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Work Address |
StataCorp LP 4905 Lakeway Drive College Station, TX 77845 Phone: (800) 782-8272 personal email: brising@mac.com |
Ph.D. | 1989 | Mathematics | ||
University of Massachusetts/Amherst | ||||
B.S. | 1981 | Electrical Engineering | ||
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
B.S. | 1981 | German Literature and Language | ||
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Oct. 1985 - Jul. 1986 | Friedricana Universität (Universität Karlsruhe) | |
Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany | ||
Oct. 1979 - Jul. 1980 | Albert-Ludwigs Universität (Universität Freiburg) | |
Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany |
2007 - present | Director of Educational Services StataCorp LP College Station, Texas |
Many things, all different and interesting. | |
2005 - 2007 | Assistant Professor Mathematics Department Bellarmine University Louisville, Kentucky |
Teach upper-level probability and mathematical statistics, as well as the lower level statistics course. | |
2001 - 2005 | Assistant Professor |
2005 - 2006 | Adjunct Professor Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky |
Taught graduate-level probability and mathematical statistics, Bayesian statistics, and statistical computing. Worked with collegues at the Health Sciences Center (Medical Campus), especially with the Office of Curriculum and Evaluation. Served on Master's thesis and PhD dissertation committees. | |
2002 - 2005 | Director, Statistical Consulting Center University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky |
Helped create and then run the consulting center which provided expertise in statistical methods and information science in support of research for both the Health Sciences Center and the University as a whole. | |
1998 - 2003 | Assistant Scientist Department of Biostatistics School of Hygiene and Public Health The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland |
Taught data management via distance education as an adjunct from 2001 through 2003. | |
Taught data management related to statistics and basic statistics classes, as well as a measure-theoretic probability course. Also worked as a consultant in the in the Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center. | |
1992 - 1998 | Statistician Health Care Excel, Inc. Louisville, Kentucky |
Designed and ran statistical analyses of utilization and outcomes using Medicare claims data. Wrote software to clean and manage multi-gigabyte data files which arrived quarterly from the Federal Government. | |
1990 - 1991 | Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Ithaca College Ithaca, New York |
1989 - 1990 | Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky |
1988 - 1989 | Visiting Lecturer Department of Mathematics Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts |
1986 - 1988 1981 - 1984 |
Teaching Assistant/Associate Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts |
1984-1985 | Statistical Consultant Statistical Consulting Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts |
Consulted faculty and students about statistical problems related to their research. Wrote program files as well as custom statistical packages. |
2002 | Excellence in Online Teaching Award Johns Hopkins University |
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2000 | Golden Apple Teaching Award Johns Hopkins University |
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1984 | Distinguished Teaching Award University of Massachusetts/Amherst |
Rising, William, Joseph A. O'Daniel, and Craig Roberts. Correlating Weather and Trauma Admissions at a Level One Trauma Center Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection and Critical Care. 60(5):1096-1100, 2006.
Bass, P. F., B. Stetson, W. Rising, G. Wesley, and C. Ritchie, C. Development and Evaluation of a Nutrition and Physical Activity Counseling Module for First-Year Medical Students. Medical Education Online, 9, 2004.
Ducic, I., A. Shalom, W. Rising, K. Nagamoto, and A. Munster. An Algorithm for the Prognosis of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Syndrome (TENs), Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal, 110:768-773, 2002.
Gerring, J., B. Slomine, R. Vasa, M. Grados, A. Chen, and W. Rising. Clinical Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Closed Head Injury in Children, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41:157-165, 2002.
Vasa, R., J. Gerring, M. Grados, B. Slomie, J Christiansen, W. Rising, M. Denckla, and M. Riddle. Anxiety Following Severe Peiaric Traumatic Brain Injury, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41:148-156, 2002.
Lewis, J., and W. Rising. Improving Appropriate Selection of Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer, Evaluation and the Health Professions, 21:429-441, 1998.
Rising, W. Geometric Markov Chains, Journal of Applied Probability, 32:349-374, 1995.
Rising, W. Generalizing the Plurality Method for Forming Hospital Service Areas, Clinical Performance and Quality Health Care, 1:199-204, 1993.
Rising, W. Applications of Generalized Inverses to Markov Chains, Advances in Applied Probability, 23:293-302, 1991.
Helm CW, Lorenz DJ, Meyer NJ, Rising WR, Wilff JL. Retinoids for preventing the progression of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2007 Oct 17; (4):CD003296. (Cochrane Review)
Rising, W. Introduction to Stata. Stata Press, 2002. (CD)
(Quicktime movie based computer training CD for learning basic data management and basic exploratory statistics in the Stata statistical package.)
Sheikh K, Lee K, Rising W, Felt D, Clark JD. The National Hospital Peer Grouping Project. Baltimore, Maryland: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration, 1999. HCFA Publication No. 10130.
Information about presentations, teaching and other academic activity can be found in Part II of the CV