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CURRICULUM VITAE A. Personal Information:

Name in Full Kiros Teghegne Berhane, Ph.D. Business Address University of Southern California

Dept. of Preventive Medicine 2001 N. Soto Street, Suite 202-G Los Angeles, CA 90089-9234

Business Phone (323) 442-1994 FAX (323) 442-2349 Home Address 1736 Vistillas Rd.

Altadena, CA 91001 Home Phone (626) 345-9667 Place of Birth Ethiopia Citizenship USA (Naturalized Citizen) E-mail Address [email protected]

Languages English, Amharic, Tigrigna Gender Male Marital Status Married (Saba Berhane) Number of Children 2 (Ezana, Naomi) B. Education:

High School Asmara Comprehensive Secondary School, Asmara, Eritrea, Very Great Distinction, 1982

College or University Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, B.Sc. (Statistics), with distinction, 1986

Graduate School International Centre for Pure & Applied Mathematics, Nice, France,

Certificate, 1988 [Summer School] University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, M.Sc (Statistics), 1991 Advisor: Ed Carter, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Ph.D. (Biostatistics), 1994 Dissertation Advisor: Rob Tibshirani, Ph.D.

Fellowship Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Postdoctoral fellowship (Biostatistics) Supervisor: Scott Zeger, Ph.D.

Honors and Awards Very Great Distinction ("Summa cum Laude") Ethiopian School Leaving Certificate Examination

Kiros Teghegne Berhane, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae USC Department of Preventive Medicine of 41

GPA: 4.0/4.0, 1982 Dean's List, Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12/82 - 6/86 Semester Awards, University of Guelph Guelph, Canada, 1/90, 9/90, 9/89 Whitehall-Robbins Fellowship (Annually assigned to highest ranked student – 2 yr limit), University of Toronto Toronto, Canada, 9/91-8/92, 9/92-8/93 Open Fellowship, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada, 9/93 - 8/94 ENAR Student Award, ENAR Biometrics Conference, Cleveland, OH, 4/93

Graduate Bursary, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 9/94

C. Professional Background:

Academic appointments Graduate Assistant, Department of Basic Sciences,

Ambo College of Agriculture, Ambo, Ethiopia, 1986-1987 Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Asmara University, Asmara, Eritrea, 1987-1989 Assistant Professor (joint), Department of Biostatistics,

University of Pittsburgh, 1995-1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-1997 Visiting Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, 12/97 – 01/00 Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine,

University of Southern California, 02/00 – 05/04 Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine (with tenure),

University of Southern California, 06/04 – 02/11 Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine (with tenure),

University of Southern California, 03/11 – Present Director, Graduate Programs in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine,

University of Southern California, 10/13 – Present Specific teaching responsibilities

Courses: Introductory Mathematics, Biometry for Plant Science Basic Sciences Department, Ambo Junior College of Agriculture, Ambo, Ethiopia, 10/86 - 8/87


Courses: Quantitative Methods II, Introduction to Statistics, Statistical

Methods I and II, Introduction to Biometry Statistics Unit, Department of Mathematics, Asmara University, Asmara, Eritrea, 9/87 - 8/89

Courses: Statistical Methods (I, II, III), Statistical Methods for Animal Science, Discrete Mathematics Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph,

Canada, 9/89 - 8/91 [Teaching Assistant] Courses: Introductory Biostatistics, Modern Regression Techniques Department of

Statistics, and Department of Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 9/91 - 12/93 [Teaching Assistant]

Graduate Course: Modern Non-parametric Regression Techniques (4th Quarter, 1994-1995) Department of Biostatistics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 3/95 - 5/95 Graduate Course: Modern Non-parametric Regression Techniques (97-3) Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of

Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 5/97-6/97 Course: Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 9/96-12/96 [PBL Discussion Leader] Guest Lecturer (Lecture on Smoothing Techniques) Graduate Course: Discrete Multivariate Analysis Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of

Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 25/97 Course: Introduction to the Theory of Biometry Principles (PM 522a) Graduate Program in Biometry, USC (Fall Semester: 1998-2002, 2004-2008) Course: 3rd Year Medical Student’s course on Preventive Medicine USC Medical School, Small Group Teaching (Spring 1999-2002) Course: Independent Study on Modern Regression Techniques (PM 790) Graduate Program in Biometry, USC (Summer 1999) [Talat Islam] Course: Independent Study on Modern Regression Techniques (PM 790) Graduate Program in Biometry, USC (Summer 2002, Fall 2002) [Nuoo-Ting

Molitor] Course: Independent Study on Bayesian Mixed effects modeling (PM 790) Graduate Program in Biometry, USC (Spring 2006, Summer 2006) [Yue Zhang]

Course: Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology (PM 599) [Guest lecture on Time Series Methods] Graduate Program in Biometry, USC (Fall, 2006; Fall 2008) Course: Public Health and the Obesity Epidemic: Global and Societal Implications [Guest lecture on Built Environment and Obesity]


MPH Program, USC (Spring, 2009) Course: Environmental Epidemiology [PM529] [Guest lecture on Built Environment, Respiratory Health and Obesity] Graduate Program in Epidemiology, USC (Fall and Spring: 2011-2015) Course: Data Analysis: Correlated Data [PM511C] Graduate Program in Biostatistics, USC (Fall, 2012New Course]; 2013-2015)

Specific administrative responsibilities Student Seminar Series Coordinator Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1993 - 1994

Co-Director, Data Analysis and Management Core Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer, 2005- 2010

Director, Data Analysis and Management Core USC Minority Health Center, 2007 – 2012 Co-Chair, Statistics Working Group National Centers for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer, 2008 – 2011 Director, Statistical Methods and Study Design Core Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2013- Co-Director, Methods Core USC Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) for Vulnerable Populations, 2013-2018

Postdoctoral Supervision Mentor, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2012) Yue Zhang (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Position: Research Associate, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA Mentor, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2012) Reza Hossieni (Ph.D., University of British Columbia) Position: Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo, Japan Mentor, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2011) Sandrah Eckel, (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) Position: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, LA, CA Ph.D. Student Supervision

Chair, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Kejia Wang (2014- )

Topic: “Multi-level latent class trajectory models for zero-inflated Count data” Graduate Program in Biostatistics Chair, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Chih-Chieh Chang (2009-2014)

Topic: “Functional based quantile regression models for obesity research in


Children”

Graduate Program in Biometry Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee [with Chih-Ping Chou] Student: Ernest Shen Chang (2011-2013)

Topic: “Quantile Mediation Models: Assessing Mediation across the Response Distribution”

Graduate Program in Biometry Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee (2003-2007) Student: Nuoo-Ting Molitor (Now a postdoc at Imperial College, London) Topic: "Flexible models for multiple longitudinal outcomes" Graduate Program in Biometry

Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Student: Zhang Yue (2006-2011) Topic: Joint modeling of lung function and multi-state asthma status with misclassification

Graduate Program in Biometry Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee [Biostatistics] Student: Joyce Ho (Supervisor: Lisa Weissfeld), Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, 1996-1997

Member, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Made Wenten (Chair: Frank Gilliland) Topic: "Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors Associated

With Respiratory-related School Absences" Graduate Program in Epidemiology Member, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee

Student: Mulugeta Gebregziabher (Chair: Bryan Langholz) Topic: "Methods for the analysis of missing covariate data in individually matched case-control"

Graduate Program in Biometry Member, Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committee Student: Hansong Wang (Chair: Dan Stram) Graduate Program in Biometry Member, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Xinbo Zhang (Chair: Bryan Langholz) Graduate Program in Biometry Member, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Ketan Shankardass (Chair: Rob McConnell) Graduate Program in Epidemiology Member, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Courtney Byrd-Williams (Chair: Michael Goran)

Topic: "Confounders and moderators of the relationship between physical activity and adiposity in overweight adolescents”


Graduate Program in Epidemiology (obesity) Member, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Pamela Garcia-Filion (Chair: Stanley Azen)

Topic: "Epidemiology of optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) [tentative]" Graduate Program in Epidemiology Member, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Tracy Bastain (Chair: Frank Gilliland)

Topic: “Airway Inflammation and Respiratory Health in the Southern California Children’s Health Study”

Graduate Program in Epidemiology Member, Ph.D. Qualifying/Dissertation Committee Student: Mohammed Hassanien (Chair: Fred Schumacker)

Topic: “Common Genetic Variation and Obesity: a Multi-ethnic and Pediatric Perspective”

Graduate Program in Systems Biology and Disease

MSc/MPH Student Supervision Chair, M.Sc. Thesis Committee Student: Anita Khachikian Topic: “Longitudinal relationships between the Built Environment and Childhood Obesity” Graduate Program in Biostatistics Member, M.Sc. Thesis Committee Student: Amy Fan (Supervisor: James Dwyer), Topic: “The Longitudinal Study of Cigarette Smoking Growth from

Adolescence to Adulthood using Latent Variable Modeling” Graduate Program in Applied Biometry/Epidemiology Co-supervisor, M.Sc. Thesis Committee Student: Yu-Fen Li (Co-supervisor: Frank Gilliland), Topic: “The effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy and

environmental tobacco smoke exposure on childhood lung function” Graduate Program in Applied Biometry/Epidemiology Co-supervisor, M.Sc. Thesis Committee

