Joan F. Hilton, ScD, MPH

Spring Hill College, Mobile, BS, 1976, Biology
Tulane School of Public Health, New Orleans, MPH, 1982, Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MS, 1987, Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, ScD, 1990, Biostatistics

• 1977-80
  University of South Alabama, Dept of Microbiology/Immunology, Research Technician
• 1981
  Tulane University, Dept of International Health, Field Epidemiologist
• 1982-83
  Mayo Clinic, Dept of Epidemiology, Diethylstilbestrol-Adenosis (DESAD) Project, Epidemiologist-Coordinator
• 1983-85
  Mayo Clinic, Mayo Dept. of Oncology, Biostatistician
• 1986
  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, Biostatistician
• 1987
  Massachusetts General Hospital, Dept of Surgery, Biostatistician
• 1987-89
  Harvard School of Public Health, Dept of Biostatistics, Teaching Fellow
• 1990-92
  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, UCSF Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• 1992-97
  Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, UCSF Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• 1997-2006
  Associate Professor of Biostatistics, UCSF Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• 2006-present
  Professor of Biostatistics, UCSF Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

• 1976
  Most Outstanding Senior Woman, Spring Hill College
• 1980-82
  U.S. Public Health Service Training Grants
• 1985-88
  National Cancer Institute Training Grants
• 1990
  International Biometric Society, ENAR: Student Research Award
• 1997
  President, International Biometric Society, Western North American Region
• 2000
  Local Organizing Chair, International Biometric Conference
• 2008-2011
  Secretary, AAAS Section on Statistics
• 2009-2010
  Fulbright Scholar Award

