OB Melanie M. Wall

Melanie M. Wall

Professor of Biostatistics (in Psychiatry)
Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
and
Director of Mental Health Data Science in the
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and the
New York State Psychiatric Institute




I am the director of Mental Health Data Science in the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University psychiatry department where I oversee a team of 14 biostatisticians collaborating on predominately NIH funded research projects related to psychiatry. I have worked extensively with modeling complex multilevel and multimodal data on a wide array of psychosocial public health and psychiatric research questions in both clinical studies and large epidemiologic studies (over 450 total journal publications). My biostatistical expertise includes latent variable modeling (e.g. factor analysis, item response theory, latent class models, structural equation modeling), spatial data modeling (e.g. disease mapping), and longitudinal data analysis including the class of longitudinal models commonly called growth curve mixture models. I received a Ph.D. (1998) from the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, and a B.S. (1993) in mathematics from Truman State University. Before moving to Columbia University in 2010, I was on faculty in Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Link to my blog about Mental Health Data Science.

TEACHING P8158 Latent Variable and Structural Equation Modeling for Health Sciences (Columbia University Dept of Biostatistics) - Syllabus


My full CV is here and below are selected research papers and statistical programs...


Melanie M. Wall
email: mmw2177@cumc.columbia.edu
phone: (646)774-5458
Mailing address:
1051 Riverside Drive
Unit 48
New York, NY 10032
Physical address (and FedEx):
Allan Rosenfield Building
722 West 168th Street - R207
New York, NY 10032