Joshua Richman, MD PhD

Assistant Professor
Division of Preventive Medicine

Contact Information:

Medical Towers 613
1717 11th Avenue S.
Birmingham, Alabama 35205
Phone: (205) 934-0166
Fax: (205)934-0777
jrichman@mail.dopm.uab.edu

Research Interests

Model-Free predictor selection
Nonparametric statistics methods
Statistical Methodolgy
Analysis of physiological signals

Educational Background

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, MD December 2005
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, PhD (Biostatistics) August 2004
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, MS (Mathematics) May 1998
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (History and Philosophy of Science) May 1996

Professional Activities

American Statistical Association 2006-present
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2006-present
American Society for Clinical Pathology 2006-present

Selected Recent Publications

Wellons MF, Lewis CE, Schwartz SM, Gunderson EP, Schreiner PJ, Sternfeld B, Richman JS, Sites CK, Siscovick DS: Racial differences in self-reported infertility and risk factors for infertility in a cohort of black and white women. The CARDIA Women’s Study. Fertility and Sterility, Epub ahead of print, March 5, 2008.

Dumchev, K.V., Schumacher, J.E., Slobodyenyuk, P., Zhu, S., Richman, JS. Assessing addiction treatment agreement for cross-national transport to Ukraine. Journal of Substance Use, 12(2):83-94, 2007.

Richman, JS. Sample entropy statistics and testing for order in complex physiological signals. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 36:1005-19, 2007.

Richman JS, Lake DE, Moorman JR. Sample Entropy Statistics. Methods in Enzymology. ML Johnson and L Brand eds. Academic Press 2004; 384:172-84.

Lake DE, Richman JS, Griffin MP, Moorman JR. Sample entropy analysis of neonatal heart rate variability. American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 283(3):R789-97, 2002.

Richman JS, Moorman JR. Physiological time-series analysis using approximate entropy and sample entropy. American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 278(6):H2039-49, 2000.

Willett LL, Heudebert GR, Palonen KP, Massie S, Kiefe CI, Allison JJ, Richman JS, Houston TK. The importance of measuring competency-based outcomes: Standard evaluation measures are not surrogates for colinical performance of internal medicine residents. Teaching and Learning in Medicine; 2008, in press.

Houston TK, Richman JS, Coley HL, Ray MN, Allison JJ, Gilbert GH, Gordon JS, Kiefe CI, DPBRN Collaborative Group. Does delayed measurement affect patient reports of provider performance? Implications for performance measurement of medical assistance with tobacco cessation: A Dental PBRN study. BMC Health Services Research; 2008, in press.

Makhija SK, Gilbert GH, Rindal DB, Benjamin PL, Richman JS, Pihlstrom DJ, for the DPBRN Collaborative Group. Dentists in practice-based research networks have much in common with dentists at large: evidence from The Dental PBRN. General Dentistry 2008; in press.

Awards

Sara Gelbart Prize in Mathematics, Bard University, 1996
Reamer Kline Award, Bard University, 1996
Heinrich Bluecher Scholar, Bard University, 1995