Society Memberships:
Member, American Statistical Association, 1991 -
Member, International Biometrics Society (ENAR), 1994 - 1996
Member, International Biometrics Society (WNAR), 1998 –
Member, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), 2008 –
Member, American Obesity Society, 2009-
Member, Ethiopian Statistical Association, 1999 –
E. Services:
Professional Organizations
Vice-president, Statistical Society of Ethiopians
in North America (SSENA), 2000-2002
President, Statistical Society of Ethiopians
in North America (SSENA), 2002-2004
Past President, Statistical Society of Ethiopians
in North America (SSENA), 2004-2005
University/Other Committees
Member, Science Advisory Panel,
Western Interprovincial Scientific Studies Association (WISSA),
Calgary, Canada (2002-2005)
Western Canada Study on Animal and Human Health Effects Associated
with Exposure to Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Field Facilities
Member, Committee to review the health effects in Vietnam veterans
of exposure to herbicides (Fourth and Fifth Biennial Updates)
Institute of Medicine, National Academies, Washington, DC
(2003-2005)
Member, Committee to review the health effects in Vietnam veterans
of exposure to herbicides: (Special report on Latency issues)
Institute of Medicine, National Academies, Washington, DC (2004)
Member, NMMAPS IV Review Panel,
Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2005)
Member, NMMAPS and Other Revised Analysis Review Panel,
Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2003)
Member, NMMAPS IV review panel
Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2005)
Member, APHENA (Air Pollution and Health in Europe and North America)
Final Report Review Panel,
Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2007)
Member, Review Panel
London Traffic Congestion Study,
Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA
Member, MESA Mid-Course On-site Peer Review Panel (August 4-6, 2008)
US Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA)
Member, Departmental Award Committee
Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996 - 1998
Member, Faculty Search Committee
Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996 - 1997
Member, Curriculum Committee
Division of Biometry, Department of Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1998 - Present
Chair, Ph.D. Screening Examination Committee
Division of Biometry, Department of Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
Member, Faculty recruitment Committee
Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2006 –
Member, Steering Committee
USC Faculty Interest Group on Africa
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009-
Member, Departmental Working Groups (Research, Education)
Department of Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
Member, Global Health Theme Group for Strategic Planning
Keck School of Medicine, USC, 2009 -
NIH Study Section
Member (ad hoc), NIH Grant Review Study Section [Special Emphasis Panel] Biostatistics Methods and Research Design (BMRD)
[June, 2003: Special Emphasis Panel][October, 2005][June, 2006]
Member, NIH Grant Review Study Section Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes (KNOD)
[November, 2010 – Special Emphasis Panel][February, 2011]
Member, NIH Grant Review Study Section Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes (KNOD)
[Regular Member: July 2011-June, 2015]
Editorial Board
Associate Editor, Journal of the Ethiopian Statistical Association, 2009-2011
Journal Reviews
Journal of American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods)
Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Canadian Journal of Statistics
American Journal of Epidemiology
Statistics in Medicine
Biometrics
Biostatistics
Epidemiology
Annals of Epidemiology
Journal of Royal Statistical Society – Series A
Obesity
Atmospheric Environment
Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Grant Reviews
Grant Reviewer for National Science Foundation
(US Civilian Research and Development Foundation) – 1997
Member, Special grant review for methods research proposals
Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2005)
Member, Grant Peer Review Committee (Oct, 2007)
Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR)
Other
Sessions Chaired
SSC Annual Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July, 1994
Data Session Leader on Longitudinal Data, Workshop on smoothing
Applications, University of British Columbia, Canada – June 1999
ISEE/ISEA Conference, Pasadena, CA, October, 2008
Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA, 2006
Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, August, 2007
Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado, August 2008
Consultantships
Consultant, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center (1999-2002, 2007)
UCLA Center for Health Care Policy (2008- )
F. Research Activities:
Complete Bibliography
Appended
Major Areas of Research Interest
Longitudinal/time series data analysis, Flexible modeling techniques,
Modeling time-to-event data, Latency, Applications to Environmental Epidemiology, Applications to Cancer, Applications to AIDS, Applications to Obesity, Minority Health research, Respiratory/Cardiovascular Health effects of Air Pollution, Global Health
Research Grants – Principal Investigator/Core Director
1. 1U01 HD061968-01 07/01/09-06/30/14 $394,605
Flexible Multi-level Models for Longitudinal Analysis of Childhood Obesity
NICHD
Role: Principal Investigator 25% of Effort:
The major goals of this study are to develop new quantile-regression based multi-
level statistical techniques for use in modeling childhood obesity; with focus on the
effects of the built environment, genetics and G x E interactions.
