ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D., Statistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
M.Sc., Statistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Teaching Diploma, Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
B.Sc., Mathematics, Statistics & Computer studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Biostatistician Scientist, Canadian Heart Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital, 1999 - present
Consultant for pharmaceutical industry, Principal, Data & Inference Inc., 1999 - present
Associate Member of Graduate School, University of Toronto, 1997- present
Associate Member of Research Ethics Board, St. Michael's Hospital, 1997 - present
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 1995- present
Research Scientist, St. Michael's Hospital, 1995 - 1999
Chief Statistician, Vehicle Information Centre of Canada, 1993 - 1995
Associate Professor, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 1986 - 1992
Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1982 - 1985

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

Member of Statistical Society of Canada
Member of American Statistical Association
Member of South African Statistical Society

RESEARCH TRIALS COMMITTEES

Statistician: A multi-center Canadian trial, double blind, randomized with two parallel groups, to evaluate the efficacy of micronized fenofibrate in hypercholesterolemic patients, 1997 - present
Statistician: Atrial Sensing To Reduce Inappropriate Defibrillation (ASTRID), 1997 - present
Statistician: Canadian Acute Coronary Syndrome Registry (ACS), 1999 - present
Co-Investigator and Statistician: Improving outcomes in patients with severe ventricular dysfunction that undergo coronary artery bypass surgery with a complete nutritional supplement MYOVIVE, 1999 - present
Co-investigator and Statistician: Survey, Diabetes Screening in Canada (DIASCAN), 1998
Client: Servier, Canada. See refereed article number 16.
Statistician: A comparison of the efficacy and safety of mibefradil with diltiazem CD in an 8 - week treatment of patients with chronic stable angina pectoris (PRIDE), 1997 - 1998
Client: Hoffmann - La Roche, Canada. See refereed article number 17.
Statistician: Sub-study for ST Holter monitoring (ESSENCE), 1995 - 1997
Client: Rhone - Poulenc Rorer. See refereed article number 12.

SUPERVISOR AND EXAMINER OF MASTER THESES

Co-supervisor of M.Sc. thesis in Epidemiology of Rochelle Martin at University of Toronto, entitled: "Gender specific differences in HIV knowledge, attitudes and behaviour between male and female adolescents in treatment for substance use, and their effect on prevention outcome", 1999 - 2000
Supervisor of M.Sc. thesis in Biostatistics of David C. Halett at University of Toronto, entitled: "A review of goodness of fit measures for the logistic model", 1996 - 1999
External examiner of M.Sc. thesis in Biostatistics of Namita Parekh at University of Toronto, entitled: "Validity and efficiency of parameter estimates in frequency matched case-control studies", 1998
External examiner of M.Sc. thesis in Statistics in the Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, entitled: "Fitting of distributions in the case of survey data", 1992