Alexa S. Beiser is an American professor of biostatistics and public health researcher.

Biography

Beiser did her PhD in mathematics at Boston University, following her M.A. at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

in Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Biology and Psychology from the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

. She has worked at the

Boston University School of Public Health Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. Founded in 1976, the School offers master's- and doctoral-level programs in public health. It is located in the heart of Boston University's Me ...

since 1985, currently in the

Framingham Heart Study The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study of residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on its third generation of participa ...

(FHS) neurology group. Beiser co-developed the biostatistics doctoral program at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

Research

She has worked on areas such as risk factors for

dementia Dementia is a disorder which manifests as a set of related symptoms, which usually surfaces when the brain is damaged by injury or disease. The symptoms involve progressive impairments in memory, thinking, and behavior, which negatively affe ...

, how stress affects memory, and how physical activity can improve health for people with diabetes. She currently leads the FHS neurology group data management team, with a focus of analysing data relating to dementia.

Selected papers

*Plasma Homocysteine as a Risk Factor for Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, N Engl J Med 2002; 346:476-483, *Lifetime Risk for Development of Atrial Fibrillation, Circulation. 2004;110:1042–1046, *Residual Lifetime Risk for Developing Hypertension in Middle-aged Women and Men, JAMA. 2002;287(8):1003-1010,

Books co-authored

*''Introductory Applied Biostatistics'', Ralph B. D'Agostino Sr., Lisa M. Sullivan, Alexa Beiser,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beiser, Alexa Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Biostatisticians Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni Boston University School of Public Health faculty Public health researchers Dementia University of California, San Diego alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni