VITA

December 23, 2007

Gerry Hobbs, Associate Professor of Statistics

and Adjunct Associate Professor of Community Medicine, West Virginia University

EDUCATION

1973 PhD Statistics, Kansas State

University

1969 M.S. Statistics, Kansas State

University

1967 B.S. Mathematics, California

Polytechnic State University,

San Luis Obispo

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1990-present Adjunct Associate Professor

of Community Medicine

Dept. of Community Medicine

West Virginia University

1982-present Associate Professor of Statistics, Statistics and Computer Science, West Virginia University

1976-1982 Assistant Professor of Statistics, Statistics and Computer Science, West Virginia University

1973-1976 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, State University College at Potsdam

1970-1973 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kansas State University

1969-1970 Mathematical Statistician, US Army Safeguard System Evaluation Agency

1968-1969 National Defense Education Act

Teaching Fellow, Kansas State

University

1967-1968 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kansas State University

TEXTBOOKS

1. Hobbs, Gerald R., "Instructor's Guide to Accompany

Statistics," by Joseph Newmark, Saunders College

Publishing, Philadelphia, 1988.

2. Hobbs, Gerry, ANOVA and Regression Methods Using JMP^(R)

Software Course Notes, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 1996

(210 pages)

3. Hobbs, Gerry, et al., Basics Statistics Using SAS Software, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 1998 (545 pages)

REFEREED MANUSCRIPTS

1. Hobbs, G. R. and W. J. Conover. "The Asymptotic Efficiency of the Kruskal-Wallis Test and the Median Test in Contingency Tables with Ordered Categories", Communications in Statistics Volume 13, No. 12, pp. 1138, December, 1974

2. Hobbs, Gerald. R. and Riley, William B. Jr., "Validating a Trading Rule: The Case of Profiting From a Presidential Election", AIDS (American Institute for Decision Sciences), pp. 79-81, November, 1980

3. Hobbs, Gerald. R. Jr.,"Some Advantages of Individually Generated Data Sets", Academic Press, pp. 465-470, Teaching of Statistics and Statistical Consulting, Jagdish. S. Rustagl and Douglas. A. Wolfe, eds., Academic Press, New York, 1982

4. Hobbs, G. R. and William B. Riley, Jr., "Profiting from a Presidental Election", Financial Analysts Journal, Volume 4, No 2, pp. 46-53, March-April, 1984

5. Bancroft, Bruce. A. and Hobbs, Gerald. R., "Distribution of the Kriging Error and the Stationarity of the Variogram in a Coal Property", Mathematical Geology, Volume 18, No. 7, pp. 635-652, October, 1986.

6. Hambi, Panayiotis., Chilko, Daniel. M. and Hobbs, Gerald., "The JACKREG Procedure," SAS Institute Inc., pp. 237-246 (Chapter 18), 1986 in SUGI Supplemental User's Guide, Robert.P. Hastings, editor.

7. Bancroft, Bruce. A. and Hobbs, Gerald. R., "Mine-Product Variability Estimators with Emphasis on the Case of Coal", Technometrics, Volume 35, No. 4, pp 390-402, November, 1993.

8. Jones, David. R., Graeber, Geoffrey. M., Tanguilig, Gerald. G., Hobbs, Gerry, Murray, Gordon. F. “The Effects of Insufflation on Hemodynamics During Thoracoscopy” The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Volume 55, pp 1379-1382, June, 1993

9. Koerber, H. R., Hobbs, G. R. and Brown, P. B., "Precision and Variability of Hindlimb Representation in Cat Dorsal Horn and Applications for Tactile Localization". Journal of Neurophysiology, Volume 70, No. 6, pp 2489-2501 December, 1993

10. Kaufman, Howard. H., Bodensteiner, John, Burkhart, Barbara, Gutmann, Ludwig, Kopitnik, Thomas, Hochberg, Vera, Loy, Nina, Cox-Ganser, Jean, Hobbs, Gerry, "Treatment of Spastic Gait in Cerebral Palsy", West Virginia Medical Journal, Vol. 90, No. 5, pp. 190-192, May, 1994

11. Cleavenger, Ronald L., Juckett, R. Gregory, and Hobbs, Gerry, "Trends in Chlamydia and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases in a University Health Service", Journal of American College Health, Volume 44, No. 5, pp 263-265, May, 1996

12. Sheth, Raj. D., Wesolowski, Carl. A., Jacob, J. C., Penny, Sharon., Hobbs, Gerald. R., Riggs, Jack. E., and Bodensteiner, John. B., "Effect of Carbamazepine and Valproate on Bone Mineral D\ensity", The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 127, No. 2, pp. 256-262, August, 1995.