2. 2P01 ES011627 07/01/07-06/30/12 $1,524,257
Statistical Methods for Environmental and Genetic Research [project 3]
NIEHS
Role: Principal Investigator 20% of Effort:
(in P01: Genetics, Air Pollution and Respiratory Effects in
Children and Young Adults [PI of P01: Frank Gilliland, MD, PhD])
The major goals of this project are to develop new statistical techniques for use in
environmental and genetic research; in the areas of longitudinal data, multivariate
longitudinal lung function and asthma data, methods for Genetic and GXE
investigations, exposure modeling and latent variable approaches for integrated
analysis genetic, exposure, biomarker and health data.
3. 1US4 CA116848 09/01/05-08/31/10 $245,070
Effects of the Built environment on Obesogenic trajectories in children [Project 3]
NCI
Role: Principal Investigator 12% of Effort:
USC Center for Trans-Disciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer
(Center PI: Michael Goran)
This project examines the effects of the built-environment on obesogenic
trajectories in children, based on multiple CHS cohorts and using flexible multi-
level modeling techniques.
4. 1 U54 CA116848-01 09/01/05-08/31/10
Trans-Disciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer:
NCI
Data Management and Analysis Core
Role: Co-Director (with Stanley Azen and Chih-Ping Chou) 10% of Effort:
USC Center for Trans-Disciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer
(Center PI: Michael Goran)
The major goal of this core to provide statistical design, methodologic and
analytical support to 3 projects that undertake a program of transdisciplinary
studies to address physiological, metabolic, behavioral, epidemiological, genetic,
and geographical/environmental influences on obesity, metabolic health and cancer-
risk across high-risk ethnic groups of children. We also seek to define the role of
physical activity in the prevention of obesity, improvement in overall metabolic
health, and predisposition to cancer. We focus our studies on understudied and
vulnerable minority populations of children in the Los Angeles, California area.
5. P60 MD002254 09/11/07-04/30/12 $949,901
Center for Minority Health
Obesity in Minority Children & Youth in Los Angeles: A Generation at Risk
NCHMD
Data Management and Analysis Core
Role: Core Director 12% of Effort:
(Center PI: Michael Goran)
Comprehensive NCMHD Research Center of Excellence focused on obesity in
Minority Youth through research, translation, and training to improve minority
health in Hispanic and African American youth, with a major focus on exploring
innovative ways to identify, prevent and reduce minority health disparities related to
obesity, especially type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
6. 1PO1ES011627 06/01/02-06/30/07 $10,344,176
Statistical Methods for Environmental and Genetic Research [Project 4]
NIEHS
Role: Principal Investigator
(in P01: Genetics, Air Pollution and Respiratory Effects in
Children and Young Adults [PI of P01: John Peters, MD])
The major goals of this project are to develop new statistical techniques for use in
environmental and genetic research; in the areas of longitudinal data, multivariate
longitudinal lung function and asthma data, methods for Genetic and GXE
investigations, pathway modeling and Bayesian Model Averaging techniques.
Research Grants – Co-Investigator
5R01HL076647-02 08/15/05-06/30/10 $489,387
Air Pollution, Inflammation and New Onset Asthma 15% of Effort:
Gilliland (PI)
National Institutes of Health
(PI: Frank Gilliland, MD, PhD)
2. 5 P01 ES009581-07 / RD83186101 05/07/04-10/31/08 $1,523,348
Children’s Environmental Health Center
NIEHS/EPA
(PI: Frank Gilliland, MD, PhD)
3. 1R03ES014046 07/01/05 – 06/30/10 $50,000
Socioeconomic Status, Stress, Air Pollution and Asthma
NIEHS 2% of Effort
(PI: Rob McConnell, MD)
4. 1R01ES014708-01 09/30/06-07/31/11 $447,156
Air Pollution, Intima-media Thickness, and Lung Function
In College Students
NIH/NIEHS 8% of Effort (PI: Ed Avol)
5. 5P30 ES07048 A1 04/01/96-03/31/06 $65,389
SCEHSC (Environmental Exposures, Host Factors and Human Disease)
NIEHS
(Biostatistics Service Core)
6. HD32632 12/01/97-11/30/02 $1,258,336
Southern California Women’s Interagency
NIAID/NIH
HIV Study Consortium (WIHS)
(PI: Alexandra Levine, MD)
7. R01 CA42949 07/01/86-11/30/04 $211,802
Time Related Factors in Cancer Epidemiology
NCI
(PI: Bryan Langholz, PhD)
8. CA 123243 04/01/08 - 03/31/13 $523,865
Effects of a Smart Growth Community on Prevention of Family Obesity Risk
NCI 5% of Effort:
(PI: Mary Ann Pentz, PhD)
9. 1R01ES016535-01 04/01/08-03/31/12 $439,401
Childhood asthma, susceptibility, and biological activity of ambient particles
NIH/NIEHS 8% of Effort: (PI: Rob McConnell, MD)
Invited Lectures:
ENAR Biometrics Conference (Student Award winning talk)
Annual Conference of Statistical Society of Canada, Banff, Canada, 1994
CAMACS/Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
GLM Special Topics Conference. Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
Gainesville, FL, 1994
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1995
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 1995
Department of Biometry, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, 1995
Center for Biostatistics/Epidemiology, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, 1995
Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995
Department of Statistics, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1995
Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996
International Biometrics Conference, Amsterdam, Holland, 1996
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 1996
Department of Math and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, 1996
Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 1997
Biostatistics Center, George Washington University, Rockville, MD, 1997
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1997
HEI/USC Epi/Exposure Workshop, Pasadena, CA, 1998
EPA sponsored Particle Epidemiology Workshop, Seattle, WA, 1998
NRCSE, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998
Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998
WIP, Department of Preventive Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA, 1999
Workshop on smoothing techniques (session leader on longitudinal data),
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA, 1999
Annual Meeting of International Society for Environmental
Epidemiology, Buffalo, NY, 2000
Department of Math and Statistics, University of Guelph, Canada, March 2003
Department of Biostatistics, UCLA, May 2003
Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, 2005 (Invited Discussant)
Department of Biostatistics, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2007
Department of Biostatistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, May 2007
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Health Effects of Ozone
Measurement Error Techniques in Air Pollution Research May 2007
CDC Sponsored Symposium on ALL/CLL, Washington, DC, May 2007
Department of Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. January 2008
School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. January 2008
17th Annual Meeting, Ethiopian Statistical Association, Ethiopia, January 2008
Faculty of Science Seminar Series, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. January 2008
College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Ethiopia, January 2008
College of Health Sciences, Axum University, Ethiopia, January 2008
Department of Statistics, UC Santa Barbara, February 2008
SCEHSC Annual Retreat, Ventura CA, February 2008
TREC Centers Investigators’ Meeting, Seattle WA, May 2008
TREC Stat Working Group: Webinar on multi-level models, November, 2008
ISEE/ISEA Conference: Oral Presentation at Symposium on CHS,
Pasadena, CA, October, 2008
ISEE/ISEA Conference: Invited Meet the Professor Session on “Multi-level models
For Epidemiologic Analysis”, Pasadena, CA, October, 2008
Workshop on Spatial Statistics in Air Pollution Research, Pasadena, CA, 2009
USC Symposium on Childhood Obesity: Genes, Brains, and Behaviors, 2009 Talk on “Influence of the built environment on obesity development in children”
International Statistical Institute (ISI) Conference, Durban, South Africa; Aug, 09
Invited talk on “Modeling Chronic Effects of Air Pollution on Children's respiratory Health: A Move Towards Integration”
Annual Obesity Society Conference (NAASO), Washington, DC, October, 2009.
Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University,
Chicago, IL, March 2011
H. Bibliography:
(Note: items with asterisks are papers by supervised students)
Peer Reviewed
1. Al-Sayyed A, Deporter DA, Pillair RM, Watson PA, Pharoah M, Berhane K, Carter S. Predictable crest bone remodeling around two porous-coated titanium alloy dental implant designs: A radiographic study in dogs.
Clinical Oral Implant Research 5:131-141, 1994.
2. Becker S, Berhane K.
A meta analysis of 61 sperm count studies revisited.
Fertility and Sterility 67(6):1103-1108, 1997.
3. Kimm SYS, Barton BA, Berhane K, Ross JW, Payne GH, Schreiber GB.
Self-esteem and adiposity in black and white girls: The NHLBI Growth and Health Study (NGHS).
Annals of Epidemiology 7:550-560, 1997.
4. Berhane K, Tibshirani RJ.
Generalized additive models for longitudinal data.
Canadian Journal of Statistics 26(4):517-535, 1998.
5. Berhane K, Rao JS.
Automatic smoothing parameter selection in nonparametric models for longitudinal data. Journal of Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis 13:289-296, 1998.
6. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, London SJ, Vora H, Avol E, Gauderman WJ, Lurmann F, Thomas DC, Peters JM. Air pollution and bronchitic symptoms in Southern California children with asthma.
Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 107 9:757-760, 1999.
7. Linn WS, Szlachcic Y, Gong H, Kinney PL, Berhane K.
Air pollution and daily hospital admissions in metropolitan Los Angeles.
Environmental Health Perspectives 108(5):427-434, 2000.
8. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, McConnell R, Rappaport E, Vora H, Avol E, Peters J.
Maternal smoking during pregnancy, environmental tobacco smoke exposure and childhood lung function.
Thorax 55:271-276, 2000.
9. Berhane K, Thomas DC.
Discussion on “Combining evidence on air pollution and daily mortality from the 20 largest US cities: a hierarchical modeling strategy”.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 163(3):263-302, 2000.
10. Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Gilliland F, London S, Thomas D, Avol E, Berhane K, Rappaport E, Lurmann F, Margolis H, Peters J.
Association between air pollution and pulmonary function growth in Southern-California school-aged children.
American Journal for Respiratory Care Medicine 162(4):1-8, 2000.
11. Berhane K, McConnell R, Gilliland F, Islam T, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, London S,
Rappaport E, Margolis HG, Peters JM.
Sex-specific effects of asthma on pulmonary function in children.
American Journal for Respiratory Care Medicine 162(5):1723-1730, 2000.
12.* Li YF, Gilliland F, Berhane K, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Rappaport EB, Peters JM.
Effects of In Utero and environmental tobacco smoke exposure on lung function in boys and girls with asthma.
American Journal for Respiratory Care Medicine 162:2097-2104, 2000.
13. AM Levine, K Berhane, L Masri-Lavine, ML Sanchez, R Greenblatt, K Anastos, M Young, M Augenbaum, M Cohen, S Gange, D Burns.
Prevalence of and risk factors for anemia among a large cohort of HIV infected women: women's interagency HIV study (WIHS). Journal of AIDS 26:28-35, 2001.
14. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Rappaport E, Thomas DC, Avol E, Islam T, et al.
The effects of ambient air pollution on school absenteeism due to respiratory illnesses. Epidemiology 12:43-54, 2001.
15. Hauptmann M, Berhane K, Langholz B, Lubin JH
Using splines to analyze latency in the Colorado plateau uranium miners cohort.
Journal of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 6: 417-424, 2001.
McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Islam T, London SJ, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Margolis HG, Peters JM. Sports and asthma in children exposed to ozone. Lancet 359 (February 2):386-391, 2002.
Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Li Y-F, Kim DH, Margolis HG. Dietary magnesium, potassium, sodium and children’s lung function. Am J Epidemiol 155(2):1-7, 2002.
Berhane K, Thomas DC.
A two-stage model for time series data of counts from many sites.
Biostatistics, Vol 3 (1); 21-32, 2002.
19. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Islam T, Avol E, London S, Gauderman WJ,
Margolis HG, Thomas DC, Peters JM.
Indoor risk factors for asthma in a cohort of adolescents.
Epidemiology, 13(3); 288-295, 2002.
20. Gauderman WJ, Gilliland FD, Avol E, Vora H, Thomas DT, Rappaport E, Berhane K, Lurmann F, McConnell R, Stram D, Peters JM.
Association between air pollution and lung function growth in Southern California children: Results from a Second Cohort.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 166(1); 74-84, 2002.
21. Gilliland FD, Rappaport E, Berhane K, Islam T, Dubeau L, Peters JM.
Effects of Glutathione S -Transferase P1, M1, and T1 on Respiratory Illnesses in Children
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 166(3); 346-351, 2002.
22. Gilliland FD, Li Y-F, Dubeau L, Berhane K, Avol E, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Peters JM.
Effects of GST M1, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and environmental tobacco smoke on asthma and wheezing in children.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 166(4); 457-463, 2002.
23. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Li Y-F, Rappaport EB, Peters JM
Effects of early onset asthma and in utero exposure to maternal smoking on childhood
lung function.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 167: 917-924, 2003.
24. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Islam T, Wenten M, Rappaport E, Avol E, Gauderman WJ,
McConnell R, Peters JM.
Environmental tobacco smoke and absenteeism related to respiratory illness in schoolchildren.
American Journal of Epidemiology, 157: 861-869, 2003.
25. Berhane K, Weissfeld L.
Inference in spline based models for multiple time-to-event data, with applications to a
breast cancer prevention trial.
Biometrics 59: 859-868, 2003.
26. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Molitor NT, Thomas D, Lurmann F, Avol E,
Gauderman WJ, Peters JM.
Prospective study of air pollution and bronchitic symptoms in children with asthma.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 168: 790-797, 2003.
27. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Islam T, et al. Obesity and the Risk of Newly Diagnosed
Asthma in School-age Children.
Am J Epidemiol 158:406-15, 2003.
28. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Li YF, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Peters J. Children's
lung function and antioxidant vitamin, fruit, juice, and vegetable intake.
Am J Epidemiol 158:576-84, 2003.
29. McConnell R, Jones C, Milam J, Gonzalez P, Berhane K, Clement L, Richardson J,
Hanley-Lopez J, Kwong K, Malouf N, Cahero J, Platts-Mills T. Cockroach counts and
house dust allergen concentrations after professional cockroach control and cleaning
Annals of Allergy Asthma, and Immunology 91:546-552, 2003.
30. Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, Stram, DO, Thomas DC. Statistical issues in studies of the long term effects of air pollution: The Southern California Children Health Study (with discussion).
Statistical Science; 19(3), 414-449; 2004.
31. Rondeau V, Berhane K, Thomas DC. A three-level model for binary time-series data: the effects of air pollution on school absences in the Southern California Children’s Health Study.
Stat in Medicine; 23: 1103-1115; 2004.
32. Berhane K, Karim, R, Cohen, MH, Masri-Lavine L, Young M, Anastos K, Augenbraun M, Watts DH, Levine AM. Relationship between highly active anti- retroviral therapy (HAART) and anemia in a large cohort (2078) of HIV infected women: Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS).
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 37(2):1245-1252, 2004.
33. Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Gilliland F, Vora H, Thomas D, Berhane K, McConnell R, Kuenzli N, Lurmann F, Rappaport E, Bates D, Peters JM. The effect of air pollution on lung function development in children aged 10 to 18 years.
