Gordon Lab / CV & Publications

Curriculum Vitae - Mae Gordon, Ph.D.

Address

Office: Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine
660 South Euclid Avenue - Box 8096
St. Louis, MO  63110-1093
(314) 362-3716

e-mail: mae@vrcc.wustl.edu

Present Positions

Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO  63110-1093

Professor
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO  63110-1093

Education

1966

BA - Portland State University
        Portland, Oregon

1969

MS (Sociology) - University of Wisconsin-Madison
        Madison, Wisconsin

1979

PhD (Sociology, Psychometrics) - University of Wisconsin-Madison
        Madison, Wisconsin

1975

University of Michigan
        Institute for Survey Research
        Logistic Regression Analysis

1972-79

Instructor
        Department of Sociology
        University of Missouri-St. Louis

Research Instructor
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine

1985-87

Research Instructor
Division of Biostatistics
Washington University School of Medicine

1988-92

Research Assistant Professor
        Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
        Division of Biostatistics
        Washington University School of Medicine

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
        Division of Biostatistics
        Washington University School of Medicine

1992-2000

Associate Professor

2000-Present

Professor
        Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
        Division of Biostatistics
        Washington University School of Medicine

University Appointments and Committees

1993-Present

Residency Selection Committee, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

2005-Present

Human Subject Research Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Program

2005-Present

Executive Committee of the K12 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program (Fraser, PI)

Honors and Awards

1962

Japanese-American Citizens League Award

1962

State of Oregon Scholarship Award

1964

Fellowship, National Training Laboratory Workshop

1965

John Francis Cramer Student Activities Award

1965

Outstanding Student Award, Portland State University

U.S. Representative to Japanese-American Student
        Conference, Tokyo, Japan

Student Body Vice President, Portland State University

1966

Outstanding Sociology Student Award, Portland State
        University

1967-68

NIMH Fellowship, University of Wisconsin
        Dr. Edgar Borgatta, Social Science Research Institute in
        Research Methodology

1971

Doctoral Research Award, National Academy of Science

2003

Association of International Glaucoma Societies Award - award to the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study for "daring, breakthrough, creative, original research in glaucoma.

New York Academy of Medicine - Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize - awarded for most outstanding glaucoma research published during 2022.

Editorial Responsibilities

        American Journal of Ophthalmology
        Archives of Ophthalmology
        Controlled Clinical Trials

Professional Societies and Organizations

1980-Present

Member, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

1982-89

Statistical consultant for multi-center clinical trials, Vision Research Review Committee, NEI

1982-Present

Member, Society for Controlled Clinical Trials

1985-Present

Member, American Statistical Association

1986-90

Chairperson, Data Safety and Monitoring Committee, Prism Adaptation Randomized Clinical Trial, NEI

1987-91

Statistical Consultant, Data Safety and Monitoring Committee, Retinitis Pigmentosa Randomized Clinical Trial, NEI

1989-Present

Executive Committee, Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation in Keratoconus Study, NEI

1990-Present

Director, Coordinating Center for Multi-Center Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study, NEI

1990-Present

Executive Committee, Multi-Center Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study

1991-Present

Statistical consultant for multi-center clinical trials, Vision Research Review Committee, NEI

1991-Present

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Strategic Planning Committee

2005-Present

Society for Clinical Trials (SCT), Fellows Committee

Consulting Relationships and Board Memberships

1982-89

Statistical consultant for multi-center clinical trials, Vision Research Review Committee, NEI

1986-90

Chairperson, Data and Safety Monitoring Committee,
Prism Adaptation Randomized Clinical Trial, NEI

1987-91

Data and Safety Monitoring Committee, Statistical Consultant,
Retinitis Pigmentosa Randomized Clinical Trial, NEI

1989-Present

Executive Committee, Contact Lens Evaluation in Keratoconus Multi-Center Study, NEI

Division of Biostatistics, Statistics Course

1990

Statistical consultant, NIH Consensus Conference on the Clinical Use of Botulinum Toxin.

1990-Present

Executive Committee, Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study, NEI

Director, Coordinating Center for Multi-Center Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study, NEI

Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program

Master's Thesis Committee. Mentor for Raymond Wee, Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program, "Sleep Disturbances in the Blind."

Thesis Advisor. AOS Thesis, "Risk of a New Retinal Break or Detachment Following Cataract Surgery." M. Gilbert Grand, submitted August 5, 2002.