13. Sheth, Raj. D., Mullett, Martha M., Bodensteiner, John. B., Hobbs, Gerald. R., "Longitudinal Head Growth in Developmentally Normal Preterm Infants". Archives of Pediatric and Adolscent Medicine, Volume 149, No. 12, pp. 1358-1361, December, 1995

14. Unkel, John M., Fenton, Sanford J., Hobbs, Gerald, and Frere, Cathryn L., "Toothbrushing Ability is Related to Age in Children" Journal of Dentistry for Children, Volume 62, No. 5, pp. 346-348, September-October, 1995

15. Cohen, C. S.,Stansberry, P. G., Stiller, A. H., Hobbs, G., Vavro, K. and, Miller, M. R., "Preliminary Characterization of Bioreactivity of Novel Carbonaceous Pitches Extracted in N-methyl-ptrrolidine (NMP)”. Energy & Fuels, Volume 9, No. 6, pp. 1051-1057, November-December, 1995

16. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Bryner, Kimberly D., Horvath Gabriella G., Byerly, Michele R., Hobbs, Gerald R., Marcovina, Santica M. and, Lernmark, Ake, “Antibodies to GAD and Glycemic Control in Recent-Onset IDDM”, Diabetes Care. Volume 20, Number 12, pp. 1900-1903, December, 1997

17. Sheth, Raj D., Riggs, Jack E., Hobbs, Gerald. R. and, Gutmann, Ludwig, "Age and Guillain-Barre Syndrome Severity", Muscle & Nerve, Volume 19, No. 3, pp. 375-377, March, 1996

18. Sheth, Raj D., Buckley, David, Penny, Sharon, Hobbs, Gerald R., “Vigabratin in Childhood Epilepsy: Comparable Efficacy for Generalized and Partial Seizures”, Clinical Neuropharmacology, Volume 19, No. 4, pp. 297-304, July, 1996

19. Hobbs, Gerald R., Mitra RK, Chuahan, RP, Woodley JM, Lilly MD, “Enzyme-catalysed carbon-carbon bond formation: large-scale production of Escherichia coli transke”, Journal of Biotechnology, Vol. 45, No. 2 (February) 1996 pp. 173-179

20. Sheth, Raj D., Hobbs, Gerald R.,Riggs, Jack E.

and Penny, Sharon, “Bone Mineral Density in Geographically Diverse Adolescent Populations”, Pediatrics, Volume 98, No. 5, pp. 948-951, November, 1996

21. Sheth, Raj D., Schaefer, G. Bradley, Keller, Gina. M., Hobbs, Gerald R., Bodensteiner, John. B., “Size of the Corpus Callosum in Cerebral Palsy”, Journal of Neuroimaging, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 180-183, July, 1996

22. Schmidt, Rebecca J., Domico, Jennifer R., Sorkin, Michael, I. and Hobbs, Gerald , “Early Referral and Its Impact on Emergent First Dialysis, Health Care Costs and Outcome”, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Volume 32, No. 2, August, 1998, Pp. 278-283

23. Sheth, Raj D., Hobbs, Gerald R., and Mullett, Martha D. “Neonatal Seizures: Incidence, Onset and Etiology by Gestational Age”, Journal of Perinatology Volume 19, No. 1, February, 1999, Pp. 40-43

24, Riggs, Jack E., Hobbs, Gerald R., “Riluzole and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Did Potential Market Size Bias Pharmaceutical Reseach?”, (letter) Archives of Neurology, Volume 53, No. 11, pp. 1093-1094, November, 1996

25. Riggs, Jack E. and Hobbs, Gerald R., “Homicide in the United States, 1951-1990: Synchronous Age-Specific Rate Changes in Adult Men”, Military Medicine, Vol. 162, No. 4, pp. 262-265, April, 1997

26. Masilamani, S., Hobbs, G. R. and Baylis, C., “The Acute Pressure Natriuresis Response is Blunted and the Blood Pressure Response is Reset in the Normal Pregnant Rat”, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 179, No. 2, pp. 486-491, August, 1998

27. Islam, Syed, Gutin, Bernard, Treiber, Frank, Hobbs, Gerry, Kamboh, Ilyas, Virella, Gabriel and, Lopez-Virella, Maria, “Association of Apo(a) Phenotypes and Oxidized LDL-immune Complexes in Children” Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, Volume 153, No. 1, 57-62, January, 1999

28. Hoeldtke, Robert. D., Bryner, Kimberly D., Horvath, Gabriella G., Byerly, Michele R., Hobbs, Gerald R., Marcovina, Santica and, Lernmark, Ake, “Antibodies to Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Correlate With Glycemic Control in Recent Onset IDDM”, Diabetes, Volume 46, pp. 7A (1997)- abstract

29. Hoeldtke, Robert. D., Bryner, Kimberly. D., Horvath, Gabriella G., Phares, Robert, Hobbs, Gerald R., Christie, Ian and, Ganser, Gary, “Plasma Prorenin Reflects Sympathetic and Somatosensory Neuropathy Early in IDDM”, Diabetes, Volume 46, pp. 126A (1997)-abstract

30. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Horvath, Gabriella, G., Bryner, Kimberly D., Hobbs, Gerald R., “Treatment of Orthostatic Hypotension with Midodrine and Octreotide”, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Volume 83, No.2, February, 1998

31. Richards, Steven. D., Ritchie, Susan, Hobbs, Gerald R., Mandich, MaryBeth, Sheth, Raj D., and “The Neonatal Suck Reflex Pattern Does Not Predict Apnea”, Journal of Child Neurology”, Vol. 14, No. 9, pp. 614-616, September, 1999

