Education:
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley - 1971 (Engineering, General)
Books and Publications
Fontaine, K.R., S.W. Keith, J.A. Greenberg, J.S. Olshansky and D.B. Allison. "Obesity's Final Toll: Influence on Mortality Rate, Attributable Deaths, Years of Life Lost, and Population Life Expectancy." Handbook of Disease Burden and Quality of Life Measures. Ed. V.A. Preedy. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. In press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008
Greenberg, J.A., C.C. Dunbar, S. Kokolis, R. Kokolis, R. Schnoll and J. Kassotis. "Caffeinated-Beverage Intake and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in the Elderly." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 85.2: 392-98. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Greenberg, J.A., K. Fontaine and D.B. Allison. "Putative Biases in Estimating Mortality Attributable to Obesity in the U.S. Population." International Journal of Obesity, May 1 (London). (E-pub ahead of print.) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Greenberg, J.A. (principal investigator) and D.B. Allison, R.J. Carroll and J. Divers (co-investigators). "Measurement Error, Reverse Causation and Estimating the Health Hazards of Obesity," A $860,734 R01 three-year grant proposal submitted to NIH, Feb. 5. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Greenberg, J, S. Keith and D.B. Alllison. "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, Md. Research proposal. Approved June 29. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Submitted an NIH proposal, "Intra-Individual Variation in BMI and Estimating the Health Hazards of Obesity." Two-year R01 grant proposal, for $550,000 (submitted Feb. 15). (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Research Activities
Greenberg, J., S. Keith and D.B. Alllison. "Putative Confounders and Changes in the Health Risk of Obesity Over Time" research proposal application to NCHS to analyze NHANES I, II and III data at the NCHS Research Data Center, Hyattsville, Md. Approved June 29. 2007
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Coffee, Caffeine and Weight Loss." Symposium on Coffee, Caffeine and Metabolism. Annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. London, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 14-17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Practical Methods for Correcting the Regression Dilution Bias." Statistical Issues and Novel Models for Quantifying the Effects of Continuous Traits on Mortality: Examples From Obesity Session. Joint Statistics Meeting. Salt Lake City, July 29-Aug. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
Invited participant, NIA Workshop on Statistical Methods for Longitudinal Data on Aging. Bethesda, Md., June 13-14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007