Renee A. Desmond, PhD

Associate Professor
Division of Preventive Medicine

Contact Information:

Medical Towers 627
1717 11th Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama 35205
Phone: (205) 934-3376
Fax: (205)934-4262
desmond@uab.edu

Research Interests

Cancer Epidemiology
Epidemiologic Methods
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Nutrition and Obesity

Educational Background

Purdue University, BS Biology, 1979, West Lafayette, IN
Purdue University, DVM Veterinary Medicine, 1983, West Lafayette, IN
Georgetown University, MS Biostatistics & Epidemiology, 1993, Washington, DC
University of Alabama at Birmingham, PhD Epidemiology, 1996, Birmingham, Alabama

Professional Activities

American Veterinary Medical Association
Phi Kappa Phi (1997)
Delta Omega (1997)
Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition 2005-present
Surveillance Committee
Reviewer for Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Cancer, Chest
Melanoma Research
American Journal of Medicine
Journal of Gastroenterology

Selected Recent Publications

Harrison RA, Haque AU, Roseman JR, Soong Sj. Socioeconomic characteristics and melanoma incidence. Annals of Epidemiology 1998; 8:327-333.

Harrison RA, Waterbor JW. Understanding meta-analysis in cancer epidemiology: Dietary fat and breast cancer. Cancer Detection and Prevention 1999; 17:23:1-10.

Desmond RA, Waterbor JW, Hallberg GR, Arani, RB. A Case Study in Hierarchical Modeling: Agriculture and Prostate Cancer in Iowa. Biometrical Journal 2001; 43:435-445.

Desmond R, Weiss HL, Arani RB, Soong S-j, Wood MJ, Fiddian PA, Gnann JW, Whitley RJ. Clinical applications for change-point analysis of herpes zoster pain. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2002; 23:509-515.

Hemminki A, Zinn KR, Liu B, Chaudhuri TR, Desmond RA, Rogers BE, Barnes N, Alvarez RD, Curiel DT. In vivo molecular chemotherapy and non-invasive imaging with an infectivity enhanced adenovirus. J National Cancer Institute 2002; 94:741-749.

Desmond RA, Accortt NS, Talley L, Villano SA, Soong S-j, Whitley R. Enteroviral meningitis: natural history and outcome of pleconaril therapy. J Antimicrobial Chemprev 2006; 50:2409-14.

Ard JD, Fitzpatrick S, Desmond RA, Sutton BS, Pisu M, Allison DB, Franklin F, Baskin ML. The impact of cost on the availability of fruits and vegetables in the homes of schoolchildren in Birmingham, Alabama. Am J Public Health. Feb; 97(2):367-72, 2007.

Eloubeidi MA, Desmond RA, Thomas O, Keith SW, Allison DB. Waist circumference values are increasing beyond those expected from BMI increases. Obesity 2007; Mar; 16(3):718.

Lin HY, Desmond R, Bridges SL Jr, Soong SJ. Variable selection in logistic regression for detecting SNP-SNP interactions: the rheumatoid arthritis example. Eur J Hum Genet. Jan 30; 2008.

Eloubeidi MA, Desmond R, Desai S, Mehra M, Bryant A, Cerfolio RJ, Impact of staging trans-esophageal endosonogaphy on treatment and survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2008 Feb; 67(2):193-8.

Awards

William Bailey Award in Cancer Prevention and Control, 1996 UAB Cancer Center Retreat