Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
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NAME
POSITION TITLE
BELIN, Thomas R.
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
Professor
BELIN2
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
DEGREE
(if applicable)
YEAR(s)
FIELD OF STUDY
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
B.S.
1986
Math/Comp Sciences
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
M.A.
1987
Statistics
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D.
1991
Statistics
A. Positions and Honors
Positions
9/86-6/90
Research assistant, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
6/87-8/87
Mathematical Statistician, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C.
6/88-8/88, 6/89-8/89, 6/90-7/91 Mathematical Statistician, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C.
9/91-6/93
Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Department of Biomathematics
7/93-3/95
Assistant Professor in Residence, UCLA Department of Biostatistics
4/95-6/99
Assistant Prof. in Residence, UCLA Depts. of Psychiatry, Biostatistics
7/99-6/05
Associate Professor, UCLA Depts. of Biostatistics, Psychiatry
7/05-present
Professor, UCLA Department of Biostatistics
7/05-present
Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
1992- 1997
Associate Editor, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
1993- 1997
Associate Editor, Evaluation Review
1994- 1997
Associate Editor, Journal of Official Statistics
1998- 2001
Biostatistical/Methodology consultant, Jrl of the Amer Academy of Child/Adolescent Psychiatry
2001- 2006
Member, American Statistical Association Census Advisory Committee
2006-present Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association
Current
Member, American Statistical Assn, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, Intl Biometric Society
Honors
1998 Schlosser-Lewis Award, Amer Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (for best paper on ADHD in
J Amer Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1998, with R. Bussing, et al.)
1999 Delta Omega (Public Health Honor Society)
2004 Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association
2005 Gertrude M. Cox Award, Washington Statistical Society (recognizing “a statistician making significant
contributions to statistical practice”)
2007 Excellence in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research Award – 2005/2006, International Center of
Mental Health Policy/Economics (with M. Edlund, L. Tang for 2005 paper in J Mental Health Policy Econ)
2009 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation Daniel M. Laskin Award (with V. Shetty, K Atchison, E. Black,
R. Leathers, and C. Zigler for best paper in Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2008)
B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order, from list of 115 published articles)
Belin TR, Rubin DB. The analysis of repeated-measures data on schizophrenic reaction times using mixture
models. Statistics in Medicine, 1995; 14:747-768.
Belin TR, Rubin DB. A method for calibrating false-match rates in record linkage. Journal of the American
Statistical Association, 1995; 90:694-707.
Belin TR, Gjertson DW, Hu MY. Summarizing DNA evidence when relatives are possible suspects. Journal of
the American Statistical Association, 1997; 92:706-716.
Bussing R, Schuhmann E, Belin TR, Widawski M, Perwien A. Diagnostic utility of two commonly employed
ADHD screening measures among special education students. Journal of the American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1998; 37:74-83.
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Belin TR, Hu MY, Young AS, Grusky O. Performance of a general location model with an ignorable missingdata assumption in a multivariate mental health services study. Statistics in Medicine, 1999; 18: 3123-3135.
Gerson S, Belin TR, Kaufman A, Mintz J, Jarvik L. Pharmacological and psychological treatments for depressed
older patients: a meta-analysis and overview of recent findings. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 1999; 7:1-28.
Zima BT, Bussing R, Crecelius G, Kaufman A, Belin TR. Psychotropic medication use among children in foster
care: relationship to severe psychiatric disorders. American Journal of Public Health, 1999; 89:1732-1735.
Belin TR, Hu MY, Young AS, Grusky O. Using multiple imputation to incorporate cases with missing items in a
mental health services study. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 2000; 1:7-22.
Rotheram-Borus MJ, Piacentini J, Cantwell C, Belin TR, Song J. The 18-month impact of an emergency room
intervention for adolescent suicide attempters. Jrl of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2000;68:1081-1093.
Liu M, Taylor JMG, Belin TR. Multiple imputation and posterior simulation for multivariate missing data in
longitudinal studies. Biometrics, 2000; 56:1157-1163.
Zaslavsky AM, Schenker N, Belin TR. Downweighting influential clusters in surveys: Application to the 1990 Post
Enumeration Survey. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2001; 96:858-869.
Song J, Belin TR, Lee MB, Gao X, Rotheram-Borus MJ. Handling baseline differences and missing items in a
longitudinal study of HIV risk among runaway youths. Hlth Srvcs/Outcomes Res Methodology, 2001; 2:317-329.
Unutzer J, Katon W, Callahan CM, Williams Jr. JW, Hunkeler E, Harpole L, Hoffing M, Della Penna RD, Noel PH,
Lin EHG, Arean PA, Hegel MT, Tang L, Belin TR, Oishi S, Langston C. Collaborative care management of late
life depression in primary care: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA, 2002; 288:2836-2845.
Miranda J, Chung J, Green B, Krupnick J, Siddique J, Revicki D, Belin T. Treating depression in
disadvantaged young minority women: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical
Association, 2003; 290:57-65.
Song J, Belin TR. Imputation for incomplete high-dimensional multivariate normal data using a common factor
model. Statistics in Medicine, 2004; 23:2827-2843.
