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Kristopher Attwood

Kristopher Attwood BS, MS, MA, PhD

Oncology, Bioinformatics, Research and Clinical Research
Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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Dr. Attwood earned his PhD and MA in Biostatistics from the SUNY University at Buffalo (UB). He also earned a BS degree in Applied Mathematics from the University at Rhode Island, as well as a MS degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from UB.

Dr. Attwood joined the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) as a Senior Biostatistician in 2011. He was later presented with an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in 2012 at RPCI. In this capacity he has designed, reviewed and analyzed clinical, pre-clinical and translational studies for a variety of disease settings and outcomes. He regularly works with the Department of Urology and is a current member of the Internal Review Board, Data Safety & Monitoring Board, and Genitourinary Program. In addition, Dr. Attwood has been teaching undergraduate and graduate level applied statistics courses at Daemen College since 2008.

His Publications are as follows:
Attwood, K., Tian, L. & Xiong, C. Diagnositc threshold with three ordinal groups. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 2014; 24(3):608-633. PMID: 24707966.
Montgomery, E., Gao, C., de Luca, J., Bower, J., Attwood, K. & Ylagan, L. Validation of 31 of the most commonly used immunohistochemical antibodies in cytology prepared using the Cellient automated cell block system. Diagnostic Cytopathology 2014; 42(12):1024-1033. PMID: 24678031.
Koulikov, D., Mohler, M.C., Mehedint, D.C., Attwood, K., Wilding, G.E. & Mohler, J.L. Low detectable prostate specific antigen after radical prostatectomy--treat or watch? The Journal of Urology 2014; 192(5):1390-1396. PMID: 24678031.
Poch, M.A., Mehedint, D., Green, D.J., Payne-Ondracek, R., Fontham, E.T.H., Bensen, J.T., Attwood, K., Wilding, G.E., Guru, K.A., Underwood, W., Mohler, J.L. & Heemers, H.V. The association between calcium channel blocker use and prostate cancer outcome. Prostate 2013; 73(8):865-872. PMID: 23280547.
Schmidt, L.J., Duncan, K., Yadav, N., Regan, K.M., Verone, A.R., Lohse, C.M., Pop, E.A., Attwood, K., Wilding, G., Mohler, J.L., Sebo, J., Tindall, D.J. & Heemers, H.V. RhoA as a mediator of clinically relevant androgen action in prostate cancer cells. Molecular Endocrinology 2012; 26(5):716-735. PMCID: PMC3355556.
Bailey, D.W., Nelms, B.E., Attwood, K., Kumaraswamy, L. & Podgorsak, M.B. Statistical variability and confidence iIntervals for planar dose QA pass rates. Medical Physics 2011; 38(11):6053-6064. PMID: 22047370.
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