Student: Xiaowei Liu (Co-supervisor: Frank Gilliland), Topic: “Chronic effects of air pollution on School Absenteeism” Graduate Program in Applied Biometry/Epidemiology (2001) Member, M.Sc. Thesis Committee Student: Rui Li (Supervisor: Frank Gilliland) Topic: “Family history, hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer risk in Hispanic and non-Hispanic women, The New Mexico Women’s Health Study” Graduate Program in Applied Biometry/Epidemiology (2001)

Member, M.Sc. Thesis Committee


Student: Josh Millstein (Supervisor: Frank Gilliland) Topic: "Effects of ambient air pollution on monthly wheeze and asthma exacerbation in school children" Graduate Program in Applied Biometry/Epidemiology (2002) Member, M.Sc. Thesis Committee Student: Lisa Giltner Grossman (Supervisor: Frank Gilliland) Topic: "A descriptive analysis of medication use by asthmatics in the Children’s Health Study" Graduate Program in Applied Biometry/Epidemiology (2003)

Faculty Supervisor, M.PH. Project Student: Rebecca Sokol, MD Topic: "Effects of air pollution on male fertility" Graduate Program in Public Health (2002) Member, M.Sc. Thesis Committee Student: Ling Yao (Supervisor: Daniel Stram) Topic: "Data analysis on human exposure to concentrated particle sulphur" Graduate Program in Applied Biometry/Epidemiology Chair, M.Sc. Thesis Committee

Student: Zhang Yue (2006) Topic: Gender-specific effects of asthma on lung function: 8 yr analysis Graduate Program in Biometry Chair, M.Sc. Thesis Committee Student: Chih-Chieh Chang (2007-2009) Topic: Age-Gender-Ethnicity Standardization of BMI Percentiles in Obesity Research Graduate Program in Biometry Member, M.Sc. Thesis Committee

Student: Garrett Weaver (Supervisor: W James Gauderman) Topic: "Disparities in exposure to traffic related pollution sources by self- identified and ancestral Hispanic descent in participants of the USC Children’s Health Study"

Graduate Program in Applied Biometry/Epidemiology

Military service None

Other employment or activity Research Assistant, Newton Ashton Statistical Laboratory

University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, 6/91-8/91 Statistical Consultant, Research Services Unit University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 7/92-10/94


D. Society Memberships: Member, American Statistical Association, 1991 - Member, International Biometrics Society (ENAR), 1994 - 1996 Member, International Biometrics Society (WNAR), 1998 – Member, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), 2008 – Member, American Obesity Society, 2009-

Member, Ethiopian Statistical Association, 1999 – E. Services:

Professional Organizations Vice-president, Statistical Society of Ethiopians in North America (SSENA), 2000-2002 President, Statistical Society of Ethiopians

in North America (SSENA), 2002-2004 Past President, Statistical Society of Ethiopians in North America (SSENA), 2004-2005

Member, Fisher Award Lecture Selection Committee, (Appointed by Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies), 2015-2018

University/Other Committees Member, Science Advisory Panel, Western Interprovincial Scientific Studies Association (WISSA), Calgary, Canada (2002-2005) Western Canada Study on Animal and Human Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Field Facilities Member, Committee to review the health effects in Vietnam veterans of exposure to herbicides (Fourth and Fifth Biennial Updates)

Institute of Medicine, National Academies, Washington, DC (2003-2005)

Member, Committee to review the health effects in Vietnam veterans of exposure to herbicides: (Special report on Latency issues)

Institute of Medicine, National Academies, Washington, DC (2004) Member, NMMAPS IV Review Panel, Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2005) Member, NMMAPS and Other Revised Analysis Review Panel, Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2003) Member, NMMAPS IV review panel Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2005) Member, APHENA (Air Pollution and Health in Europe and North America) Final Report Review Panel, Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2007)


Member, Review Panel

London Traffic Congestion Study, Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA

Member, MESA Mid-Course On-site Peer Review Panel (August 4-6, 2008) US Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) Member, Departmental Award Committee

Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996 - 1998

Member, Faculty Search Committee Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996 - 1997

Member, Curriculum Committee Division of Biometry, Department of Preventive Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1998 - Present

Chair, Ph.D. Screening Examination Committee Division of Biometry, Department of Preventive Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1999

Member, Faculty recruitment Committee Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2006 –

Member, Steering Committee USC Faculty Interest Group on Africa University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009-

Member, Departmental Working Groups (Research, Education) Department of Preventive Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009

Member, Global Health Theme Group for Strategic Planning Keck School of Medicine, USC, 2009 -

Member, Appointments and Promotions Committee Department of Preventive Medicine, KSOM, USC, 2011 - Member, Executive Committee for the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, 2014- Member, USC Provost’s Graduate School Advisory Council, 2014-2016 Co-Chair, Educational Strategic Planning Committee, Dept of Preventive Medicine Member, US Environmental Protection Authority Chartered Science Advisory Board, 2015-2018 Member, External Advisory Board, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, 2016 (5-Year Strategic Plan) NIH Study Section Member, NIH Grant Review Study Section Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes (KNOD)

[Regular Member: July 2011 - 2015]


Member, NIH Grant Review Study Section

Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes (KNOD) [November, 2010 – Special Emphasis Panel][February, 2011]

Member (ad hoc), NIH Grant Review Study Section [Special Emphasis Panel] Biostatistics Methods and Research Design (BMRD) [June, 2003: Special Emphasis Panel][October, 2005][June, 2006]

Member, NIH Grant Review Study Section Biostatistics Methods and Research Design (BMRD) [February, 2016]

Editorial Board Associate Editor, Journal of the Ethiopian Statistical Association, 2009- Journal Reviews

Journal of American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods) Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Canadian Journal of Statistics American Journal of Epidemiology Statistics in Medicine Biometrics Biostatistics Epidemiology Annals of Epidemiology Journal of Royal Statistical Society – Series A Obesity Atmospheric Environment Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health

American Journal of Preventive Medicine Thorax Pediatric Obesity Journal of Ethiopian Statistical Association SINET PLOS One Grant Reviews (Non-NIH)

Grant Reviewer for National Science Foundation (US Civilian Research and Development Foundation) – 1997 Member, Special grant review for methods research proposals Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA (2005) Member, Grant Peer Review Committee (Oct, 2007) Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Other


Sessions Chaired

SSC Annual Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July, 1994 Data Session Leader on Longitudinal Data, Workshop on smoothing

Applications, University of British Columbia, Canada – June 1999 ISEE/ISEA Conference, Pasadena, CA, October, 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA, 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, August, 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado, August 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami, Florida, August 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, July/August 2012 [organizer] Consultantships Consultant, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center (1999-2002, 2007) UCLA Center for Health Care Policy (2008- ) F. Research Activities:

Complete Bibliography Appended

Major Areas of Research Interest Longitudinal/time series data analysis, Flexible modeling techniques,

Modeling time-to-event data, Latency, Applications to Environmental Epidemiology, Applications to Cancer, Applications to AIDS, Applications to Obesity, Minority Health research, Respiratory/Cardiovascular Health effects of Air Pollution, Global Health, Tobacco related research, Latent Growth Trajectories

Research Grants – Principal Investigator/Core Director [funds in annual direct cost only]

1. 1R01 HD061968-01 07/01/09-06/30/16 [Under NCE] $394,605 Flexible Multi-level Models for Longitudinal Analysis of Childhood Obesity NICHD Role: Principal Investigator 25% of Effort The major goals of this study are to develop new quantile-regression based multi- level statistical techniques for use in modeling childhood obesity; with focus on the effects of the built environment, genetics and G x E interactions.

2. 1U2RTW010125-01 09/28/2015-08/31/2020 $300,000

2/2 - GEOHealth Hub for Research and Training in eastern Africa - U.S. NIH-Fogarty/NIEHS/Canadian IDRC Role: Principal Investigator (MPI with Jonathan Samet) 10% of Effort The main goal of this grant (which is a linked award with Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia) is to conduct training in several methodlogic, substantive and logitsitic


areas of environmental health within the Global Enviornmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) hub for Eastern Africa.

3. R24TW009548-01 09/01/12-08/31/15 $100,000

1/2 - Establishing a GEOHealth Hub Platform for East Africa - USA NIH-Fogarty Role: Principal Investigator (MPI with Jonathan Samet) 5% of Effort The main goal of this planning grant (which is a paired award with Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia) is to conduct needs assessment and planning activities towards establishing a Global Enviornmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) hub for East Africa.

4. R01 ES023262-01 07/1/2013-06/30/2017 $404,643

Early detection of adverse respiratory effects from air pollution NIH/NIEHS Role: Principal Investigator (MPI with Frank Gilliland) 20% of Effort The aims of this project are determine wither exhaled nitric oxide can be used for early detection of chronic health effects from long-term exposure to air pollution.

5. P50 DA036106 09/01/2013-08/31/2018 $2,437,824 USC Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) for Vulnerable Populations NIH/FDA Role: Co-Director of Methods Core & Co-I Project 25% of Effort The USC Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) focuses on populations that are at high-risk for use of tobacco products and addiction in order to help the FDA reduce tobacco use and its disease burden. Addressing FDA priorities, researchers will examine social media and small retailers as ways that the tobacco industry reaches vulnerable populations, and how early smoking patterns predict tobacco product use and addiction. The TCORS will generate new research and training methods for regulatory science.

