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CTRIC Projects

  • Provide data management for the CDC funded study: Impact of Post-antibiotic Prescription Review on Antibiotic Use and Resistance: A Multi-site cluster randomized crossover trial
  • Designed, implemented, and maintain the Research HARBOR (Helping Advance Research By Organizing Resources) - A data warehouse that organizes and catalogs clinical data for use by university researchers
  • Provide Data Management for
    • Research Program on Gambling for the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling
  • Designed the Maryland Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Registry
  • Designed data collection forms, captured all data in custom designed database, produced detailed reports and ran variety of data analyses for an ongoing study on child abuse for the Department of Pediatrics 
  • Provided survey methodology expertise for the Maryland Cancer Screening Survey  
  • Data management center for two RCTs
  • Performed analysis (everything from t-tests to repeated measures to complex regression analysis) and drafted Results section of manuscript for a variety of studies, including a study on Domoic Acid Neurotoxicity in Native Americans for Dr. Grattan in the department of Neurology
  • Designed an interactive and interventional electronic survey utilizing special software called Snap survey for Dr. Barnett in the department of Family and Community Medicine. This survey is used at several participating satellite sites to collect data directly from participants
  • Coordinate studies run by several principal investigators within the School of Nursing; performed data analysis for Dr. Lipscomb
  • Created custom designed software for the Department of Finance at the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) to allow principal investigators and research coordinators to securely submit and update enrollment information to both UMMS and University Physicians, Inc (UPI) with online efficiency and accuracy
  • Provided standardized forms, data dictionaries, triggers and views for over twenty-seven studies administered by the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC), a partnership between the Veterans Administration and the Department of Psychiatry at UMSOM
  • Designed over twenty forms for the Cooperative International Neuromuscular Group (CINRG), an international longitudinal study of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy centered at the National Children’s Medical Center with twenty-three satellite sites around the world.
  • Designed and manage custom database for a group of researchers within the UMSOM Department of Endocrinology 

Sample Publications

  1. Osborn, TM, Tracy, JK, Dunne, JR, Pasquale, M, Napolitano, LM (2004). Epidemiology of sepsis in patients with traumatic injury. Critical Care Medicine, 32(11), 2234-40.
  2. Tracy, JK, Meyer, WA, Flores, RH, Hochberg, MC (2005). Racial differences in rate of decline in bone mineral density at the total hip: The Baltimore Men’s Osteoporosis Study (MOST). Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 20(7), 1228-34.
  3. Dubowitz, H, Feigelman, S, Lane, W, Prescott, L, Blackman, K, Grube, L., Meyer, W, & Tracy, JK. (2007). Screening for depression in an urban pediatric primary care clinic. Pediatrics, 119(3):435-43.
  4. Feigelman, S, Dubowitz, H, Lane, W, Prescott, L, Meyer, W, Tracy JK, Kim, J (2009). Screening for harsh punishment in a pediatric primary care clinic. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33(5):269-77.
  5. Fialkowski, MK, McCrory, MA, Roberts, SM, Tracy, JK, Grattan, LM, Boushey, CJ (2010) Estimated nutrient intakes from food generally do not meet dietary reference intakes among adult members of Pacific Northwest tribal nations. The Journal of nutrition 140 (5), 992-998
  6. Tracy, L, Gaff, HD, Burgess, C, Sow, S, Gravitt, PE, Tracy, JK. (2011). Estimating the impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on HPV prevalence and cervical cancer incidence in Mali. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 52(5):641-5.
  7. Schluterman NH, Sow SO, Traore CB, Bakarou K, Dembelé R, Sacko F, Gravitt PE, Tracy JK (2013). Differences in patterns of high-risk human papillomavirus infection between urban and rural low-resource settings: cross-sectional findings from Mali. BMC Women's Health, 6(13):4.
  8. Tracy JK, Schluterman NH, Greene C, Sow SO, Gaff HD (2014). Planning for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: A modeling-based approach. Vaccine. 2014 May 30;32(26):3316-22
  9. Raymond K. Cross, Guruprasad Jambaulikar, Patricia Langenberg, J. Kathleen Tracy, Joseph F. Collins, Jonathan Katz, Miguel Regueiro, David A. Schwartzf, Charlene C. Quinn (2015). TELEmedicine for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (TELE-IBD): Design and implementation of randomized clinical trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials 42 (2015) 132-144.
  10. Guruprasad D. Jambaulikar, Joy Lee, Mahoussi Aholoukpe, Miguel Regueiro, David A. Schwartz, Leyla J. Ghazi, Seema Patil, Mark Flasar, Kathleen Tracy, Raymond Cross. Tu1262 Internal Locus of Control and Increased Self-Efficacy Are Associated With Higher Quality of Life in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Gastroenterology 04/2015; 148(4):S-841.
  11. Samantha Zullow, Mark H. Flasar, Deborah Greenberg, J. Kathleen Tracy, Ankur Rustgi, Raymond K. (2014). Cross. A health survey of gastroenterologist prescribing practices of adalimumab for treatment of Crohn's disease: Final results. Gastroenterology and Hepatology 10(8):503-509.Meiring, J.E., Laurens,
  12. Siamak Aram, Lauren Levy, Jigar B. Patel, Afrouz A. Anderson, Rachel Zaragoza, Hadis Dashtestani, Fatima A. Chowdhry, Amir Gandjbakhche, and J. Kathleen Tracy. (2019). The Iowa Gambling Task: A Review of the Historical Evolution, Scientific Basis, and Use in Functional Neuroimaging. Sage Open. 2019 July 2.
  13. M.B., Patel, P., Patel, P., Misiri, T., Simiyu, K., Mwakiseghile, F., Tracy, J.K., Masesa, C., Liang, Y., Henrion, M., Rotrosen, E., Gmeiner, M., Heyderman, R., Kotloff, K., Gordon, M.A., Neuzil, K.M. (2019). Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium Malawi: A Phase III, Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Trial of the Clinical Efficacy of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Among Children in Blantyre, Malawi. Clin Infect Dis. 68(Supplement_2):S50-S58.