UI faculty receive research awards

1/17/2009
http://www.press-citizen.com/article...901170313/1079

Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded 2008-09 College of Public Health-Carver College of Medicine New Investigator Research Awards. The awards assist newly appointed primary or joint faculty in the College of Public Health or the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine to advance their research activities.

Each recipient will receive up to $10,000 of funding for independent research projects.

Following are descriptions of each of the winning research proposals:

• Dawei Liu, "A Joint Modeling of Correlated Recurrent and Terminal Events with Multivariate Frailty in the Analysis of Driving Safety Data in Patients with Parkinson's Disease."

Because of the complexity of Parkinson's disease, it is not clear what and how risk factors affect driving safety. Liu's project will build on past research to develop a joint modeling framework that simultaneously models potentially correlated driving outcomes among Parkinson's patients. Under this framework, the analysis will try to explore relationships between crash, citation and driving cessation and identify risk factors associated with these outcomes.

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