Dr Steve Quinn

Position/s:	Senior Biostatistician Flinders Clinical Effectiveness
Phone:	work+61 8 82752859
Email:	steve.quinn@flinders.edu.au
Location:	Repatriation General Hospital (Rm54 BlkA)
Postal address:	GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

I worked as an applied biostatistician at the MRIT for 7 years where I led the analysis in many observational studies, predominantly with longitudinal data, as well as several miscellaneous projects involving non-response bias, capture-recapture and principal components analysis.

Currently, I am involved in the analysis of several randomised clinical trials and validation studies. I am happy to collaborate in any projects within the Flinders Clinical Effective Cluster and the Faculty of Health Science.

Qualifications

2002 - PhD (UTAS)

1985 - M. Math. (Newcastle)

1976 - B. Math. (Newcastle)

Honours, awards and grants

2002
Dean's commendation list for an outstanding doctoral thesis

Key responsibilities

Biostatistical consulting for Clinical Effectiveness Cluster

Research and consultancy

Research interests

Research Interests

I am currently investigating the suitability of the statistics that are used to validate a logistics regression model when applied in a log binomial setting.

Consultancy

I am available for collaboration in projects involving clinical trials, observational studies and validation studies.

Postgraduate research supervision

Primary supervisor of 1 Phd student in statistical methodology.
Co-supervisor of 1 Phd student in epidemiology.

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Thomas, S., Crotty, M., Quinn, S.J., Mackintosh, S., & Halbert, J.A., 2012. Sociodemographic factors associated with self-reported exercise and physical activity behaviours and attitudes of South Australians: results of a population-based survey. Journal of Aging and Health, 24(2), 287-306.

Dore, D., Quinn, S.J., Ding, C., Winzenberg, T., Cicuttini, F., & Jones, G., 2010. Subchondral bone and cartilage damage: a prospective study in older adults. Arthritis and Rheumatism-Arthritis Care and Research, 62(7), 1967-1973.

Dore, D., Quinn, S.J., Ding, C., Winzenberg, T., Zhai, G., Cicuttini, F., & Jones, G., 2010. Natural history and clinical significance of MRI-detected bone marrow lesions at the knee: a prospective study in community dwelling older adults. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 12(6).

Dore, D., Martens, A., Quinn, S.J., Ding, C., Winzenberg, T., Zhai, G., Pelletier, J., Martel-Pelletier, J., Abram, F., Cicuttini, F., et al., 2010. Bone marrow lesions predict site-specific cartilage defect development and volume loss: a prospective study in older sdults. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 12(6), R222 1-10.

Foley, S., Quinn, S.J., & Jones, G., 2010. Pedometer determined ambulatory activity and bone mass: a population based longitudinal study in older adults. Osteoporosis International, 21(11), 1809-1816.

Imms, A., Quinn, S.J., & Nelson, M.R., 2010. General practitioners' use of absolute cardiovascular disease risk calculators. Australian Family Physician, 39(1/2), 57-60.

Pratrap, U., Quinn, S.J., Blizzard, L.B., & Reid, D.W., 2010. Population-based study of Cystic Fibrosis disease severity and Haemochromatosis gene mutations. Respirology, 15(1), 141-149.

Stannus, O.P., Jones, G., Cicuttini, F., Parameswaran, Quinn, S.J., Burgess, J., & Ding, C., 2010. Circulating levels of IL-6 and TNF-a are associated with knee radiographic osteoarthritis and knee cartilage loss in older adults. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 18(11), 1441-1447.

Stannus, O.P., Jones, G., Quinn, S.J., Cicuttini, F., Dore, D., & Ding, C., 2010. The association between leptin, interleukin 6 and hip radiographic osteoarthritis in older people: a cross-sectional study. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 12(3), R95 1-9.

FitzGerald, L., Patterson, B., Thomson, R., Polanowski, A., Quinn, S.J., Brohede, J., Thornton, T., Challis, D., Mackey, D.A., Dwyer, T., et al., 2009. Identification of a prostate cancer susceptibility gene on chromosome 5p13q12 associated with risk of both familial and sporadic disease. European Journal of Human Genetics, 17(3), 368-377.

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Refereed journal articles

Imms, A., Quinn, S.J., & Nelson, M.R., 2010. General practitioners' use of absolute cardiovascular disease risk calculators. Australian Family Physician, 39(1/2), 57-60.

