Janet A. Tooze, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
Section on Biostatistics
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Blvd.
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
Tel: (336) 716-3833
Fax: (336)716-6427
Email: jtooze@wfubmc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Harvard School of Public Health - MPH, Public Health
University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center - PhD, Biometrics
Earlham College, Richmond - AB, Chemistry
Research Topics:
repeated measures data
data with clumping at zero
nutritional epidemiology and surveillance
cancer prevention
Current Research:
Janet Tooze, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Section on Biostatistics. Dr. Tooze is a biostatistician, with expertise in longitudinal data analysis and nonlinear models. Her primary area of focus is in the development of statistical methodology for nutritional epidemiology and surveillance, with application to identifying and tracking risk factors for the development of cancer. She has expertise in the analysis of dietary data from biomarkers and self-report instruments. Prior to coming to Wake Forest, she was a cancer prevention fellow in the Biometry Research Group, in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. In that position, she analyzed self-report dietary data from the Observing Protein and Energy Nutrition Study, the largest doubly labeled water study performed to date, and she developed a statistical method (the “NCI Method”), which will be used to estimate the usual intake of episodically-consumed foods for the US population from the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. Additionally, she has been the primary biostatistician on health-related research studies from a wide variety of disciplines, including quality of home health care, interstitial lung disease, fetal growth, tobacco use, ophthalmology, cognitive function, rural health, and cancer prevention and control.
Selected Recent Publications:
Beach RH, Snow Jones A, Tooze JA. Tobacco Farmer Interest and Success in Diversification, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, in press.
Danhauer S, Tooze J, Holder P, Miller C, Jesse M. Healing Touch as a Supportive Intervention for Adult Acute Leukemia Patients: Pilot Investigation of Effects on Distress and Symptoms, Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology, in press.
Danhauer, SC, Tooze JA, Farmer DF, Campbell CR, McQuellon RP, Barrett R, Miller BE. Restorative Yoga for Women with Ovarian or Breast Cancer: Findings from a Pilot Study, Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology, 2008:6:47-58.
Sedjo RL, Byers T, Levin TR, Haffner SM, Saad MF, Tooze JA, D’Agostino Jr RA. Change in Body Size and the Risk of Colorectal Adenomas, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2007 Mar;16(3):526-31.
Vitolins MZ, Tooze JA, Smith SL, Arcury TA, Bell RA, Davis C, Devellis RF, Quandt SA. Older adults in the rural South are not meeting healthy eating guidelines, Journal of the American Dietetics Association, 2007;107(2):265-272.
Mabry PL, Tooze JA, Moser RP, Augustson EM, Malcolm RJ, Benowitz NL. Nicotine, cotinine, withdrawal, and craving patterns during smoking and nicotine nasal spray use: Results from a pilot study with African American men, Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007; 9(1):65-82.
Quandt SA, Vitolins MZ, Smith SL, Tooze JA, Bell RA, Davis CC, DeVellis RF, Arcury TA. Comparative validation of standard, picture-sort, and meal-based food frequency questionnaires adapted for an elderly low socioeconomic status population, Public Health Nutrition, 2007;10(5):524-32.
Tooze JA, Vitolins MZ, Smith SL, Arcury TA, Davis CC, Bell RA, DeVellis RF, Quandt SA. High levels of energy underreporting on 24-hour recalls and three questionnaires in an elderly rural low-socioeconomic status Southern population, Journal of Nutrition, 2007;137 1286-1293.
*Mellen PB, Liese AD, Tooze JA, Vitolins MZ, Wagenknecht LE, Herrington DM. Whole Grain Intake and Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort: The Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007;85(6):1495-502.
Tooze JA, Schoeller DA, Subar AF, Kipnis V, Schatzkin A, and Troiano RP. Total daily energy expenditure among middle-aged men and women: the OPEN Study, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007;86:382-7.
Subar AF, Dodd KW, Guenther PM, Kipnis V, Midthune D, McDowell M, Tooze JA, Freedman L, Krebs-Smith SM. The Food Propensity Questionnaire (FPQ): concept, development and validation for use as a covariate in model to estimate usual food intake, Journal of the American Dietetics Association 2006;106(10):1556-63.
Tooze JA, Midthune D, Dodd KW, Krebs-Smith SM, Subar AF, Carroll RJ, Kipnis V. A New Statistical Method for Estimating the Distribution of Usual Intake of Episodically Consumed Foods, Journal of the American Dietetics Association 2006;106(10):1575-87.
Dodd KW, Guenther PM, Freedman LS, Subar AF, Kipnis V, Midthune D, Tooze JA, Krebs-Smith SM. Statistical methods for estimating usual intake of nutrients and foods: A review of the theory, Journal of the American Dietetics Association 2006;106(10):1640-50.
Colbert LH, Mai V, Tooze JA, Perkins SN, Berrigan D, Hursting SD. Negative energy balance induced by voluntary wheel running inhibits polyp development in ApcMin mice, Carcinogenesis 2006;27(10):2103-7.
Tooze JA, Subar AF, Thompson FE, Troiano R, Schatzkin A, Kipnis V. Psychosocial Predictors of Energy Underreporting in a Large Doubly Labeled Water Study, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 79:795-804, 2004.
Tooze JA, Grunwald GK, Jones RH. Analysis of repeated measures data with clumping at zero. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 11(4): 341-355, 2002.