32. Westra, CS, Ducatman, AM, Nieweadomska-Bugaj M, Hobbs, GR Jr., “An Estimate of Prostate Cancer for a Demographically Similar Workforce Population”, West Virginia Medical Journal, Vol. 95, No. 3, (May-June) 1999, pp. 116-122

33. Riggs, Jack. E. and, Hobbs, Gerald. R., “Nonrandom Sequence of Slope-Intercept Estimates In Longitudenal Gompertzian Analysis Suggests Biological Relevance”, Mechanisms of Aging and Development, Volume 100, No. 2, March, 1998, pp. 269-275

34. Riggs, J. E. and Hobbs, G. R., “Clinical Trials, Outcomes, and Statistics: How better can be worse”, Journal of Neurology (letter), Volume 51, pp. 1234-1235, October, 1998

35. Zhuang, Ziqing, Stobbe, Terry J., Hsiao, Hongwei, Collins, James W., and Hobbs, Gerald R., “Biomechanical Evaluation of Assistive Devices for Transferring Patients”, Applied Ergonics, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 285-294, April, 1999

37. Zhuang, Ziqing, Stobbe, Terrance. J., Collins, James W., Hsiao, Hongwei, and Hobbs, Gerald R., “Pschophysical Assessment of Assistive Devices for Transferring Residents”, Applied Ergonomics, Volume 31, pp. 35-44, January, 2000

38. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Bryner, Kimberly D., Hobbs, Gerald R., Horvath, Gabriella G., Riggs, Jack E., Christie, Ian, Ganser, Gary, Marcovina, Santica M., Lernmark, Ake, “Antibodies to Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase and Peripheral Nerve Function in Type 1 Diabetes”, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 85, No. 9 (September) 2000, Pp. 3297-3308.

39. Newman, Jonathon, Aulick, Neal, Cheng, Thanh, Faynor Steven, Curtis, Robert, Mercer, Don, Williams, Janet, Hobbs, Gerald, “Prehospital Identification of Acute Coronary Ischemia Using a Troponin T Rapid Assay”, Prehospital Emergency Care, pp. 97-101, March, 1999

40. Becker, P., Akladios, M., Fullen, M., Hobbs, G., “Fall Prevention in Construction by Organizational

Intervention”, Implementation of Safety and Health on Construction Sites (Hinze, Hinze and Coble Eds.), Balkema, Rotterdam, 1999 pp. 917-924

41. Goins, R. Turner, Hobbs, Gerry, “Distribution and Utilization of Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care Services for the Elderly in North Carolina”, Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July-Sept.) 2001, pp. 23-42

42. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Bryner, Kimberly D., Horvath, Gabriella G., Phares, Robert W., Broy, Lance F., and Hobbs, Gerald R., “Redistribution of Sudomotor Responses Is an Early Sign of Sympathetic Dysfunction in Type 1 Diabetes”, Diabetes, Vol. 50 (February), 2001, pp. 436-443

43. Lamm, Donald L., Riggs, Dale R., Bugaj, Magdelena and Hobbs, Gerry, “Intravesical Prophylaxis in Bladder Cancer: A Meta-Analysis”, Official Abstract #352473, American Urological Association, 2000

44. Prabhu, Vicram C., Kaufman, Howard H., Voelker, Joeseph L., Aronoff, Stephen C., Niewiadomska-Bugaj, Magdalena, Mascaro, Suzy and Hobbs, Gerald R., “Prophylactic Antibiotics with Intracranial Pressure Monitors and External Ventricular Drains: A Review of the Evidence”, Surgical Neurology, 1999, Vol. 52, Pp. 226-235

45. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Bryner, Kimberly D., Komanduri, Padma, Christie, Ian, Ganser, Gary and Hobbs, Gerald R., “Decreased Prorenin Processing Develops before Autonomic Dysfunction in Type 1 Diabetes”, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol. 85, No. 2 (February) 2001, Pp. 585-589

46. Goins, R. Turner, Hays Judith.C.,Landerman Lawrence.R., Hobbs Gerry, “Access to Health Care and Self-Rated Health Among Community Dwelling Older Adults”, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Vol. 20, No. 3 (September) 2001, Pp. 307-321

47. Smith Cheryl, Stamm, S. Craig, Riggs, Jack E., Stauber, William, Harsh, Veronica., Gannett, Peter M., Hobbs, Gerry, Miller Michael R., "Ethanol-mediated CYP1A1/2 Induction in Rat Skeletal Muscle Tissue", Experimental & Molecular Pathology, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 223-232, (September) 2000

48. Hobbs, Gerald R., “Data Mining and Healthcare Informatics”, American Journal of Health Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 285-289, (May/June) 2001

49. Kofke, W. Andrew, Shaheen, N., McWhorter, Julie, Sinz, Elizabeth H., Hobbs, Gerald, "Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography with Induction of Anesthesia and Neuromuscular Blockade in Surgical Patients”, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Vol. 13, No. 5, (August) 2001, Pp. 335-338

50. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Bryner, Kimberly D., Hobbs, Gerald R., Baylis, Christine, "Sympathetic Dysfunction in Early Diabetes is Associated with Increased Nitric Oxide", Clinical Autonomic Research (in Press)

51. Riggs, Jack E., Moudgil, Shyam S., Hobbs, Gerald R., "Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease and Blood Transfusions: A Meta-Analysis of Case-Control Studies", Military Medicine, Vol. 166, No. 12, December, 2001

52. Palmer, H. Carl, Armistead, Niti S., Elnicki, D. Michael, Halperin, Alan K., Ogershok, Paul R., Mannivann, Shanthi, Hobbs, Gerald R., Evans, Kim, "The Effect of a Hospitalist Service with Nurse Discharge Planner on Patient Care in an Academic Teaching Hospital" American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 111 (December 1, 2001), pp. 627-632

53. Gupta, Naresh C., Tamim, Wael J. Graber, Geoffrey G., Bishop, Harry A., Hobbs, Gerald. R. "Mediastinal Lymph Node Sampling Following Positron Emission Tomography with Fluorodeoxygluclose Imaging in Lung Cancer Staging", Chest, Vol. 120, No. 8 (August) 2001, pp. 521-527

54. Becker, P.., Fullen, M., Akladios, M. and Hobbs, G., "Prevention of Construction Falls by Organizational Intervention", Injury Prevention, Vol. 7, Suppl I (2001) pp. 64-67

55. Glover, Elbert D., Glover, Penny N., Franzon, Mikael C., Sullivan, C. Rollynn, Cerullo, Connie C., Howell, Robert M., Keyes, Gordon G., Nilsson, Fredrik, Hobbs, Gerald R., "A Comparison of a Nicotine Sublingual Tablet and Placebo for Smoking Cessation", Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Vol 4. No. 4 (November, 2002) Pp. 441-450.

56. Gadd, Samantha L., Hobbs, Gerry, Miller, Michael R., "Acetominophen-Induced Proliferation of Estrogen-Responsive Breast Cancer is Associated with Increases in c-myc RNA Expression and NF-kB Activity", Toxicological Sciences, Vol. 66, No. 2 (April, 2002) pp. 233-243

57. Riggs, Jack E., Davis, Stephen M., Hobbs, Gerald R., Paulson, Debra J., Chinnis, Ann S., Heilman, Patricia L., “Association Between Early Returns and Frequent ED Visits at a Rural Academic Medical Center”, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 21. No. 1 (January, 2003) Pp. 30-31

58. Larrabee, June H., Janney, Michelle A., Ostrow, C. Lynne, Withrow, Mary Lynn, Hobbs, Gerald R., Burant, Christopher, “Predicting Registered Nurse Job Satisfaction and Intent to Leave”, Journal of Nursing Administration, Vol. 33, No. 5 (May) 2003, Pp. 271-283

59. Glover, Elbert D., Glover, Penny N., Sullivan, C. Rollynn, Cerullo, Connie L., Hobbs, Gerald R., “A Comparison of Sustained Release Bupropion and Placebo for Smokeless Tobacco Cessation”, American Journal of Health Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 5 (September) 2002, Pp. 386-393

60. Riggs, Jack E., Libell, David P. Hobbs, Gerald R., “In-Hospital Stroke Mortality, Hospital Transfers, and Referral Bias at a Rural Academic Medical Center”, Journal of Rural Health, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring, 2002), pp. 294-297

61. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Bryner, Kimberly D., McNeill, Daniel R., Riggs, Jack E., Warehime, Sarah S., Christie, Ian, Ganser, Gary and Van Dyke, Knox, “Nitrosative Stress, Uric Acid and Periferal Nerve Function in Early Type 1 Diabetes”, Diabetes, Vol. 51, No. 9, (September , 2002), pp. 2817-2825

62. Riggs, Jack E., Hobbs, Gerald R., “Motor Axonal Injury and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Risk Assessment Using a Reverse Probability Analysis Technique”, Military Medicine, Vol. 168, No. 2 (February) 2003, pp. 143-145

63. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Bryner, Kimberly D., McNeill, Daniel R., Warehime, Sarah S.,Van Dyke, Knox, and Hobbs, Gerald, “Oxidative Stress and Insulin Requirements in Patients with Recent-Onset Type I Diabetes”, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol. 88, No. 4 (April, 2003) pp.1624-1628

64. Hoeldtke, Robert D, Bryner, Kimberly D., McNeill, Daniel R., Hobbs, Gerald R., and Baylis, Chris, “Peroxynitrate Versus Nitric Oxide in Early Diabetes”, American Journal of Hypertension, Vol. 16, No. 9 (September, 2003) pp. 761-766

65. Larrabee, June H., Ostrow, C. Lynne, Withrow, Mary Lynne, Janney, Michelle A., Hobbs, Gerald R., Burant, Christopher, “Predictors of Patient Satisfaction with Inpatient Hospital Nursing Care”, Research in Nursing and Health, Vol. 27, (July, 2004) pp. 254-268,