Tang L, Song J, Belin TR, Unutzer J. A comparison of imputation methods in a longitudinal randomized clinical
trial. Statistics in Medicine, 2005; 24:2111-2128.
Yang X, Belin TR, Boscardin WJ. Imputation and variable selection in linear regression models with missing
covariates. Biometrics, 2005; 68, 498-506.
Edlund MJ, Belin TR, Tang L. Geographic Variation in Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Services Utilization:
What are the Sources of the Variation? J Mental Health Policy and Economics 2005; 9: 123-132.
Miranda J, Green GL, Krupnick JL, Chung J, Siddique J, Belin T, Revicki D. One-year outcomes of a
randomized clinical trial treating depression in low-income minority women. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, 2006; 74:99-111.
Zhang X, Boscardin WJ, Belin TR. Sampling correlation matrices in Bayesian models with correlated latent
variables. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2006; 15: 880-896.
Bernaards C, Belin TR, Schafer JL. Robustness of a multivariate normal approximation for imputation of
incomplete binary data. Statistics in Medicine, 2007; 26:1368-1382.
Stockdale SE, Tang L, Zhang L, Belin TR, Wells KB. The effects of health sector market factors and
vulnerable group membership on access to alcohol, drug, and mental health care. HSR: Health Services
Research, 2007; 42: 1020-1041.
Yang XW, Shoptaw S, Nie K, Liu JM, Belin TR. Markov transition models for binary repeated measures with
ignorable and nonignorable missing values. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2007; 16:347-364.
Siddique J, Belin TR. Multiple imputation using an iterative hot-deck with distance-based donor selection.
Statistics in Medicine, 2008; 27:83-102.
Song J, Belin TR. Choosing an appropriate number of factors in factor analysis with incomplete data.
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2008; 52: 3560-3569.
Siddique J, Belin TR. Using an approximate Bayesian bootstrap to multiply impute nonignorable missing
data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2008; 53: 405-415.
Tang L, Duan N, Klap R, Asarnow JR, Belin TR. Applying permutation tests with adjustment for covariates
and attrition weights to randomized trials of health services interventions. Statistics in Med, 2009; 28:65-74.
Leibowitz AA, Desmond K, Belin T. Determinants and policy implications of male circumcision in the United
States. American Journal of Public Health, 2009; 99:138-145.
Belin TR. Missing data: What a little can do, and what researchers can do in response. American Journal of
Ophthalmology, 2009; in press.
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Bower JE, Ganz PA, Tao ML, Hu WH, Belin TR, Sepah S, Cole S, Aziz N. Inflammatory biomarkers and
fatigue during radiation therapy for breast and prostate cancer. Clinical Cancer Res, 2009; 15: 5534-5540.
Lee S, Brown ER, Grant D, Belin TR, Brick JM. Exploring nonresponse bias in a health survey using
neighborhood characteristics. American Journal of Public Health, 2009; 99: 1811-1817.
Belin TR, Normand SLT. The role of ANCOVA in analyzing experimental data. Psychiatric Annals, 2009;
39:753-759.
C. Research Support
Active
5 P30 MH58017 06 (Rotheram-Borus)
1/1/07 – 12/31/11
NIMH
$2,875,793
Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS)
The major goals of this project are to provide broad-based statistical consulting support and statistical
computing expertise for behavioral research projects focused on HIV-infected individuals.
1 P30 MH082760-01 (Wells)
8/01/08 - 7/31/13
NIMH
$1,178,125
Partnered Research Center for Quality Care
The major goals of the Center are to provide a research base for determining how to improve quality of care
within organized systems of care in their local community contexts, and to provide information to society on
the cost and health consequences of implementing such programs in sustainable ways.
5 R01 DA16850-01 (Shetty)
9/01/03 - 8/30/09
NIDA
$3,716,180
Reducing the Disproportionate Burden of Orofacial Injury
The major goals of this project are to study a motivational intervention seeking to reduce the disproportionate
occurrence of orofacial injury and reinjury in vulnerable populations.
1 R01 CA109650-01 (Ganz)
8/1/06 – 7/31/11
NCI
$2,785,184
Cognitive Functioning After Breast Cancer Treatment
The major goals of this project are to study cognitive, neuropsychological, and MRI outcomes as well as
potentially related biological markers in patients with alternative breast-cancer treatment regimens.
R01 MH078853-01A1 (Wells)
9/21/07-5/31/11
NIMH
$521,102
Community Partners in Care
The major goals of this project are to examine the effects of a community-engagement approach to evidencebased interventions and to initiate and evaluate a community-wide implementation.
Completed
1 R01 MH60213-01 (Belin)
9/18/01 – 6/30/07
NIMH
$1,023,650
Imputation for Moderate Sized Mental Health Studies
The major goal of this project is to develop and evaluate methods for imputation of studies with large numbers
of variables and moderate numbers of subjects.
1 R29 MH57082 04 (Belin)
4/1/97 – 3/31/02
NIMH
$350,000
Methods for Incomplete Mental Health Services Data
The major goals of this project are to develop methodology for handling missing data in multivariate
longitudinal studies, quality of care studies, and surveys with nonresponse in mental health services settings.
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