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Corette Parker

Senior Biostatistician

Corette B. Parker, DrPH, 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.

Publications

An Algorithm for the Estimation of Gestational Age at the Time of Fetal Death — Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Conway, D.L., Hansen, N.I., Dudley, D.J., Parker, C.B., Reddy, U.M., Silver, R.M., Bukowski, R., Pinar, H., Stoll, B.J., Varner, M.W., Saade, G.R., Hogue, C., Willinger, M., Coustan, D., Koch, M.A., et al. (Mar 2013)
Response to 'Herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) assay specificity and male circumcision to reduce HSV-2 acquisition — AIDS
Mehta, S.D., Moses, S., Parker, C.B., Agot, K., Maclean, I., & Bailey, R.C. (Jan 2013)
Karyotype versus microarray testing for genetic abnormalities after stillbirth — New England Journal of Medicine
Reddy, U.M., Page, G.P., Saade, G.R., Silver, R.M., Thorsten, V.R., Parker, C.B., et al. (Dec 2012)
Circumcision status and incident herpes simplex virus type 2 infection, genital ulcer disease, and HIV infection — AIDS
Mehta, S.D., Moses, S., Parker, C.B., Agot, K., Maclean, I., & Bailey, R.C. (Jun 2012)
Causes of Death Among Stillbirths — Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey
Bukowski, R., Carpenter, M., Conway, D., Coustan, D., Dudley, D.J., Goldenberg, R.L., Hogue, C.J.R., Koch, M.A., Parker, C.B., et al. (Apr 2012)
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