Several graduate and doctoral students in the Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, played a role in the MoVIES project, published papers using the MoVIES project data, and also used MoVIES data for their theses and dissertations.

Master's Degrees in Public Health

Doctoral Degrees in Public Health

Other students/trainees who worked on MoVIES project and/or contributed to analysis, interpretation, and reporting of data:

*Supported by training grant # T32 AG 00181 from NIA, "Training in the Epidemiology of Aging," Program Director:  Jane A. Cauley, DrPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.  For more information about this training grant, please visit www.edc.gsph.pitt.edu/Epid-Age.

Student / trainee publications using MoVIES Project data

Lasilla H, Stoehr G, Ganguli M, Seaberg EC, et al. Factors associated with the use of prescription medications in an elderly rural population: the MoVIES project. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 30: 589-595, 1996.

Mendelsohn AB, Belle SH, Stoehr GP, Ganguli M. Antioxidant use and its association with cognitive function in an elderly rural cohort: the MoVIES Project. American Journal of Epidemiology, 148: 38-44, 1998

Chen P, Ganguli M, Mulsant BH, DeKosky ST. The temporal relationship between depressive symptoms and dementia: a community-based prospective study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 56: 261-266, 1999.

Luedecking EK, Ganguli M, DeKosky ST, Kamboh MI. Genetic polymorphism in the persyn (-synuclein) gene and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroscience Letters, 261: 186-188, 1999

Prescop KL, Dodge HH, Morycz RK, Schulz RM, Ganguli M . Elders with dementia living in the community with and without caregivers: an epidemiological study. International Psychogeriatrics 11(3): 235-250, 1999.

Johnston JM, Cauley JA, Ganguli M. APOE*4 and hip fracture in a community-based study of older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 47: 1342-1345, 1999.

Johnston JM, Nazar-Stewart V, Kelsey SF, Kamboh MI, Ganguli M. Relationships among cerebrovascular events, APOE polymorphism, and Alzheimer’s disease in a community sample. Neuroepidemiology, 19: 320-326, 2000.

Bhojak TJ, DeKosky ST, Ganguli M, Kamboh MI. Genetic polymorphisms in the cathepsin D and interleukin-6 genes and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroscience Letters, 288: 21-24, 2000.

Luedecking EK, DeKosky ST, Mehdi H, Ganguli M, Kamboh MI. Analysis of genetic polymorphisms in the transforming growth factor-β1 gene and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Human Genetics, 106: 565-569, 2000.

Chen P, Ratcliff G, Belle SH, Cauley JA, DeKosky ST, Ganguli M . Cognitive tests which best discriminate between presymptomatic AD and those who remain non-demented. Neurology 55:1847-1853, 2000

Minster RL, DeKosky ST, Ganguli M, Belle S, Kamboh MI. Genetic association studies of interleukin-1 (IL-A and IL-B) and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RN) genes and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.  Annals of Neurology, 48 (5), 817-818, 2000.

Bhojak T, DeKosky ST, Ganguli M, Kamboh MI. Genetic polymorphism in the cathepsin-G gene and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroscience Letters, 309, 138-140, 2001.

Chen P, Ratcliff R, Belle SH, Cauley JA, DeKosky ST, Ganguli M. Patterns of cognitive decline in pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease: a prospective community study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 58: 853-858, 2001.

Wang X, DeKosky ST, Luedecking-Zimmer E, Ganguli M, Kamboh MI.  Genetic variation in ∞1-antichymotrypsin and its association with Alzheimer's disease. Human Genetics, 110: 256-365, 2002.

Basu R, Dodge HH, Stoehr GP, Ganguli M . Sedative-hypnotic use of diphenhydramine in a rural, older adult, community-based cohort: effects on cognition. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11: 205-213, 2003.

Ganguli, M, Dodge, HH, Shen, C, Pandav, RS, & DeKosky, ST.  Alzheimer disease and mortality:  A 15-year epidemiological study.  Archives of Neurology, 62, 779-784, 2005.

Shen C & Weissfeld L.  Application of pattern-mixture models to outcomes that are potentially missing not at random using pseudo maximum likelihood estimation. Biostatistics, 6 (2), 333-347, 2005.

Shen C & Weissfeld L. A copula model for repeated measurements with non-ignorable non-monotone missing outcome. Statistics in Medicine, 25, 2427-2440, 2006.

Carmen Andreescu, MD

Winner, First Prize, International Psychogeriatric Association Junior Investigator Award.

IPA Silver Jubilee Congress, Osaka, Japan, October 2007

Andreescu C, Chang C-CH, Mulsant BH, & Ganguli, M.  Twelve-year depressive symptom trajectories and their predictors in a community sample of older adults.  International Psychogeriatrics, 20, 221-236, 2008.

Brazill, K.  Access to transportation and primary care physician visits in an elderly, rural population:  The MoVIES Project.  Presentation at the American Geriatrics Society Meeting, 2008.  pdf of poster

Lavery LL, Dodge HH, Snitz B, Ganguli M.  Cognitive decline and mortality in a community-based cohort.  The Monongahela Valley Independent Elders Survey.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2008, DOI 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.02052.x

Stowell KR, Chang C-CH, Vander Bilt J, Stoehr GP, & Ganguli M.  Sustained benzodiazepine use in a community sample of older adults.  Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 2008, published online ahead of print DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.02011.x