KNUT M. WITTKOWSKI: Curriculum Vitae


Lehr-, Forschungs- und Beratungstätigkeit / Employments, Positions, Key Publications

1995-1997 Associate
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY

Consultant (1997)
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies,
New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
Guest Researcher (1996-1997)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
Division of HIV and AIDS Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Visiting Professor (1996)
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CA
Visiting Professor (1995-1996)
Division of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York , NY

Research:
Modeling the Spread of HIV and assessing the efficacy of HIV prevention methods.
Nonparametric methods in Epidemiology.
Algorithms for marginal-likelihood methods with applications to multivariate ordinal data.
Consulting and Advising:
Member of the "Statistics, Epidemiology, and Data Management Consultative Core", Columbia University and HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. (HIV prevention for heterosexuals, women, and homeless mentally ill men;
Alzheimer disease)
1995 Visiting Senior Lecturer
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
(public health, epidemiology)
Teaching and curriculum design :
Nonparametric methods in biostatistics; Modeling the spread of epidemics
Research:
HIV in Lebanon
1994-
1989-1993
Associate Professor (medical biometry, epidemiology)
Assistant Professor (medical biometry, epidemiology)
Department of Medical Biometry, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
Teaching and curriculum design :
Development of a series of courses on applied statistics in epidemiology at the Department of Public Health, University of Cairo, Egypt. Teaching "Medical Biometry" (Tutorial, in German) and "Epidemiology" (Seminar, in German) in Tübingen, Germany
Research:
Nonparametric statistical methods and knowledge bases systems for the analysis of inexact (discretized, censored, and missing) data, e.g. from questionnaires
Nonparametric models for prediction and cost-effect analysis in epidemiology (HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, Schistosomiasis)
Using spreadsheet programs for epidemiological modelling.
Consulting:
Consulting for researchers (post grads and post docs) at the Faculty of Medicine and for pharmaceutical companies during the phases of planning, analysing, and interpretation of randomized controlled clinical trials and epidemiological (case-control) studies.
Advising:
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Agency) stipendiaries from Egypt (one per year) and post-grad students at the Dept. Medical Biometry in biostatistics, epidemiology, and public health
1988-1989 Visiting Researcher (computer science, biostatistics, and public health)
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA
Research (A):
Implementation of a knowledge-based interface for statistical applications in medical biometry (evaluation of tools, development of new techniques for knowledge representation and structured dialogue)
Research (B):
Evaluation of HIV prevention strategies for heterosexuals using non-parametric models (in cooperation with the Dept. of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, and the Dept. of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
  • WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1991) A structured visual language for a knowledge-based front-end to statistical analysis systems in biomedical research. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 35 : 59-67
  • WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1990) Statistical knowledge-based systems - critical remarks and requirements for approval. In: MOMIROVIC, K., MILDNER, V. (Eds.) COMPSTAT 1990 . Heidelberg, D: Physica, 49-56; Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 33 : 255-259
1983-1988 Research associate (biometry, epidemiology, public health)
Department of Medical Biometry, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
Teaching and curriculum design:
Development of a new curriculum for the Course "Introduction to Medical Biometry" (Course, from 1982 to 1986, in German); Teaching "Medical statistics and documentation" (Course, from 1982 to 1983, in German), "Introduction to Medical Biometry" (Course, from 1982 to 1986, in German), "Expert systems in Medicine" (Seminar, 1988, in German), "Epidemiology" (Seminar, from 1990 to date, in German)
Research:
Nonparametric statistical methods and knowledge based systems for analysis of unbalanced designs with discretized data.
Evaluation of contraception methods (method effectiveness, user effectiveness and compliance) for the prevention of HIV infection
Supervision:
Post-grad students tutoring the course "Introduction to Medical Biometry" and M.S. theses on dialogue techniques for knowledge based statistical analysis systems.
Consulting:
Consulting for researchers (post grads and post docs) at the Faculty of Medicine, during the phases of planning, analysing, and interpretation of randomized controlled clinical trials and case-control studies.
  • TERMEULEN, J., WITTKOWSKI, K.M., et al. (1989) Evaluation of seroepidemiological associations between HIV-infection, hepatitis B, and other sexually transmitted diseases in African patients. Europ J Epidemiol 5 : 158-63
  • WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1989) Die Abschätzung der Effektivität von Barriere-Methoden zur HIV-Prophylaxe. ( Assessing the effectivity of barrier methods for HIV prevention ). AIDS-Forschung 4 3-8
  • WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1989) An asymptotic UMP sign test for discretized data. The Statistician 38 : 93-96
  • WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1989) Preventing the heterosexual spread of AIDS: What is the best advice if compliance is taken into account? AIDS 3 :143-145
  • WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1988) Friedman-type statistics and consistent multiple comparisons for unbalanced designs. Journal of the American Statistical Association 83 : 1163-1170
  • WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1988) Small sample properties of rank tests for incomplete unbalanced designs. Biometrical Journal 30 : 799-808
  • ELLIMAN, A.D., WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1987) The impact of expert systems on statistical database management. In: CUBITT R., WESTLAKE A. (eds.) Report on the third international workshop on statistical and scientific database management. Statistical Software Newsletter(internet-link: "http://www.gsf.de/MED_STAT/ssn.html") 13 : 14-27
  • WITTKOWSKI, K.M. (1986d) Generating and testing statistical hypotheses: Strategies for knowledge engineering. In: HAUX, R. (ed.) Expert Systems in Statistics . Stuttgart, D: Fischer, 139-154
1979-1982 Scientific consultant (biometry)
Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
Consulting:
Department neurobiology (Prof. Dr. W. Wuttke), on experiments regarding the role of estrogene in reproduction
  • SANDMANN, R., WITTKOWSKI, K.M., WUTTKE, W. (1983) Turnoverrates of monoamines in various structures of the rat brain in response to estradiol treatment at different times after ovarectomy. Neuroscience Letters Suppl. 14 : 321
1975-1982 Research assistant
Department of Medical Statistics, Georg-August-University Göttingen
(computational statistics)
Teaching and curriculum design:
Development of a new curriculum for the course "Introduction to computational statistics" (Course, WS81/SS82, in German)
Development:
Planning and installing equipment for a new computer laboratory. Design and implementation of a dialogue system for statistical analysis and of simulation programs for statistical methods (nonparametric statistics and linear models).
Supervision:
Up to four (under grad) students in the computer laboratory programming and assisting in statistical analysis.
Consulting:
Consulting for students at the Faculty of Medicine during the phases of planning, analysing, and interpretation of randomized controlled clinical trials and case-control studies.

(This work was done whilst studying statistics and economy)

1973-1975 Programmer (dialogue systems, data base applications)
Siemens AG / Beuth-Vertrieb / Verlag für technische Regelwerke, Berlin



Selbständige Lehrtätigkeit /
Teaching Experience

1995 Biostatistics II (Lecture, 3 credit, Beirut, Lebanon),
Epidemiology (Lecture, 2 credit, Beirut, Lebanon)
1993 Epidemiological models (Course, Cairo/Alexandria, ET)
1991 Applied statistics (Course, Cairo, ET)
1990, 1994 Epidemiology (Seminar, Tübingen, D)
1988 Expert systems in Medicine (Seminar, Tübingen, D)
1982-1994 Biometrical methodology (Consultations, Tübingen, D)
1982-1994 Medical Biometry (Tutorials, Tübingen, D)
1982-1986 Introduction to medical biometry (Lecture, Tübingen, D)
1982-1983 Medical statistics and documentation (Lecture, Tübingen, D)
1981-1982 Introduction to computational statistics (Course, Göttingen, D)


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