New England Journal of Medicine 351:1057-1067, 2004.
34.* Millstein J, Gilliland F., Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Avol E,
Rappaport EB, Peters J, Effects of ambient air pollution on monthly wheeze and asthma exacerbation in school children.
Archives of Environmental Health 59(10):505-514, 2004.
35. McConnell R, Milam J, Richardson J, Galvan J, Jones C, Thorne P, Berhane K. Educational intervention to control cockroach allergen exposure in the homes of Hispanic children in Los Angeles: Results of the La Casa Study.
Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 35, 426-433, 2005.
36.* Wenten M, Berhane K, Rappaport EB, Avol E, Tsai WW, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Dubeau L, Gilliland FD
TNF-308 modifies the Effect of Second-Hand Smoke on Respiratory Illness-related
School Absences
Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2005;172 1563-1568
37. McConnell, R, Berhane K, Yao L, Lurmann FW, Avol E, Peters JM (2005). Predicting
residential ozone deficits from nearby traffic.
Sci Total Environ 2005 :363 :166-174.
38.* Sokol RZ, Kraft P, Fowler IM, Kim E, M Rizvan, Berhane K.
Exposure to environmental ozone alters semen quality.
Environmental Health Perspectives 2006: 114(3) 360-365.
39. McConnell R, Berhane K, Yao L, Lurmann F, Jerrett M, Kuenzli N, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Thomas D, Peters J
Traffic, Susceptibility, and Childhood Asthma
Environmental Health Perspectives 2006: 114(5) 766-72.
Kuenzli N, Avol E, Wu J, Gauderman WJ, Rappaport E, Millstein J, Bennion J. McConnell R, Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Lurmann F, Winer A, Peters JM
Health Effects of the 2003 Southern California Wildfire on Children
Am. J Respir Crit. Care Med. 2006; 2006;174(11):1221-1228
41. McConnell R, Berhane K, Molitor NT, Gilliland F, Künzli N, Thorne PS, Thomas D, W. Gauderman J, Avol E, Lurmann F, Rappaport E, Jerrett M, Peters JM
Dog Ownership Enhances Symptomatic Responses to Air Pollution in Children with
Asthma
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2006; 114(12):1910-5.
42. Molitor J, Molitor NT, Jerrett M, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, Thomas D. Bayesian modeling of air pollution health effects with missing exposure data.
Am J Epidemiol 2006; 164:69-76.
Gilliland F, Islam T, Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Avol E, Peters JM.
Regular Smoking and Asthma Incidence in Adolescents.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006 Sep 14; 174(10):1094-100
Gauderman WJ, Vora H, McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Thomas D, Lurmann F, Avol E, Kunzli N, Jerrett M, Peters JM.
The effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age.
Lancet 2007 Feb 17: 369(9591): 571-577.
Islam T, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, McConnell R, Avol E, Peters JM, Gilliland F.
The Relationship between Air Pollution, Lung Function and Asthma in Adolescents
Thorax 2007; 62(11): 957-963
46.* Shankardass K, McConnell RS, Milam J, Berhane K, Tatalovich Z, Wilson JP, Jerrett M
The association between contextual socioeconomic factors and prevalent asthma in a cohort of southern California school children
Social Science and Medicine 2007; 65(8): 1792-806
47. Holguin F. Flores S. Ross Z. Cortez M. Molina M. Molina L. Rincon C. Jerrett M.
Berhane K. Granados A. Romieu I
Traffic related exposures, airway inflammation and respiratory symptoms in children.
American J of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2007; 176(12): 1236-42.
48. Molitor J, Jerrett M, Chang CC, Molitor NT, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, McConnell
R, Kuenzli N, Lurmann F, Wu J, Winer A, Thomas D.
Assessing uncertainty in spatial exposure models for air pollution health effects
assessments.
Environmental Health Perspectives 2007; 115(8): 1147-53.