5. 2P01 ES011627 07/01/07-06/30/12 [no cost extension] $1,524,257 Statistical Methods for Environmental and Genetic Research [project 3]

NIEHS Role: Principal Investigator 20% of Effort:

(in P01: Genetics, Air Pollution and Respiratory Effects in Children and Young Adults [PI of P01: Frank Gilliland, MD, PhD])

The major goals of this project are to develop new statistical techniques for use in environmental and genetic research; in the areas of longitudinal data, multivariate longitudinal lung function and asthma data, methods for Genetic and GXE investigations, exposure modeling and latent variable approaches for integrated analysis genetic, exposure, biomarker and health data.

6. 1U54 CA116848 09/01/05-08/31/10 $245,070


Effects of the Built environment on Obesogenic trajectories in children [Project 3]

NCI Role: Principal Investigator 12% of Effort: USC Center for Trans-Disciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (Center PI: Michael Goran)

This project examines the effects of the built-environment on obesogenic trajectories in children, based on multiple CHS cohorts and using flexible multi- level modeling techniques.

7. 1 U54 CA116848-01 09/01/05-08/31/10 Trans-Disciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer: NCI Data Management and Analysis Core Role: Co-Director (with Stanley Azen and Chih-Ping Chou) 10% of Effort: USC Center for Trans-Disciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (Center PI: Michael Goran)

The major goal of this core to provide statistical design, methodologic and analytical support to 3 projects that undertake a program of transdisciplinary studies to address physiological, metabolic, behavioral, epidemiological, genetic, and geographical/environmental influences on obesity, metabolic health and cancer- risk across high-risk ethnic groups of children. We also seek to define the role of physical activity in the prevention of obesity, improvement in overall metabolic health, and predisposition to cancer. We focus our studies on understudied and vulnerable minority populations of children in the Los Angeles, California area.

8. P60 MD002254 09/11/07-04/30/12 $949,901 Center for Minority Health Obesity in Minority Children & Youth in Los Angeles: A Generation at Risk NCHMD Data Management and Analysis Core Role: Core Director 12% of Effort:

(Center PI: Michael Goran) Comprehensive NCMHD Research Center of Excellence focused on obesity in Minority Youth through research, translation, and training to improve minority health in Hispanic and African American youth, with a major focus on exploring innovative ways to identify, prevent and reduce minority health disparities related to obesity, especially type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

9. 1PO1ES011627 06/01/02-06/30/07 $10,344,176 Statistical Methods for Environmental and Genetic Research [Project 4]

NIEHS Role: Principal Investigator

(in P01: Genetics, Air Pollution and Respiratory Effects in


Children and Young Adults [PI of P01: John Peters, MD])

The major goals of this project are to develop new statistical techniques for use in environmental and genetic research; in the areas of longitudinal data, multivariate longitudinal lung function and asthma data, methods for Genetic and GXE investigations, pathway modeling and Bayesian Model Averaging techniques.

Research Grants – Co-Investigator

1. 1P50ES026086-01 07/01/2015-06/30/2020 $610,366 Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) EPA/NIMHD/NIEHS Role: Co-Investigator (MPI: Gilliland/Breton) 5% of Effort The Center will examine whether pre- and postnatal/postpartum environmental exposures, coupled with exposures to psychosocial and built environment stressors, lead to excessive gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention in women and to perturbed infant growth trajectories and increased childhood obesity risk through altered psychological, behavioral and/or metabolic responses.

2. P01ES022845-01 04/01/2013-03/31/2018 $1,077,112 Southern California Children's Environmental Health Center (SC-CEHC) NIH/NIEHS and EPA Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Rob McConnell) 10% of Effort This project proposes to 1) define the role of in utero and childhood air pollution exposures and key mechanistic pathways in the development of childhood obesity and metabolic abnormalities, 2) rapidly translate the emerging science to key groups to facilitate science-based interventions and policy change and 3) foster the next generation of CEH investigators.

3. 105014 BP West Coast Products 04/03/2014-04/02/2016 $169,718

Personalized Strategies to Prevent Air Pollution-Induced Asthma Exacerbations BP West Coast Products, LLC Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Frank Gilliland) 10% of Effort: The broad objective for this application is to develop an innovative personalized medicine approach for assessing risk for air pollution-induced chronic asthma exacerbations that can be used for targeted prevention of chronic exacerbations.

4. R01HL076647-02 08/15/05-06/30/10 $489,387 Air Pollution, Inflammation and New Onset Asthma 15% of Effort: Gilliland (PI)

National Institutes of Health (PI: Frank Gilliland, MD, PhD) 2. 5 P01 ES009581-07 / RD83186101 05/07/04-10/31/08 $1,523,348


Children’s Environmental Health Center

NIEHS/EPA (PI: Frank Gilliland, MD, PhD) 3. 1R03ES014046 07/01/05 – 06/30/10 $50,000

Socioeconomic Status, Stress, Air Pollution and Asthma NIEHS 2% of Effort (PI: Rob McConnell, MD)

4. 1R01ES014708-01 09/30/06-07/31/11 $447,156 Air Pollution, Intima-media Thickness, and Lung Function In College Students NIH/NIEHS 8% of Effort (PI: Ed Avol)

5. 5P30 ES07048 A1 04/01/96-03/31/06 $65,389

SCEHSC (Environmental Exposures, Host Factors and Human Disease) NIEHS (Biostatistics Service Core)

6. HD32632 12/01/97-11/30/02 $1,258,336

Southern California Women’s Interagency NIAID/NIH HIV Study Consortium (WIHS)

(PI: Alexandra Levine, MD) 7. R01 CA42949 07/01/86-11/30/04 $211,802 Time Related Factors in Cancer Epidemiology NCI (PI: Bryan Langholz, PhD)

8. CA 123243 04/01/08 - 03/31/13 $523,865 Effects of a Smart Growth Community on Prevention of Family Obesity Risk NCI 5% of Effort: (PI: Mary Ann Pentz, PhD) 9. 1R01ES016535-01 04/01/08-03/31/12 $439,401 Childhood asthma, susceptibility, and biological activity of ambient particles NIH/NIEHS 8% of Effort: (PI: Rob McConnell, MD)

G. Invited Lectures:

ENAR Biometrics Conference (Student Award winning talk), 1994


Annual Conference of Statistical Society of Canada, Banff, Canada, 1994

CAMACS/Dept of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1994 Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1994 GLM Special Topics Conference. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Gainesville, FL, 1994

Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1995 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County,

Baltimore, MD, 1995 Department of Biometry, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, 1995 Center for Biostatistics/Epidemiology, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, 1995 Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995 Department of Statistics, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1995 Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996 International Biometrics Conference, Amsterdam, Holland, 1996

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 1996

Department of Math and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, 1996 Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 1997 Biostatistics Center, George Washington University, Rockville, MD, 1997

Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1997

HEI/USC Epi/Exposure Workshop, Pasadena, CA, 1998 EPA sponsored Particle Epidemiology Workshop, Seattle, WA, 1998 NRCSE, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1998 Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998

WIP, Department of Preventive Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA, 1999 Workshop on smoothing techniques (session leader on longitudinal data), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA, 1999

Annual Meeting of International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Buffalo, NY, 2000 Department of Math and Statistics, University of Guelph, Canada, March 2003 Department of Biostatistics, UCLA, May 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, 2005 (Invited Discussant) Department of Biostatistics, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2007 Department of Biostatistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, May 2007 National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Health Effects of Ozone Measurement Error Techniques in Air Pollution Research May 2007 CDC Sponsored Symposium on ALL/CLL, Washington, DC, May 2007 Department of Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. January 2008 School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. January 2008 17th Annual Meeting, Ethiopian Statistical Association, Ethiopia, January 2008 Faculty of Science Seminar Series, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. January 2008 College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Ethiopia, January 2008


College of Health Sciences, Axum University, Ethiopia, January 2008 Department of Statistics, UC Santa Barbara, February 2008 SCEHSC Annual Retreat, Ventura CA, February 2008 TREC Centers Investigators’ Meeting, Seattle WA, May 2008 TREC Stat Working Group: Webinar on multi-level models, November, 2008 ISEE/ISEA Conference: Oral Presentation at Symposium on CHS, Pasadena, CA, October, 2008 ISEE/ISEA Conference: Invited Meet the Professor Session on “Multi-level models For Epidemiologic Analysis”, Pasadena, CA, October, 2008 Workshop on Spatial Statistics in Air Pollution Research, Pasadena, CA, 2009 USC Symposium on Childhood Obesity: Genes, Brains, and Behaviors, 2009 Talk on “Influence of the built environment on obesity development in children” International Statistical Institute (ISI) Conference, Durban, South Africa; Aug, 09 Invited talk on “Modeling Chronic Effects of Air Pollution on Children's respiratory Health: A Move Towards Integration” Annual Obesity Society Conference (NAASO), Washington, DC, October, 2009. Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Grand Rounds, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, March 2011 UCLA Biostatistics, 2013, 2014 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 2013 SAMSI-ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) Joint Workshop on Environmental Statistics, Kolkata, India (March, 2015) Division of Biostatistics, University of Miami, (March 2016 – Upcoming)


H. Bibliography: (Note: items with asterisks are papers by supervised students) Peer Reviewed 1. Al-Sayyed A, Deporter DA, Pillair RM, Watson PA, Pharoah M, Berhane K, Carter S.

Predictable crest bone remodeling around two porous-coated titanium alloy dental implant designs: A radiographic study in dogs.

