Dr. Mary Ann McBurnie holds an MS and a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington. She has over ten years of experience in the design, implementation, coordination, analysis, and dissemination of multi-center epidemiologic studies and clinical trials. Prior to her appointment as a CHR investigator, Dr. McBurnie served as a Research Scientist at the University of Washington's Department of Biostatistics, and a Research Scientist at the University of Washington's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

She has also served as a Statistical Consultant for Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. As a CHR Investigator, she is pursuing her interests in epidemiology and interventions for cardiovascular disease. She also provides scientific and statistical leadership for projects involving asthma, COPD, nutrition, and obesity. Dr. McBurnie is a NIH Cardiovascular Training Grant recipient and serves an Ad Hoc reviewer for the American Journal of Medicine and the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Between 1995 and 1999 Dr. McBurnie served as a Research Scientist for the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), providing statistical and analytic support, supervising coordination of ancillary studies and developing and documenting data quality control reports and procedures. She also served as a facilitator and collaborator with the CHS frailty working group, which developed key concepts and published several influential articles in the field. In addition, she served as Co-Principal Investigator for the Brachial Artery Ultrasound Study (an ancillary study to CHS). From 1999-2005, Dr. McBurnie served as Project Director for the Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Trial, which demonstrated that lay volunteers could use Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) safely and effectively to increase survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Dr. McBurnie also served as a statistician for the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC), an NHLBI-funded network developed to evaluate field interventions for trauma and cardiac arrest and to facilitate rapid translation of study results to out-of-hospital practice.

Current Studies:

	Automating Assessment of Asthma Care Quality—ASTHMA CARE QUALITY
	Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease—BOLD
	Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute—OCTRI
	Surveillance for Incident Cases of Asthma: Implementing Population-Based Models in HMOs—PASS 2

Recently Completed Studies:

Cancer Research Network: HMOs Investigating Tobacco—HIT2

E-mail: Mary.Ann.McBurnie@kpchr.org