Lynn M. Ackerson, PhD

Lynn Ackerson, PhD, has been a biostatistician and research scientist at the Division of Research (DOR) Kaiser Permanente Northern California since 1995. Dr. Ackerson also serves as Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco. She is a member of the American Statistical Association Council of Sections.

Dr. Ackerson has authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and two book chapters. Her publications cover a wide range of medical areas including respiratory diseases, diabetes, mental health, respiratory control, and health services research. Dr. Ackerson's biostatistical interests are in design and analysis of clinical trials, and analysis of repeated measures data.

Current Positions:

	Biostatistician, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
	Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

Primary Research Interests:

	Biostatistics
	Longitudinal data analysis
	Design and analysis of clinical trials

Current Research Projects

	Increasing the Evidence Base for Retinopathy Screening Guidelines
	Do Free Glucose Test Strips Increase Self-Monitoring?

Completed Research Projects (partial listing):

	Health-Related Quality of Life as a Predictor of Utilization Among Adults with Asthma in a Health Maintenance Organization
	Pilot Study to Identify Organizational Barriers to HMO Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials
	Probability of Treating –to-Target: Type 2 Diabetes Patients from the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Diabetes Registry Starting New Anti-Hyperglycemic Therapies
	Follow-up Study of Medicaid Chemical Dependency Patients in a Private HMO: Do High Medical Costs Come Down Over Time?

Selected Publications:

	Ackerson LM, Bruce EN. Bilaterally synchronized oscillations in human diaphragm and intercostal EMGs during spontaneous breathing. Brain Res 1983;271:346-8.
	Bruce EN, Ackerson LM. High-frequency oscillations in human electromyograms during voluntary contractions. J Neurophysiol 1986;56:542-53.
	Ackerson LM, Jones RH, Bruce EN. Adaptive multivariate autoregressive modelling of respiratory cycle variables. In: Swanson G, Grodins F, eds. Respiratory Control: Modeling Perspective. New York, NY: Plenum, 1989.
	Ackerson LM, Dick RW, Manson SM, Baron AE. Properties of the inventory to diagnose depression and American Indian adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1990;29:601-7.
	Jones RH, Ackerson LM. Serial correlation in unequally spaced longitudinal data. Biometrika 1990;77:721-31.
	Moss M, Ackerson L, Gillespie MK, Moore FA, Moore EE, Parsons PE. Von Willebrand factor antigen levels are not predictive for the adult respiratory distress syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995;151:15-20.
	Coppolino M, Ackerson L. Do Surrogate Decision Makers Provide Accurate Consent for Intensive Care Research? Chest 2001 Feb;119(2):603-612.
	Froehlich H., Ackerson LM, Monrozumi PA. Targeted testing of children for tuberculosis: validation of a risk assessment questionnaire. Pediatrics 2001; 107:E54.
	Dutton C, Ackerson L, Phelps-Sandall B. Outcomes after rollerball endometrial ablation for menorrhagia. Obstet Gynecol 2001;98:35-9.
	Karter AJ, Ackerson LM, Darbinian J, D’Agostino RB Jr., Ferrara A, Liu J, Selby JV. Self-monitoring of blood glucose and glycemic control in a large managed care population: the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Diabetes Registry. Am J Med 2001;111:1-9.
	Selby JV, Karter AJ, Ackerson LM, Ferrara A, Liu J. Developing a prediction rule from automated clinical databases to identify high risk patients in a large population with diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2001;24:1547-1555.
	Walter LJ, Parthasarthy S, Allen S, Ackerson LM. Medicaid patients in a private Health Maintenance Organization: patterns of chemical dependency treatment. J Behav Health Serv Res 2002:29(1):1-14.
	Eisner MD, Ackerson LM, Chi F, Kalkbrenner A, Buchner D, Mendoza G, Lieu T. Health-related quality of life and future health care utilization for asthma. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2002;89(1):46-55.
	Karter AJ, Ferrara A, Liu JY, Moffet HH, Ackerson LM, Selby JV. Ethnic disparities in diabetic complications in an insured population: The Northern California Diabetes Registry. JAMA 2002:287(19):2519-27.
	Backer HD, Decker L, Ackerson L. Reproducibility of increased blood pressure during an emergency department or urgent care visit. Ann Emerg Med 2003 Apr;41(4):507-12
	Chan KA, Truman A, Gurwitz JH, Hurley JS, Martinson B, Platt R, Everhart JE, Moseley RH, Terrault N, Ackerson L, Selby JV. A cohort study of the incidence of serious acute liver injury in diabetic patients treated with hypoglycemic agents. Arch Intern Med 2003 Mar 24;163(6):728-34
	Allison J, Hurley L, Hiatt R, Levin T, Ackerson L, Lieu T. A randomized, controlled trial of test-and-treat strategy for Helicobacter pylori: clinical outcomes and health care costs in a managed care population receiving long-term acid suppression therapy for physician diagnosed peptic ulcer disease. Arch Intern Med 2003;163:1165-71.
	Backer HD, Decker L, Ackerson L. Reproducibility of increased blood pressure during an emergency department or urgent care visit. Ann Emerg Med 2003;41:507-12.
	Wang F, Van Den Eeden SK, Ackerson LM, Salk SE, Reince RH, Elin RJ. Oral magnesium oxide prophylaxis of frequent migrainous headache in children: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Headache 2003;43:601-10.
	Shin KS, Brubaker KL, Ackerson LM. Risk of cesarean delivery in nulliparous women at greater than 41 weeks' gestational age with an unengaged vertex. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004;190:129-34.
	Iribarren C, Tolstykh I, Somkin CP, Ackerson LM, Brown TT, Scheffler R, Syme L,Kawachi I. Sex and racial/ethnic disparities in outcomes after acute myocardial infarction: a cohort study among members of a large integrated health care delivery system in northern California. Arch Intern Med. 2005 Oct 10;165(18):2105-13.