Vita for Necia A. Black, BSN, Ph.D.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Project Management
- Survey of School of Engineering and Applied Sciences:
- A Computing Needs and Assessment Survey was conducted for the School
of Engineering
and Applied Sciences. Duties included: redesigning and expanding a questionnaire;
meeting with committees of the five departments of engineering; all data entry and
analysis; and writing of six reports returned to the departments. This survey was
intended to assist the Engineering School and the Computing Center to take a critical
look at their future computing needs in terms of hardware, software, training and
support facilities.
- Survey of statistical application users
- To better serve the statistical application users of the university, a survey was
conducted to assess their needs. As a result of the survey, PC
SAS was added to our
site license
- University-wide "treasure hunt"
- Responsible for University Computing Services involvement in university-wide
September Welcome program, running an electronic "treasure hunt" to promote student
familiarity with Computing Center facilities and services.
- Software Installation
- Built, tested, released and maintained SPSS and
SAS
third party software for the IBM VM/CMS operating system.
Teaching and Training
- Adjunct Faculty
Fall 1995, and Spring, 1998 taught CEP 502, Essentials of Testing and
Measurement, a
graduate level course with 24 students. Required project of development
and administration of a 20 item questionnaire with total test and item analysis,
interpretation, and write-up.
- MSU Faculty
While faculty at Michigan State University, taught sophomore
fundamentals of nursing, and senior level research and statistics
course requiring a research proposal.
- User Services workshop program
- For 10 years, responsible for scheduling and evaluation of the
Academic Services workshop program providing an opportunity for hands-on
learning of operating system essentials and popular software packages.
Typically there were multiple sections of 30 separate workshops taught by
10-12 staff or students at the beginning of each semester. Teach 5-7
workshops each semester.
- Academic Services In-class teaching program
- Was responsible for scheduling inclass workshops for 10 years, for
university professors whose students need introductions to a variety of
systems, and software applications. Teach all the statistical workshops
requested. Also teach the HTML classes requested.
- Internet and the World Wide Web
Taught beginning and intermediate workshops on "Creating Home Pages using
HTML".
- Workshops on use of statistical software and the web
- Have developed workshops, created materials and handouts, and trained
users on the following topics related to statistical software on the IBM
mainframe, VMScluster, Unix time-sharing and Windows:
-
Documentation
- Have written documentation for SAS, SPSS, and Minitab software,
and interpretation of OpScan scoring outputs for distribution to
University community.
Handouts for above mentioned workshops are extensive with examples and
many work along exercises
Consulting
- Serve as end user consultant for faculty, staff and students on
statistical software on the IBM mainframe, VAXcluster, Unix sunCluster,
and microcomputers. Assist in training of student consultants in use of
statistical packages.
- Serve as end user consultant to faculty and staff on scanning
projects, involving questionnaire design, and contracting with outside
vendors. Program Scantron 8000 to process data in desired format
Outside Consulting
- Infasurf - clinical trials
- Designed questionnaire and served as data processor and analyst for a
three-year nationwide clincial trial for the FDA approval of the
respiratory surfactant, Infasurf, a product induced into the lungs
of premature newborn infants to prevent hyaline membrane disease.
Later stages involved consolidating data from a variety of software
applications to achieve one combined database.
- New York State Nursing Foundation
- Designed questionnaire and served as the data analyst and statistical
consultant on 2-year NIH grant to study the reliability of nursing
diagnoses of patients in four New York extended care facilities
- Health Care for the Homeless
Served as statistical consultant for analysis of data from a 5 year NIH funded project
on health care for homeless people in Buffalo. Called in late in the project to clean
up datafiles and consolidate to one database.
- CARLIS - Center for Appllied Research in Library and Information Science
Have served as data processor for, and statistical consultant to, the director
of CARLIS. Developed a database from common questions
asked across surveys of multiple U.S. libraries.
- Dissertation research
Privately, serve as consultant, mentor, tutor, etc. for doctoral
students during their dissertation work. This may include any
aspect of the process from proposal development, through survey
instrument development, data entry, statistical analysis, and accuracy
of write-up for the dissertation. Also extensively critique writing for
clarity, accuracy, and APA style. Have helped over 150 students in the
process. Have also run support groups for doctoral students going through
the dissertation process.
