James Greenberg

  Assc Professor
  Department: Health and Nutrition Sciences
  Location: 4107 Ingersoll Hall
  Phone: 718-951-5000 x2736
  Fax: 718-951-4670

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Education:
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY - 1971 (ENGINEERING, GENERAL)

Books and Publications
Invited co-author - Fontaine KR, Keith SW, Greenberg JA, Olshansky JS, Allison DB: Obesity's final toll: Influence on mortality rate, attributable deaths, years of life lost, and population life expectancy. In: VA Preedy (Ed.), Handbook of Disease Burden and Quality of Life Measures. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag, in press (3/08). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008

. Greenberg JA, Dunbar CC, Kokolis S, Kokolis R, Schnoll R, Kassotis J. Caffeinated-beverage intake and risk of coronary heart disease mortality in the elderly. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007;85(2):392-8. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

. Greenberg JA, Fontaine K, Allison DB. Putative Biases in Estimating Mortality Attributable to Obesity in the U.S. Population. Int J Obes (Lond). 2007 May 1; [Epub ahead of print].
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

Awards, Honors and Fellowships
. Greenberg JA (PI), Allison DB (co-investigator), Carroll RJ (co-investigator), Divers J (co-investigator). Measurement error, reverse causation and estimating the health hazards of obesity. A $860,734 R01 three-year grant proposal submitted to NIH (2/5/08). (Grants and Fellowships) 2008

. Greenberg, J, Keith S, Alllison, DB. Putative Confounders and Changes in the Health Risk of Obesity Over Time. Application to NCHS to analyze NHANES I, II & III data at the NCHS Research Data Center, Hyattsville, Maryland. Research proposal. Approved 6/29/07. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007

Greenberg JA (P.I.) - Submitted an NIH proposal entitled Intra-individual Variation in BMI and Estimating the Health Hazards of Obesity. Two-year R01 grant proposal, for $550,000 (submitted 02/15/07).

(Grants and Fellowships) 2007

Research Activities
. Greenberg, J, Keith S, Alllison, DB. Putative Confounders and Changes in the Health Risk of Obesity Over Time. Application to NCHS to analyze NHANES I, II & III data at the NCHS Research Data Center, Hyattsville, Maryland. Research proposal. Approved 6/29/07. 2007

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
. Greenberg, J. Invited participant, NIA Workshop on Statistical Methods for Longitudinal Data on Aging, Bethesda, MD. 6/13-14, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

. Greenberg, J. Invited presentation. Coffee, caffeine and weight loss, as part of a symposium on coffee, caffeine and metabolism at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology in London, Ontario from Nov 14-17 in 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

. Greenberg, J. Invited Presentations. Practical Methods for Correcting the Regression Dilution Bias. In a session entitled Statistical Issues and Novel Models for Quantifying the Effects of Continuous Traits on Mortality: Examples from Obesity. Joint Statistics Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 7/29-8/2/07.

(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007