Pratrap, U., Quinn, S.J., Blizzard, L.B., & Reid, D.W., 2010. Population-based study of Cystic Fibrosis disease severity and Haemochromatosis gene mutations. Respirology, 15(1), 141-149.

Dore, D., Quinn, S.J., Ding, C., Winzenberg, T., & Jones, G., 2009. Correlates of subchondral bone mineral density: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 24(12), 2007-2015.

Ding, C., Parameswaran, Cicuttini, F., Burgess, J., Quinn, S.J., & Jones, G., 2009. Serum levels of vitamin D, sunlight exposure, and knee cartilage loss in older adults: The Tasmanian older adult cohort study. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 60(5), 1381-1389.

Foley, S., Quinn, S.J., & Jones, G., 2009. Tracking of bone mass from childhood to adolescence and factors that predict deviation from tracking. Bone, 44(5), 752-757.

Young, J., Quinn, S.J., Hurrell, M., & Taylor, B., 2009. Clinically isolated acute transverse myelitis: prognostic features and incidence. Multiple Sclerosis, 15(11), 1295-1302.

Thiele, J., Nimmo, R., Rowell, W., Quinn, S.J., & Jones, G., 2009. A randomized single blind crossover trial comparing leather and commercial wrist splints for treating-chronic wrist pain in adults. BMC MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS, 10, 129-135.

Nelson, M.R., Quinn, S.J., Bowers-Ingram, L., Nelson, J.M., & Winzenberg, T., 2009. Cluster randomised controlled trial of oscillometric versus manual sphygmomanometer for blood pressure management in primary care (CRAB). American Journal of Hypertension, 22(6), 598-603.

D'Souza, W.J., Fryer, J.L., Quinn, S.J., Taylor, B., Ficker, D.M., O'Brien, T.J., Pearce, N.E., & Cook, M.J., 2008. The Tasmanian Epilepsy Register - A community based cohort. NEUROEPIDEMIOLOGY, 29(3-4), 255-263.

Ding, C., Parameswaran, Cicuttini, F., Burgess, J., Zhai, G., Quinn, S.J., & Jones, G., 2008. Association between lepin, body composition, sex and knee cartilage morphology in oder adults: the Tasmanian older adult cohort (TASOAC) study. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 67, 1256-1261.

Dwyer, T., Blizzard, L.B., Patterson, B., Ponsonby, A., Martin, K., Quinn, S.J., Sale, M.M., Richards, S.M., Morley, R., Rich, S., et al., 2008. Association between birth weight and adolescent systolic blood pressure in a caucasian birth cohort differs according to skin type, CRH promoter or 11{beta}-HSD2 genotype. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 93(9), 760-767.

Foley, S., Quinn, S.J., Dwyer, T., Venn, A., & Jones, G., 2008. Measures of childhood fitness and body mass index are associated with bone mass in adulthood. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 23(7), 994-1001.

Kreiss, A., Fox, N., Bergfeld, J., Quinn, S.J., Pyecroft, S., & Woods, G.M., 2008. Assessment of cellular immune responses of healthy and diseased Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii). DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY, 32(5), 544-553.

Murphy, M., Quinn, S.J., Young, J., Parkin, P., & Taylor, B., 2008. Increasing incidence of ALS in Canterbury, New Zealand. Neurology, 71(23), 1889-1895.

Thomson, R., Quinn, S.J., McKay, J., Silver, J., Bahlo, M., FitzGerald, L., Foote, S.J., Dickinson, J.L., & Stankovich, J.M., 2007. The advantages of dense marker sets for linkage analysis with very large families. Human Genetics, 121(3-4), 459-468.

Cazaran, J., Kelarev, A.V., Quinn, S.J., & Vertigan, D., 2006. An algorithm for computing the minimum distances of extensions of BCH codes embedded in semigroup rings. SEMIGROUP FORUM, 73(3), 317-329.

Srikanth, V.K., Quinn, S.J., Donnan, G., Saling, M.M., & Thrift, A.G., 2006. Long-term cognitive transitions, rates of cognitive change, and predictors of incident dementia in a population-based first-ever stroke cohort. Stroke, 37(10), 2479-2483.

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Professional and community engagement

Member of and statistical reviewer for FU/SAHS Flinders Centre for Research Ethics Committee.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborate (PaCCSC).
Member of the Executive Committee for the Flinders Centre for Clinical Change & Health Care Reseach.
Member of Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

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