EDUCATION: 1994 Ph.D., Statistics, Rice University, Houston, TX. 1993 MA, Statistics, Rice University 1990 BA, Mathematics and English, Austin College, Sherman, TX.

DISSERTATION: Tests for Harmonic Components in the Spectra of Categorical Time Series (directed by Katherine B. Ensor, Professor of Statistics, Rice University)

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS: Categorical Time Series, DNA Microarray Analysis, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Application of statistical methods to biosciences

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: 1998-2001 Assistant Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York Responsible for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Also coordinated introductory statistics courses, served on the departmental Personnel and Budget Committee, Faculty Senate Teacher Evaluation Committee, and Departmental Educational Policy Committee. 1999 & 2000 (June to August), Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Invited to spend these two summers in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University as a summer research associate. Presented and discussed research with the members of the department. 1995-98 Biostatistician, The Rockefeller University Provided statistical advice on experiment design and analysis and collaborated with principal investigators on various studies. Conducted courses and various seminars on statistical topics of interest to the university community. Reviewed all statistical designs for the protocols for scientific content and ethical merit. 1995 Computational Statistician, Electricité de France Developed a software package which will use past knowledge of consumption of electricity to predict the amount of energy necessary to meet very short term demands. Monnie McGee 2 1993 Instructor, Elementary Applied Statistics. Taught the introductory level statistics course: gave lectures, wrote exams, and coordinated computer laboratories. 1992 Statistical Consultant, Texas Heart Institute, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Consulted with doctors on design of experiments and used survival analysis techniques to pinpoint important factors in the survival of patients after surgery. 1992 Research Assistant, Rice University Applied kernel estimation and interpolation of missing data to a data set of ambient ozone measurements over Houston 1991-92 Teaching Assistant, Elementary Applied Statistics. Taught computer lab sections using SYSTAT, supervised other teaching assistants. 1991 Student Extern, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Used maximum likelihood methods to estimate the relative movement of cell subpopulations 1990 Computer Consultant, Energy Planning, Inc. Developed a computer program to model the purchasing, storage, and usage of natural gas for a utility company

WORKS IN PROGRESS: Awasthi, S., Sharma, A., Wong, K., Zhang, J., Matlock, E. F., Rogers, L., Motloch, P., Takemoto, S., Taguchi, H., Cole, M. D., Luscher, B., Dittrich, O., Tagami, H., Nakatani, Y., McGee, M., Girard, A.-M., Gaughan, L., Robson, C. N., Monnat, R. J., Jr., and Harrod, R. (2005). An HTLV-1 Enhancer of Myc-Transforming Potential Stabilizes Myc-TIP60 Transcriptional Interactions. Currently submitted (Mol. Cell. Biol.) Monnie McGee (2004). Tests for Multiple Peaks in the Spectra of Categorical Time Series. (submitted). Ian Harris and Monnie McGee (2004). A Weak form of Stationarity for Categorical Time Series. (under revision). Nora V. Bergasa, Monnie McGee, Iona Ginsburg, Danielle Engler (2004). “Gabapentin treatment for the Pruritus of Cholestasis: Results of a Double Blind Placebo Trial.” (under revision).

