Areas of Expertise
Education
Ph.D. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine - 2007
School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
M.S.P.H. - 2000
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public
Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
B.A. - 1998
Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Science, University
of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Biography
Awards
2005 President Ramsay Award. Relation of Endothelial Genes to Migraine and Stroke.
Grants and Contracts Awarded
2005 to 2006
University of Maryland, Baltimore Women’s Health Research Group
to 2006 Relation of Endothelial Genes to Migraine and Stroke. The goals of this study were to evaluate the association between migraine and stroke among young women and whether polymorphisms in the NOS3, EDN1, EDNRA, and EDNRB genes may confer susceptibility to both conditions using existing data from The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study, a population-based case-control study of early onset-stroke.
Role: Principal Investigator
Publications & Presentations
Publications
Hoffman S, Powell-Cope G, Rathvon, L, Bero K. BedSAFE: Evaluating a Program of Bed Safety Alternatives for Frail Elders. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 2003;29(11):34-42.
MacClellan LR, Bradham DD, South B, Tate M, Powell-Cope G, Nelson A. Hospital bed-related adverse events, Part I: Incidence in a VA healthcare system. Journal of Healthcare Safety.2003;1(3):19-23.
Bradham DD, MacClellan LR, South B, Tate M, Powell-Cope G, Luther S, Nelson A. Hospital bed-related adverse events, Part II: Direct costs to a VHA healthcare network. Journal of Healthcare Safety. 2003;1(3):24-30.
MacClellan LR, Bradham DD, Whitall J, Wilson PD, Ohlhoff J, Meister C, Hogan N, Krebs HI, Bever CT. Robotic Upper Extremity Neuro-Rehabilitation In Chronic Stroke Patients. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development. 2006; 42(6): 717-222.
Finley, MA, Fasoli, SE, DiPietro, L, Ohlhoff, MacClellan, L, Meister,C, Whitall, J, Macko, R, Bever, CT, Krebs, HI, Hogan, N . Short Duration Upper Extremity Robotic Therapy in Stroke Patients with Severe Upper Extremity Motor Impairment. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development. 2005; 42(5):683-692.
Leah R. MacClellan, MSPH; Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD; John W. Cole, MD, MPH; Wayne H. Giles, MD, MS; Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH for the Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study Group. Familial aggregation of ischemic stroke in young women is increased at younger ages: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Genetic Epidemiology. 2006; 30(7):602-608.
Leah R. MacClellan, PhD;Wayne Giles, MD; John Cole MD; Marcella Wozniak, MD;
Barney Stern, MD; Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD; and Steven J. Kittner, MD. Clinical and
Anatomic Features of Migraine-Associated Ischemic Stroke: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Stroke. 2007; 38:2438-2445.
Leah R. MacClellan, PhD;Wayne Giles, MD; John Cole MD; Marcella Wozniak, MD;
Barney Stern, MD; Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD; and Steven J. Kittner, MD. Relation of Candidate Genes that Encode for Endothelial Function to Migraine and Stroke: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Stroke. 2009: 40;e550-7.
PRESENTATIONS
MacClellan LR, Bradham DD, Whitall J, Wilson PD, Ohlhoff J, Meister C, Hogan N, Krebs HI, Bever CT. Robotic Upper Extremity Neuro-Rehabilitation In Chronic Stroke Patients. Poster Grand Rounds at the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s 65th Annual Assembly in Phoenix, Arizona. October 8, 2004.
Leah R. MacClellan, MSPH; Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD; John W. Cole, MD, MPH; Wayne H. Giles, MD, MS; Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH for the Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study Group Familial aggregation of ischemic stroke in young women is increased at younger ages: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Poster presentation for the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. February 2 – 4, 2005.
Leah R. MacClellan, MSPH; Jason McGowan, Crystal Pirtle, Wayne Giles, MD, MS; John Cole MD, MPH; Marcella Wozniak, MD; Barney Stern, MD; Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD; and Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH. Type of Migraine Aura Symptoms Determines Association with Ischemic Stroke: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Poster presentation for the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. February 2 – 4, 2005.
Leah R. MacClellan, MSPH; Wayne Giles, MD, MS; John Cole MD, MPH; Marcella Wozniak, MD; Barney Stern, MD; Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD; and Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH. Type of Migraine Aura Symptoms Determines Association with Ischemic Stroke: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Poster presentation for the NIH/NINDS-sponsored conference, “Advancing the Study of Stroke in Women” in Durham, NC. August 22-23, 2005.
Leah R. MacClellan, MSPH; Wayne Giles, MD, MS; John Cole MD, MPH; Marcella Wozniak, MD; Barney Stern, MD; Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD; and Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH. Clinical and Anatomic Features of Migraine-Associated Stroke: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Oral presentation for the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in San Francisco, California. February 7, 2007.
Leah R. MacClellan, PhD; Timothy D. Howard, PhD; O. Colin Stine, PhD; Wayne Giles, MD; Jeffery R. O’Connell, PhD; John Cole MD; Marcella Wozniak, MD; Barney Stern, MD; Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD; and Steven J. Kittner, MD. Relation of Candidate Genes that Encode for Endothelial Function to Migraine and Stroke: The Stroke Prevention in Young Women Study. Accepted for poster presentation for the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. February 20, 2008.
