Benjamin R. Saville, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
E-mail: b.saville [at] vanderbilt [dot] edu Phone: 615.343.3624 Fax: 615.343.4924 Office: Medical Center North T2316	Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University School of Medicine S-2323 Medical Center North 1161 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37232-2158

Research Interests

• Bayesian model selection in hierarchical and random effects models
• Bayesian statistics
• Clinical trials
• Joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data
• Bayesian model averaging in latent variable models

Education

• PhD, Biostatistics 2008
  * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  * Dissertation: Bayesian Multilevel Models and Medical Applications
  * Advisor: Dr. Amy H. Herring
  

• MS, Biostatistics 2004
  * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  * Thesis: A Statistical method for comparing randomized treatments for favorable response during the last t times of assessment for clinical trials with random censoring of follow-up time
  * Advisor: Dr. Gary G. Koch
  

• BS, Statistics, Magna Cum Laude, 2002
  * Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Work Experience

• Vanderbilt University
  * Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics (2008-present)
  * Assistant Professor (Secondary Appointment), Department of Biomedical Engineering, (2009-present)
  

• Curriculum Vitae

Published Papers

1. Goldberg, J.F., Calabrese J.R., Saville B.R., Frye M.A., Ketter T.A., Suppes T. (2009). Mood stabilization during Acute and Continuation Phase Treatment for Bipolar I Disorder with Lamotrigine or Placebo. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (in press).
2. Saville B.R., Herring A.H (2009). Testing Random Effects in the Linear Mixed Model using Approximate Bayes Factors. Biometrics 65, 369-376.
3. Castel L.D., Saville B.R., DePuy V., Godley P.A., Hartmann K.E., Abernethy A.P. (2008). Racial differences in pain over one year among women with metastatic breast cancer: a hazards analysis of interval-censored data. Cancer, 112(1): 162-70.
4. Whitaker J., Moy S., Saville B.R., Godfrey V., Nielsen J., Bellinger D., Bradfield J. (2007). The effect of cage size on reproductive performance and behavior in C57BL/6 mice. Lab Animal Journal, 36(10): 32-39.
5. Castel L.D., Abernethy A.P, Li Y., DePuy V., Saville B.R., Hartmann K.E. (2007). Hazards for pain severity and pain interference with daily living, with exploration of BPI cutpoints, among women with metastatic breast cancer. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 34(4):380-92.

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