Lisa  Elon

Experience

• Currently biostatistician on studies examining the relationship of mental stress and myocardial ischemia after MI, heat-related illness among farm workers;  recently on the data management team for a now-completed trial of LPG stove use to reduce health risks from indoor air pollution.

• Analyzed social contact (network) data from a hospital emergency department and from commercial flights

• Investigated the association of hemophilic arthropathy and bone mass density

• Led the Biostatistics and Data Management Team for the Emory Alcohol and Lung Biology Center

• Helped design, implement, and analyze a cluster-randomized experiment testing several interventions to improve workplace physical activity.

• Analyzed DNA microarray and flow cytometry data for an immunity response study.

• Used hospital emergency department records to evaluate physician performance.

• Surveyed state health departments in the South on vaccine provision topics. Involved sample selection, survey instrument design, and analysis.

• Helped design and implement the Healthy Doc Project, a 4-year, longitudinal study of medical students’ personal and professional health and prevention-related characteristics. Work on this project included questionnaire construction and revision, question validation, protocol development, cleaning and analysis of data, paper preparation and publication, and grant writing.

Teaching

• Applied Practical Experience Faculty Advisor (2018-present)

• Guest Lecturer on Data Wrangling, for Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Research (Emory School of Nursing); 2017, 2018, 2019

Honors

• 1997 RSPH Charles C. Shepard Award for Excellence in Research.
• 1993 Merit Scholarship, Rollins School of Public Health.