Biographical Profile
Interest Background
Professional Preparation
Positions & Appointments
Recognition Awards, Honors, & Fellowships
Websites
Publications
McLain, Alexander
Associate Professor
Dr. McLain uses his interests to apply them to his research in maternal and child health, fecundity, and environmental health.
Biographical Profile
- College
- Arnold School of Public Health
- Department
- Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Tenure Status
- Tenured
Interest Background
- Do you include students in your research?
- None
- Interest Keywords
- survival analysis, joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, missing data, multiple testing, fecundity modeling, prediction of survival outcomes, semi-parametric mixed-effects models
- Institutional Focus Areas
- Health Sciences
- Personal Focus Areas
- Survival analysis, joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, multiple testing, maternal and child health, mixed-effects models
Professional Preparation(Education & Training)
| Dates | Institution | Location | Degree | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/2008 | University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | Ph.D. | Statistics |
| 12/2005 | University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | M.S. | Statistics |
| 05/2002 | University of Massachusetts | Amherst, MA | B.S. | Mathematics |
Positions & Appointments
| Dates | Description | Institution/Entity |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 - 2009 | NSF-VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University |
| 2009 - 2011 | IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| 2011 - 2012 | Research Fellow, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| 2012 - Present | Assistant Professor | Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina. |
Recognition Awards, Honors, & Fellowships
| Dates | Type | Description | Foundation/Entity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Award | Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award | Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina |
| 2008 | Award | Research Fellowship under NIH Grant 2 R01 GM56182 | |
| 2008 | Award | NSF-VIGRE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | National Science Foundation |
| 2008 | Award | ASA Travel Award to attend 2008 SRCOS SRC | |
| 2008 | Award | R.L. Anderson Student Paper Award | , Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS) |
| 2009 | Award | IRTA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | IRTA |
| 2012 | Award | Two Thumbs Up Award | Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society |
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