Cecilia Cotton

Research interests

The underlying theme of my research interests is using longitudinal data to solve problems in public health:

• Inference for comparing survival across multiple dynamic treatment regimens based on observational longitudinal data.
• Applications to epoetin dosing strategies for hemodialysis subjects with chronic kidney disease.
• Joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data in the context of causal inference.

Selected publications

• Cotton CA, Cuerden MS, Cook RJ. Causal inference in nonrandomized studies via propensity score methods. Transfusion. 51(12): 2536-2539, 2011.
• Cotton CA, Heagerty PJ. A Data Augmentation Method for Estimating the Causal Effect of Adherence to Treatment Regimens Targeting Control of an Intermediate Measure. Statistics in Biosciences. 3(1):28-44, 2011.
• Cotton CA, Peterson S, Norkool PA, Takashima J, Grigoriev Y, Breslow NE. Early and Late Mortality after Diagnosis of Wilms Tumor. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 27(8):1304- 1309, 2009.
• Malogolowkin M, Cotton CA, Green DM, Breslow NE, Perlman E, Miser J, Ritchey ML, Thomas PR, Grundy PE, D'Angio GJ, Beckwith JB, Shamberger RC, Haase GM, Donaldson M, Weetman R, Coppes MJ, Shearer P, Coccia P, Kletzel M, Macklis R, Tom- linson G, Huff V, Newbury R, Weeks D. Treatment of Wilms tumor relapsing after initial treatment with vincristine, actinomycin D, and doxorubicin. A report from the National Wilms Tumor Study Group. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 50(2):236-241, 2008.
• Cotton CA, Peterson S, Norkool PA, Breslow NE. Mortality ascertainment of partici- pants in the National Wilms Tumor Study using the National Death Index: comparison of active and passive follow-up results. Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations. 4:5, 2007.
• Shin J, Darlington GA, Cotton C, Corey M, Bull SB. Confidence intervals for candidate gene effects and environmental factors in population-based association studies of families. Annals of Human Genetics. 71:421-432, 2007.
• Green DM, Cotton CA, Malogolowkin M, Breslow NE, Perlman E, Miser J, Ritchey ML, Thomas PR, Grundy PE, D~RAngio GJ, Beckwith JB, Shamberger RC, Haase GM, Donaldson M, Weetman R, Coppes MJ, Shearer P, Coccia P, Kletzel M, Macklis R, Tom- linson G, Huff V, Newbury R, Weeks D. Treatment of Wilms tumor relapsing after initial treatment with vincristine and actinomycin D: A report from the National Wilms Tumor Study Group. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 48(5):493-499, 2007.
• Dome JS, Cotton CA, Perlman EJ, Breslow NE, Kalapurakal JA, Ritchey ML, Grundy PE, Malogolowkin M, Beckwith JB, Shamberger RC, Haase GM, Coppes MJ, Coccia P, Kletzel M, Weetman RM, Donaldson M, Macklis RM, Green DM. Treatment of anaplastic histology Wilms~R tumor: results from the fifth National Wilms~R Tumor Study. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 24(15):2352-2358, 2006.
• Shamberger RC, Haase GM, Argani P, Perlman EJ, Cotton CA, Takashima J, Green DM, Ritchey ML. Bilateral Wilms tumors with progressive or nonresponsive disease. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 41(4):652-657, 2006.
• Srivastava A, Cotton C, Paterson AD. Sex- and age-of-onset-based locus heterogeneity in asthma. Genetic Epidemiology. 21: S154-S159 Suppl. 1, 2001.