66. Burns, James, Cottrell L, Perkins K, Pack R, Stanton B, Hobbs G. “Depressive Symptoms and Health Risk Among Rural Adolescents” Pediatrics. Vol. 113 No. 5 (May, 2004) pp. 1313-1320

67. Hao, Wei, Skarulis Monica C., Simonds, William F., Weinstein, Lee S., Agarwal, Sunita K., Mateo, Carmen, James-Newton, Laura, Hobbs, Gerald R., Gibril, Fathia, Jensen, Robert, Marx, Stephen J., “Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 Variant with Frequent Prolactinoma and Rare Gastinoma”, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 89, No. 8, (August 2004), pp. 3776-3784

68. Slain, D, Amsden, JR., Khakoo, RA, Fisher, MA., Lalka, D, Hobbs, GR., “Effect of High-Dose Vitamin C on the Steady-State Pharmacokinetics of the Protease Inhibitor Indinavir in Healthy Volunteers”, Journal of Pharmacotherapy , Vol. 25, No. 2 (February, 2005) Pp. 165-170

69. Han, Bachel, Stobbe, Terrence J., Hobbs, Gerald R. Jr., “The Effect of Asymmetry on Pyschophysical Lifting Capacity for Three Lifting Types”, Ergonomics, Vol. 48, No. 4, March 15, 2005, pp. 364-379.

70. Anderson, Stacey, Howard, Brandi, Hobbs, Gerald R., Bishop, Clifton P., “A Method for Determining the Age of a Bloodstain”, Forensic Science International, Vol. 148, (2005) Pp. 37-45

71. Altaha, Ramin, Crowell, Edward, Hobbs, Gerry, Higa, Gerry, Abraham, Jame, “Increased Risk of Brain Metastases in Patients with HER-2/neu-Positive Breast Carcinoma, Cancer, Vol. 103, Issue 3 (February, 2005) pp. 442-443

72. Riggs, JE, Libell, DP, Brooks, CE, Hobbs, GR, “Impact of Institution of a Stroke Program Upon Referral Bias at a Rural Academic Medical Center”, Rural Hospitals, Vol. 21, No. 3 (June, 2005) Pp. 269-271

73. Khan, Fida, Khakoo, Rashida, Hobbs, Gerald R., “Impact of Contact Isolation on Healthcare Workers at a Tertiary Care Center”, American Journal of Infection Control, Vol 34, No 7, (September 2006) pp. 408-413

74. Davisson, Laura, Clark, Karen, Powers, Roxann, Hobbs, Gerald, “The Rectovaginal Examination: Physician Attitudes and Practice Patterns”, Southern Medical Journal, Vol. 99, No. 3, (March, 2006), pp. 212-215

75. Schunn, Christian, Schunn, Gisa B., Hobbs, Gerry, Vona-Davis, Linda, Waheed, Usman, "Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement in Late-Stage Cancer". Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 40, No. 4, (April, 2006), pp. 287-294

76. Velan, S. Sendhil, Durst, Christopher, Lemieux Susan K., Paylman, Raymond R., Rajagopalan Sridhar, Spencer, Richard G., Hobbs, Gerald R., Thomas M. Albert, “Investigation of Muscle Lipid Metabolism by Localized One- and Two-Dimensional MRS Techniques using a Clinical 3T MRI/MRS Scanner”, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol 25, No. 1, (January, 2007) pp. 192-199

77. Bennett P, Tadros A, Davis SM, Hobbs G. Rural Emergency Medicine: The 2004 West Virginia Emergency Medicine Workforce. West Virginia Medical Journal (November/December) 2007

78. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Bryner, Kimberly, Hoeldtke, Martin, Hobbs, Gerald, “Treatment of Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: A Comparison of Octreotide and Midodrine”, Journal of Clinical Autonomic Research, Vol 11, (October 2006)

79. Hoeldtke, RD., Hampe, CS., Bekris, LM., Hobbs, GR., Bryner, KD., Lernmark A., “Antibodies to GAD65 and Symptoms of Diabetic Neuropathy”. Clinical Autonomic Research, Vol 16 (November, 2006), pp 369

80. Kurian, S., Qazilbash, M., Fay, J., Wolff, S., Herzig, R., Hobbs, G., Bunner, P., Weisenborn, R., Aya-ay, M., Lynch, J., Ericson, S., “Complete Response after High-Dose Chemotherapy in Metastatic Breast Cancer Results in Survival Benefit”, The Breast Journal, Vol 12, No 6, (Nov/Dec, 2006), pp. 531-535

81. Hoeldtke, Robert D, Bryner, Kimberly D, Hoeldtke, Martin E, Christie, Ian, Ganser, Gary, Hobbs, Gerald, Riggs, Jack, “Sympathetic Sudomotor Disturbance in Early Type I Diabetes Mellitus is Linked to Lipid Peroxidation”, Metabolism Clinical and Experimental, Vol. 55, No 11 (November, 2006), pp. 1524-1531

82. Craig, Michael, Crumston, A. D., Hobbs, Gerald R., Devetten, Marcel P., Sarwari, A. R., Erickson, Solveig G., “The Cliniucal Impact of Implementing an Antibacterial Prophilaxis and Cycling Antibiotics for Febrile Netropenia in a Hematological Malignancy and Transplatntation Unit”, Bone Marrow Transplantation, (February 2007)

83. Velan, S, Sendhil, Lemieux, Susan K., Raylman, Raymond R., Boling, Warren. Hobbs, Gerald R,. Spencer, Richard G., Sridar, Rajagopalan, Kuppusamy, Periannan, Thomas, M. Albert, “Detection of Cerebral Metabolites by Single-Voxel-Based PRESS and COSY Techniques at 3T", Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol. 26 (July 2007) pp. 405-409

84. Hoeldtke, Robert D., Hampe, Christiane S., Bekris, Lynn M., Hobbs, Gerald, Bryner, Kimberly D., Lernmark, Ake, DCCT Research Group, “Antibodies to GAD65 and Peripheral Nerve Function in the DCCT”, Journal of Neuroimmunology, Vol 185, (February 2007) pp. 182-189

85. Higa, Gerald M., Auber, Miklos L., Altaha, Ramin, Piktel, Debbie, Kurian Sobha, Hobbs, Gerry, Landreth, Kenneth, “5-Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid and Substance P Profiles in Patients Receiving Emetogenic Chemotherapy”, Journal of Oncology Pharmacological Practice, Vol 12, No. 4, (December, 2006) pp. 201-209

86. Riggs, Jack E., Gutman, Laurie, Hobbs, Gerald R., “Volunteering for Early Phase Gene Transfer Research in Parkinson Disease”, Neurology, Vol 68 (March, 2007) pp. 877-878

87. Modak, Anil S., Reid, Jennie M., Williams, Lori A., Hobbs, Gerald R., “A simple non-invasive method to detect and monitor hypercapnia: the Sodium [¹³C]bicarbonate breath test”, Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, (March, 2007), pp. 23-29

88. Altaha, Ramin, Ducatman, Barbara, Rassekh, Christopher, Vandersloot, Paul, McEwuen, Sytlvia, Hobbs, Gerry, Petros, William, Wang, Weixin, “Human Papillomavirus Infection Head and Neck Cancer in the Appalachian Region”, Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Vol 48 (April, 2007)

89. Hussein, Rezhan, Khakoo, Rashida, Hobbs, Gerald, “Hand Hygiene Practice in Adult versus Pediatric Intensive Care Units at a University Hospital Before and After Intervention”, Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Disease, Vol 39, (June 2007) pp. 566-570

90. Sajja, Venu, Dod, Harvinder, Beto, Robert, Jain, Abnash C., Hobbs, Gerald R., Finkel, Mitchell S., “An Analysis of the Efficiency and Safety of Enhanced External Counterpulsation at West Virginia University Hospitals”, West Virginia Medical Journal, Vol 103, No 3, (September 2007) pp. 10-12

91. Ali, Sadia, Khakoo, Rashida, Fisher, Melanie, Hobbs, Gerald R., “An Assessment of Influenza Vaccination Among Health Profession Students”, Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Disease, Vol 39, (September 2007), pp 822-825

92. Hoeldtke, Robert D, Bryner, Kimberly D, Hoeldtke, Martin E, Hobbs, Gerald R, “Treatment of Autonomic Neuropathy, Postural Tachycardia and Orthostatic Syncopoe with Octreotide LAR”, Clinical Autonomic Research, Vol 17 No. 6, August 2007, pp. 334-340

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PUBLISHED REVIEWS

1. Hobbs, G. R. Review of: "Econometric Models As Guide To Decision Making" by Lawrence Klein in The Journal of Business Forecasting Methods and Systems, V. 2, No. 2, pp. 23, Summer 1983.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND ABSTRACTS

1. Hobbs, G. R., D. M. Chilko, A. A. Billings, R. King and P. Hshieh, "Jackknife Techniques in Regression

Analysis", Proc. of the Fifth Annual Conference of SUGI, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 1980

pp 203-207, March 1980

2. Chilko, D. M., G. R. Hobbs, and E. J. Harner, "Probability Plotting in SAS", Proc. of the Sixth Annual Conference of SUGI, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, pp 1-6, 1981

3. Hobbs, G. R. and D. M. Chilko, "An Enhancement to NPARlWAY: Multiple Comparisons", Proc. of the Sixth Annual Conference of SUGI, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, pp 176-177, 1981

4. Harner, E. J., G. R. Hobbs, E. C. Keller, A. G. Everett, and D. M. Chilko, ".assessing Estimates of the 99th Percentile of a Distribution" ENVIROMETRICS, pp 198-199, April, 1981

5. Hobbs, G. R., E. J. Harner, D. M. Chilko, M. Miller, E. C. Keller, and A. G. Everitt, "A Comparison of Various Possible Methodologies for the Determination of NO Control Requirements" ENVIROMETRICS, V3, pp 221-225, April, 1981

6. Hobbs, G. R. and D. M. Chilko, "Robust Regresion and Proc JACKREGR", Proc. of the Eighth Annual Conference of SUGI, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, pp 729-737, 1983

7. Hobbs, G. R., "Using SAS Software to do Nonparametric Statistics", Proc. of the Ninth Annual Conference of SUGI, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 1984

8. Hambi, P. T., D. M. Chilko and G. R. Hobbs, "PROC JACKREG", Proc. of the Ninth Annual Conference of SUGI, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 1984

9. Hobbs, G. R., "Regression Diagnostics", Proc. of Tenth Annual Conference of SUGI, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 1985, pp. 1222-1228.

10. Hobbs, G., "Variable Selection and Case Analysis in Regression," Proc. of the Eleventh Annual Conference of SUGI, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 1986, pp. 943-948.

11. Sarkar, M.A., Higa, G., Hobbs, G. and DeVore, R.

"The Use of a Pharmacokinetic Model to Predict

Antitimor Response with Prolonged Etopside

Infusion", Pharmical Therapy, Vol. 14, pp. 18,

1994 (refereed)

12. Sheth, R. D., Bodensteiner, J. B.,Mullett,M.and,

Hobbs, G. R., "Head Growth Rate Grids for Normal

Very-Low and Low-Birth Weight Infants" Pediatric

Neurology, 1994; 11:137 (refereed)

13. Sheth, R. D., Wesolowski, C. A., Jacob, J. C.,

Penny, S. and, Hobbs, G. R., "Are Children

Receiving Monotherapy for Idiopathic Epilepsy at

Risk for Osteoporosis? Yes, if Therapy is with

Valproate", Annals of Neurology 1994; 36:501-502

(refereed)

14. Sheth, R. D., Penny, S., Jacob, J. C., Wesolowski,

C. A. and Hobbs, G. R., "Valproate Reduces Bone

Density in Children with Idiopathic Epilepsy"

Epilepsia 1994; 35:35 (refereed)

15. Early Relapse in Node-Negative Breast Cancer Predicted

By Immunostaining for p53, Rb, Cyclin D-1, Bcl-2 and ER,

(with Hostetter, R. B., Davidson, A. G., Summers, C. L.

and, Quinlin, D. C.) presented at 12th Int'l Conf. on

Human Tumor Markers to be held in June, 1995

16. Kao, E. C., Holmes, S. and, Hobbs, G., “Microleakage of

Bulk- vs. Incremental-filled Class II Composite Resin

Restorations” submitted to IADR, March, 1996

17. Sheth, Raj. D., Hobbs, Gerald. R., and Mullett, Martha. D., “Evolving trends in neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage: A 10-year perspective”, (abstract accepted for publication in Annals of Neurology)

18. Sheth, Raj D. and Hobbs, Gerald R., “The Influence of Gestational Age Upon Neonatal Seizures: A 10-year perspective (abstract to appear in Epilepsia)

19. Hoeldtke, R. D., Bryner, K. D., Horvath, G., Byerly, M., Byerly, R., Hobbs, G., Christie, I., Ganser, G., Kuca, J. and Riggs, J.E., “Deterioration in Sudomotor Function Early in Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Correlates with Prorenin”, VII International Symposium of the Autonomic Nervous System - Abstract in Clinical Autonomic Research, Vol. 6, pg. 288, 1996

43. Islam, S., Hobbs, G., Haque, A., Greenwood, J., Bowers, C., Ducatman, A., “Differences in Occupational Injuries by Gender in West Virginia: Analyses of Workers’ Compensation Claim Database”, National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, 1997

44. Islam, S., Hobbs, G., Haque, A., Murray, B., Suppa, S., Ducatman, A., “Use of Narcotic and Non-narcotic Analgesic Medications in Occupational Injuries: Analyses of Reimbursed Prescriptions in a State Run Worker’s Compensation Database”, National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, 1997

45. Becker, P., Akladios, M., Fullen, M., Hobbs, G., “Fall Prevention in Construction by Organizational Intervention”, Proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference of CIB Working Commission, March 1999

48.. Wenger, S. L., Lane, J., Brancazio, L. R., Hobbs, G. R., “Evaluation of Maternal Serum Triple Screen as Identifier of Trisomic Fetuses”, American Journal of Human Genetics - abstract, 1999, Vol 65, A372-2104

46. Armistead, Niti, Davidson, Mary, Evans, K. Hobbs, Gerry, Shockcor, William, and Elnicki, Michael, "Evaluating the Impact of Admission Day on Cost and Quality of Care", SIGM, 2001

47. Glover, Elbert D., Whoolery, Judith, Hobbs, Gerald, Cerullo, Connie, Sullivan, C. Rolly, Glover, Penny N., "Efficacy of Bupropion SR for Smokeless Tobacco Cessation" American Academy of Health Behavior, (May/June) 2001 Vol 25, No. 3

48. Powers, R. I., Layne, R. D., Clark, K. E., Warden, M. D., Blaha, M. D., France, J. C., Yates, A. J., Hobbs, G., “Effective Collaboration Between Internists and Orthopedists”, Journal of General Internal Medicine, (April) 2002, Vol. Supp. 1, Pp. 130

49. Krummel DA, Gordon PM, Semmens EL, Boury JM, Hobbs, GR, Larkin KT. Record completion in low-income, postpartum women enrolled in an obesity prevention project. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2002;24:S054. (paper presentation)

