Jacquelyn Neal

PhD, 2022

Dissertation: Predictive Partly Conditional Models for Longitudinal Ordinal Outcomes with Applications to Alzheimer’s Disease

Advisor: Dandan Liu

MS, Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University (thesis: Statistical Methods for Modeling Disease Progression); BS, Biological/Biosystems Engineering, University of Florida

At WebMD Ignite since 2024. Currently Product Manager.

Publications include:

Neal JE, Zhang P, Liu D. Predictive partly conditional models for longitudinal ordinal outcomes with application to Alzheimer’s Disease progression. Stat Biosci. 2024. doi.org/10.1007/s12561-024-09433-w

Gifford KA, Liu D, Neal JE, Acosta LMY, Bell SP, Wiggins ME, Wisniewski KM, Godfrey M, Logan LA, Hohman TJ, Pechman KR, Libon DJ, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Jefferson AL. Validity and normative data for the Biber Figure Learning Test: A visual supraspan memory measure. Assessment. 2020 Sep;27(6):1320-1334. doi: 10.1177/1073191118773870. Epub 2018 May 29. PMID: 29809069; PMCID: PMC6212325.

Gandelman JS, Khan OA, Shuey MM, Neal JE, McNeer E, Dickson A, Barnado A, Wang L, Anandi P, Dupont WD, Stein CM, Chung CP. Increased incidence of resistant hypertension in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A retrospective cohort study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2020 Apr;72(4):534-543. doi: 10.1002/acr.23880. PMID: 30875459; PMCID: PMC6745299.

Gifford KA, Bell SP, Liu D, Neal JE, Turchan M, Shah AS, Jefferson AL. Frailty is related to subjective cognitive decline in older women without dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Sep;67(9):1803-1811. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15972. Epub 2019 May 16. PMID: 31095735; PMCID: PMC6781867.

Gifford KA, Liu D, Neal JE, Babicz MA, Thompson JL, Walljasper LE, Wiggins ME, Turchan M, Pechman KR, Osborn KE, Acosta LMY, Bell SP, Hohman TJ, Libon DJ, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Jefferson AL. The 12-word Philadelphia Verbal Learning Test performances in older adults: Brain MRI and cerebrospinal fluid correlates and regression-based normative data. Dement Geriatr Cogn Dis Extra. 2018 Dec 6;8(3):476-491. doi: 10.1159/000494209. PMID: 30631339; PMCID: PMC6323369.

Jefferson AL, Cambronero FE, Liu D, Moore EE, Neal JE, Terry JG, Nair S, Pechman KR, Rane S, Davis LT, Gifford KA, Hohman TJ, Bell SP, Wang TJ, Beckman JA, Carr JJ. Higher aortic stiffness is related to lower cerebral blood flow and preserved cerebrovascular reactivity in older adults. Circulation. 2018 Oct 30;138(18):1951-1962. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.032410. PMID: 30018169; PMCID: PMC6394409.

Cambronero FE, Liu D, Neal JE, Moore EE, Gifford KA, Terry JG, Nair S, Pechman KR, Osborn KE, Hohman TJ, Bell SP, Sweatt JD, Wang TJ, Beckman JA, Carr JJ, Jefferson AL. APOE genotype modifies the association between central arterial stiffening and cognition in older adults. Neurobiol Aging. 2018 Jul;67:120-127. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.02.009. Epub 2018 Feb 20. PMID: 29656011; PMCID: PMC5985659.