Clinical Oral Implant Research 5:131-141, 1994. 2. Becker S, Berhane K. A meta-analysis of 61 sperm count studies revisited. Fertility and Sterility 67(6):1103-1108, 1997. 3. Kimm SYS, Barton BA, Berhane K, Ross JW, Payne GH, Schreiber GB.

Self-esteem and adiposity in black and white girls: The NHLBI Growth and Health Study (NGHS). Annals of Epidemiology 7:550-560, 1997.

4. Berhane K, Tibshirani RJ. Generalized additive models for longitudinal data. Canadian Journal of Statistics 26(4):517-535, 1998.

5. Berhane K, Rao JS.

Automatic smoothing parameter selection in nonparametric models for longitudinal data. Journal of Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis 13:289-296, 1998.

6. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, London SJ, Vora H, Avol E, Gauderman WJ,

Lurmann F, Thomas DC, Peters JM. Air pollution and bronchitic symptoms in Southern California children with asthma. Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 107 9:757-760, 1999.

7. Linn WS, Szlachcic Y, Gong H, Kinney PL, Berhane K. Air pollution and daily hospital admissions in metropolitan Los Angeles. Environmental Health Perspectives 108(5):427-434, 2000.

8. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, McConnell R, Rappaport E, Vora H, Avol E, Peters J.

Maternal smoking during pregnancy, environmental tobacco smoke exposure and childhood lung function. Thorax 55:271-276, 2000.


9. Berhane K, Thomas DC.

Discussion on “Combining evidence on air pollution and daily mortality from the 20 largest US cities: a hierarchical modeling strategy”. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 163(3):263-302, 2000.

10. Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Gilliland F, London S, Thomas D, Avol E, Berhane K, Rappaport E, Lurmann F, Margolis H, Peters J.

Association between air pollution and pulmonary function growth in Southern-California school-aged children. American Journal for Respiratory Care Medicine 162(4):1-8, 2000.

11. Berhane K, McConnell R, Gilliland F, Islam T, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, London S,

Rappaport E, Margolis HG, Peters JM. Sex-specific effects of asthma on pulmonary function in children. American Journal for Respiratory Care Medicine 162(5):1723-1730, 2000.

12.* Li YF, Gilliland F, Berhane K, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Rappaport EB, Peters JM. Effects of In Utero and environmental tobacco smoke exposure on lung function in boys and girls with asthma. American Journal for Respiratory Care Medicine 162:2097-2104, 2000.

13. AM Levine, K Berhane, L Masri-Lavine, ML Sanchez, R Greenblatt, K Anastos, M

Young, M Augenbaum, M Cohen, S Gange, D Burns. Prevalence of and risk factors for anemia among a large cohort of HIV infected women: women's interagency HIV study (WIHS). Journal of AIDS 26:28-35, 2001.

14. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Rappaport E, Thomas DC, Avol E, Islam T, et al.

The effects of ambient air pollution on school absenteeism due to respiratory illnesses. Epidemiology 12:43-54, 2001.

15. Hauptmann M, Berhane K, Langholz B, Lubin JH Using splines to analyze latency in the Colorado plateau uranium miners cohort. Journal of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 6: 417-424, 2001. 16. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Islam T, London SJ, Gauderman WJ, Avol E,

Margolis HG, Peters JM. Sports and asthma in children exposed to ozone. Lancet 359 (February 2):386-391, 2002.

17. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Li Y-F, Kim DH, Margolis HG. Dietary magnesium,

potassium, sodium and children’s lung function. Am J Epidemiol 155(2):1-7, 2002. 18. Berhane K, Thomas DC.

A two-stage model for time series data of counts from many sites.


Biostatistics, Vol 3 (1); 21-32, 2002. 19. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Islam T, Avol E, London S, Gauderman WJ, Margolis HG, Thomas DC, Peters JM.

Indoor risk factors for asthma in a cohort of adolescents. Epidemiology, 13(3); 288-295, 2002.

20. Gauderman WJ, Gilliland FD, Avol E, Vora H, Thomas DT, Rappaport E, Berhane K,

Lurmann F, McConnell R, Stram D, Peters JM. Association between air pollution and lung function growth in Southern California children: Results from a Second Cohort. Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 166(1); 74-84, 2002.

21. Gilliland FD, Rappaport E, Berhane K, Islam T, Dubeau L, Peters JM.

Effects of Glutathione S -Transferase P1, M1, and T1 on Respiratory Illnesses in Children

Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 166(3); 346-351, 2002.

22. Gilliland FD, Li Y-F, Dubeau L, Berhane K, Avol E, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Peters JM. Effects of GST M1, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and environmental tobacco smoke on asthma and wheezing in children.

Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 166(4); 457-463, 2002. 23. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Li Y-F, Rappaport EB, Peters JM

Effects of early onset asthma and in utero exposure to maternal smoking on childhood lung function. Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 167: 917-924, 2003.

24. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Islam T, Wenten M, Rappaport E, Avol E, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Peters JM. Environmental tobacco smoke and absenteeism related to respiratory illness in schoolchildren. American Journal of Epidemiology, 157: 861-869, 2003.

25. Berhane K, Weissfeld L. Inference in spline based models for multiple time-to-event data, with applications to a breast cancer prevention trial.

Biometrics 59: 859-868, 2003. 26. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Molitor NT, Thomas D, Lurmann F, Avol E, Gauderman WJ, Peters JM. Prospective study of air pollution and bronchitic symptoms in children with asthma.


Am J Respir Crit Care Med 168: 790-797, 2003. 27. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Islam T, et al. Obesity and the Risk of Newly Diagnosed Asthma in School-age Children. Am J Epidemiol 158:406-15, 2003. 28. Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Li YF, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Peters J. Children's lung function and antioxidant vitamin, fruit, juice, and vegetable intake. Am J Epidemiol 158:576-84, 2003. 29. McConnell R, Jones C, Milam J, Gonzalez P, Berhane K, Clement L, Richardson J, Hanley-Lopez J,

Kwong K, Malouf N, Cahero J, Platts-Mills T. Cockroach counts and house dust allergen concentrations after professional cockroach control and cleaning

Annals of Allergy Asthma, and Immunology 91:546-552, 2003.

30. Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, Stram, DO, Thomas DC. Statistical issues in studies of the long term effects of air pollution: The Southern California Children Health Study (with discussion). Statistical Science; 19(3), 414-449; 2004. 31. Rondeau V, Berhane K, Thomas DC. A three-level model for binary time-series data: the effects of air pollution on school absences in the Southern California Children’s Health Study. Stat in Medicine; 23: 1103-1115; 2004. 32. Berhane K, Karim, R, Cohen, MH, Masri-Lavine L, Young M, Anastos K, Augenbraun M, Watts DH, Levine AM. Impact of highly active anti-retroviral therapy on anemia and relationship between anemia and survival in a large cohort of HIV infected women: Women's Interagency HIV Study. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 37(2):1245-1252, 2004. 33. Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Gilliland F, Vora H, Thomas D, Berhane K, McConnell R, Kuenzli N, Lurmann F, Rappaport E, Bates D, Peters JM. The effect of air pollution on lung function development in children aged 10 to 18 years. New England Journal of Medicine 351:1057-1067, 2004. 34.* Millstein J, Gilliland F., Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Avol E, Rappaport EB, Peters J, Effects of ambient air pollution on monthly wheeze and asthma exacerbation in school children. Archives of Environmental Health 59(10):505-514, 2004. 35. McConnell R, Milam J, Richardson J, Galvan J, Jones C, Thorne P, Berhane K. Educational intervention to control cockroach allergen exposure in the homes of


Hispanic children in Los Angeles: Results of the La Casa Study. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 35, 426-433, 2005. 36.* Wenten M, Berhane K, Rappaport EB, Avol E, Tsai WW, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Dubeau L, Gilliland FD TNF-308 modifies the Effect of Second-Hand Smoke on Respiratory Illness-related School Absences Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2005;172 1563-1568 37. McConnell, R, Berhane K, Yao L, Lurmann FW, Avol E, Peters JM (2005). Predicting residential ozone deficits from nearby traffic. Sci Total Environ 2005 :363 :166-174. 38.* Sokol RZ, Kraft P, Fowler IM, Kim E, M Rizvan, Berhane K. Exposure to environmental ozone alters semen quality. Environmental Health Perspectives 2006: 114(3) 360-365. 39. McConnell R, Berhane K, Yao L, Lurmann F, Jerrett M, Kuenzli N, Gauderman WJ,

Avol E, Thomas D, Peters J Traffic, Susceptibility, and Childhood Asthma Environmental Health Perspectives 2006: 114(5) 766-72.

40. Kuenzli N, Avol E, Wu J, Gauderman WJ, Rappaport E, Millstein J, Bennion J.

McConnell R, Gilliland FD, Berhane K, Lurmann F, Winer A, Peters JM Health Effects of the 2003 Southern California Wildfire on Children Am. J Respir Crit. Care Med. 2006; 2006;174(11):1221-1228

41. McConnell R, Berhane K, Molitor NT, Gilliland F, Künzli N, Thorne PS, Thomas D, W. Gauderman J, Avol E, Lurmann F, Rappaport E, Jerrett M, Peters JM

Dog Ownership Enhances Symptomatic Responses to Air Pollution in Children with Asthma Environmental Health Perspectives, 2006; 114(12):1910-5. 42. Molitor J, Molitor NT, Jerrett M, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, Thomas D.

