Daniel L. Gillen

Associate Professor

2226 Bren Hall

Irvine, CA 92697-1250

Phone: 949.824.9862

Fax: 949.824.9863

Education

          Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (2003)
          M.S., Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (2001)
          B.S., Mathematics, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA (1997)

Research Interests

Biostatistics, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials, group sequential methods

Course Webpages

For Students Outside the Statistics Major

Stat 120C – Introduction to Probability & Statistics III (Access currently restricted)

Stat 202 – Statistical Methods for Data Analysis II (Access currently restricted)

Statistics Graduate Courses

Stat 200C – Introduction to Probability & Statistical Theory III (Access currently restricted)

Stat 211 – Statistical Methods II (Access currently restricted)

Stat 212 – Statistical Methods III (Access currently restricted)

Stat 235 – Modern Data Analysis Methods

Stat 250 – Biostatistics (Access currently restricted)

Selected Publications Since 2005 (Statistics Journals)

Gillen D., “A Random Walk Approach for Quantifying Uncertainty in Group Sequential Survival Trials”, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (to appear).

Gillen D. and Johnson W., Comment on “The Nested Dirichlet Process”, Journal of the American Statistical Association (to appear).

Haneuse S., Rudser K., and Gillen D. “Flexible Bayesian survival modeling of the non-stationary effect of a time- dependent covariate” Biostatistics. 2008 Jul;9(3), pp. 400-10.

Schildcrout J., Jenkins C., Ostroff J., Gillen D., Harrell F., and Trost D. “Dynamic treatment effects in longitudinal analyses of clinical safety: Modeling approaches that permit valid inferences in the presence of common selection mechanisms”. Statistics In Medicine 2008 May 30;27(12), pp. 2248-66.

Emerson S., Kittelson J., and Gillen D., “Frequentist evaluation of group sequential clinical trial designs”, Statistics In Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 28 (2007), pp. 5047-80.

Emerson S., Kittelson J., and Gillen D., “Bayesian evaluation of group sequential clinical trial designs”, Statistics In Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 7 (2007), pp. 1431-49.

Gillen D. and Emerson S., “Non-transitivity in a class of weighted logrank statistics under nonproportional hazards”, Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 77, No. 2 (2007), pp. 123-130.

Gillen D. and Emerson S., “A note on P-values under group sequential testing and nonproportional hazards," Biometrics, Vol. 61 (2005), pp. 546-551.

Gillen D. and Emerson S., “Information growth in a family of weighted logrank statistics under interim analyses," Sequential Analysis, Vol. 24 (2005), pp. 1-22.

Selected Publications Since 2005 (Clinical Journals)

Gillen D., Stehman-Breen C., Smith J., McDonald R., Warady B., Brandt J., and Wong C., “The survival advantage of pediatric recipients of a first kidney transplant among children awaiting kidney transplantation”. American Journal Transplantation (to appear).

Delfino RJ, Staimer N, Tjoa T, Polidori A, Arhami M, Gillen D, Kleinman MT, Vaziri N, Zaldivar F, Longhurst J, Sioutas C. Circulating biomarkers of inflammation, antioxidant activity, and platelet activation are associated with urban air pollution in elderly subjects with a history of coronary artery disease. Env Health Perspect, 2008;116:898–906.

Chen PC, Kuraguchi M, Velasquez J, Wang Y, Yang K, Edwards R, Gillen D, Edelmann W, Kucherlapati R, Lipkin SM. "Novel roles for MLH3 deficiency and TLE6-like amplification in DNA mismatch repair-deficient gastrointestinal tumorigenesis and progression." PLoS Genet. 2008 Jun 13;4(6):e1000092.

Delfino RJ, Staimer N, Tjoa T, Gillen D, Kleinman MT, Sioutas C, Cooper D. "Personal and ambient air pollution exposures and lung function decrements in children with asthma." Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Apr;116(4), pp. 550-8.

Evan AP, Coe FL, Gillen D, Lingeman JE, Bledsoe S, Worcester EM. "Renal intratubular crystals and hyaluronan staining occur in stone formers with bypass surgery but not with idiopathic calcium oxalate stones." Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2008 Mar;291(3), pp. 325-34.

