Marnie Bertolet, PhD

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics

Assistant Professor, Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Contact

4420 Bayard Street, Suite 600, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa 15260
R-znvy: zuo67@cvgg.rqh
Primary Phone: 967-193-2543

Personal Statement

Research Interests 


My research interests focus on the many uses of statistics in public health.  My devotion to statistics stems from the diversity of applications to which statistics can be applied.  I came to public health after a career in telecommunications, where I was a reliability and quality engineer performing analyses analogous to “consumer reports” for telecommunication equipment. 

My collaborative research currently focuses longitudinal, repeated measure and survival analysis methods in clinical trials and observational studies. Examples include:

  • Myocardial Infarction and Transfusion 
  • Trauma Induced Coagulopathy
  • Child and Maternal Health

My methodological research currently focuses Survey Sampling, Bayesian Analysis, Causal Inference, Adaptive Designs and methodology needed to support my collaborative research.  This includes the following topics

  • Inverse probability weight modeling
  • Bayesian interim monitoring of clinical trials
  • Classification and Regression Trees
  • Bayesian latent class models
  • Bayesian Network Meta Analysis

My research support comes from the following sources.

  • The Trans-Agency Research Consortium for Trauma Induced Coagulopathy (TACTIC, NIH/NHLBI)
  • Clinical and Translational Science Institute DBE Core (CTSI-DBE, NIH)
  • Myocardial Infarction and Transfusion (MINT, NIH)
  • Pregnancy Related Factors and Glucose Intolerance in Women (Kaiser)


Honors and Awards 

  • Diversity in the Curriculum Award, from the University of Pittsburgh Provost 2017
  • Certificate in Teaching Excellence from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health 2012
  • Student of the Year Award, American Statistical Association, Pittsburgh Chapter 2008 
  • Health Policy Student Paper Award, Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, 2004 
  • Most Outstanding Master of Engineering Student Award  Cornell University 1995

Education

Education & Training 

  • Carnegie Mellon University – Ph.D. Statistics, 2008 
  • Carnegie Mellon University – M.S. Statistics, 2002  
  • Cornell University, M.Eng. Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, 1995
  • Shippensburg University – B.A. Mathematics, 1993

Teaching

Teaching 
My teaching focuses on statistical methods in epidemiology.  In addition to mentoring students and participating on student committees, I teach the following courses:


  • Fall Term: University of Pittsburgh, EPIDEM 2181 – Design of Clinical Trials 
  • Fall Term: University of Pittsburgh, EPIDEM 2215 – Teaching Practicum
  • Summer Term: University of Pittsburgh CLRES 2010 - Clinical Research Methods - Randomized Clinical Trial Sections
  • Various Terms.  University of Pittsburgh: Intergroup Dialogue Workshop

To keep up to date with new teaching practices, I attend many of the CTL (center for teaching and learning) courses on good teaching practices.  I specifically focus on using active learning techniques, and incorporating diversity within the classroom.  I also participated in two programs to further my teaching education:


  • Carnegie Mellon University – Documentation of Teaching Effectiveness – 2008
  • Graduate School of Public Health – University of Pittsburgh  - Certificate of Teaching Excellence – 2012

Service

Service
My service varies from reviewing journal articles, participating in grant reviews and serving on various local and national committees.  I see service as an excuse to expose as many people as possible to the wonderful power of statistics.  

I reviewed journal articles for the following journals in 2017-2018

  • Circulation 
  • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

I have participated as an ad-hoc member in the following NIH grant/contract reviews

  • Grand Opportunities Phase II ARRA Grants
  • Science Moving Towards Research Translation and Therapy 
  • Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Centers (P30 Center Core Grant)

I have participated in the following committees

  • GSPH School wide Acceptance Students Day 
  • GSPH School-wide Dean’s Day Judge
  • GSPH Faculty Diversity Committee/Diversity and Climate Committee
  • Biostatistics Department Public Health Preliminary Exam Committee
  • Epidemiology Department Preliminary Exam Committee

Local Service

  • President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2013-2014

 National Service 

  • ACCF/AHA Methodology Workshop on Guideline Development and Methodology Review
  • President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2013-2014

Selected Publications

First Author Publications, High Impact Publications and Publications between 2016-2017

Borrero CG, Costello J, Bertolet M, Vyas D. Effect of patient age on accuracy of primary MRI signs of long head of biceps tearing and instability in the shoulder: an MRI-arthroscopy correlation study. Skeletal Radiol. 2018 Feb;47(2):203-214. doi: 10.1007/s00256-017-2783-6. Epub 2017 Oct 6. PubMed PMID: 28983764.

 

Moehling KK, Nowalk MP, Lin CJ, Bertolet M, Ross TM, Carter CE, Susick M, Saul SG, Kaynar AM, Bromberger JT, Zimmerman RK. The effect of frailty on HAI response to influenza vaccine among community-dwelling adults ≥ 50 years of age. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2017 Nov 27:1-7. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2017.1405883. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29172948.

 

Bon J, Zhang Y, Leader JK, Fuhrman C,  Perera S, Chandra D, Bertolet M, Diergaarde B, Greenspan SL, Sciurba FC. Radiographic Emphysema, Circulating Bone Biomarkers, and Progressive Bone Mineral Density Loss in Smokers. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018 Jan 12. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201709-743OC. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29328885.

 

Catov JM, Snyder GG, Fraser A, Lewis CE, Liu K, Althouse AD, Bertolet M, Gunderson EP. Blood Pressure Patterns and Subsequent Coronary Artery Calcification in Women Who Delivered Preterm Births. Hypertension. 2018 May 23. pii: hypertensionaha.117.10693. doi: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.117.10693. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29792302. 

 

Brienza D, Karg P, Vlachos H, Bertolet M, Schmeler M, Poojary-Mazzotta P, Wilkinson, D.  A randomized Clinical Trial on Wheeled Mobility for Pressure Injury Prevention and Improved Function.  Journal of the American Geriatric Society. (Accepted 5/17/2018) 

 

Borrero CG, Costello J, Bertolet M, Vyas D.  Degree of correlation between anterosuperior rotator cuff and superior labral tears at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and long head of biceps tendon (LHB) tearing at arthroscopy.  Clinical Radiology (Accepted 5/31/2018)

 

Bertolet M, Brooks MM, Bittner V. Tree-based identification of subgroups for time-varying covariate survival data. Statistical methods in medical research. 2016 Feb; 25 (1):488-501. PMID: 23070595. doi: 10.1177/0962280212460442.

 

Jacobs AK, Kushner FG, Ettinger SM, Guyton RA, Anderson JL, Ohman EM, Albert NM, Antman EM, Arnett DK, Bertolet M, Bhatt DL, Brindis RG, Creager MA, DeMets DL, Dickersin K, Fonarow GC, Gibbons RJ, Halperin JL, Hochman JS, Koster MA, Normand SL, Ortiz E, Peterson ED, Roach WH Jr, Sacco RL, Smith SC Jr, Stevenson WG, Tomaselli GF, Yancy CW, Zoghbi WA, Harold JG, He Y, Mangu PB, Qaseem A, Sayre MR, Somerfield MR. ACCF/AHA clinical practice guideline methodology summit report: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2013 Jan 15; 61 (2):213-65. PMID: 23238451.

 

Jacobs AK, Kushner FG, Ettinger SM, Guyton RA, Anderson JL, Ohman EM, Albert NM, Antman EM, Arnett DK, Bertolet M, Bhatt DL, Brindis RG, Creager MA, DeMets DL, Dickersin K, Fonarow GC, Gibbons RJ, Halperin JL, Hochman JS, Koster MA, Normand SL, Ortiz E, Peterson ED, Roach WH Jr, Sacco RL, Smith SC Jr, Stevenson WG, Tomaselli GF, Yancy CW, Zoghbi WA. ACCF/AHA clinical practice guideline methodology summit report: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation. 2013 Jan 15; 127 (2):268-310. PMID: 23230312.

 

A complete list of publications can be seen at - (both are clickable links)

Pubmed 

OCRID 

Marnie Bertolet