• 1. Walsh MM, Hilton JF, Masouredis CM, Gee L, Chesney MA, Ernster VL. Smokeless tobacco cessation intervention for college athletes: results after 1 year. American Journal of Public Health 89:228-234, 1999.
• 2. Hilton, JF. Functions of oral candidiasis episodes that are highly prognostic for AIDS, Statistics in Medicine 19:989-1004, 2000.
• 3. Hilton, JF. A new asymptotic distribution for Hollander's bivariate symmetry statistic. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 32:455-463, 2000.
• 4. Walsh MM, Ellison J, Hilton JF, Chesney M, Ernster V. Spit (smokeless) tobacco use by high school baseball athletes in California. Tobacco Control 9 (Suppl 2):ii32-ii39, 2000.
• 5. Hilton JF, Alves M, Anastos K, Canchola AJ, et al. Accuracy of diagnoses of HIV-related oral lesions by medical clinicians: Findings from the Women's Interagency HIV Study. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 29:362-372, 2001.
• 6. Shiboski CH, Wilson CM, Greenspan D, Hilton JF, Greenspan JS, Moscicki AB. HIV-related oral manifes-tations among adolescents in a multicenter cohort study. Journal of Adolescent Health 295:109-114, 2001.
• 7. Colford JM, Rees JR, Wade TJ, Khalakdina A, Hilton JF, Ergas IJ, Burns S, Benker A, Ma C, Bowen C, Mills DC, Vugia DJ, Juranek DD, Levy DA. Participant blinding and gastrointestinal illness in a randomized, controlled trial of an in-home drinking water intervention. Emerging Infectious Diseases 8:29-36, 2002.
• 8. Kosel BW, Aweeka FT, Benowitz NL, Shade SB, Hilton JF, Lizak PS, Abrams DI. The effects of cannabinoids on the pharmacokinetics of indinavir and nelfinavir. AIDS 16:543-550, 2002.
• 9. Konishi N, Watanabe LG, Hilton JF, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ, Staninec M. Dentin shear strength: Effect of distance from the pulp. Dental Materials 18:516-520, 2002.
• 10. Staninec M, Marshall GW, Hilton JF, Pashley DH, Gansky SA, Marshall SJ, Kinney JH. Ultimate tensile strength of dentin: Evidence for a damage mechanics approach to dentin failure. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 63:342-345, 2002. 11. Oliveira SSA, Marshall SF, Hilton JF, Marshall GW. Etching kinetics of a self-etching primer. Biomaterials 23:4105-4112, 2002.
• 12. Gansky SA, Ellison JA, Hilton JF, Kavanagh C, Walsh MM. Oral screening and brief tobacco cessation counseling: A review and original two-year findings. Journal of Dental Education 66:1088-1098, 2002.
• 13. DenBesten PK, Yan Y, Featherstone JD, Hilton JF, Smith CE, Li W. Effects of fluoride on rat dental enamel matrix proteinases. Archives of Oral Biology 47:763-770, 2002.
• 14. Kaplan CP, Zabkiewicz D, McPhee SJ, Nguyen T, Gregorich SE, DiSogra C, Hilton JF, Jenkins C. Health-compromising behaviors among Vietnamese adolescents: The role of education and extra-curricular activities. Journal of Adolescent Health 32:374-383, 2003.
• 15. Zheng L, Hilton JF, Habelitz S, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW. Dentin caries activity status related to hardness and elasticity. European Journal Of Oral Sciences 111: 243-252, 2003.
• 16. Walsh MM, Hilton JF, Ellison JA, Gee L, Chesney MA, Tomar S, Ernster VL. Spit (smokeless) tobacco intervention for high school athletes: results after 1 year. Addictive Behavior 28:1095-1113, 2003.
• 17. Oliveira SSA, Pugach MK, Hilton JF, Watanabe LG, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW Jr. The influence of the dentin smear layer on adhesion: a self-etching primer vs. a total-etch system. Dental Material Journal 19:758-767, 2003.
• 18. Abrams DI, Hilton JF, Leiser RJ, Shade SB, Elbiek T, Aweeka FT, Benowitz NL, Bredt BM, Mitchell TM, Mulligan K, Bacchetti P, McCune JM, Schambelan M. Short-term effects of cannabinoids in patients with HIV-1 infection: a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Annals of Internal Medicine 139:258-66, 2003.
• 19. Hilton JF, MacPhail LA, Pascasio L, Sroussi HY, Cheikh B, LaBao ME, Malvin K, Greenspan D, Dodd MJ. Self-care intervention to reduce oral candidiasis recurrences in HIV-seropositive persons: a pilot study. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 32:1-11, 2004.
• 20. Vo D, Nguyen T, Nguyen P, Hilton JF, Palefsky JM, Ma Y, McPhee SJ. Human papillomavirus and abnormal PAP tests in Vietnamese-American women: A pilot case-control study. Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease 8:217-223, 2004.
• 21. Rees JR, Wade TJ, Levy DA, Colford JM Jr, Hilton JF. Changes in beliefs identify unblinding in randomized controlled trials: A method to meet CONSORT guidelines. Contemporary Clinical Trials 26:25-37, 2005.
• 22. Weintraub JA*, Hilton JF*, White JM, Hoover C, Wycoff K, Yu L, Larrick J, Featherstone JDB. A plant-derived mutans streptococci antibody clinical trial. Caries Research 39:241-250, 2005. *Co-first authors
• 23. Staninec M, Nalla RK, Hilton JF, Ritchie RO, Watanabe LG, Nonomura G, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ. Dentin erosion simulation by cantilever beam fatigue and pH change. J Dental Research 84:371-5, 2005.
• 24. Komarek A, Lesaffre E, Hilton JF. Accelerated failure times model for arbitrarily censored data with smoothed error distribution. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statististics 14:726-745, 2005.
• 25. Covinsky KE, Hilton JF, Lindquist K, Dudley RA. Development and validation of an index to predict ADL dependence and other adverse outcomes in community-living elders. Medical Care 44:149-57, 2006.
• 26. Hilton JF. Designs of superiority and noninferiority trials for binary responses are noninterchangeable. Biometrical Journal 48:934-947, 2006.
• 27. Josephson SA, Papanastassiou AM, Berger MS, Barbaro NM, McDermott MW, Hilton JF, Miller BL, Geschwind MD. The diagnostic utility of brain biopsy procedures in patients with rapidly deteriorating neurological conditions or dementia. Journal of Neurosurgery 106:72-5, 2007.
• 28. Saeki K, Hilton JF, Alliston T, Habelitz S, Marshall SJ, Marshall GW, DenBesten P. Elevated TGF-B2 signaling in dentin results in sex related enamel defects. Archives of Oral Biology 52:814-21, 2007.
• 29. Gordon PH, Moore DH, Miller RG, Florence JM, Verheijde JL, Doorish C, Hilton JF, Spitalny GM, MacArthur RB, Mitsumoto H, Neville H, Boylan K, Mozaffar T, Belsh JM, Ravits J, Bedlack R, Graves M, McCluskey LF, Barohn RJ, Tandan R, for the Western ALS Study Group. Minocycline is not effective for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A phase III randomized controlled trial. Lancet Neurology 6:1045-53, 2007.
• 30. Gordon PH, Moore DH, Miller RG, Hilton JF. Letter to the Editor. Lancet Neurology 7:120-1, 2008.
• 31. Brauer DS, Saeki K, Hilton JF, Marshall GW, Marshall SJ. Effect of sterilization by gamma radiation on nano-mechanical properties of teeth. Dent Mater 24(8):1137-40, 2008. PMID: 18436298. NIHMS59597.
• 32. Stratmann G, May LDV, Sall JW, Alvi RS, Bell JS, Ormerod BK, Rau V, Hilton JF, Dai R, Lee MT, Visrodia KH, Ku B, Zusmer EJ, Guggenhein J, Firouzian A. Effect of hypercarbia and isoflurane on brain cell death and neurocognitive dysfunction in 7-day old rats. Anesthesiology, 110:849-61, 2009.
• 33. Auerbach AD, Hilton JF, Maselli J, Pekow PS, Rothberg MB, Lindenauer PK. Shop for quality or volume? Volume, quality, and outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery. Ann Internal Med, 150:696-704, 2009.
• 34. Bridwell KH, Glassman S, Horton W, Shaffrey C, Schwab F, Zebala LP, Lenke LG, Hilton JF, Shainline M, Baldus C, Wootten D. Does Treatment (Nonoperative and Operative) Improve The Two-Year Quality of Life in Patients With Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis (ASLS): A Prospective Multicenter Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Study. Spine, 34:2171-2178, 2009,.
• 35. Colford JM Jr, Hilton JF, Wright CC, Arnold B, Saha S, Wade TJ, Scott J, Eisenberg JNS. The Sonoma Water Evaluation Trial (SWET): A randomized drinking water intervention trial to reduce gastrointestinal illness in older adults. Amer J Pub Health, 99:1988-1995, 2009.