Department für Medizinische Statistik, Informatik und Gesundheitsökonomie
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Alexander M. Strasak, PhD, Associate Professor
Phone: +43 512 9003 70921
Mobile: +43 512 9003 72921
Fax: +43 512 9003 73922
eMail: alexander.strasak@i-med.ac.at
Consultation hours:: Wed 10.00 a.m.
Location: Schöpfstraße 41/3
Research Interests:
- Statistical Modelling of longitudinal Time-to-Event Data
- Non-parametric Regression
- Cardiovascular and Cancer Epidemiology
- Statistical Consultancy
Recent Papers
- Strasak A, et al. Time-dependent association of total serum cholesterol and cancer incidence in a cohort of 172 210 men and women: a prospective 19-year follow-up study. Annals of Oncology 2009 Jan 22. [Epub ahead of print]
- Strasak A, et al. Use of penalized splines in extended Cox-type additive hazard regression to flexibly estimate the effect of time-varying serum uric acid on risk of cancer incidence: a prospective, population-based study in 78,850 men. Annals of Epidemiology 2009;19:15-24.
- Strasak A, et al. Longitudinal change in serum gamma-glutamyltransferase and risk of cardiovascular disease mortality: A prospective population-based study in 76,113 Men and Women. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2008;28:1857-65.
- Strasak A, et al. Association of gamma-glutamyltransferase and risk of cancer incidence in men: A prospective study. Cancer Research 2008;68:3970-7.
- Strasak A et al. The Use of Statistics in Medical Research: A Comparison of the New England Journal of Medicine. The American Statistician 2007; 61:47-55
Peer-Reviewer:
- Statistics in Medicine, Annals of Epidemiology, Methods of Information in Medicine, International Journal of Cardiology, Clinical Chemistry, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, u.a.
Full list of publications
Education:
- 2009: Habilitation (Venia docendi) in "Medical Statistics", Innsbruck Medical University (Habilitationthesis: "Statistical Modelling of Continuous Covariate-Effects and Longitudinal Timeto- Event Data in Clinical and Epidemiological Studies to Analyze Risk-Factors and Non-Linear Dose-Response Relationships - Associations of Baseline and Time-varying Serum Levels of Uric Acid, Gamma-Glutamyltransferase and Total Cholesterol with Incidence of and Mortality from Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer")
- 2005: PhD, Leopold-Franzen University Innsbruck