Michael L. Berbaum, PhD
Director, Methodology Research Core
Dr. Michael L. Berbaum has provided statistical support to numerous investigators in health and community prevention studies throughout his career. His current research interests include applications of ordinal regression to diagnostic performance in radiology and to studies of pain. Prior to joining the UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy in 2000, he was a research social scientist at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Alabama.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Berbaum has taught advanced graduate-level courses at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at the University of Michigan. Topics of those courses include experimental design, analysis of variance, and advanced categorical data analysis with a focus on models for longitudinal multi-strata and multi-level designs.
Research Interests
Applications of ordinal regression techniques to diagnostic radiology and to studies of pain control. Also interested in the resolution of statistical complications that arise from clustering, missing data, and sample selection in health studies.
Recent and Noteworthy Publications
Barbosa VM, Campbell SK, Berbaum M. Discriminating infants from different developmental groups using the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP) item responses. Pediatric Physical Therapy. 2007;19:28-39.
Curry SJ, Emery S, Sporer AK, Mermelstein R, Flay BR, Berbaum M, Warnecke RB, Johnson T, Mowery P, Parsons J, Harmon L, Hund L, Wells H. A national survey of tobacco cessation programs for youths. Am J Public Health. 2007 Jan;97(1):171-177.
Gerber BS, Pagcatipunan M, Smith EV Jr, Basu SS, Lawless KA, Smolin LI, Berbaum ML, Brodsky IG, Eiser AR. The assessment of diabetes knowledge and self-efficacy in a diverse population using Rasch measurement. J Appl Meas. 2006;7(1):55-73.
Hedeker D, Berbaum ML, Mermelstein R. Location-scale models for multilevel ordinal data: between- and within-subjects variance modeling. Journal of Probability and Statistical Science. 2006;4(1);1-20.
Koerber A, Graumlich S, Punwani IC, Berbaum ML, Burns JL, Levy SR, Cowell JM, Flay BR. Covariates of tooth-brushing frequency in low-income African Americans from grades 5 to 8. Pediatr Dent. 2006 Nov-Dec;28(6):524-30.
Lang EV, Berbaum KS, Faintuch S, Hatsiopoulou O, Halsey N, Li X, Berbaum ML, Laser E, Baum J. Adjunctive self-hypnotic relaxation for outpatient medical procedures: a prospective randomized trial with women undergoing large core breast biopsy. Pain. 2006 Dec 15;126(1-3):155-64.
Lutgendorf SK, Lang EV, Berbaum KS, Russell D, Berbaum ML, Logan H, Benotsch EG, Schulz-Stubner S, Turesky D, Spiegel D. Effects of age on responsiveness to adjunct hypnotic analgesia during invasive medical procedures. Psychosom Med. 2007 Mar-Apr;69(2):191-9.
Teplitz L, Igic R, Berbaum ML, Schwertz DW. Sex differences in susceptibility to epinephrine-induced arrhythmias. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2005 Oct;46(4):548-55.
Contact Info
Institute for Health Research and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 275)
428 Westside Research Office Bldg.
1747 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608
Other Title(s)
Senior Biostatistician, Institute for Health Research and Policy
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
IHRP Affiliation(s)
Current IHRP Research Studies (PI)
Current IHRP Research Studies (Co-I)
Recently Completed Research
Clinical and Economic Outcomes of the Electronic ICU: Continuous Analysis of Existing Data
Nurse Managed Upper Body Strength Training in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Testing Impact of Health Literacy in Adult Literacy and Integrated Family Approach Programs