Bayesian modeling of air pollution health effects with missing exposure data. Am J Epidemiol 2006; 164:69-76. 43. Gilliland F, Islam T, Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Avol E, Peters JM.

Regular Smoking and Asthma Incidence in Adolescents. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006 Sep 14; 174(10):1094-100

44. Gauderman WJ, Vora H, McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Thomas D, Lurmann F,

Avol E, Kunzli N, Jerrett M, Peters JM.


The effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age. Lancet 2007 Feb 17: 369(9591): 571-577.

45. Islam T, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, McConnell R, Avol E, Peters JM, Gilliland F. The Relationship between Air Pollution, Lung Function and Asthma in Adolescents Thorax 2007; 62(11): 957-963

46.* Shankardass K, McConnell RS, Milam J, Berhane K, Tatalovich Z, Wilson JP, Jerrett M The association between contextual socioeconomic factors and prevalent asthma in a

cohort of southern California school children Social Science and Medicine 2007; 65(8): 1792-806 47. Holguin F. Flores S. Ross Z. Cortez M. Molina M. Molina L. Rincon C. Jerrett M. Berhane K. Granados A. Romieu I Traffic related exposures, airway inflammation and respiratory symptoms in children. American J of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2007; 176(12): 1236-42. 48. Molitor J, Jerrett M, Chang CC, Molitor NT, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, McConnell R, Kuenzli N, Lurmann F, Wu J, Winer A, Thomas D. Assessing uncertainty in spatial exposure models for air pollution health effects assessments. Environmental Health Perspectives 2007; 115(8): 1147-53. 49. Milam, J., McConnell, R., Yao, L., Berhane, K., Jerrett, M, Richardson, J. Parental Stress and Childhood Wheeze in a Prospective Cohort Study J Asthma. 2008 May; 45(4):319-23 50. Berhane K, Molitor NT. A Bayesian approach to functional based multi-level modeling of longitudinal data: With applications to environmental epidemiology. Biostatistics. 2008; 9(4): 686-699. 51. Berhane K, Hauptmann M, Langholz B Using Tensor Product Splines in Modeling Exposure-Time-Response Relationships: With application to Colorado Plateau Uranium Miners Data. Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27(26): 5484-5496. 52. Jerrett M, Shankardass K, Berhane K, Gauderman J, Kunzli N, Avol E, Gilliland F,

Lurmann F, Molitor NT, Molitor JT, Thomas DC, Peters JP, McConnell R. 2008. Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Asthma Onset in Children: A Prospective Cohort Study with Individual Exposure Measurement.

Environmental Health Perspectives 2008; 116(10): 1433-1438. 53. Linn WS, Berhane K, Rappaport EB, deVilliers TM, Avol EL, Gilliland FD


Relationships of online exhaled, offline exhaled, and ambient nitric oxide in an Epidemiologic survey of school children. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 19:674-681, 2009. 54. Islam T, Berhane K, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Peters JM, Gilliland, FD. Glutathione-S-Transferase (GST) P1, gstm1, Exercise, Ozone and Asthma Incidence in School Children. Thorax. 197-202, 2008. 55. Breton CV, Vora H, Salam MT, Islam T, Wenten M, Gauderman WJ, Van Den Berg D,

Berhane K, Peters JM, Gilliland FD. Variation in the GST mu locus and tobacco smoke exposure as determinants of childhood lung function. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Apr 1;179(7):601-7. Epub 2009 Jan 16. 56. Wenten M, Li YF, Lin P-C, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, Avol E, Gilliland F.

In Utero Smoke Exposure, Glutathione S-Transferase P1 Haplotypes, and Respiratory Illness-Related Absence among School Children

Pediatrics. 2009 123(5): 1344-1351. 57. Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Berhane K, Bastain TM, Avol EL, Gilliland FD. Exhaled nitric oxide in a population-based study of Southern California Schoolchildren. Respiratory Research 2009, 10(1):28 doi:10.1186/1465-9921-10-28 58.* Lee YL, McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland FD. Ambient ozone modifies the effect of tumor necrosis factor G-308A on bronchitic

symptoms among children with asthma. Allergy. 2009 Feb 16. [Epub ahead of print] 59. Davis JN, Kelly LE, Lane CJ, Ventura EE, Byrd-Williams CE, Alexandar KA, Azen S,

Chou C-P, Spruijt-Metz D, Weigensberg MJ, Berhane K, Goran MI. Randomized control trial of a nutrition education and strength training program to reduce risk for Type 2 Diabetes in overweight Latino adolescents. Obesity. 2009, 17, 1542–1548. 60.* Shankardass K, McConnell R, Jerrett M, Milam J, Richardson J, Berhane K. Stress in the family increases the effect of traffic-related pollution on childhood asthma incidence. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. 2009 106: 12406-12411. 61. Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Berhane KT, Bastain TM, Salam MT, Gilliland FD. Extended exhaled nitric oxide analysis in field surveys of schoolchildren: A pilot test. Pediatric Pulmonology. 2009 44(10): 1033-1042.


62. Wenten M, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, Lin PC, Peters J, Gilliland FD. Functional variants in the catalase and myeloperoxidase genes, ambient air pollution, and respiratory-related school absences: an example of epistasis in gene-environment interactions. Am J Epidemiol, 170(12):1494-501, 2009. 63. Jerrett M, McConnell R, Chang R, Wolch J, Reynolds K, Lurmann F, Berhane K. Automobile Traffic around the Home and Development of Obesity in Children aged 10- 18 Years: A Longitudinal Cohort Study Preventive Medicine 50, S50-S58, 2010. 64.* Byrd-Williams CE, Belcher BR, Spruijt-Metz D, Davis JN, Ventura EE, Kelly L, Berhane K, Azen S, Michael I. Goran MI.

Increased physical activity and reduced adiposity in overweight Latino adolescents. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (MSSE) 42, No. 3, pp. 478–484, 2010

65. McConnell R, Liu F, Wu J, Lurmann F, Peters J, Berhane K. Asthma and school commuting time. Journal of Occupational and Env Medicine 52, No. 8, pp. 827-829, 2010 66. McConnell R, Islam T, Shankardass K, Jerrett M, Lurmann F, Gilliland F, Avol E,

Kuenzli N, Yao L, Peters J, Berhane K. Childhood incident asthma and traffic-related air pollution in a longitudinal cohort study. Environmental Health Perspectives 118(7):1021-6, 2010.

67.* Bastain, TM, Islam T, Berhane K, McConnell R, Rappaport EB, Salam MT, Linn WS, Avol EL, Zhang Y, Gilliland FD Exhaled nitric oxide, susceptibility and new-onset asthma in the Southern California Children's Health Study European respiratory Journal 37(3):523-31, 2011.

68.* Zhang Y, McConnell R, Gilliland F, Berhane K. Ethnic Differences in the Effect of Asthma on Pulmonary Function in Children AJRCCM 183(5):596-603, 2011. 69. Salam MT, Bastain T, Rappaport E, Islam T, Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, Gilliland FD Genetic Variations in Nitric Oxide Synthase and Arginase Influence Exhaled Nitric Oxide Levels in Children Allergy 66(3):412-9, 2011.

70. Berhane K, Zhang Y, Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Bastain TM, Salam MT, Islam T, Lurmann F, Gilliland FD. The Effect of Ambient Air Pollution on Exhaled Nitric Oxide in the Children's Health


Study European Respiratory Journal 37(5):1029-36, 2011. 71. Shankardass, K, Jerrett M, Milam J, Richardson J, Berhane K, McConnell R. Social environment and asthma: Associations with crime and No Child Left Behind programs. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health: 65(10):859-65, 2011. 72. Wolch J, Jerrett M, Reynolds K, McConnell R, Chang CC, Dahmann N, Brady K,

Gilliland F, Su J, Berhane K. Childhood obesity and proximity to urban parks and recreational resources: A longitudinal cohort study.

Health and Place: 17: 207–214, 2011.

73. Hasson RE, Adams TA, Davis JN, Kelly LA, Ventura EE, Byrd-Williams CE, Toledo-Corral CM, Roberts CK, Lane CJ, Azen SP, Chou C, Spruijt-Metz D, Weigensberg MJ, Berhane K, Goran MI. Randomized control trial to improve adiposity, inflammation and insulin resistance in obese African American and Latino youth. Obesity: Feb 3 [Apub Ahead of Print] 2011.

74. Breton CV, Wang X, Mack WJ, PhD, Berhane K, Lopez M, Islam TS, Feng M, Hodis HN, Künzli N, Evol E Carotid artery intima-media thickness in college students: race/ethnicity matters Atherosclerosis: 217 (20:441-446, 2011.

75.* Eckel SP, Berhane K, Muhammad T. Salam MT, Rappaport EB. Linn WS, Bastain TM, Zhang Y, Lurmann F, Avol EL, Gilliland FD Long-term residential traffic-related pollution exposures and exhaled nitric oxide in the Children's Health Study Environmental Health Perspectives: 119(10):1472-7, 2011.

76. Franklin M, Vora H, Lurmann F, Liu F, Penfold B, Berhane K, Gilliland F, McConnell

R, Avol E, Gauderman WJ. Predictors of Intra-community Variation in Air Quality Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology: 22: 135-147, 2012.

77. Dunton G, McConnell R, Jerrett M, Wolch J, Lam C, Gilliland F, Berhane K.

Organized Physical Activity in Young School Children Predicts Subsequent 4-Year Change in Body Mass Index Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine: 166(8):713-8, 2012.


