Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh
130 DeSoto Street, 127 Parran Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-624-9948
Fax: 412-624-3775
Email: tepperp@edc.pitt.edu



Research Interests

• Weight trajectory and cardiovascular disease, parallel latent modeling, statistical methodology development for longitudinal study
• Antidepressants use and health outcomes

Dr. Tepper’s research interests focus on statistical methodology development for longitudinal epidemiological and medical research. Her major areas of application include obesity, cardiovascular disease, women’s health, and depression.


Education & Training

• China Medical University – M.D. Preventive Medicine, 1990
• State University of New York at Albany – M.S. Epidemiology, 1995
• University of Pittsburgh – Ph.D. Epidemiology, 2001

Current Projects

• Statistician



• 2008-2009

Study of Women's Health Across the Nation III /IV (SWAN), Coordinating Center, NIA

Selected Publications

Tepper P, Liu XC, Guo CQ, Zhai J, Liu TZ, Li CQ. Depressive symptoms in Chinese children and adolescents: parent, teacher and self report. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2008;11(2):291-298.

Tamás Z, Kovacs M, Gentzler AL, Tepper P, Gádoros J, Kiss E, Kapornai K, Vetró A. The Relations of Temperament and Emotion Self-Regulation with Suicidal Behaviors in a Clinical Sample of Depressed Children in Hungary. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 2007;35:640-652.

Kapornai K, Gentzler AL, Tepper P, Kiss E, Mayer L, Tamás Z, Kovacs M, Vetró A and the International Consortium for Childhood-Onset Mood Disorders. Early developmental characteristics and features of major depressive disorder among child psychiatric patients in Hungary. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2007;100(1-3):91-101.

The Autism Genome Project Consortium. Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements. Nature Genetics. 2007;39:319-328.

Liu XC, Gentzler AL, Tepper P, Kiss E, Kothencne VO, Tamas Z, Vetro A, Kovacs M. Clinical features of depressed children and adolescents with various forms of suicidality. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2006;67(9):1442-50.

Gibbons RJ, Miller D, Liu P, Guo P, Brooks MM, Schwaiger M. Similarity of ventricular function in patients alive 5 years after randomization to surgery or angioplasty in the BARI trial. Circulation. 2001;103:1076-1082.

Yokoyama Y, Chaitman BR, Hardison RM, Guo P, Krone R, Stocke K, Gussak I, Attubato MJ, Rautaharju PM, Sopko G, Detre KM. Association between new electrocardiographic abnormalities after coronary revascularization and five-year cardiac mortality in BARI randomized and registry patients. American Journal of Cardiology. 2000;86(8):819-824.

Rihal CS, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Guo P, Keller NM, Jandova R, Sellers MA, Schaff HV, Holmes DR Jr. Increased incidence of periprocedural complications among patients with peripheral vascular disease undergoing myocardial revascularization in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation. Circulation. 1999;100(2):171-177.

Detre KM, Guo P, Holubkov R, Califf RM, Sopko G, Bach R, Brooks MM, Bourassa MG, Shemin RJ, Rosen AD, Krone RJ, Frye RL, Feit F. Coronary Revascularization in Diabetic Patients: A Comparison of the randomized and observational components of the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). Circulation. 1999;99(5):633-640.