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  Doug Potter, PhD
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Education

BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969
MS, University of Pittsburgh,1998
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972

Research Interests

Statistical methodology for design and analysis of preclinical studies and early phase clinical trials in cancer; development and use of novel exact and approximate permutation tests; analysis of small datasets.

Selected Publications

Potter DM, Robust two-stage model-guided designs for phase I clinical studies (chapter). Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials.  New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2007. 

Potter DM. Phase I studies of chemotherapeutic agents in cancer patients: a review of the designs. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2006. 16:579-604.

Potter, DM. Omnibus Permutation Tests of the Association of an Ensemble of Genetic Markers with Disease in Case-Control Studies. Genetic Epidemiology, 30(5):438-46, 2006.

Potter DM, Griffiths DJ, Omnibus permutation tests of the overall null hypothesis in datasets with many covariates. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 16(3):327-341, 2006.

Potter DM. A permutation test for inference in logistic regression with small- and moderate-sized datasets. Statistics in Medicine, 24:693-708, 2005.

Modugno F, Zmuda JM, Potter D, Cai C, Ziv E, Cummings SR, Stone KL, Morin PA, Greene D, Cauley JA. Association of estrogen receptor alpha polymorphisms with breast cancer risk in older Caucasian women. International Journal of Cancer. 116(6):984-91, 2005.

Ramanathan RK, Trump DL, Eiseman JL, Belani CP, Agarwala SS, Zuhowski EG, Lan J, Potter DM, Ivy SP, Ramalingam S, Brufsky AM, Wong MK, Tutchko S, Egorin MJ. Phase I pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic study of 17-(allylamino)-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17AAG, NSC 330507), a novel inhibitor of heat shock protein 90, in patients with refractory advanced cancers. Clinical Cancer Research. 11(9):3385-91, 2005.

Potter, DM. Adaptive Dose Finding for Phase I Clinical Trials of Drugs Used for Chemotherapy of Cancer. Statistics in Medicine, 21:1805-1823 2002.

Ramanathan, RK, Potter DM, Jacobs SA, Belani CP, Lim F, Kim H, Savona S, Evans T, Buchbarker D, Simon MB, Depee J, Wilson S, Gravenstein S, Trump DL. A randomized trial of influenza vaccine with GM-CSF or placebo in cancer patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 21:4313-4318 2002.

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One Sterling Plaza, Suite 325
201 North Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Telephone: 412-383-1580 
Facsimile: 412- 383-1535
Email:
potter@upci.pitt.edu
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