Lynette Smith, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UNMC College of Public Health
Director, Graduate Medical Education Patient Safety/Quality Improvement/Disparities Collaborative, UNMC College of Medicine
Co-Director, Biostatistics Shared Resource, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Full member, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
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Lynette Smith, PhD, is an associate professor for the Department of Biostatistics in the UNMC College of Public Health. She also is co-director of the Biostatistics Shared Resource of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer, where she also is a full member. She is director of the Graduate Medical Education Patient Safety/Quality Improvement/Disparities Collaborative.
Dr. Smith joined UNMC in 2008 and previously served as associate director of the Center for Collaboration on Research Design and Analysis in the College of Public Health.
- PhD Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015
- MS Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 2000
- BS Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1998
Dr. Smith's research is focused on biomarker development in cancer. She is also interested in replication research, spatial prediction of disease incidence and mortality, clinical trial design, high dimensional data analysis and statistics education. She actively collaborates with scientists in the fields of cancer, diabetes and nutrition, with a focus on pancreatic, ovarian, lung cancer and lymphoma.
- Kaur S, Smith LM, Patel A, Menning M, Watley DC, Malik SS, Krishn SR, Mallya K, Aithal A, Sasson AR, Johansson SL, Jain M, Singh S, Guha S, Are C, Raimondo M, Hollingsworth MA, Brand RE, Batra SK. A Combination of MUC5AC and CA19-9 Improves the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer: A Multicenter Study. Am J Gastroenterol. 2017 Jan;112(1):172-183. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2016.482. PMID: 27845339
- Smith LM, Hein NA, Bagenda D. Cash transfers and HIV/HSV-2 prevalence: A replication of a cluster randomized trial in Malawi. PLoS One. 2019 Jan 31;14(1):e0210405. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210405. eCollection 2019. PMID: 30703126
- Smith LM, Gallagher JC. Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Total and Free 25 Hydroxyvitamin D and Parathyroid Hormone. An Analysis of Two Randomized Controlled Trials. J Intern Med. 2019 Jun 18. doi: 10.1111/joim.12950. PMID: 31215092
- Smith LM, Gallagher JC. Reference range for 24-h urine calcium, calcium/creatinine ratio, and correlations with calcium absorption and serum vitamin D metabolites in normal women. Osteoporos Int. 2020 Sep 4. doi: 10.1007/s00198-020-05615-6. PMID: 32886188.
- Smith LM, Yu F, Schmid K. Role of Replication Research in Biostatistics Graduate Education. Journal of Statistics Education. 2020 Oct 29:1-7.
- American Statistical Association (ASA)
- Early Detection Research Network (EDRN)
- Pancreatic Cancer Detection Consortium (PCDC)
- Nebraska Lymphoma Study Group (NLSG)