78. Breton C, Wang X, Mack WJ, Berhane K, Lopez M, Islam TS, Feng M, Lurmann F, McConnell R, Hodis HN, Künzli N, Avol E Childhood air pollutant exposure and Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in Young Adults Circulation 126(13):1614-1620. [Related Editorial: Childhood Exposures to Ozone The Fast Track to Cardiovascular Disease? – [NIEHS Paper of the Month, November, 2012]

PMID: 23882698 79. Banks K, Tuazon E, Berhane K, Koh C, De Filippo R, Chang A, Kim S, Daneshmand S,

Davis-Dao C, Lewinger JP, Bernstein L, Cortessis V. Cryptorchidism and testicular germ cell tumors: Comprehensive meta-analysis reveals that association between these conditions has diminished over time and is modified by features of Cryptorchidism. Frontiers in Endocrinology Vol. 3(Article 162): 1-11, 2013.

PMID: 23423470 80. McConnell R, Wu W, Berhane K, Liu F, Verma G, Peden D, Diaz-Sanchez D, Fruin S.

Inflammatory Cytokine Response to Ambient Particles Varies due to Field Collection Procedures. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology 48(4):497-502, 2013

PMID: 23306836 81. Wang J, Cozen W, Thorne PS, Berhane K, Cerhan JR, Hartge P, Ward MH, De Roos AJ,

Severson RK, Morton LM, Bernstein L, Linet MS, Colt JS. Household endotoxin levels and risk of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Cancer Causes and Control 24(2):357-64, 2013.

PMID: 23277417 82. Davis DA, Bortolato M, Godar SC, Sander TK, Iwata N, Pakbin P, Shih JC, Berhane K, McConnell R, Sioutas C, Morgan TE, Finch CE Prenatal Exposure to Urban Air Nanoparticles in Mice Causes Altered Neuronal Differentiation and Long-term Depression-like Responses PLOSOne. 2013 May 29;8(5):e64128. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064128. Print 2013. PMID: 23734187

83. Su J, Jerrett M, McConnell R, Berhane K, Dunton G, Shankardass K, Reynolds K,

Chang R, Wolch J Factors Influencing Whether Children Walk to School

Health and Place. 2013 Jul;22:153-61. PMID: 23707968

84. Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Eckel SP, Berhane KT, Zhang Y, Salam MT, Bastain TM,


Gilliland FD.

Multiple-flow exhaled nitric oxide, allergy, and asthma in a population of older children. Pediatric Pulmonology. 2013 Sep;48(9):885-96.

PMID: 23687084 85.* Zhang Y, Berhane K. Bayesian Mixed Hidden Markov Model: A Multi-Level Approach to Modeling

Categorical Outcomes with Differential Misclassification Statistics in Medicine: 33(8): 1395-408, 2014. PMID: 24254432

86. Eckel S, Linn W, Berhane K, Rappaport E, Salam M, Zhang Y, Gilliland F. Estimation of parameters in the two-compartment model for exhaled nitric oxide PLoS One: 9(1): e85471, 2014 87. Jerrett M, McConnell R, Wolch J, Chang R, Lam C, Dunton G, Gilliland F, Lurmann F,

Berhane K. Traffic-related Air Pollution and Obesity Formation in Children: a longitudinal, multilevel analysis Environmental Health: 13(1): 49 [Epub ahead of print] 2014. PMID: 24913018

88. Berhane K, Zhang Y, Salam MT, Eckel SP, Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Bastain TM, Lurmann F, Gilliland FD Longitudinal Association between Air Pollution and Exhaled Nitric Oxide: The Children's Health Study Occupational and Environmental Medicine: 71(7): 507-13, 2014 PMID: 24696513 89. Shen E, Chou CP, Pentz MA, Berhane K. Quantile Mediation Models: A Comparison of Methods for Assessing Mediation across the Outcome Distribution Multivariate Behavioral Research: 49:5,471-485, 2014 90. Eckel SP, Linn WS, Salam MT, Bastain TM, Zhang Y, Rappaport EB, Liu M, Berhane

K. Spirometry effects on conventional and multiple flow exhaled nitric oxide in children. J Asthma. 2014 Aug 28:1-7. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:25134783

91. Fractional exhaled nitric oxide in childhood is associated with 17q11.2-q12 and 17q12- q21 variants van der Valk RJP, Duijts L, Timpson NJ, Salam MT, Standl M, Curtin JA, Genuneit J, Kerhof M , Kreiner-Møller E, Cáceres A, Gref A, Liang LL, Taal RH, Bouzigon E, Demenais F, Nadif R, Ober C, Thompson EE, Estrada K, Hofman A, Uitterlinden1 AG, van Duijn C, Rivadeneira F, Li X, Eckel SP, Berhane K , Gauderman WJ, Granell R, Evans DM, Pourcin B, McArdle W, Kemp JP, Smith GD, Tiesler CMT, Flexeder C, Simpson A, Murray CS, Fuchs O, Postma DS, Bønnelykke K, Torrent M, Andersson M,

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Sleiman P, Hakonarson H, Cookson WO, Moffatt MF, Paternoster L, Melén E, Sunyer J, Bisgaard H, Koppelman GH, Ege M, Custovic A, Heinrichs J, Gilliland FD, Henderson AJ, Jaddoe1 VWV, de Jongste JC for the EArly Genetics & Lifecourse Epidemiology (EAGLE) Consortium

J Allergy Clinical Immunology. 134(1):46-55; 2014 PMID: 24315451

92. Wu W, Muller R, Berhane K, Fruin S, Liu F, Jaspers I, Diaz-Sanchez D, Peden D, McConnell R

Inflammatory response of monocytes to ambient particles varies by highway proximity. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 51(6): 802-9; 2014 PMID: 24895888

93. Shankardass K, McConnell R, Jerrett M, Lam C, Wolch J, Gilliland F, Berhane K

Pre-adolescent stress increases body mass index trajectory in pre-adolescents Pediatric Obesity. 9(6): 435-442, 2014 [PMID: 24311567] 94. Gauderman WJ, Urman R, Avol E, Berhane K, McConnell R, Rappaport E, Chang R,

Lurmann F, Gilliland FD Association of Improved Air Quality with Lung Development in Children New England Journal of Medicine. 372(10): 905-913; 2015

95. McConnell R, Shen E, Gilliland F, Jerrett M, Wolch J, Chang R, Lurmann F, Berhane K A longitudinal cohort study of body mass index and childhood exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and air pollution: the Southern California Children's Health Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 123(4): 360-366; 2015 96.* Zhang Y, Berhane K.

Dynamic Latent Trait Models with Mixed Hidden Markov Structure for Mixed Longitudinal Outcomes Journal of Applied Statistics, 1-17, 2015.

97. Barrington-Trimis JL, Berhane K, Unger JB, Cruz TB, Huh J, Leventhal AM, Urman R, Wang K, Howland S, Gilreath TD, Chou C-P, Pentz MA, McConnell R

Psychosocial factors associated with adolescent electronic cigarette and cigarette use Pediatrics, 136(2), 308-17, 2015 98. Zhang Y, Berhane K, Eckel SP, Salam MT, Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Bastain TM, Lurmann F, Gilliland FD

Determinants of Children's Exhaled Nitric Oxide: New Insights from Quantile Regression PLOS One. 10(7), e0130505, 2015

Peer Reviewed In Press

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1. Su YC, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K, Lewinger JP

Adaptive Set-Based Methods for Association Testing Genetic Epidemiology

2. Eckel SP, Zhang ZL, Habre R, Rappaport EB, Linn WS, Berhane K, Zhang Y, Bastain TM, Gilliland FD

Traffic-related air pollution and alveolar nitric oxide in southern California children European Respiratory Journal, 2015.

3. Gilreath TD, Leventhal A, Barrington-Trimis JL, Unger J, Cruz T, Berhane K, Huh J,

Urman R, Wang K, Howland S, Pentz MA, Chou CP, McConnell R A latent class analysis of patterns of poly-tobacco product use: Patterns of alternative tobacco product use: Emergence of hookah and e-cigarettes as preferred products amongst youth.

