Donald Slymen

Phone:	(619) 594-6439
Office:	HT 169
Office Hours:	By Appointment
Email:	dslymen@mail.sdsu.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa (1983)
• M.S., Biostatistics, UCLA (1974)
• B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley (1973)

Scholarly Areas:

Analysis of Longitudinal and Clustered Data, Design and Analysis of Clinical and Community Intervention Trials, Statistical Methods for Health Services Utilization, General Biostatistical Methods

Biography:

Dr. Donald Slymen is a Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He received his Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine with a concentration in Biometry in 1983. Prior to coming to San Diego State he worked at the Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, and at the Arizona Cancer Center of the University of Arizona in Tucson. He has had primary responsibility for shaping the biostatistics program since arriving at the GSPH in 1988. He has been involved in a number of NIH and other collaborative research studies with faculty at San Diego State, including behavioral interventions to reduce or prevent smoking, alter nutritional habits, improve exercise, and other preventive studies. He has served as a statistical consultant with several research groups throughout San Diego, the most recent of which is the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center of Children's Hospital and Health Center conducting health services research among children in the child welfare system. His interests in biostatistics include the analysis of cluster randomization trials, design and analysis of clinical and community intervention trials, analysis of longitudinal data, and survival analysis.

Selected Publications:

• Bakhireva, L.N., Jones, K.L., Schatz, M., Klonoff-Cohen, H.S., Johnson, D., Slymen, D.J., and Chambers, C.D. (2007) OTIS Collaborative Research Group. Safety of leukotriene receptor antagonists in pregnancy. J. Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 119: 618-625.

• Duerksen, S.C., Elder, J.P., Arredondo, E.M., Ayala, G.X., Slymen, D.J., Campbell, N.R., and Baquero, B. (2007) Family restaurant choices are associated with child and adult overweight status in Mexican- American families. J American Dietetic Association. 107: 849-853.

• Mayer, J.A., Slymen, D.J., Clapp, E.J., Pinchon, L.C., Eckhardt, E., Eichenfield, L., Elder, J.P., Sallis, J.F., Weinstock, M., Achter, A., Balderrama, C., Galindo, G.R., and Oh, S.S. (2007) Promoting sun safety among U.S. Postal Service letter carriers: Impact of a two-year intervention. American Journal of Public Health. 97: 559-565.

• Elder, J.P., Ayala, G.X., Campbell, N.R., Arredondo, E.M., Slymen, D.J., Baquero, B., Zive, M., Ganiats, T.G., and Engelberg, M. (2006) Long-term effects of a communication intervention for Spanish-dominant Latinas. American J of Preventive Medicine. 31: 159-166.

• Slymen, D.J., Ayala, G.X., Arredondo, E.M., and Elder, J.P. (2006) A demonstration of modeling count data with an application to physical activity. Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations. 3: 3-.

• Lewis, E.C., Mayer, J.A., and Slymen, D. (2006) Postal workers’ occupational and leisure-time sun safety behaviors. Cancer Causes and Control. 17: 181-186.

• Drumwright, L.N., Little, S.J., Strathdee, S.A., Slymen, D.J., Araneta, M.R.G., Malcarne, V., Daar, E.S., and Gorbach, P.M. (2006) Unprotected anal intercourse and substance use among men having sex with men with recent HIV infection. JAIDS. 43: 344-350.

• Arredondo, E.M., Elder, J.P., Ayala, G.X., Slymen, D., and Campbell, N. (2006) Association of a traditional vs. shared meal decision-making and preparation style with the eating behavior of Hispanic women in San Diego County. J. American Dietetic Association. 106: 38-45.

• Leslie, L.K., Hurlburt, M.S., James, S., Landsverk, J., Slymen, D.J., and Zhang, J. (2005) Relationship between entry into child welfare and mental health services use. Psychiatric Services. 56: 981-987.

• Kupferberg, D.H., Kaplan, R.M., Slymen, D.J., and Ries, A.L. (2005) Minimal clinically important difference for the UCSD shortness of breath questionnaire. J of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. 25: 370-377.

• Pichon, L.C., Mayer, J.A., Slymen, D.J., Elder, J.P., Lewis, E.C., and Galindo, G.R. (2005) Ethnoracial differences among outdoor workers in key sun safety behaviors. American J Preventive Medicine. 28: 374-378.

• Lewis, E., Mayer, J.A., Slymen, D., Belch, G., Engelberg, M., Walker, K., Kwon, H., and Elder, J. (2005) Disseminating a sun safety program to zoological parks: the effect of tailoring. Health Psychology. 24: 456-462.

• Hurlburt, M.S., Leslie, L.K., Landsverk, J., Barth, R.P., Burns, B.J., Gibbons, R.D., and Slymen, D.J. (2004) Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare. Archives of General Psychiatry. 61: 1217-1224.

• Leslie, L.K., Hurlburt, M.S., Landsverk, J., Barth, R., and Slymen, D.J. (2004) Outpatient mental health services for children in foster care: a national perspective. Child Abuse & Neglect. 28: 699-714.

• James, S., Slymen, D.J., and Leslie, L.K. (2004) Predictors of outpatient mental health service use- the role of foster care placement change. Mental Health Services Research. 6(3): 127-147.