PUBLICATIONS: Gerald N. Epstein, James Halper, Elizabeth Ann Manhart Barrett, Carole Birdsall, Monnie McGee, Kim Phillips, Steven Lowenstein (2004). A Pilot Study of Mind-Body Changes in Adults with Asthma Who Use Mental Imagery. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 10 (4), 66-71. M. McGee (2002). Mixture Transition Monte Carlo: Making MCMC Move. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Section on Bayesian Statistics, New Monnie McGee 3 York, New York. N.V. Bergasa, M.J. Link, M. Keogh, G. Yaroslavsky, R.N. Rosenthal and Monnie McGee (2001). Effect of Bright-Light Therapy Directed Toward the Eyes for the Pruritus of Cholestasis: Results of a Pilot Study. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 96, 1563-1570. R. Shamir, K.J. Williams, L. Hudgins, M. McGee, D. Levine, J.A. Cortner, and E.A. Fisher. Non-Esterified Fatty Acids are not Related to Plasma Apo-B Levels in Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia. Journal of Medicine (to appear). E.de Oliviera e Silva, D. Foster, M. McGee, C.E. Seidman, J.D. Smith, J.L. Breslow, and E.A. Brinton. Alcohol Consumption Raises HDL Cholesterol Levels by Increasing Production Rate of Apolipoproteins A-I and A-II. Circulation 102, 2347-2352 (2000). E. Scott Sills, Maureen Moomjy, Nikica Zaninovic, Lucinda Veeck, Monnie McGee, Gianpiero D. Palermo and Zev Rosenwaks (2000). “Human Zona Pellucida Micromanipulation and Monozygotic Twinning Frequency after IVF”, Human Reproduction, 15, 890-895. M. McGee (2000). Power Analysis and Sample Size Determination for Well-Known Time Series Models, in Introduction to Time Series Analysis by R. Yaffee. New York: Academic Press. E.S. Sills, Delphine P. Levy, Maureen Moomjy, Monnie McGee, and Zev Rosenwaks (1999). “A Prospective, Randomized Comparison of Ovulation Induction Using Highly Purified Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Alone and with Recombinant Human Luteinizing Hormone in In-Vitro Fertilization”, Human Reproduction, 14, 2230-2235 (1999). M. McGee and K.B. Ensor (1998). Tests for Harmonic Components in the Spectra of Categorical Time Series. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 19, 309 – 324. E.S. Sills, J. Saini, C.A. Steiner, M. McGee, and H.F. Gretz (1998). Abdominal Hysterectomy Practice Patterns in the United States. Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 63, p. 277-283. E.S. Sills, J. Saini, M.S. Applegate, M. McGee, and H.F. Gretz (1998). Supracervical and Total Abdominal Hysterectomy Trends in New York State 1990-1996. Journal of urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 75, p. 903-910. M. McGee (1997). Observations on Statistics and Graphics in Clinical Presentations. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences, Anaheim, California. H.M. Dansky, S.A. Charlton, M. M. Harper, and J.D. Smith (1997). T and B Lymphocytes Play a Minor Role in Atherosclerotic Plaque Formation in the Apolipoprotein E-Deficient Mouse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94, pp. 4642-4646 Monnie McGee 4 E.S. Sills, J.D. Baum, X. Ling, M.M. Harper, D.P. Levy, and C.J. Lockwood (1997). Average Duration of Normal Labour Among Chinese Primigravidas [French]. J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (France), 26, 704-710. M. Gelder Ehm, M. N. Elliott, and M. McGee (1994). "A New Series of Supersaturated Designs". Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Conference on the Design of Experiments, ARO Report No. 94-2.

