Education
Research Interests
Courses
Selected Publications
Contact Information

Education

BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1974
MScHyg, University of Pittsburgh, 1975
PhD, University of Michigan, 1984

Research Interests

Epidemiological and statistical research in chronic and infectious diseases, quality of life, gerontology, and transplantation.  Designing and implementing systems for data analysis.  Designing and applying innovative statistical techniques.  Database design and implementation.

Courses

EPIDEM 2180 Advanced Methods in Epidemiology I
EPIDEM 2230 Advanced Methods in Epidemiology II

Selected Publications

Evans IVR, Belle SH, Wei Y, Penovich C, Ruppert K, Detre KM for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Liver Transplantation Database. Post-transplantation growth among pediatric recipients of liver transplantation . Pediatric Transplantation . Pediatric Transplantation 2005;9:480-485.

Schulz R, Belle SH, Czaja SJ, McGinnis KA, Stevens A, Zhang S. Long-term care placement of dementia patients and caregiver health and well-being. JAMA . 2004 (Aug. 25);292(8):961-967.

Belle SH, Zhang S, Czaja SJ, Burns R, Schulz R. Cognitive enhancement medication utilization among persons with Alzheimer's Disease who have a family caregiver: Results from the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) project. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry . May-June 2004: (12)3: 250-257.

Schulz R, Mendelsohn AB , Haley WE, Mahoney D, Allen RS, Zhang S, Thompson L, Belle SH for the REACH Investigators. End of life care and the effects of bereavement among family caregivers for persons with dementia. New England Journal of Medicine . 2003; 349: 20: 1936-1942.

Belle SH, Czaja SJ, Schulz R, Zhang S, Burgio L, Gitlin L, Jones R, Mendelsohn AB , Ory M. Using a New Taxonomy to Combine the Uncombinable: Integrating Results Across Diverse Caegiving Interventions. Psychology and Aging . 2003; 18(3):396-405.

Belle SH, Mendelsohn AB , Seaberg EC, Ratcliff G. A brief cognitive screening battery for dementia in the community. Neuroepidemiology. 2000. 19:43-50.

Showstack J, Katz PP, Lake JR, Brown Jr. RS, Dudley RA, Belle SH, Wiesner RH, Zetterman RK, Everhart J. Resource utilization in liver transplantation: Effects of patient characteristics and clinical practice. Journal of the American Medical Association . 1999. 281:1381-1386.

Belle SH, Porayko MK, Hoofnagle JH, Lake JR, Zetterman RK for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Liver Transplantation Database (LTD). Changes in quality of life after liver transplantation among adults . Liver Transplantation and Surgery . 1997. 3(2):93-104.

Belle SH, Seaberg EC, Ganguli M, Ratcliff G, DeKosky S, Kuller. LH. The effect of education and gender adjustment on the sensitivity and specificity of a cognitive screening battery for dementia: Results from the MoVIES project. Neuroepidemiology , 1996. 15(6):321-329.

Belle SH, Detre KM, Beringer KC. The relationship between outcome of liver transplantation and experience in new centers. Liver Transplantation and Surgery. 1995. 1(6):347-353.

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