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Faculty Bio - Sati Mazumdar, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics
Professor, Psychiatry

Education

BSc, University of Calcutta, 1956
MSc, University Calcutta, 1958
PhD, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1967

Academic and Research Interests

Main research interest is in the development and adaptation of statistical methodology in psychiatric and health services research. A core faculty in the masters and doctoral teaching programs in the Department. Advises graduate students: Co-PI of an NIA funded program project "Aging Well, Sleeping Efficiently: Intervention Studies"; Co-PI of the of the Methodology Core of the NIMH funded Advanced Center for Intervention and Service Research in Late Life Mood Disorders; Co-PI of several NIH funded R01s in Psychiatry. (Health Sciences Faculty Research Interests Project)

Selected Publications

Reynolds CF, Dew MA, Pollock BG, Mulsant BH, Frank E, Miller M, Houck PR, Mazumdar S, Butters MA, Stack JA, Schlernitzauer MA, Whyte E, Gildenger A, Karp J, Lenze E, Szanto K, Bensasi S and Kupfer DJ.  Maintenance Treatment of Depression in Old Age. New England Journal of Medicine, 2006: 354(11), 1130-1138.

Dang Q, Mazumdar S, Anderson SJ, Houck P and Reynolds CF.  Using Trajectories From a Bivariate Growth Curve as Predictors in a Cox Regression Model. Statistics in Medicine, 2007: 26, 800-811.

Xu L, Mazumdar S and Price J.  Covariate Adjustment in Partial Least Squares for the Extraction of the Spatial-Temporal Pattern From Positron Emission Tomography Data. Statistical Methodology, 2007: 4, 44-63.

Mazumdar S, Tang G, Houck PR, Dew MA, Begley AE, Scott J, Mulsant BH and Reynolds CF.  Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Psychiatric Data with Dropouts. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2007: 41, 1032-1041.

Blakesley RE, Mazumdar S, Dew MA, Houck PR, Tang G, PhD Reynolds CF III and Butters MA.  Methods for Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Neuropsychological Research: A Sensitivity Analysis and a Simulation Study.Neuropsychology, 2009: 23(2), 255-264.

Dang Q, Mazumdar S and Houck PR.  Sample Size and Power Calculations Based on Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Correlated Binary Outcomes. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2008: 91, 122-127.

Rollman BL, Belnap BH, LeMenger MS, Mazumdar S, Houck PR, Counihan PJ, Kapoor, WN, Schulberg, HC and Reynolds CF.  Telephone-Delivered Collaborative-Care for Treating Post-CABG Depression:  The BYPASSING THE BLUES Randomized Controlled Trial.  JAMA, 2009: 302(19), 2095-2103.

Dombrovsky AY, Mulsant BH, Ferrell R, Lotrich F, Rosen J, Wallace M, Houck PR, Mazumdar S and Pollock BG.  Serotonin Transporter Triallelic Genotype and Response to Citalopram and Risperidone in Dementia with Behavioral Symptoms.  International Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2010: 25(1), 37-45.

Chuang Y, Mazumdar S and Nicolich M.  Bayesian Model Averaging Approach in Health Effects Studies:  Sensitivity Analyses Using PM10 and Cardiopulmonary Hospital Admissions in Allegheny County, PA and Simulated Data.  Atmospheric Pollution Research. 2010, 1: 161-167.

Lotz M, Anderson S and Mazumdar S.  A stochastic Multiple Imputation Algorithm for Missing Covariate Data in Tree-structured Survival Analysis.  Statistics in Medicine. 2010 (online)

Bhatia T, Agarwal A, Shah G, Wood J, Richard J, Gur RE, Gur RC, Mazumdar S, Nimgaonkar VL and Deshpande SN.  Adjunctive Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia Using Yoga. Acta Neuropsychiatrica (in press).

Chuang Y, Mazumdar S, Park T, Tang G, Arena VC and Nicolich MJ.  Generalized Linear Mixed Models in Time Series Studies of Air Pollution. Atmospheric Pollution Research (in press).

Contact Information

306 Parran Hall
130 DeSoto Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Telephone: 412-624-3023
Facsimile: 412-624-2183
Email: maz1@pitt.edu

Last reviewed: June 13, 2011