Alan Bostrom, Ph.D.

Specialist
Dept of Epidemology and Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
tel: (415) 514-8026
fax: (415) 514-8150
abostrom@epi.ucsf.edu

My current statistical work deals with methods for secondary analysis of multiple longitudinal studies using both meta-analysis techniques and random regression methods. I also have a strong interest in statistical computation, having written statistical software under Phase I and II Small Business Innovative Research grants from the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Selected Publications
Athos, E., Levinson, B., Kistler, A., Zemansky, J., Bostrom, A., Freimer, N., and Gitschier, J. (2007). Dichotomy and perceptual distortions in absolute pitch ability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 14795-14800.  PMID: 17724340.

Gupta, N., Bostrom, A., Kirschner, B., Cohen, S., Abramson, O., Ferry, G., Gold, B., Winter, H., Baldassano, R., Smithe, T., Heyman, M. (2008). Presentation and disease course in early-compared to later-onset pediatri Crohn's disease.  American Journal of Gastroenterology, 10, 2092-2098.  PMID: 18796101

Stockwell, T., Chikritzhs, T., Bostrom, S., Fillmore, K., Kerr, W., Rehm, J., and Taylor, B. (2007).  Alcohol-cause mortality in Australia and Canada: scenario analyses using different assumptions about cardiac benefits.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drug, 68, 345-352.  PMID: 17446973

Fillmore, K., Stockwell, T., Chikritzhs, T., Bostrom, A., Kerr, W. (2007) Moderate alcohol use and reduced mortality risk: systematic error in prospective studies and new hypotheses.  Annals of Epidemiology, 17, S16-S23. PMID: 17478320.

Fillmore, K., Kerr, W., Stockwell, T., Chikritzhs, T., Bostrom, A. (2007)  Has alcohol been proven to be protective against coronary heart disease?  Addiction Research & Theory, 15, 35-46.