University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview Position(s)
Epidemiology

Other Related Positions Currently Held
Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology & Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota

Sees Patients At
- University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview

Education
Medical School
University of South Carolina, Department of Biometry/Epidemiology   

Graduate School
University of Minnesota (Environmental Health Sciences, Ph.D.)

Awards & Honors
2003, APHA Epidemiology-Section Student Award for Poster Presentation
2003-2004, EPA STAR Fellowship Recipient

Research Interest(s)
Epidemiologic methodology in pediatric health

Selected Recent Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

Jurek P.E., Jurek A.M., & Martell, A.E. (2000). Phosphate Diester Hydrolysis by Mono-and Dinuclear Lanthanum Complexes with an Unusual Third-Order Dependence. Inorganic Chemistry, 39, 1016-1020.

Gerberich S.G., Church T.R., McGovern P.M., Hansen H., Nachreiner N.M., Geisser M., Ryan A.D., Mongin S.J., Watt G.D., Jurek A. (2005) Risk Factors for Work-Related Assaults on Nurses. Epidemiology, 16(5), 704-9.

Jurek A.M., Greenland S., Maldonado G, & Church T.R., (2005). Proper Interpretation of Nondifferential Misclassification Effects: Expectations versus Observations. International Journal of Epidemiology, 34(3), 680-7.

Jurek A. M., Maldonado G., Greenland S., & Church T.R. (2006). Exposure Measurement Error is Frequently Ignored when Interpreting Epidemiological Study Results. European Journal of Epidemiology, 21(12): 871-6

Boivin M. J., Bangirana P., Byarugaba J., Opaka R.O., Idro R., Jurek A.M., John C.C. (2007). Cognitive Impairment Following Cerebral Malaria in Children: A Prospective Study. Pediatrics, 119(2):e360-6.

Jurek A. M., Maldonado G., Greenland S., & Church T.R. Uncertainty Analysis: An Example of its Application to Estimating a Survey Proportion. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, in press.

Abstracts (First-Authored)

Jurek A., & Maldondo G. (2002). "Exposure-Measurement Error is Frequently Ignored when Interpreting Epidemiologic Study Results." Oral presentation at the International Epidemiologic Association Triennial Conference (XVI World Congress of Epidemiology). Montreal, Quebec, August 2002.

Jurek A., Maldonado G., Church T., Nondifferential Exposure Misclassification Does Not Always Lead to an Underestimate of Risk.
- Poster presentation at the Society for Epidemiologic Research annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, June 2003. American Journal of Epidemiology, 159(11), S56.

-Poster presentation at teh American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2003.

Jurek A., Maldonado G., Church T., & Greenland S. Exposure-Measurement is Frequently Ignored when Interpreting Epidemiologic Study Results. Oral presentation at the Society for Epidemiologic Research annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2004. American Journal of Epidemiology, 159(11), S72.

Jurek A., Maldonado G., Ness K., Leisenring W., & Mertens A. Choosing among Potential Comparison Groups in an Epidemiologic Study.
- Poster presentation at the Society for Epidemiologic Research annual meeting, Seattle, WA, June 2006. American Journal of Epidemiology, 163(11), S230.

- Oral presentation at the American Public Health Association annual meeting, Boston, MA, November 2006.

Jurek A., Lash T., Maldonado G., Misclassifying Family Cancer History: Impact on Epidemiologic Study Results. Oral presentation at the Society for Epidemiologic Research annual meeting, Boston, MA, June 2007.