GRANT AWARDS AND COLLABORATIONS: Principal Investigator. “Creating Web Based Applications for Undergraduate Statistics Courses”. SMU Teaching and Technology Group and Provost’s Office, Southern Methodist University (5/1/2003 -4/30/2004) Principal Investigator. “Creating Web Based Applications for Undergraduate Statistics Courses”. President’s Partners Grant, Southern Methodist University (5/1/2003 -4/30/2004) Statistical Consultant, “Gabapentin for the Pruritis of Cholestasis”, National Institutes of Health, 1 R0-3 DK58682-01, (01/09/01 - 01/09/03), $100,000. Senior Researcher. "Study to Assess the Participation and Outcome Patterns in Postsecondary Occupational Education," U.S. Department of Education. T. Bailey and M. Scott Co-Principal Investigators. (9/1/2000 - 8/31/2001). Principal Investigator, PSC-CUNY Research Award Renewal, "Analysis of Ordinal Time Series in the Frequency Domain," (7/01/00 - 12/30/01), $3746. Principal Investigator, Hunter College Presidential Incentive and Teaching Grants Awards. “Developing a Biometrics Program at Hunter College” (5/01/00 - 8/31/02), $750. Co-principal investigator, “Symptom Management with HIV Infected Older Persons”, Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Area R15 Grant (PA99-026). Dr. Kathleen Nokes, Principal Investigator (7/01/00 - 6/30/02), $153,000. Principal Investigator, Eugene Lang Junior Faculty Development Award, "A Casebook for an Introductory Statistics Course, " (6/01/99 - 8/31/01), $2500. Statistical Consultant, "Dronabinol for the pruritus of cholestasis", Clinical Trials Office, Columbia University, College of Physicians, Nora V. Bergasa, M.D., Principal Investigator (7/1/2000 - 6/30/2002), $50,000. Principal Investigator, Hunter College Grant Award - Scholarship of Teaching Initiative. “Evaluation of Approaches to Teaching Introductory Statistics” (6/01/00 - 8/31/02), $5000. Principal Investigator, Association for Women in Mathematics Travel Grants for Women (8/2000), $500. Monnie McGee 5 Principal Investigator,"Analysis of Ordinal Time Series in the Frequency Domain," PSC- CUNY Research Award, (3/01/99 - 6/30/00), $6000. Jerome J. DeCosse, H.L. Bradlow, W.J. Cennarazzo, E.R. DeOlivera e Silva, M.McGee Harper, D.G. Miller, C.P. Martucci, C.E. Seidman, and D.W. Sepkovic. (June, 1997). "Effect of Dietary Fiber and Dietary Fat on Biomarkers of Risk for Breast Cancer.", $36,945. S.J. Shiff, B. Rigas, H. Rotterdam, R.C. Kurtz, P. Arvind, and M. McGee Harper. (July, 1996)."NSAID Colon Cancer Chemopreventions: Biomarker Responses", $3,181,987. S.J. Shiff, M. McGee Harper, B. Rigas, M. Lipkin, H. Newmark, K. Yang, P. Arvind, and C.S. Yang (July, 1995). "Dietary Plant Phenolics; Effect on Colonic Biomarkers", $1,475,376.

ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS: Nora V. Bergasa, Monnie McGee, Iona Ginsburg, Danielle Engler (November, 2004). “Gabapentin treatment for the Pruritus of Cholestasis: Results of a Double Blind Placebo Trial.” Poster Presentation at the meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, Boston, MA. M. McGee (August 4, 2003). “Early Classification of Pregnancy Outcome Using Hormone Levels in IVF Patients” Co-authors: Galina Kovalevskaya and John O’Connor, Contributed poster presentation at JSM 2003 in San Francisco. M. McGee (July 25, 2003). “Mixture Transition Monte Carlo: Making MCMC Move”, Invited Presentation, Working Group on Model Based Clustering, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. M. McGee (August 14, 2002). “Mixture Transition Monte Carlo: Making MCMC Move”, Invited Presentation, Section on Statistical Computing and Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences, Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, NY M. McGee (July 12, 2001). “Mixture Transition Monte Carlo: A Generalization of MCMC”, Working Group for Model Based Clustering, Department of Statistics, University of Washington. M. McGee (April 12, 2000). "Tests for Harmonic Components in the Spectra of Categorical Time Series ", Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunter College. M. McGee (October 15, 2000). “Use and Misuse of Statistics in the Media”, Fall Celebration, Hunter College. M. McGee (July, 1999). Tests for Harmonic Components in the Spectra of Categorical Time Series, Department of Statistics Colloquium, Stanford University. M. McGee (March 19, 1999). “Teaching Statistics Using SPSS”, Teaching Statistics: Technology and Reasoning Conference. Borough of Manhattan Community College. N.V. Bergasa, M.J. Link, M. Keogh, G. Yaroslavsky, R.N. Rosenthal, and M. McGee. Monnie McGee 6 Effect of Bright-Light Phototherapy (BLPT) Directed Towards the Eyes for the Pruritis of Cholestatis; Results of A Pilot Study. Heptology, 1998, 28, p. 443A. M. McGee (1997). Observations on Statistics and Graphics in Clinical Presentations. Section on Teaching Methods and Case Studies in the Health Sciences. Joint Statistical Meetings, Anaheim, California. Elizabeth R. DeOlivera e Silva, David Foster, Monnie McGee Harper, and Eliot A. Brinton (1996). Alcohol Raises HDL Levels by Increasing Production of Apo A-I and Apo A-II. 69th Scientific Submissions of the American Heart Association. E.S. Sills, L.I. Barmat, M.M. Harper, H-C Liu, G.L. Schattman, Z. Rosenwaks (1997). Effect of Periovulary 17-beta Estradiol Fluctuations on Conception in Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation and In Vitro Fertilization with GnRH-agonist Suppression. 15th FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Copenhagen (Denmark). E.S. Sills, J. Breslow, M.M. Harper, N. Zaninovic, L.L. Veeck, Z. Rosenwaks (1997). Day 3 Pre-embryo Morphology as a Predictor of In Vitro Fertilization Pregnancy Outcome. Je Soc Gynecol Invest (1 Suppl); 4:174A Joint Statistical Meetings, Dallas, Texas, August, 1998. Session Chair for the Section on General Methodology. Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, August 1994. Session Chair for the Section on Statistical Computing. SRCOS Summer Research Conference in Statistics. Williamsburg, VA, June 1994. R. L. Anderson Student Paper Award: "A Test for Harmonic Components in the Spectra of Categorical Time Series".

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Statistical Association, member since 1991 Caucus for Women in Statistics, member since 1997 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, member since 2000. International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region, member since 2000.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES: Department Seminar Organizer, 2002-2005 Departmental subcommittee to review Statistical Computing Course, Spring 2003. Interviewed candidates for Presidential Scholars, March 2003. Organized Fourteenth Annual Gertrude Cox Scholarship Race for Caucus for Women in Statistics, San Francisco, CA, August 5, 2003 Organized Thirteenth Annual Gertrude Cox Scholarship Race for Caucus for Women in Statistics, New York, NY, August 13, 2002

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE: Coordinator for First Annual Caucus for Women in Statistics Poster Competition for Monnie McGee 7 Young Women in Grades K to 12, Fall 2004. Representative-at-Large, Caucus for Women in Statistics, 2001-2003. Statistical Reviewer, November 2002 to present. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Reviewer, December, 2002: Two chapters of an unfinished introductory statistics text by Paradise and Hirschfelder. Reviewer, August 2001: Janacek, Gareth (2001). Practical Time Series. London: Arnold Publishers. Review appeared in the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Reviewer, July 2001: First three chapters of untitled introductory statistics text. Authors unknown. New York: Prentice Hall. Reviewer, February 2001: Utts, Jessica (2000) Seeing Through Statistics, Second Edition. Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury Press. Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 2000. Session Chair for the Section on Statistics in the Environment. Joint Statistical Meetings, Dallas Texas, August 1998. Session Chair for the Section on General Methodology. Delegate, People to People to Ambassador Program, Applied Statistics Delegation to the People's Republic of China , May, 1998. Traveled to Beijing, Xi'an, Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai, China to exchange ideas with various Chinese statisticians in industry, academia and government. Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, August 1994. Session Chair for the Section on Statistical Computing.

OTHER ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS: Steering Committee Member, Christ’s Family Ministries (2003 to present): An organization dedicated to providing health related services to members of the community without health insurance. Guest Lecturer, Linear Algebra Summer Session Class, “Careers in Statistics”, 7/30/01. Speaker, Sonya Kovalesky Day, Program to interest high school girls in mathematics, “Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media”, 10/28/2000. Teacher, Eastside English Program, New York, NY. Teach English and plan activities for new immigrants to the United States, 1996-2001 Speaker, “Women in Action Day”, Rye Neck Middle School, Harrison, New York. Spoke about careers in statistics to 5th and 6th grade students, 3/5/99, 3/3/00, and 3/2/01. Panelist, Women and the Sciences: Myths and Realities, April 6, 2000. Spoke to students in NURS/WOMST 351 about the challenges and rewards facing women in scientific Monnie McGee 8 careers. Functional reading, writing, and speaking ability in French