Journal of Adolescent Health; 2015. 4. Berhane K, Kumie A, Samet JM

Health Effects of Environmental Exposures, Occupational Hazards and Climate Change in Ethiopia: Synthesis of Situational Analysis, Needs Assessment and the Way Forward Ethiopian Health Development Journal (Special Issue)

5. Kumie A, Amera T, Berahne K, Samet J, Hundal N, G/Michael F, Yilma M, Gilliland F

Occupational Health and Safety in Ethiopia: A review of the Situational Analysis and Needs Assessment Ethiopian Health Development Journal (Special Issue)

6. Tefera W, Asfaw A, Gilliland F, Worku A, Wondimagegn M, Kumie A, Samet JM, Berhane K

Air Pollution and Health in Ethiopia: A Review of the Situational Analysis and Need Assessment

Ethiopian Health Development Journal (Special Issue) 7. Simane B, Beyene H, Deressa W, Kumie A, Berhane K, Samet JM

Climate Change and Health in Ethiopia: A review of the Situational Analysis and Needs Assessment Ethiopian Health Development Journal (Special Issue)

Peer Reviewed Submitted 1.* Chang CC, Berhane K Bayesian Multi Level Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data Biometrics


2. Berhane K. Chang R, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Rappaport E, Urman R,

Lurmann F, Gilliland FD The Effect of Improvements in Air Quality on Trends of Bronchitic Symptoms in Children Journal of the American Medical Association (Revised) 3. McConnell R, Barrington-Trimis JL, Wang K, Urman R, Cruz T, Huh J, Unger J, Chou

C-P, Leventhal AM, Pentz MA, Berhane K. Electronic-Cigarette Use and Respiratory Symptoms in Adolescents 4. Breton CV, Mack WJ, Yao J, Berhane K, Amadeus M, Lurmann F, Gilliland F,

McConnell R, Hodis HN, Künzli N, Avol E Prenatal air pollution exposure and early cardiovascular phenotypes in young adults PLOS One 5. Chen Z, Salam MT, Berhane K, Habre R, Bastain T, Gilliland FD. Effects of Childhood Asthma on the Development of Obesity among School-aged Children 6. *Toledo-Corral CM, *Alderete TL, Habre R, Berhane K, Lurmann F, Weigensberg MJ,

Goran MI, Gilliland FD. Effects of air pollution exposure on glucose metabolism in Los Angeles minority children 7. Younan D, Tuvblad C, Franklin M, Lurman F, Li L, Wu J, Berhane K, Baker LA, Chen

JC

Particulate Air Pollutants and Delinquent Behaviors of Adolescents in Southern California: A Longitudinal Analysis

8. Younan D, Tuvblad C, Li L, Wu J, Lurmann F, Franklin M, Berhane K, McConnell R,

Wu A, Baker L, Chen JC. Environmental Determinants of Aggressive Behaviors in Adolescents: Role of Neighborhood Greenspace

9. Barington-Trimis JL, … Berhane K, …, McConnell R. E-cigarette Use as a Predictor of Combustible Cigarette Use in the Transition to Adulthood: Results from the Southern California Children’s Health Study" 10.* Shen E, Chou CP, Pentz MA, Berhane K. Bayesian quantile mediation analysis Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 11.* Eckel S, Gauderman WJ, Berhane K.


On scaling regression coefficients by interquartile ranges for comparison Epidemiology 12.* Byrd-Williams CE, Belcher BR, Ventura EE, Berhane K, Davis JN, Spruijt-Metz D,

Goran MI. “Sex differences in the relationship between physical activity and adiposity among overweight African American and Hispanic adolescents”. International Journal of Obesity

13.* Hassanein MT, Chang CC, Baurley J, Liu J, Gilliland F, Gauderman WJ, Schumacher F, Berhane K. Obesity Variants Associated with Longitudinal Change of BMI in both Hispanic and

Caucasian Children from the Children’s Health Study [Human Molecular Genetics, Revised]

14.* Bastain TM, McConnell R, Islam T, James Gauderman WJ, Avol EL, Linn WS, Salam T,

Rappaport EB, Berhane KT, Gilliland FD. Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Pulmonary Function in the Southern California Children’s Health Study

15.* Hosseini R, Takemura A, Berhane K. Interpolating slow-moving curves with very sparse data

Articles in Preparation

1. Zhang Y, Salam MT, Berhane K, Eckel SP, Rappaport EB, Linn WS, Rima H, Bastain TM, Gilliland FD. Particulate Pollution, Genetic and Epigenetic Variations in Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Promoter Distort the Distribution of Exhaled Nitric Oxide in School Children

2. McConnell R, Barrington-Trimis JL, Wang K, Urman R, Cruz T, Huh J, Unger J, Chou

C-P, Liu F, Gilreath TD, Leventhal AM, Berhane K. Electronic-Cigarette use and respiratory symptoms in adolescents. 3.* Hosseini R, Franklin M, Thomas D, Gauderman J, Berhane K. Modeling air pollution mixtures in Southern California (Target Journal: Environmetrics) 4. Breton CV, Salam MT, Wang X, Mack WJ, Berhane K, Lurmann F, McConnell R, Hodis

HN, Künzli N, Gilliland F, Avol E. Childhood air pollutant exposures, wheeze and carotid intima-media thickness in children Non Peer Review, Technical Reports


1. Berhane K, Carter EM, Hubert JJ, Allen OB.

Longitudinal data analysis by generalized estimating equations. Statistical Series No. 1991-234, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph 1991.

2. Berhane K, Tibshirani RJ. Generalized additive models for longitudinal data. Technical Report No. 9311, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, 1993. 3. Samet JM, Zeger SL, Berhane K. The association of mortality and particulate air pollution. The Phase I Report of the

Particulate Epidemiology Evaluation Project. Health Effects Institute 1-104, August 1995. 4. Berhane K, Rao JS. Automatic smoothing parameter selection in nonparametric models for longitudinal data.

Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis. Dublin, Ireland, June 12-15, 1995: 22-34.

5. Rao JS, Berhane K.

A physician’s guide to some modern statistical tools for the analysis of biomedical data. Technical Report Series, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation 1997.

6. Langholz B, Berhane K, Goldstein L, Xiang A, Thomas DC. Time related factors in Epidemiology: 1999 Renewal Proposal. Technical Report Series No. 140, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, USC.

7. Berhane K, Zeger SL, Samet JM. Iteratively weighted and adaptive filtered least squares for Poisson time series data: Applications to air pollution studies. Technical Report Series No. 151, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, USC, 2000.


A two-stage model for time series data of counts from many sites. Technical Report Series No. 152, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, USC, 2000.

9. Berhane K, Gauderman WJ, Stram DO, Thomas DC Statistical issues in studies of the long term effects of air pollution: The Southern California Children’s Health Study.


Technical Report Series No. 156, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, USC, 2001.

10. Berhane K, Weissfeld L Inference in Spline Based Models for Multiple Time-to-Event Data: With applications to

a breast cancer prevention trial. Technical Report Series No. 168, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, USC, 2003.

11. Berhane K. Functional based multi-level models for longitudinal data. Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, August 2002 (6 pages in CDROM)

12. Berhane K, (with Irva Hertz-Picciotto)

Chapter on Reproductive Outcomes Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002, Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences (Release Date: January 23, 2003)

13. Berhane K, (with Irva Hertz-Piccioto, Paul Engstrom, Tom Gasiewicz, Tee Guidotti, Loren Koller, John Stegman and David Strogatz)

Chapter on Cancer Outcomes Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002, Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences (Release Date: January 23, 2003)

14. Berhane K, (with Irva Hertz-Piccioto, Paul Engstrom, Tom Gasiewicz, Tee Guidotti,

Loren Koller, John Stegman and David Strogatz) Veterans and Agent Orange: Presumption of Association between Exposure and Respiratory Cancer, Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences (Release Date: February, 2004) 15. Berhane K, Molitor NT, et al. A Bayesian approach to functional based multi level modeling of longitudinal data: With applications to environmental epidemiology. USC Technical Report No. 169 (2004). 9. Hosseini Abstracts 1. Berhane K, Tibshirani R.

Non-parametric regression models for longitudinal data. Presented at ENAR Biometrics Conference, 1994. Cleveland, Ohio (Student Award).


2. Berhane K, Tibshirani R. Generalized additive models for dependent data. Presented at Annual Conference of

Statistical Society of Canada, 1994. Banff, Canada (Invited). 3. Berhane K, Tibshirani R. Varying-coefficient models for dependent data. Presented at GLM Special Topics

Conference. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1994. Gainesville, FL (Invited). 4. Berhane K, Rao JS. Automatic smoothing parameter selection in non-parametric models for longitudinal data.

Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings, 1995. Orlando, FL. 5. Kimm SYS, Berhane K, McAllister AE, Aston CE, Sanghera D, Kamboh M, Ferrell RE.

Gene-environment interaction on blood lipids during puberty in a biracial cohort of young women. Presented at SER Annual Meeting, 1996. Boston, MA.

6. Berhane K, Zeger SL, Samet JM. Analysis of air pollution data via IWFLS. Presented at International Biometrics

Conference, 1996. Amsterdam, Holland. 7. Berhane K, Weissfeld L. Modeling multiple time-to-event data using pseudosmoothers. Presented at ENAR Biometrics Conference, 1998. Pittsburgh, PA. 8. Burgut R, Berhane K, Rockette HE. Modeling recurrent episodes of acute otitis media on twins. Presented at ENAR

Biometrics Conference, 1998. Pittsburgh, PA. 9. Berhane K.

On the use of Pseudosplines in analyzing correlated data. Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings, 1998. Dallas, TX.

10. Linn WS, Szlachcic Y, Gong H, Kinney PL, Berhane K.

Air pollution and daily hospital admissions in metropolitan Los Angeles. Presented at American Thoracic Society Meeting, 1999.


San Diego, CA.

11. Berhane K.

Flexible multi-stage models for pulmonary function in children. Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings, 1999. Baltimore, MD.

12. Levine AM, Berhane K, Masri-Lavine L, Sanchez ML, Greenblatt R, Anastos K,

Young M, Augenbaum M, Cohen M, Gange S, Burns D. Prevalence of and risk factors for anemia among a large cohort of HIV infected women: women's interagency HIV study (WIHS). Presented at the American Society of Hematology Meeting, 1999. New Orleans, LA.

13. Berhane K, Sanchez ML, Masri-Lavine L, Cohen M, Young M, Greenblatt RM,

Anastos K, Augenbaum M, Gange S, Burns D, Levine AM. Relationship between highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) and anemia in a large cohort (2078) of HIV infected women: Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). Presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology Meeting, 2000. New Orleans, LA.

14. Levine AM, Berhane K, Masri-Lavine L, Sanchez ML, Greenblatt R, Anastos K,

Young M, Augenbaum M, Cohen M, Gange S, Burns D. Prevalence of and risk factors for anemia among a large cohort of HIV infected women: women's interagency HIV study (WIHS). Presented at the XIII International AIDS Conference, 2000. Durbin, South Africa.


A two-stage model for multiple time series data of counts. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, 2000. Indianapolis, IN.

16. Gilliland FD, Islam T, Berhane K, McConnell R, Li Y-F, Peters JM. Obesity and asthma incidence in school-aged children: Results from the children's health study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163(5):A37, 2001.

17. Li Y-F, Gilliland FD, Berhane K, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Peters JM. Effects of

in utero exposure on lung function in children with early onset asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163(5):A263, 2001.

18. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Islam T, London SJ, Gauderman WJ, Avol E,

Margolis HG, Peters JM. Sports and asthma in children exposed to ozone. Am J Respir


Crit Care Med 163(5):A174, 2001.

19. Berhane K.

Statistical approaches to handling exposure measurement error in cohort studies of air pollution health effects. Presented at the ISEE annual meeting (Invited), 2000. Buffalo, NY.

20. Gilliland FD, Islam T, Berhane K, McConnell R, Li Y-F, Peters JM.

Obesity and asthma incidence in school aged children: Results from the Children's Health Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163(5):A37, 2001. Presented at American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, 2001 (#512460). San Francisco, CA.

21. Li Y-F, Gilliland FD, Berhane K, McConnell R, Gauderman WJ, Peters JM.

Effects of in utero to maternal smoking and ETS exposure on lung function in children with early onset asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163(5):A263, 2001. Presented at American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, 2001 (#512216). San Francisco, CA.

22. Khalsa A, Berhane K, Masri L, Minkoff H, Cohen M, Young M, Anastos K,

Greenblatt R, Gange S, Levine AM. Hypertension in HIV infected women and relationship to HAART: Women's Interagency HIV study (WIHS). IAS 2001 (Poster #512) Buenos Aires, Argentina.

23. Berhane K, Weissfeld L.

Modeling multiple time to event data using penalized B-splines. Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings, 2001. Atlanta, GA.

24. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Islam T, London SJ, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Margolis HG, Peters JM. Sports and asthma in children exposed to ozone. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163(5):A174, 2001.

25. McConnell R, Berhane K, Lurmann F, Molitor NT, Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Rappaport Ed, Gilliland F, Peters JM. Traffic and asthma prevalence in children. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 165(8): A492, 2002.

26. Gauderman WJ, McConnell R, Berhane K, Lurmann F, Avol E, Gilliland F, Thomas D,

Peters J. Genes, environmental exposures and childhood asthma occurrence. Epidemiology 13(4):S131, 2002.


27. Peters JM, McConnell R, Berhane K, Millstein J, Lurmann F, Gauderman J, Avol E,

Gilliland F, Thomas D. Air pollution and the incidence, prevalence and severity of childhood asthma: results from the Southern California Children’s Health Study. Epidemiology 13(4):S132, 2002.

28. McConnell R, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Molitor NT, Avol E, Gauderman WJ, Peters JM Air pollution and bronchitic symptoms in children: between-community and within community effects. Epidemiology 13(4):S148, 2002.

29. Berhane K.

Functional based multi-level models for longitudinal data Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings, 2002. New York, NY.

30. McConnell R, Berhane K, Molitor NT, Gilliland FD. Effect modification by pet ownership. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2003; 167:A36. 31. Gilliland FD, Islam T, Berhane K, McConnell R, Peters J. Smoking and asthma

incidence in school-aged children: Results from the Children's Health Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004; 169:A709.

32. Berhane K, Hauptmann M, Langholz B.

Using Tensor Product Splines in Exposure-Time-Response Relationships Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings, 2004. Toronto, Canada.

33. Molitor NT, Berhane K. Multi-level flexible models for bivariate longitudinal data

Joint Statistical Meetings, 2005. Minneapolis, MN

34. Jerrett M, Shankardass K, Gauderman J, Berhane K, Kunzli N, Lurmann F, Avol E, Peters J, Gilliland F, Molitor NT, Molitor J, McConnell R. Air pollution and asthma incidence in children. Proc Am Thoracic Soc 2006; 3:A23. 35. Islam T, Gauderman JW, Berhane K, McConnell R, Avol E, Peters J, Gilliland FD. Low lung function predicts new onset asthma among children. Proc Am Thoracic Soc 2006; 3:A153. 36. Berhane K, Jerrett M, Chang CC, Wolch J, Gilliland F, McConnell R


Influence of the built environment on development of obesity during childhood. Proceedings of the American American Obesity Society 2008; S 83. [Oral Platform Presentation] 37. Banks K, Tuazon E, Koh C, De Filippo R, Chang A, Berhane K, Cortessis VK

Comprehensive meta-analysis of cryptorchidismtestis cancer association reveals a strong secular trend and notable modification by histologic type of tumor. The Journal of Urology April 2008 (Vol. 179, Issue 4, Pages 7-8)

38. Banks K, Tuazon E, Koh C, De Filippo R, Chang A, Berhane K, Cortessis VK

Malignant potential of the cryptorchid testis associated with bilateral occurrence, persistent non-descent, and advanced age at repair: results of a comprehensive meta-analysis The Journal of Urology; April 2008 (Vol. 179, Issue 4, Pages 7-8)

39. Shankardass K, McConnell R, Jerrett M, Milam J, Berhane K, Richardson J.

Parental stress increases the effect of air pollution on childhood asthma incidence. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2008;177:A784

40. Berhane K, Zhang Y, Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Bastain TM, Lurmann F, Gilliland FD. The Effect of Ambient Air Pollution on Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) in Southern California Schoolchildren. Proceedings of American Thoracic Society, 2009, San Diego, CA: A4732 41. Bastain TM, Rappaport EB, Islam KT, Salam MT, Berhane KT, Linn W, Gilliland FD. The Effect of Exhaled Nitric Oxide on New Onset Asthma in the Southern California Children's Health Study. Proceedings of American Thoracic Society, 2009, San Diego, CA: A4764. 42. Linn WS, Rappaport EB, Berhane KT, Bastain TM, Howland S, Realiza N, Diaz R, Valencia L, Gilliland FD. Extended Exhaled Nitric Oxide Testing in Children at Schools, Proceedings of American Thoracic Society, 2009, San Diego, CA: A4765. 43. McConnell R, Liu F, Gauderman J, Berhane K. Association of Traffic-Related Pollutants with Alternative Asthma Phenotypes in the Children's Health Study. Proceedings of American Thoracic Society, 2009, San Diego, CA: A4738. 44. Wolch J, Chang CC, Jerrett M, McConnell R, Reynolds K, Berhane K. Childhood Obesity and Proximity to Urban Parks and Recreational Resources: A Longitudinal Cohort Study


Active Living Research Conference, 2009, San Diego, CA 45. Berhane K, Jerrett M, Chang CC, Wolch J, Reynolds K, Wilson J, Gilliland F, McConnell R. Street connectivity, population density and food access around the home and the development of obesity in a prospective cohort study of children aged 10-18 years. Active Living Research Conference, 2009, San Diego, CA. 46. Jerrett M, McConnell, Chang CC, Wolch J, Reynolds K, Lurman F, Berhane K. Automobile traffic around the home and the development of obesity in children aged 10-18 years: A longitudinal cohort study. Active Living Research Conference, 2009, San Diego, CA. 47. Berhane K, Jerrett M, Lam C, Chang CC, Wolch J, McConnell R. Effects of street topology and population density on development of childhood obesity: Results from prospective cohorts of children aged 4-18 years Annual Obesity Society Meeting (NAASO) [Poster Presentation. October, 2009]. 48. Wolch J, Jerrett M, Lam C, Chang CC, McConnell R, Reynolds K, Berhane K. Childhood obesity and access to public recreational programs. Annual Obesity Society Meeting (NAASO) [Oral Platform Presentation. October, 2009]. 49. Jerrett M, McConnell R, Chang CC, Wolch J, Lurmann F, Reynolds K, Berhane K. Automobile traffic and air pollution effects on obesity. Annual Obesity Society Meeting (NAASO) [Poster Presentation. October, 2009]. 50. Pentz MA, Jerrett M, Wolch J, Valente T, Dunton G, Chou CP, Berhane K, Spruijt-Metz D. Effects of a Smart Growth Community on Prevention of Family Obesity Risk: Pilot Study Results. Annual Obesity Society Meeting (NAASO) [Poster Presentation. October, 2009]. Letters to Editors 1. Becker S, Berhane K. Comments on “Have Sperm Densities Declined?” Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 106, 9:A420, 1998. 2. Berhane K, Sokol R Re: Ozone and Semen Quality (A response to a letter by JP Bonde). Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 115 (4): A185-6, 2007


3. Breton CV, Wang X, Mack WJ, Berhane K, Lopez M, Islam TS, Feng M, Lurmann F, McConnell R, Hodis HN, Künzli N, Avol E. Response to letter regarding article, “Childhood air pollutant exposure and carotid artery intima–media thickness in young adults”. Circulation. 2013 Jun 4;127(22):e659.

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