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Faculty Bio

Maria Mori Brooks, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
A-530 Crabtree Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Voice: 412-624-1618
E-mail: mbrooks@pitt.edu









Research Interests
  • Clinical trial design & coordination for cardiology and diabetes interventions
  • Biostatistical methods
Current Research Studies
  • The Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) NHLBI
  • Optimizing Outcome after Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Specialized Centers of Clinically Oriented Research (SCCOR) Biostatistics and Data Management Core NHLBI
  • Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) NIA
Education & Training
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - PhD Statistics, 1991
  • Harvard University - M.A. Statistics, 1986
  • Williams College - B.A. cum laude Mathematics, 1985
Selected Publications

DeVita MA, Brooks MM, Zawistowski C, Rudich S, Daly B, Chaitin E. Donors after Cardiac Death: Validation of Identification Criteria (DVIC) study for predictors of rapid death. American Journal of Transplantation. 2008;8:432-41.

Holmes DR, Kim LJ, Brooks MM, Kip KE, Schaff HV, Detre KM, Frye RL. The impact of CABG on specific causes of long-term mortality in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2007;134:38-46.

Holper EM, Brooks MM, Kim LJ Detre KM, Faxon DP. Effects of heart failure and diabetes mellitus on long-term mortality after coronary revascularization (from the BARI trial). American Journal of Cardiology. 2007;100:196-202.

The BARI Investigators. The Final Ten-Year Follow-up Results from the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) Randomized Trial. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2007:49:1600-6.

Brooks MM, Frye RL, Genuth S, Detre KM, Nesto RW, Sobel BE, Kelsey SF, Orchard TJ. Hypotheses, design and methods for the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) Trial. American Journal of Cardiology, 2006;97:9G-19G.

Girnita DM, Webber SA, Ferrell R, Burckart GJ, Brooks MM, McDade KK, Chinnock R, Canter C, Addonizio L, Bernstein D, Kirklin JK, Girnita AL, Zeevi A. Disparate distribution of 16 candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms among racial and ethnic groups of pediatric heart transplant patients. Transplantation. 2006; 82:1774-80.

Hlatky MA, Boothroyd DB, Melsop KA, Brooks MM, Mark DB, Pitt B, Reeder GS, Rogers WJ, Ryan TJ, Whitlow PL, Weins RD. Medical costs and quality of life 10 to 12 years after randomization to angioplasty or bypass surgery for multivessel coronary artery disease. Circulation, 2004; 110:1960-1966.

Frye RL, Brooks MM, Nesto RW. Gap between clinical trials and clinical practice: Lessons from the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). Circulation, 2003; 107:1837-39.

Srinivas VS, Brooks MM, Detre KM, King SB, Jacobs AK, Johnston J, Williams DO. Contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention versus balloon angioplasty for multivessel coronary artery disease: a comparison of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Dynamic Registry and the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization (BARI) study. Circulation, 2002;106:1627-1633.

Detre KM, Brooks RC, Brooks MM. Comparison of angioplasty and coronary bypass surgery in diabetics: seven-year outcome of the BARI trial. Harrison’s Advances in Cardiology, Ed.Braunwald E, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002, 266-271.

Feit F, Brooks MM, Sopko G, Keller NM, Rosen A, Krone R, Berger PB, Shemin R, Attubato MJ, Williams DO, Frye R, Detre KM. Long-term clinical outcome in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation registry: comparison with the randomized trial. Circulation, 2000;101:2795-802.

Brooks MM, Jones RH, Bach RG, Chaitman BR, Kern MJ, Orzulak TA, Follmann D, Sopko G, Blackstone EH, Califf RM. Predictors of mortality and mortality from cardiac causes in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) randomized trial and registry. Circulation, 2000;101:2682-9.

Detre KM, Lombardero MS, Brooks MM, Hardison RM, Holubkov R, Sopko G, Frye RL, Chaitman. The effect of previous coronary artery bypass surgery on the prognosis of patients with diabetes who have acute myocardial infarction. New England Journal of Medicine, 2000;342:989-97.
University of Pittsburgh Department of Epidemiology