EDUCATION
SPECIAL SKILLS
CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS
| SAS Processing |
June, 1988 |
SAS NESUG '89 |
October, 1989 |
| Advanced SPSS/PC+ |
October, 1988 |
SIGUCCS |
November, 1991 |
| SAS Transition 5 to 6 |
June, 1990 |
SUGI 18 |
May, 1993 |
|
Society for Medical Decision Making
|
1981,1982,1983,1991 |
Perl | May, 1997 |
MEMBERSHIP in ORGANIZATIONS and
HONOR
SOCIETIES
PUBLICATIONS
1999 - 2000, Several briefs on projects within the Office of Academic
Information and Planning
Jennett, P.A., Elstein, A.S., Rothert, M.L., Rovner, D.R., & Black, N.A.
(1986)."Subjective expected utilities and referral decisions in
obesity."
Methods of Information Medicine. 25, 215-221.
Balla, J., Greenbaum, D., Rothert, M., & Black, N. (January, 1984).
"Investigation of cues in gastroenterology." Australian-New
Zealand Journal of Medicine.
Acknowledged in numerous articles and dissertations for research
methodology; statistical consultation; and/or data analysis and writeups.
PRESENTATIONS
October, 1983 -
Society for Medical Decision Making
- Toronto
Effects of physician's interpretation of clinical cues and
self-reported weights on
modeling clinical judgments. M.M. Ravitch, W.P. Metheny, G.B.
Holzman, N.A. Black, A.S.
Elstein, M.L. Rothert, & M.M. Holmes. OMERAD, MSU, East
Lansing, Michigan.
October, 1982 - Society for Medical Decision Making
- Boston
Judgments in estrogen replacement therapy. M. Ravitch, G.B.
Holzman, W.P. Metheny, N.A. Black, A.S. Elstein, D.R. Rovner, R.B. Hoppe,
M.L. Rothert, & M.M. Holmes.
OMERAD, MSU, East Lansing, Michigan.
March, 1982 - American Educational Research
Association - New York City
Medical referral decisions as functions of professional
socialization. M.R. Rothert, D.R.Rovner, N.A. Black, P.A. Jennett,
M.M. Holmes, & M.M. Ravitch. OMERAD, MSU, East
Lansing, Michigan.
October 1981 - Society for Medical Decision Making
- Philadelphia
The use of quantal response technique model II in predicting the
diagnosis of myocardial
infarct. N.A. Black, A.S. Elstein, & W.S. Schmidt, MSU, East
Lansing, Michigan.
UNIVERSITY RELATED ACTIVITIES
Professional
Staff Senate - (PSS)
- Elected senator - 3 years
- Parliamentarian - senate and executive board 2 years
- Chair of Constitution and Bylaws committee
- Senate Secretary May, 1993 - May, 1994
Buffalo Area SAS Users Groups - served on steering committee
College and University User Service Symposium (CUUSS) - Secretary
1989-1990
COMMUNITY SERVICE INVOLVEMENT
Westminster Presbyterian Church - Buffalo, New York
- Member of Board of Deacons, 1987-1993, 1997-2001
- Worship, Music and Arts committee member - 3 years
- Planning, Priorities, and Budget committee member - 4 years
- Registrar for Bernie Seigel event in 1991
- Member of Board of Trustees for 1993-1996 - Secretary - 2 years
- Questionnaire design, data processing and analysis for 2
congregational surveys
World University
Games - athletic competition
- Co-chaired the participation of the National Ski Patrol
System, whose
members served as marshals for the Opening and Closing
Ceremonies in July, 1993.
World Masters
Athletics [formerly known as: World Association of Veteran
Athletes] - athletic competition
- Co-chaired the participation of the National Ski Patrol
System, whose
members served as marshals for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies in
July, 1995.
HOBBIES and SPORTS
Genealogy - with a database of 20,000+; ancestors and their
descendents
Travel - foreign and domestic
- 47 of the United States
- 39 foreign countries (so far)
Skiing - (in my younger years)
Roller blading - (no more says the brain surgeon - shucks)
Handicrafts - knitting, crocheting, embroidery, needlepoint and sewing
References available upon request