CURRICULUM VITAE SUDESHNA PAUL, PhD, M.S Research Assistant Professor 1520 Clifton Road NE Atlanta, GA 30322 Tel: (404) 727-8747 Fax: (404) 712-9093 Email: spaul5@emory.edu EDUCATION Dates Degree Institution Major 12/2009 PhD Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Statistics 05/2005 MS Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Applied Statistics 12/2001 MSc Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India Applied Mathematics 12/1999 BSc Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India Mathematics LICENSES CERTIFICATIONS HONORS AND AWARDS (if none mark ) Name of Award 2014 Travel award ($500) for new investigators to present at the Women in Statistics conference (Cary, NC). 2010 Excellence in Postdoctoral Research (Harvard Medical School). 2008 Scholarship to attend PharmaSUG 2008, Atlanta GA (SAS users group) 2006 Travel award to attend Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA (Purdue University) 1999 First Class with Honors & Distinction in Bachelor of Science program in Mathematics (Jadavpur University) 1994,1996 National Scholarship for academic excellence in the Secondary and Higher Secondary Examinations (West Bengal Govt., India). PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Month, Position Institution 08/2013-present Research Assistant Professor Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University 07/2012-03/2013 Postdoctoral Fellow Rollins School of Public Health Emory University 02/2010-06/2012 Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. Of HealthCare Policy Harvard Medical School 01/2007-12/2009 Graduate Research Assistant Center for Health Outcomes Research and Policy Purdue University 05/2005-07/2006 Graduate Research Assistant Dept. Of Agronomy Purdue University 08/2006-12/2006 Design and Software Consultant Statistical Consulting Services Purdue University PUBLICATIONS
Original Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals Paul S, and O Malley, AJ, Hierarchical longitudinal models of relationships in social networks Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C. 2013; 62(5):705-722. Paul S, Friedman A, Bailey-kellogg C, Craig B, Bayesian Reconstruction of P(r) directly from 2-D detector images via a Markov chain Monte Carlo Method,Journal of Applied Crystallography. 2013; 46(2): 404-414. Landon B, Onnela JP, Keating N, Barnett M, Paul S, O Malley AJ, Keegan T, and Christakis N, Using Administrative Data to Identify Naturally Occurring Networks of Physicians, Medical care 2013; 51(8): 715-721. Landon B, Keating N, Barnett M, Onnela JP, Paul S, O Malley AJ, Christakis N, Variation in patient-sharing networks of physicians across the United States, Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA) 2012 July; 308(3):265-273. Sands LP, Xu H, Thomas J, Paul S, Craig B, Rosenman M, Doebbeling CC, Weiner M, Volume of Home and Community based Services and Time to Nursing Home Placement, Medicare and Medicaid Research Review.2012;2(3). Kinjo S, Sands L, Lim E, Paul S, Leung JM, Prediction of postoperative pain using path analysis in older patients, Journal ofanesthesiology. 2012; 26:1-8. DeCrane SK, Sands LP, Ashland M, Lim E, Tsai T, Paul S, Leung JM, Factors associated with recovery from early postoperative delirium, Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing.2011 August; 26(4):231-41. Xu H, Weiner M, Paul S, Thomas J, Craig B, Rosenman M, Doebbeling CC, Sands LP, Volume of home- and community-based medicaid waiver services and risk of hospital admissions,j Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 Jan; 58(1):109-15. Leung JM, Sands LP, Paul S, Joseph T, Kinjo S, Tsai T. Does postoperative delirium limit the use of patient-controlled analgesia in older surgical patients? Anesthesiology. 2009 Sep; 111(3):625-31. Manuscripts currently in revision, under review or in development O Malley J A and Paul S, Retrospective Sampling in social networks, submitted to Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, in revision. Paul S, and O Malley J A, Modeling cross-sectional relational data using a P2-model with latent effects, invited for submission in the Special Issue in Social Science and Medicine, in revision. Paul S, Friedman A, Bailey-Kellogg C, Craig B, A Framework for P(r) estimation from Multiple SAXS Images, under preparation for Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, in preparation. Corwin E, Pajer K, McCarthy D, Lowe N, Paul S, Stafford B, Early Postpartum Psychoneuroimmune Dysregulation Increases Risk of Postpartum Depression, under preparation for Psychoneuroimmunology. Research Abstracts and Proceedings Sudeshna Paul & A. James O Malley, A novel dyadic-dependence model to analyze higher order structuring in Physician networks to present at Women in Statistics Conference, Cary, NC (May, 2014). Sudeshna Paul, Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models with underlying network structure, Joint Statistical Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, CA. (Aug 2013). A James O Malley & Sudeshna Paul, Longitudinal Analysis of the Effect of Health traits on Relationships in a Social Network, ENAR Meetings, Orlando, FL. (Mar 2013)
Sudeshna Paul and James A. O Malley, Modeling Unipartite Physician Network, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, California (Aug 2012). Sudeshna Paul and James A. O Malley, Hierarchical longitudinal models of relationships in social networks, International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, Cleveland, Ohio (poster presented in October 2011). Sudeshna Paul and James A. O Malley, Issues in Longitudinal Modeling of Large Sparse Networks, Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami Beach, Florida (Aug 2011). Paul S and O Malley, AJ, Conditionally dyadic independence models for longitudinal analysis of the effect of health traits of relationships in a social network, in JSM Proceedings, Statistical Computing Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association (2011). O Malley, AJ and Paul S, Retrospective sampling in social networks, in JSM Proceedings, Statistical Computing Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association (2011). James A. O Malley and Sudeshna Paul, Conditionally Dyadic Independent Models for Longitudinal Analysis of the Effect of Health Traits on Relationships in a Social Network, Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami Beach, Florida (Aug 2011). Sudeshna Paul and James A. O Malley, Longitudinal Modeling of Networks in Social Networks, ENAR Spring Meeting, Miami, Florida (Mar 2011). Sudeshna Paul, Alan Friedman, Chris Bailey-Kellogg, and Bruce Craig, Using Bayesian approach to estimate P(r) curve from a small-angle scattering (SAS) image, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado (July 2008). Sakura Kinjo, Sudeshna Paul, Laura P. Sands, and Jacqueline M. Leung, Aging Does Not Affect Postoperative Pain and Analgesic Consumption in Geriatric Surgical Patients, Annual Meeting of American Society of Anesthesiologists, San Francisco, California (October, 2007). Sudeshna Paul, Souleymane Fall, Dev Niyogi, and Bruce Craig, Exploring Spatial & Temporal Characteristics of Atmospheric Ozone Concentration Using Statistical Visualization Techniques, Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, Washington (poster presented in August 2006). Sudeshna Paul, Dev Niyogi, Joseph G. Alfieri, Pinhas Alpert, Fei Chen, Margaret A. Lemone, and Viney P. Aneja, Exploration and Application of Statistical Methods to identify vegetation-surface-atmospheric interactions using IHOP 2002 field observations, Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality: State of the Science, Potomac, Maryland (June 2006). Instructional Booklet Educational Software Video
RESEARCH GRANTS UNDER REVIEW Healing Heart and Mending Minds (PI: Gary) Submitted 10/13 to Center for Aids Research (CFAR03) Role: Biostatistician (5% effort) Dynamic Statistical modeling of Small Angle Scattering (SAS) Images of Proteins (PI: Paul) Submitted 01/14 to University Research Committee (URC) Role: PI (no effort) Avatar-Based Depression Self-Management Intervention to Reduce Depressive Symptoms and Improve ART Adherence and Clinical Indicators in HIV+ Young Adults (PI: Pinto) Submitted 02/14 to CNIHR Role: co-i (10% effort) Bio-technological Approach to Identify Health Risk Behaviors in Young Adults (PI: Paul) Submitted 03/14 to NIH Role: PI (25% effort) RESEARCH GRANTS (not funded) Examining the interplay of Biobehavioral and Technological Observations to assess Health-Risk Behaviors among Young adults Submitted 11/13 to Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) Role: co-i Total Costs: RESEARCH GRANTS (funded) 1R24MD008077-01 Patzer (PI) 01/01/2013-12/31/2015 A regionally-coordinated intervention to reduce racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation in the Southeastern US: The purpose of this research is to utilize an existing academic-community organization with the Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition to identify barriers to kidney transplantation and to plan, implement, and evaluate a multilevel intervention to reduce disparities in access to kidney transplantation. Role: Co-I (15% effort) EDUCATIONAL, TRAINING, AND PROGRAM GRANTS UNDER REVIEW EDUCATIONAL, TRAINING, AND PROGRAM GRANTS
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES Courses Taught 08/05-05/06 SAS help session (Purdue University). Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Advisement-School of Nursing, Emory University (if none mark ) Master of Science in Nursing Thesis Advisement-School of Nursing, Emory University (if none mark ) Master of Public Health Thesis Advisement-Emory University (As Field Advisor) (if none mark ) MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 2004-present American Statistical Association Member 2005-present Institute of Mathematical Statistics Member 2006-09 Women in Science Program (Purdue University) Member PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Name of organization Name of organization Activities (year) Activities (year) EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER (if none mark ) 2013-present Reviewer, Evaluation & the Health Professions 2013-present Reviewer, Journal of the American Medical Association 2011-present Reviewer, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION Activity VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS Location NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEW Name of Panel PRESENTATIONS International Presentations Authors, name of presentation, location. 2013 Sudeshna Paul, Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models with underlying network structure, Joint Statistical Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, CA National Presentations Regional Presentations Authors, name of presentation, location Authors, name of presentation, location
State and Regional Presentations Authors, name of presentation, location 2012 Sudeshna Paul and A. James O Malley, Modeling Unipartite Physician Network, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, California 2011 Sudeshna Paul and A. James O Malley, Hierarchical longitudinal models of relationships in social networks, International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, Cleveland, Ohio. 2011 Sudeshna Paul and James A. O Malley, Issues in Longitudinal Modeling of Large Sparse Networks, Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami Beach, Florida. 2011 Sudeshna Paul and James A. O Malley, Longitudinal Modeling of Networks in Social Networks, ENAR Spring Meeting, Miami, Florida. 2008 Sudeshna Paul, Alan Friedman, Chris Bailey-Kellogg, and Bruce Craig, Using Bayesian approach to estimate P(r) curve from a small-angle scattering (SAS) image, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado. 2006 Sudeshna Paul, Souleymane Fall, Dev Niyogi, and Bruce Craig, Exploring Spatial & Temporal Characteristics of Atmospheric Ozone Concentration Using Statistical Visualization Techniques, Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, Washington. UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Emory University Wide Service - Role, Name of Committee or Group Emory University School of Nursing Service - Role, Name of Committee or Group Community Service 01/05-12/07 Statistical Consultant, Statistics in the Community (STATCOM) Revised: 01/23/2014 SP