Teaching Activities: Dr. Dawson serves as course director for Statistical Methods in Dental Research (111:212) and a special topics course in advanced analytic methods for dental research. She is co-director of the course Research Design in Dentistry (151:215) and is responsible for graduate-level sequences of lectures in study planning, statistical computing and oral epidemiology, as well as individual presentations in other predoctoral and graduate courses.
Research Activities: Dr. Dawson is involved with the statistical genetic modeling of human disorders, particularly in the areas of dental disorders, immune and inflammatory disorders and developmental disorders; statistical methods in human genetics, including applications in the areas of delayed onset disorders and ascertainment bias; statistical evaluation of data from clinical, basic science, and epidemiologic studies, particularly longitudinal studies and investigations of development and longevity population-based models; and classification and risk assessment problems.
National or International Professional Appointments or Activities: Dr.
Dawson is chair of the Observational Studies Monitoring Board of the NIA-funded
Longevity Consortium and a member of the NIDCR Data Safety and Monitoring Board,
Adult Caries Prevention Trial. She also serves on the NIDCR Protocol Review
Committee for the Dental Practice Based Research Networks and three external
scientific advisory boards for NIH-supported research. She is a core member of the Clinical
Trials Special Emphasis Panels sponsored by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She has served
on the Clinical Aging Study Section of the National Institute on Aging (NIH). Past service includes appointments
to the Cooperative Studies Evaluation Committee for the Health Services Research and Development Service,
Veterans Health Administration Research Program, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C. (1997-2004);
the Veterans Affairs Biorepository Project Planning Committee (2001-2003); and
the DNA Bank Scientific Advisory Committee for the VA Cooperative Studies
Program (2002-2003).
Dr. Dawson currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of
Dental Research. Since 2001, she has served as statistical consultant to the
editorial board of the Journal of Prosthodontics. She has served as ad
hoc reviewer for scholarly journals including the American Journal of Human
Genetics; Experimental Aging Research; Functional and Integrative Genomics;
Genetic Epidemiology; Human Heredity; Journal of Dental Research; Journal of
Periodontology; and Journal of Gerodontology. She was also on the editorial board of the Journal of Immigrant Health (1999-2001) and
and was a consulting editor of the journal Health Psychology (1999-2001).
Office Address: N439E DSB; E-mail: Dr. Deborah V. Dawson