49. Milam, J., McConnell, R., Yao, L., Berhane, K., Jerrett, M, Richardson, J.
Parental Stress and Childhood Wheeze in a Prospective Cohort Study
J Asthma. 2008 May; 45(4):319-23
50. Berhane K, Molitor NT. A Bayesian approach to functional based multi level
modeling of longitudinal data: With applications to environmental epidemiology.
Biostatistics. 2008; 9(4): 686-699.
51. Berhane K, Hauptmann M, Langholz B
Using Tensor Product Splines in Modeling Exposure-Time-Response Relationships:
With application to Colorado Plateau Uranium Miners Data.
Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27(26): 5484-5496.
52. Jerrett M, Shankardass K, Berhane K, Gauderman J, Kunzli N, Avol E, Gilliland F, Lurmann F, Molitor NT, Molitor JT, Thomas DC, Peters JP, McConnell R. 2008. Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Asthma Onset in Children: A Prospective Cohort Study with Individual Exposure Measurement.
Environmental Health Perspectives 2008; 116(10): 1433-1438.
53. Linn WS, Berhane K, Rappaport EB, deVilliers TM, Avol EL, Gilliland FD
Relationships of online exhaled, offline exhaled, and ambient nitric oxide in an
Epidemiologic survey of school children.
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 19:674-681, 2009.
54. Islam T, Berhane K, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Peters JM, Gilliland, FD.
Glutathione-S-Transferase (GST) P1, gstm1, Exercise, Ozone and Asthma Incidence in
School Children.
Thorax. 197-202, 2008.
55. Breton CV, Vora H, Salam MT, Islam T, Wenten M, Gauderman WJ, Van Den Berg D, Berhane K, Peters JM, Gilliland FD.
Variation in the GST mu locus and tobacco smoke exposure as determinants of childhood lung function.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Apr 1;179(7):601-7. Epub 2009 Jan 16.
56. Wenten M, Li YF, Lin P-C, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, Avol E, Gilliland F.
In Utero Smoke Exposure, Glutathione S-Transferase P1 Haplotypes, and Respiratory Illness-Related Absence among School Children
Pediatrics. 2009 123(5): 1344-1351.
57. Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Berhane K, Bastain TM, Avol EL, Gilliland FD.
Exhaled nitric oxide in a population-based study of Southern California Schoolchildren.
Respiratory Research 2009, 10(1):28 doi:10.1186/1465-9921-10-28
58.* Lee YL, McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland FD.
Ambient ozone modifies the effect of tumor necrosis factor G-308A on bronchitic symptoms among children with asthma.
Allergy. 2009 Feb 16. [Epub ahead of print]
59. Davis JN, Kelly LE, Lane CJ, Ventura EE, Byrd-Williams CE, Alexandar KA, Azen S, Chou C-P, Spruijt-Metz D, Weigensberg MJ, Berhane K, Goran MI.
Randomized control trial of a nutrition education and strength training program to
reduce risk for Type 2 Diabetes in overweight Latino adolescents.
Obesity. 2009, 17, 1542–1548.
60.* Shankardass K, McConnell R, Jerrett M, Milam J, Richardson J, Berhane K.
Stress in the family increases the effect of traffic-related pollution on childhood asthma
incidence.
Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. 2009 106: 12406-12411.
61. Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Berhane KT, Bastain TM, Salam MT, Gilliland FD.
Extended exhaled nitric oxide analysis in field surveys of schoolchildren: A pilot test.
Pediatric Pulmonology. 2009 44(10): 1033-1042.
62. Wenten M, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, Lin PC, Peters J, Gilliland FD. Functional variants in the catalase and myeloperoxidase genes, ambient air pollution, and respiratory-related school absences: an example of epistasis in gene-environment interactions. Am J Epidemiol, 170(12):1494-501, 2009.
63. Jerrett M, McConnell R, Chang R, Wolch J, Reynolds K, Lurmann F, Berhane K.
Automobile Traffic around the Home and Development of Obesity in Children aged 10-
18 Years: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Preventive Medicine 50, S50-S58, 2010.
64.* Byrd-Williams CE, Belcher BR, Spruijt-Metz D, Davis JN, Ventura EE, Kelly L,
Berhane K, Azen S, Michael I. Goran MI.
