Nandita Mitra, PhD
| Office Location | 212, Blockley Hall |
| Office Phone | 215-573-4467 |
| nanditam@mail.med.upenn.edu | |
Faculty Information | |
| CCEB Appointment | Senior Scholar, Biostatistics |
| Primary Faculty Appointment | Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at HUP, University of Pennsylvania SOM |
Research Statement
Nandita Mitra received her MA in Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Columbia University in 2001. She joined the faculty in September 2005, after having previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health in statistical genetics and after serving on the faculty of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Her primary statistical research interest is in genetics where she has worked extensively on SNP and haplotype problems in the context of family based and population based association studies. In addition, she has research interests in the theory of causal inference, propensity score methods, and health economics. She has collaborated with investigators in a number of medical areas, including clinical genetics and oncology. Specifically she has worked on studies that have investigated genetic associations in melanoma, breast, lung and colon cancers. She has also worked on population based outcomes and cost-effectiveness studies using SEER-Medicare data in the areas of colon, ovarian and bladder cancer.
Courses Taught
BSTA 787: Statistical Genetics Methods for Complex Human Disease
Selected Publications
Mitra N, Schnabel FR, Neugut AI, Heitjan DF: "Estimating the effect of an intensive surveillance program on stage of breast carcinoma at diagnosis: a propensity score analysis". Cancer, 91, 1709-1715, 2001.
Sundararajan V, Mitra N, Jacobson J, Grann V, Heitjan DF, Neugut AI "Survival associated with 5-Fluorouracil-based adjuvant chemotherapy among elderly patients with node-positive colon cancer". Annals of Internal Medicine, 136: 349-357, 2002.
Kirchhoff T, Kauff ND, Mitra N, Nafa K, Huang H, Palmer C, Gulati T, Wadsworth E, Donat S, Robson ME, Ellis N, Offit K. "BRCA Mutations and Risk of Prostate Cancer in Ashkenazi Jews". Clinical Cancer Research, 10:2918-2921, 2004.
Israel E, Chinchilli VM, Ford JG, Boushey HA, Cherniack R, Craig TJ, Deykin A, Fagan JK, Fahy JV, Fish J, Kraft M, Kunselman SJ, Lazarus SC, Lemanske RF, Ligget SB, Martin RJ, Mitra N, Peters SP, Silverman E, Sorkness CA, Szefler SJ, Wechsler ME, Weiss ST, Drazen JM. "Use of regularly scheduled albuterol treatment in asthma: geotype-stratified, randomized, placebo-controlled cross-over trial". The Lancet, 364, 1505-1512, 2004.
Mitra N, Ye TZ, Smith A, Chuai S, Kirchhoff T, Peterlong P, Nafa K, Phillips M, Offitt K, Ellis NA. "Localization of cancer susceptibility genes by genome-wide SNP linkage disequilibrium mapping" Cancer Research, 64, 8116-8125, 2004.
Venakatraman ES, Mitra N, Begg CB. "A method for evaluating the impact of individual haplotypes on disease incidence in molecular epidemiology studies". Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 13:1, article 27, 2004.
Mitra N, Indhurkya A. "A propensity-score approach to estimating the cost-effectiveness of medical therapies from observational data". Health Economics, 14: 805-815, 2005.
Peterlongo P, Mitra N, Chuai S, Kirchoff T, Palmer C, Huang H, Nafa K, Offit K, Ellis NA. "Colorectal cancer risk in individuals with biallelic or monoallelic mutations of MYH". International Journal of Cancer, 114(3):505-7, 2005.
Hafron J, Mitra N, Dalbagni G, Bochner B, Herr H, Donat SM. "Does body mass index (BMI) affect survival in patients undergoing radical or partial cystectomy for bladder cancer?". Journal of Urology. 173(5):1513-7, 2005.
Schrag D, Mitra N, Xu F, Rabbani F, Bach PB, Herr H, Begg CB: "Cystectomy for muscle invasive bladder cancer: patterns and outcomes of care in the medicare population". Urology. 65(6):1118-25, 2005.
Indurkhya A, Mitra N, Schrag D: "Impact of propensity scores on estimating the cost-effectiveness of medical therapies". Statistics in Medicine, In press.
Kauff ND, Mitra N, Hurley KE, Robson ME, Chuai S, Goldfrank D, Wadsworth E, Lee Johanna, Cigler T, Norton L, Barakat RR, Offit K. "Risk of Ovarian Cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Negative Hereditary Breast Cancer Families". Journal of the National Cancer Institute, In press.
