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Deborah V. Dawson,
ProfessorPreventive and Community Dentistry and
Director of Biostatistics
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Education:
B.A., Montclair State College, 1974
ScM, Johns Hopkins University, 1976
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1981
Brief Professional Resume: Dr. Dawson joined The University
of Iowa College of Dentistry in July 2001. She is a professor
in the department of Preventive and Community Dentistry and the
Director of Biostatistics.
Teaching Responsibilities: Dr.
Dawson serves as course director for Statistical Methods in Dental
Research (111:212). She will also be responsible for individual
presentations or short series of lectures in both predoctoral
and graduate courses such as the D1 Cariology course and the Research
Mini-Course for the predoctoral students. In the future, Dr.
Dawson will be teaching parts of other graduate courses and will
provide a short course in biostatistics for predoctoral students.
Research Activities: Dr. Dawson’s area of research focuses
on statistical genetic modeling of human disorders, particularly
in the areas of dental disorders, immune and inflammatory disorders
and developmental disorders; statistical methods in human genetics,
including applications in the areas of delayed onset disorders
and ascertainment bias; statistical evaluation of biomedical studies,
particularly longitudinal studies and investigations of aging
and development; population-based models; and classification and
risk assessment problems.
National or International Professional
Appointments or Activities: Dr. Dawson is a member of the
Clinical Aging Study Section of the National Institute on Aging
of the National Institutes of Health, and has served as ad hoc
reviewer for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases. She has served since 1997 as an appointee
of the Cooperative Studies Evaluation Committee for the Health
Services Research and Development Service, Veterans Health Administration
Research Program, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington,
D.C. She has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Immigrant Health (1999-2001) and as Consulting Editor of the journal
Health Psychology (1999-2001). She was an invited participant
and primary representative of the American Team, International
Centenarian Studies Group, European Science Foundation Workshop:
Autonomy Versus Dependence in the Oldest Old, Schlosshotel auf
der Burg Hirschhorn and Heidelberg University, Germany, July 3-6,
1999. She has served as ad hoc reviewer for scholarly journals
including the American Journal of Human Genetics, Experimental
Aging Research, Genetic Epidemiology, the Journal of Dental Research,
and the Journal of Gerontology. She received the American Association
of Laboratory Animal Science 1987 Research Award for Most Outstanding
Paper. Dr. Dawson is a member of the American Statistical Association,
in which she has served elective office as Program Chair for Teaching
of Statistics in the Health Sciences (1995-1996), Representative
to the Council of Sections (1995-1998), and Chair of the Section
on Statistics in Epidemiology (2000); she will take office as
Vice-Chair of the Council of Sections Governing Board in 2002-2004.
Dr. Dawson is also a member of the American Society of Human Genetics
and the International Genetic Epidemiology Society.
List
of Publications
Email: Deborah-dawson@uiowa.edu
Deborah V. Dawson, Ph.D.
Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
Iowa City, IA 52242-1010
319-335-7189
319-335-7187 (FAX)
