Environmental

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

^{RICHARD E. THOMPSON}^{ASSISTANT SCIENTIST}
^{Ph.D. - 1999 Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC
Biometry
M.S. - 1993 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Physics
B.S. - 1990 Manchester College, N. Manchester, IN Physics

POSITIONS

1992-1993 Research Assistant, Nuclear Structure
Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
1993-Present Graduate Student, Department of Biometry
and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina,
^{Charleston, SC}

1997-1998 Internship, South Carolina Department of
Health and Environmental Control.
Summer 1996 Internship, Institute of Public Health,
Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan
1999-Present Research Associate, Department of
Biostatistics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins
^{University, Baltimore, MD}

HONORS AND AWARDS

1994-1997 Environmental Hazards Assessment Program
Fellowship recipient.
1993-1994 Medical University of South Carolina Dean?s
Fellowship recipient.
1986-1990 Manchester College Honors Scholarship
recipient.

PUBLICATIONS

Thompson, RE, Voit, EO, and Scott, GI. (2000).
Statistical modeling of sediment and oyster PAH contamination data
collected at a South Carolina estuary. Environmetrics 11:99-119.
Thompson, RE, Voit, EO, and Scott, GI. (2000). A
probabilistic model for predicting distributions of PAH ratios for
oysters and marine sediments. Ecological Modelling 135(2):231-242.
Felker, GM, Thompson, RE, Hare, JM, Hruban, RH,
Clemetson, DE, Howard, DL, Baughman, KL, and Kasper, EK (2000).
Underlying causes and long-term survival in patients with initially
unexplained cardiomyopathy. New England Journal of Medicine 342:1077-1084.
Berg KD, Glaser CL, Thompson RE, Hamilton SR, Griffin
CA and Eshleman JR (2000). Detection of microsatellite instability by
fluorescence multiplex polymerase chain reaction. Journal of
Molecular Diagnostics 2:20-28.

Oliver, DH, Thompson, RE, Griffin CA, Eshleman JR (2000). Use of single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and real-time
polymerase chain reaction for bone marrow engraftment analysis. Journal
of Molecular Diagnostics 2(4):202-208.
Thuluvath PJ, Morss S, Thompson RE (2001). Spontaneous bacterial
peritonitis-in-hospital mortality, predictors of survival, and health care
costs from 1988 to 1998. American Journal of Gastroenterology 96(4):1232-1236.
Rajendran PR, Thompson RE, Reich SG (2001). The use of alternative
therapies by patients with Parkinson?s disease. Neurology 57(5):790-794.}

This study was made possible through a grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, 1 R01 NR05062-01A