Mittalhenkle A, Stehman-Breen CO, Shlipak MG, Fried LF, Katz R, Young BA, Seliger S, Gillen D, Newman AB, Psaty BM, Siscovick D. "Cardiovascular risk factors and incident acute renal failure in older adults: the cardiovascular health study." Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008 Mar;3(2), pp.450-6.

Gillen D., Worcester E., and Coe F., “Reply to Gambaro and Abaterusso Comments on Evidence that postprandial reduction of renal calcium reabsorption mediates the hypercalcuria of patients with calcium nephrolithiasis”, American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology,Vol. 293, No. 5 (2007), pp. 1759.

Stankus N., Hammes M., Gillen D., and Worcester E., “African American ESRD patients have a high pre-dialysis prevalence of kidney stones compared to NHANES III”, Urological Research, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2007), pp. 83-7.

Worcester E., Gillen D., Evan A., Parks J., Wright K., Trumbore L., Nakagawa Y., and Coe F., “Evidence that postprandial reduction of renal calcium reabsorption mediates the hypercalcuria of patients with calcium nephrolithiasis”, American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology, Vol. 292, No. 1 (2007), pp. 66-75.

Vokes T., Gillen D., Pham A., Lovett J., “Risk factors for prevalent ver tebral fractures in black and white female densitometry patients.” Journal of Clinical Densitometry, Vol. 10 (2007), pp. 1-9.

Delfino RJ, Staimer N, Gillen D, Tjoa T, Sioutas C, Fung K, George S, Kleinman MT. Personal and ambient air pollution is associated with increased exhaled NO in children with asthma. Environ Health Perspect, Vol. 114, No. 11 (2006), pp. 1736-43.

Josephson M., Gillen D., Javaid B., Kadambi P., Meehan S., Foster P., Harland R., Thistlethwaite R., Garfinkel M., Atwood W., Jordan J., Sadhu M., Millis M., Williams J., “Treatment of renal allograft polyoma BK virus infection with leflunomide”, Transplantation, Vol. 81, No. 5 (2006), pp. 704-10.

Smith J., Rudser K., Gillen D., Kestenbaum B., Seliger S., Weiss N., McDonald R., Davis C., Stehmen-Breen C., “Risk of lymphoma after renal transplantation varies with time: an analysis of the United States Renal Data System”,Transplantation, Vol. 81, No. 2 (2006), pp. 175-80.

Fried L., Katz R., Sarnak M., Shlipak M., Chaves P., Jenny N., Stehman-Breen C., Gillen D., Bleyer A., Hirsch C., Siscovick D., Newman AB.., “Kidney Function as a Predictor of Noncardiovascular Mortality”, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Vol. 16, No. 12 (2005), pp. 3728-35.

Seliger S., Longstreth W., Katz R., Manolio T., Fried L., Shlipak M., Stehman-Breen C., Newman A., Sarnak M., Gillen D., Bleyer A., Siscovick D., “Cystatin C and Subclinical Brain Infarction”, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Vol. 16, No. 12 (2005), pp. 3721-7.

Santry H., Gillen D., and Lauderdale D., “Trends in bariatric surgical procedures” JAMA, Vol. 294 (2005), pp. 1909-17.

Gillen D., Coe F., and Worcester E., “Nephrolithiasis and Increased Blood Pressure in Overweight Females”, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol. 46 (2005), pp. 263-9.

Gillen D., Worcester E., and Coe F., “Decreased renal function among adults with a history of nephrolithisias: A study of NHANES III”, Kidney International, Vol. 67, No. 2 (2005), pp. 685-90.

Williams J., Javaid B., Kadambi P., Gillen D., Harland R., Thistlewaite J., Garfinkel M., Foster P., Atwood W., Millis J., Meehan S., Josephson M., “Leflunomide for polyomavirus type BK nephropathy” New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 352 (2005), pp. 1157-8.

Vokes T., Gillen D., Lovett J., Favus M., “Comparison of T-scores from different skeletal sites in differentiating postmenopausal women with and without prevalent vertebral fractures” Journal of Clinical Densitometry, Vol. 8 (2005), pp. 206-15.

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LAST UPDATED: August 10, 2008