50. Krummel DA, Boury JM, Semmens EL, Gordon PM, Hobbs GR, Larkin KT. Weight loss readiness in postpartum women. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2002;24:S130. D-76. (poster)

51. Thomas, John, Hobbs, Gerry, Yakabu, Davis, Bretz, Walter and Karakiozis, Jacqueline, “Unmasking Significance of Antibiotic MIC Data: Creating a Periopathogen Signature” Academy of Periodontology, New Orleans, LA

52. Sullivan, Pamela, Sinz, Elizabeth, Hobbs, Gerald, Glover, Elbert, Cain, James, Kofke, Andrew, “Remifentanil vs. Methohexital for Electroconvulsive Therapy”, Journal of Electroconvulsive Therapy, Vol. 19 No. 1 (March) 2003, pp. 60

53. Slain Douglas, Amsden John.R., Khakoo Rashida.A., Fisher Melanie.A., Lalka David., Hobbs Gerald.R., “Effect of High-Dose Vitamin C on the Steady-State Pharmacokinetics of the Protease Inhibitor Indinavir in Healthy Volunteers” [abstract A-1610] In: Program and Abstracts of the 43rd Interscience Conference on

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, IL. September 14-17,2003.

54. Kao, Elizabeth, Ngan, Peter, Hobbs, Gerald, Brown, Brigitta, Gladwin, Marsha, Koelbl, James, “Effects of Self-Etching Primer and Conventional Sealant on Enamel Demineralization” 10^th Annual Research Day, West
Virginia section of the American Dental Association.

54. Vinjamuri M, Adumala R, Altaha R, Hobbs G, Crowell E, “Retrospective Analysis of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) Patients Treated Initially with BCNU Versus Temozolide (TZM) with Concommitant Radiation Therapy”, (abstract) Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 25, No. 18S (June) 2007, pp. 2071

55.

56. Saad A, Rikhye S, Kanate A, Sehbol A, Marano G, Hobbs G, Abraham J, “”Correlation Among [¹⁸F] FDG-PET/CT Tumor Marker CA 27.29 and Circulating Tumor Cells in Metastatic Breast Cancer”, (abstract) Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 25, No 18S (June) 2007 pp. 10533

57.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

1. Hobbs, G. R., Three reports done for the U.S. Army Safeguard Systems Evaluation Agency at The White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The reports involved the application of statistical methodology to problems of evaluation of a radar system for the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense network. The contents of those reports are classified.

2. Hobbs, G. R. and E. J. Harner, "Critique of the Data Analysis for the Manning (1976) and Hubbard (1977) Vineyards", done for Energy Impact Associate, February, 1979

3. Hobbs, G. R. and E. J. Harner, "An Analysis of the 1978 Hubbard Vineyard Data", done for Energy Impact Associate and Niagra Mohawk Power Company, April, 1979

4. Hobbs, G. R., E. J. Harner, P. L. Miller, and E. C. Keller, "The Cyclic Characterization of Oil Refinery Waste Loadings", for the American Petroleum Institute through Ecometrics, May, 1978

5. Hobbs, G. R., "Comments on Statistical Aspects of an E.P.A. Proposal for Determing Water Quality Criteria", done for Bionomics, a divison of EG & G through Ecometrics (Bionomics later submitted the majority of our report verbatum to the American Iron and Steel Institute), August, 1978

6. Hobbs, G. R. and E. J. Harner, "An Analysis of the 1979 Hubbard Vineyard Data and the 1978-79 Combined Data", done for Energy Impact Associates, February, 1980

7. Hobbs, G. R., M. Miller, F. Moeng, E. J. Harner, and D. M. Chilko, "Application of EPA Methodology to the Determination of NO Control Requirements", done for the American Petroleum Institute, May, 1980

8. Hobbs, G. R., E.C. Keller, E. J. Harner, and D. M. Chilko, "Inter-Method and Intra-Method Comparison of N02 Control Requirements", for the Office of the General Council of the American Petroleum Institute, May, 1980

10. Hobbs, G. R., "SAS Documentation" for the Office of Academic Computing. A brief introduction to SAS for those with minimal computer knowledge. Available on WVNET System under WYLBUR by the designation $EMERSS2S.SAS as an "on-line" instruction manual.

11. Hobbs, G. R., "An Enhancement to NPARlWAY:Multiple Comparisons" SAS Writeup #22, July, 1981

12. Hobbs, G. R., "Instructions on the Use of the West Virginia Urban Watershed Benefits Program", a user's guide to a FORTRAN program I wrote for the Soil Conservation Service

13. Hobbs, G. R., Review of the Statistical Aspects of "Relationship of Regional Combustion Emissions to Wet Deposition on Sulfate and Nitrate", U. S. Dept. of Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology Center and EG&G, November, 1984

14. Shadle, L. J., Hobbs, G. R., et al "Flash Pyrolysis of Green River Shale" U.S./D.O.E.-M.E.T.C. Technical Note DOE/METC-88/4080 (DE88001077), 1988