1991-1994

Statistical consultant for multi-center clinical trials,
Vision Research Review Committee, NEI

1991

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Strategic Planning Committee

1992-1997

Chairperson, Scientific Advisory Board, Baltimore Eye Study, Johns Hopkins University, NEI

1993-1999

Chairperson, Scientific Advisory Board, Beaver Dam Eye Study, University of Wisconsin, Madison, NEI

1993-Present

Director, Coordinating Center for Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation in Keratoconus, NEI

1997-1998

Statistical Consultant for Glaucoma Advisory Panel, National Institutes of Health

2003-2005

National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, Neurological Sciences and Disorders K (NSD-K) Committee

2004-Present

Data and Safety Monitoring Board, Evaluation of a New Outpatient LV Program for Legally Blind Veterans, Veterans Administration

Consultant, Ophthalmic Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA

2005-Present

Consultant, Preferred Practice Pattern, Glaucoma Panel

Teaching Title and Responsibilities

Professor
        Division of Biostatistics
        Washington University School of Medicine
        St. Louis, MO  63110-1093

        Professor
        Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
        Washington University School of Medicine
        St. Louis, MO  63110-1093

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Selected Peer Reviewed Articles (Selected from 91 publications)

  1. Kass MA, Meltzer DW, Gordon MO, Cooper D, Goldberg J: Compliance with pilocarpine treatment. Am J Ophthalmol 1986; 101:515-523.
  2. Gordon MO, Schechtman KB: Patient compliance: A covariate in randomized clinical trials. Proceedings of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association, pp. 118-120, 1990.
  3. Schechtman KB, Gordon MO: A comprehensive algorithm for determining whether a run-in strategy will be a cost-effective design modification in a randomized clinical trial. Stat Med 1993; 12:111-128.
  4. Barr JT, Gordon MO, Zadnik K, Pellican K, Edrington TB, CLEK (Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation in Keratoconus) Study Group. Photodocumentation of corneal scarring. J Refrac Surg 1996; 12:492-500.
  5. Gutierrez P, Wilson MR, Johnson C, Gordon M, Cioffi GA, Ritch R, Sherwood M, Meng K, Mangione CM. Influence of glaucomatous visual field loss on health-related quality of life. Arch Ophthalmol 1997; 115:777-784.
  6. Lee BL, Gutierrez P, Gordon M, Wilson RM, Cioffi GA, Ritch R, Sherwood M, Mangione CM: The Glaucoma Symptom Scale: A brief index of glaucoma-specific symptoms. Arch Ophthalmol 1998; 116:861-866.
  7. Barr JT, Schechtman KB, Fink BA, Pierce GE, Pensyl CD, Zadnik K, Gordon MO and the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study Group: Corneal scarring in the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study: Baseline prevalence and repeatability of detection. Cornea 1999; 18:34-46.
  8. Gordon MO, Kass MA and the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) Group: The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: Design and baseline description of the participants. Arch Ophthalmol 1999; 117:573-583.
  9. Edrington TB, Szczotka LB, Barr JT, Achtenberg JF, Burger DS, Janoff AM, Olafsson HE, Chun MW, Boyle JW, Gordon MO, Zadnik K, and the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study Group. Rigid contact lens fitting relationships in keratoconus: Current standard of care. Optom Vis Sci 1999; 76:692-699.
  10. Zadnik K, Barr JT, Edrington TB, Nichols JJ, Wilson BS, Siegmund K, Gordon MO, the CLEK Study Group. Corneal scarring and vision in Keratoconus: A baseline report from the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study. Cornea 2000; 19:804-812.
  11. Brandt JD, Beiser JA, Gordon MO, Kass MA and the OHTS Group. Central corneal thickness in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS). Ophthalmology 2001:108:1779-1788.
  12. Mangione CM, Lee PP, Gutierrez PR, Spritzer K, Berry S, Hays RD; for the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire Field Test Investigators. Development of the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire. Arch Ophthalmol 2001:119:1050-1058.
  13. Szczotka LB, Barr JT, Zadnik K, the CLEK Study Group. A summary of the findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study. Optometry 2001;72:574-587.
  14. Feuer WJ, Parrish RK, Schiffman JC, Anderson DR, Budenz DL, Wells M-C, Hess DJ, Kass MA, Gordon MO and the OHTS Group. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: Reproducibility of cup/disc ratio measurements over time at an Optic Disc Reading Center. Am J Ophthalmol 2002;133:19-28.
