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Howard
F. Andrews, Ph.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
of Neuroscience and Public Health |
Established and developed a Data Coordinating
Center (DCC) which currently provides comprehensive
data management and statistical services to: four
major centers including the HIV Center; two clinical
trials, including a recently funded 5-year, $9,000,000
multi-site Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease
with Estrogens clinical trial and 24 other major
projects.
Supervises a staff of 9 (including 6 full-time
staff members) supported by: subcontracts, Research
Foundation for Mental Hygiene (RFMH) and Columbia
University grants.
Dr. Andrews serves as Head of Database Management
and Statistical Analysis Core for the Washington
Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project, a 15-year
longitudinal study of 4,000 elderly individuals
in Northern Manhattan. He is also Director of
the Database Management Core of the HIV Center
at New York State Psychiatric Institute, and is
Head of the Database Management, Statistical Analysis
and Community Modeling Core of the Center for
Child Environmental Health at Columbia University.
Dr. Andrews has served as a consultant for the
March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center (PDC) for
the past three years, where he has introduced
a number of new hardware and information management
technologies, has assisted in planning the acquisition
and processing of large vital statistics data
sets, and has participated in the design of the
Peinatal Profiles, and other publications and
research efforts.
He has planned and implemented data management
systems for a number of large clinical trials,
including the ongoing multi-site ongoing Prevention
of Alzheimer’s Disease with Estrogens
clinical trial.
Dr. Andrews planned and developed a large database
containing information on over a million children
born in New York City, based on matching birth certificate
and educational information. He has over 20 years
of experience in working with large research data
systems on mainframe, PC and Mac platforms. Dr.
Andrews directed the acquisition and analysis of
multiple public data sets for the original Community
Health Atlas (1984), a publication of the United
Hospital Fund of New York, and for subsequent editions
of the Atlas (1988, 1994).
Together with Gerry Segal and Chandresh Shah, has
implemented a number of web-based research tools
to: 1) facilitate screening of subjects for clinical
trials; 2) enter and manage data in multi-site trials
and epidemiological studies.
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