Tim Church

Office: 1162 Mayo (612/626-1494) or
200 Oak Street SE, Suite 350 (612/625-9091)

B.A., Mathematics, Augustana College

M.S., Biometry and Health Information Systems, University of Minnesota

Ph.D., Biometry, University of Minnesota

Research and Teaching Interests

Design, management and analysis of clinical trials and environmental and occupational epidemiological studies, especially in the areas of screening for, and prevention and etiology of cancer and cardiovascular disease; methods to incorporate model uncertainty into epidemiologic studies, mathematical representations of causal models, adjusting treatment effects for compliance in clinical trials, predictive probabilities for sudden cardiac death, and bias in observational studies of screening.

Selected Publications

1) Jurek AM, Greenland S, Maldonado G, Church TR. (2005) “Proper interpretation of non-differential misclassification effects: Expectations vs observations. International Journal of Epidemiology 34(3):680-7.

2) Andriole G, Levin D, Crawford ED, Gelmann E, Pinksy P, Chia D, Kramer B, Reding D, Church T, Grubb R, Izmirlian G, Ragard L, Clapp J, Prorok P, Gohagan J. for the PLCO Project Team (2005) “Prostate cancer screening in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial: Findings from the initial screening round of a randomized trial.” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 97(6):433-8.

3) Nachreiner NM, Gerberich SG, McGovern PM, Church TR, Hansen HE, Geisser MS, Ryan AD. (2005) “Impact of training on work-related assault.” Research in Nursing and Health 28(1):67-78.

4) Church TR, Yeazel MW, Jones RM, Kochevar LK, Watt GD, Mongin SJ, Cordes JE, Engelhard D. (2004) “A randomized trial of direct mailing of fecal occult blood tests to increase colorectal cancer screening” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 96:770-80.

5) Peters U, Chatterjee N, Yeager M, Chanock S, Schoen RE, McGlynn KA, Church TR, Weissfeld J, Schatzkin A, Hayes RB. (2004) “Association of genetic variants in the calcium-sensing receptor with risk of colorectal adenoma” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention 13(12): 2181-6.

6) Adgate JL, Church TR, Ryan AD, Ramachandran G, Fredrickson AL, Stock TH, Morandi MT, Sexton K. (2004) “Outdoor, indoor, and personal exposure to VOCs in children” Environmental Health Perspectives 112(14): 1386-92.

7) Olsen GW, Church TR, Hansen KJ, Burris JM, Butenhoff JL, Mandel JH, Zobel LR. (2004) “Quantitative evaluation of perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and other fluorochemicals in the serum of children” Journal of Children's Health 2:53-76.

8) Sexton K, Adgate JL, Church TR, Hecht SS, Ramachandran G, Greaves IA, Fredrickson AL. (2004) “Children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: Using diverse exposure metrics to document ethnic/racial differences” Environmental Health Perspectives 112(3): 392-7.

9) Gerberich SG, Church TR, McGovern PM, Hansen HE, Nachreiner NM, Geisser MS, Ryan AD, Mongin SJ, Watt GD. (2004) “An epidemiological study of the magnitude and consequences of work-related violence: The Minnesota Nurses' Study” Occupational and Environmental Medicine 61:495-503.

10) Bailey JJ, Hodges M, Church TR. (2003) “Risk stratification in diabetic patients with a previous myocardial infarction” Journal of Electrocardiology 36:121-5.

11) Church TR, for the National Lung Screening Trial Executive Committee. (2003) “Chest radiography as the comparison for spiral CT in the National Lung Screening Trial” Academic Radiology 10(6):713-5.

12) Baron JA, Cole BF, Mott L, Haile R, Grau M, Church TR, Beck GJ, Greenberg ER. (2003) “Neoplastic and anti-neoplastic effects of beta-carotene on colorectal adenomas: Results of a randomized trial” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 95(10):717-22.

13) Church TR, Bailey JJ, Hodges M, Mongin SJ. (2002) “Risk stratification applied to the CAST registry data: Combining nine predictors” Journal of Electrocardiology 35S:117-22.

14) Miller AB, Madalinska JB, Church TR, Crawford D, Essink-Bot ML, Goel V, de Koning HJ, Maattanen L, Pentikainen T. (2001) “Health-related quality of life and cost-effectiveness in the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer and the U.S. Prostate, Lung, Colon, and Ovary Trial” European Journal of Cancer 37(17):2154-60.

15) Hecht SS, Ye M, Carmella SG, Fredrickson A, Adgate JL, Greaves IA, Church T, Ryan AD, Mongin SJ, Sexton K. (2001) “Metabolites of a tobacco-specific lung carcinogen in the urine of school-aged children” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 10:1109-16.

16) Sreenath A, Weed J, Church T. (2001) “A modified protocol for quantitative fit testing using the Portacount®” Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 16(10):979-88.

17) Mandel JS, Church TR, Bond JH, Ederer F, Geisser MS, Mongin SJ, Snover DC, Schuman LM. (2000). “The effect of fecal occult blood screening on the incidence of colorectal cancer” New England Journal of Medicine 343(22):1603-7.

18) Church TR. (1999) “A novel form of ascertainment bias in case-control studies of cancer screening” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 52:837-47.

19) Mandel JS, Bond JH, Church TR, Snover DC, Bradley GM, Schuman LM, Ederer F. (1993) “Reducing mortality from colorectal cancer by screening for fecal occult blood. Minnesota Colon Cancer Control Study” New England Journal of Medicine 328:1365 71.

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