  15. Kass MA, Heuer DK, Higginbotham EJ, Johnson CA, Keltner JK, Miller JP, Parrish, RK, Wilson MR, Gordon MO for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: A randomized trial determines that topical ocular hypotensive medication delays or prevents the onset of primary open angle glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2002; 120:701-713.
  16. Gordon MO, Beiser JA, Brandt JD, Heuer DK, Higginbotham EJ, Johnson CA, Keltner JK, Miller JP, Parrish RK, Wilson MR, Kass MA for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: Baseline factors that predict the onset of primary open angle glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2002; 120:714-720.
  17. Zadnik K, Steger-May K, Fink BA, Joslin CE, Nichols JJ, Rosenstiel CE, Tyler JA, Yu JA, Raasch TW, Schechtman KB for the CLEK Study Group. Between-eye asymmetry in keratoconus. Cornea 2002; 21:671-679.
  18. Edrington TB and the CLEK Study Group. What the CLEK Study means to you. The Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus Study is providing new insights. Rev Optometry 2002 4/18;61-64. Twenty-sixth Annual Contact Lens Report.
  19. Edrington TB, Gundel RE, Libassi DP, Wagner H, Pierce GE, Walline JJ, Barr JT, Olafsson HE, Steger-May K, Achtenberg J, Wilson BS, Gordon MO, Zadnik K, CLEK Study Group. Variables affecting rigid contact lens comfort in the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study. Optom Vis Sci 2004;81:182-188.
  20. Zangwill LM, Weinreb RN, Berry CC, Smith AR, Dirkes KA, Coleman AL, Piltz-Seymour JR, Liebmann JM, Cioffi GA, Trick G, Brandt JD, Gordon MO, Kass MA for the Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy Ancillary Study to the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Racial differences in optic disc topography: Baseline results from the Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy Ancillary Study to the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Arch Ophthalmol 2004; 122:22-28
  21. Zangwill LM, Weinreb RN, Berry CC, Smith AR, Dirkes KA, Liebmann JM, Brandt JD, Trick G, Cioffi GA, Coleman AL, Piltz-Seymour JR, Gordon MO, Kass MA and the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (CSLO) Ancillary Study Group. The Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy Ancillary Study to the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: Study design and baseline factors. Am J Ophthalmol 2004;137:219-227.
  22. Higginbotham EJ, Gordon MO, Beiser JA, Drake MV, Bennett GR, Wilson MR, Kass MA; for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: Topical medication delays or prevents primary open-angle glaucoma in African American individuals. Arch Ophthalmol 2004;122:824-820.
  23. Coleman AL, Gordon MO, Beiser JA, Kass MA for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) Group. Baseline risk factors for the development of POAG in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Am J Ophthalmol. 2004;138(4):684-5.
  24. Brandt JD, Beiser JA, Gordon MO, Kass MA and the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) Group. Central corneal thickness and measured IOP response to topical ocular hypotensive medication. Am J Ophthalmol 2004; 138:717-722.
  25. Edrington TB, Gundel RE, Libassi DP, Wagner H, Pierce GE, Walline JJ, Barr JT, Olafsson HE, Steger-May K, Achtenberg J, Wilson BS, Gordon MO, Zadnik K, CLEK Study Group. Variables affecting rigid contact lens comfort in the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study. Optom Vis Sci 2004;81:182 -188.
  26. Nichols JJ, Steger-May K, Edrington TB, Zadnik K. The relation between disease asymmetry and severity in keratoconus. Br J Ophthalmol 2004; 88:788-791.
  27. Kymes SM, Walline JJ, Zadnik K, Gordon MO, Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study Group. (2004) Quality of life in keratoconus. Am J Ophthalmol  2004;138:527-535
  28. Kass MA, Gordon MO, Kymes SM for the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) Group. Incorporating the results of the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study into clinical practice. Letter to Editor. Arch Ophthalmol 2005;123:1021-1022.
  29. Zangwill LM, Weinreb RN, Beiser JA, Berry CC, Cioffi GA, Coleman AL, Trick G, Liebmann JM, Brandt JD, Piltz-Seymour JR, Dirkes KA, Vega S, Kass MA, Gordon MO for the Confocal Scaning Laser Ophthalmoscopy Ancillary Study to the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. Baseline topographic optic disc measurements are associated with the development of primary open angle glaucoma: The Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy Ancillary Study to the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Arch Ophthalmol.  2005;123:1188-1197.
  30. Barr JT, Wilson BS, Gordon MO, Rah MJ, Riley C, Kollbaum PS, Zadnik K, CLEK Study Group. Estimation of incidence and factors predictive of corneal scarring in the Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus (CLEK) Study. Cornea. 2006;25:16-25.

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