Increased physical activity and reduced adiposity in overweight Latino adolescents.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (MSSE) 42, No. 3, pp. 478–484, 2010
65. McConnell R, Liu F, Wu J, Lurmann F, Peters J, Berhane K.
Asthma and school commuting time.
Journal of Occupational and Env Medicine 52, No. 8, pp. 827-829, 2010
Peer Reviewed In Press
1. McConnell R, Islam T, Shankardass K, Jerrett M, Lurmann F, Gilliland F, Avol E,
Kuenzli N, Yao L, Peters J, Berhane K.
Childhood incident asthma and traffic-related air pollution in a longitudinal cohort study.
Environmental Health Perspectives.
2.* Bastain, TM, Islam T, Berhane K, McConnell R, Rappaport EB, Salam MT, Linn WS,
Avol EL, Zhang Y, Gilliland FD
Exhaled nitric oxide, susceptibility and new-onset asthma in the Southern California
Children's Health Study
European respiratory Journal
3.* Zhang Y, McConnell R, Gilliland F, Berhane K.
Ethnic Differences in the Effect of Asthma on Pulmonary Function in Children
AJRCCM
4. Shankardass, K, Jerrett M, Milam J, Richardson J, Berhane K, McConnell R.
Social environment and asthma: Associations with crime and No Child Left Behind programs.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
5. Salam MT, Bastain T, Rappaport E, Islam T, Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, Gilliland FD
Genetic Variations in Nitric Oxide Synthase and Arginase Influence
Exhaled Nitric Oxide Levels in Children
Allergy
6. Berhane K, Zhang Y, Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Bastain TM, Salam MT, Islam T, Lurmann F, Gilliland FD.
The Effect of Ambient Air Pollution on Exhaled Nitric Oxide in the Children's Health Study
European Respiratory Journal
7. Wolch J, Jerrett M, Reynolds K, McConnell R, Chang CC, Dahmann N, Brady K, Gilliland F, Su J, Berhane K.
Childhood obesity and proximity to urban parks and recreational resources: A
longitudinal cohort study.
Health and Place
8. Salam MT,Bastain TM,Rappaport EB,Islam T, Berhane K,Gauderman WJ,Gilliland FD Genetic variations in nitric oxide synthase and arginase influence exhaled nitric oxide levels in children.
Allergy
9. Hasson RE, Adams TA, Davis JN, Kelly LA, Ventura EE, Byrd-Williams CE, Toledo-Corral CM, Roberts CK, Lane CJ, Azen SP, Chou C, Spruijt-Metz D, Weigensberg MJ, Berhane K, Goran MI. Randomized control trial to improve adiposity, inflammation and insulin resistance in obese African American and Latino youth. Obesity
Peer Reviewed Submitted
1.* Molitor NT, Berhane K.
A Penalized-spline approach to functional based multi-level modeling of longitudinal
data.
2. Berhane K, Molitor NT, McConnell RM, Gauderman WJ.
Flexible models for assessing effects of air pollution on children’s lung function growth: A Multi-Level Approach. [being rewritten as an invited book chapter]
3. Islam T, Breton C, Salam MT, Wenten M, Gauderman J, Van Den Berg D, Berhane K, Avol E, Gilliland F.
Role of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase on Asthma Risk and Lung Function Growth During Adolescence
4.* Byrd-Williams CE, Belcher BR, Ventura EE, Berhane K, Davis JN, Spruijt-Metz D, Goran MI. “Sex differences in the relationship between physical activity and adiposity among overweight African American and Hispanic adolescents”. International Journal of Obesity
5.* Eckel SP, Berhane K, Muhammad T. Salam MT, Rappaport EB. Linn WS, Bastain TM, Zhang Y, Lurmann F, Avol EL, Gilliland FD
Long-term residential traffic-related pollution exposures and exhaled nitric oxide
in the Children's Health Study
Environmental Health Perspectives
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