About Me

Education: BS, Wake Forest University, 2001; MS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005; PhD, Baylor University, 2009
Fellowship: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2010
Memberships: American Statistical Association; International Biometric Society, ENAR
Positions: Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Data Science
Departments and Affiliations: Biostatistics and Data Science

Research

Effect of intensive diet and exercise on self-efficacy in overweight and obese adults with knee osteoarthritis: The IDEA randomized clinical trial. Mihalko SL, Cox P, Beavers DP, Miller GD, Nicklas BJ, Lyles M, Hunter DJ, Eckstein F, Guermazi A, Loeser RF, DeVita P, Messier SP. Transl Behav Med. 2019 03; 9(2):227-235.
Intentional Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: Is More Better?. Messier SP, Resnik AE, Beavers DP, Mihalko SL, Miller GD, Nicklas BJ, deVita P, Hunter DJ, Lyles MF, Eckstein F, Guermazi A, Loeser RF. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2018 11; 70(11):1569-1575.
Prediction of lumbar vertebral body compressive strength of overweight and obese older adults using morphed subject-specific finite-element models to evaluate the effects of weight loss. Schoell SL, Beavers KM, Beavers DP, Lenchik L, Marsh AP, Rejeski WJ, Stitzel JD, Weaver AA. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2019 Apr; 31(4):491-501.
Does frontal knee kinematics predict treatment outcomes? Exploratory analyses from the Intensive Diet and Exercise for Arthritis (IDEA) trial. Hall M, Bennell KL, Beavers DP, Wrigley TV, DeVita P, Messier SP. Gait Posture. 2018 06; 63:139-144.
Bayesian sample size determination for cost-effectiveness studies with censored data. Beavers DP, Stamey JD. PLoS ONE. 2018; 13(1):e0190422.

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