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Corette Parker

Expertise

Biostatistics
Statistical Methodology
Data Analysis Methodology
Multi-Site Evaluation

Biography

Corette B. Parker, DrPH, is a senior biostatistician who has worked at RTI from 1979 to 1991 and from 1997 to the present. Dr. Parker has considerable expertise in statistical methodology, analysis, and reporting and has published widely and collaboratively on health-related subjects in refereed journals. She has served in key coordinating center roles for large, multicenter studies of cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, depression, and stillbirth, and she has directed groups of statisticians and programmers supporting such studies. Dr. Parker is involved in all aspects of the coordination of a study, including study design; development of a protocol, forms, and manuals of operations; design of enrollment and randomization systems and data collection and management components; study implementation and monitoring of data quality; interim and final data analysis and reporting; preparation of manuscripts for publication; and study closeout and documentation of the accumulated database.

Education

DrPH, Biostatistics (Supporting Program: Epidemiology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MSPH, Biostatistics (Supporting Program: Epidemiology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; BS, Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Selected Publications

Bailey, R.C., Moses, S., Parker, C.B., Agot, K., Maclean, I., Krieger, J.N., Williams, C.F.M., Campbell, R.T., & Ninya-Achola, J.O. (2007 Feb 24). Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: A randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 369 (9562):643-656.

Krieger, J.N., Bailey, R.C., Opeya, J., Ayieko, B., Opiyo, F., Agot, K., Parker, C.B., Ndinya-Achola , J.O., Magoha, G.A., & Moses, S. (2005). Adult male circumcision: results of a standardized procedure in Kisumu District, Kenya. British Journal of Urology, 97 (7):1109-1113.

Vitiello, B., Shader, R.I., Parker, C.B., Ritz, L., Harlan, W., Greenblatt, D.J., Gadde, K.M., Krishnan, K.R.R., & Davidson, J.R.T. (2005). Hyperforin plasma level as a marker of treatment adherence in the National Institutes of Health Hypericum Depression Trial. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 25 (3):243-249.

Bann, C.M., Parker, C.B., Bradwejn, J., Davidson, J.R.T., Vitiello, B., & Gadde, K.M. (2004). Assessing patient beliefs in a clinical trial of Hypericum perforatum in major depression. Depression and Anxiety, 20 (3):114-122.

Parker, C.B., & Delong, E.R. (2003). ROC methodology within a monitoring framework. Statistics in Medicine, 22:3473-3488.

Davidson, J.R.T., Gadde, K.M., Fairbank, J.A., Krishnan, R.R., Califf, R.M., Binanay, C., Parker, C.B., Pugh, N., Hartwell, T.D., Vitiello, B., Ritz, L., Severe, J., Cole, J.O., de Battista, C., Doraiswamy, P.M., Feighner, J.P., Keck, P., Kelsey, J., Lin, K.M., Londborg, P.D., Nemeroff, C.B., Schatzberg, A.F., Sheehan, D.V., Srivastava, R.K., Taylor, L., Trivedi, M.H., & Weisler, R.H. (2002). Effect of Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) in major depressive disorder - A randomized controlled trial. JAMA, 287 (14):1807-1814.

Gadde, K.M., Parker, C.B., Maner, L.G., Wagner, H.R., Logue, E.J., Drezner, M.K., & Krishnan, K.R.R. (2001). Bupropion for weight loss: An investigation of efficacy and tolerability in overweight and obese women. Obesity Research, 9 (9):544-551.

Parker, C.B., & Delong, E.R. (2000). A diagnostic for Cox regression with discrete failure-time models. Biometrics, 56 (4):996-1001.

Hartwell, T.D., Parker, C.B., Poole, W.K., Davis, V.G., Muller, J.E., Braunwald, E., Rutherford, J.D., Strauss, H.W., Roberts, R., Sobel, B.E., Jaffe, A.S., Willerson, J.T., & Thomas, L.J. (1991). Reproducibility of centralized laboratory interpretations of measures of myocardial infarct size, ventricular function, and ventricular electrical instability scintigraphy. Coronary Artery Disease, 2 (9):977-984.

Fischl, M.A., Parker, C.B., Pettinelli, C., Wulfsohn, M., Hirsch, M.S., Collier, A.C., Antoniskis, D., Ho, M., Richman, D.D., Fuchs, E., Merigan, T.C., Reichman, R.C., Gold, J., Steigbigel, N., Leoung, G.S., Rasheed, S., & Tsiatis, A. (1990). A Randomized Controlled Trial of A Reduced Daily Dose of Zidovudine in Patients with the Acquired-Immunodeficiency-Syndrome. New England Journal of Medicine, 323 (15):1009-1014.

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