Sybil Prince Nelson
Education
August 2010 Medical University of South Carolina
to Charleston, SC
August 2016 PhD in Biostatistics
January 2006 College of Charleston
to Charleston, SC
May 2010 Master of Science in Mathematics
· Master’s Thesis: Dynamics of Nearly Circular Vortex Filaments
September 1997 Washington and Lee University
to Lexington, VA
June 2001 Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Music
· Dean’s List
Research Interests
· Random Forests
· Methodological issues in Logic Regression and Classification and Regression Tree analysis
· Statistical Genetics
Work History
July 2020 Assistant Professor
to Washington and Lee University
Present Lexington, VA
· Courses Taught
v Mathematical Statistics – Fall 2020
August 2016 Visiting Faculty
to The Citadel
June 2020 Charleston, SC
· Courses Taught
v Precalculus – Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020
v Calculus 1 – Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2019, Fall 2019
v Calculus 2 – Summer 2019
v Statistical Methods – Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2020, Spring 2020
v Intro to Probability and Statistics – Spring 2019, Spring 2020
v Probability and Statistics – Spring 2017, Spring 2018
August 2004 Mathematics Teacher
to Ashley Hall School
July 2010 Charleston, SC
· Taught Algebra 1, 2, 3, Trigonometry, Precalculus, AP Statistics
· Taught dance: ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop
· Directed the math team
August 2001 Mathematics Teacher
to Georgetown Day School
July 2004 Washington, DC
· Taught Algebra 2, Precalculus, AP Calculus
· Directed the dance club
· Directed the math team
Presentations/Posters
· Prince Nelson, S Dynamics of Nearly Circular Vortex Filaments. Poster presented at Cha-Cha Days Statistical Meeting and College of Charleston Graduate Student Research Day. First place prize at CofC. 2008
· Prince Nelson, S. Health Disparities in the development of Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Survivors. Poster presented at MUSC Student Research Day. (First Place Winner). 2011
· Prince Nelson, S. Preliminary Steps for Developing a Secondary Breast Cancer Lymphedema Assessment Tool. Poster presented at Hollings Cancer Retreat. 2012
· Prince Nelson, S. Reduced Actin Polymerization in Lung of IQGAP-1 in Knockout Mice Implication for Scleroderma Pulmonary Fibrosis. Poster presented at College of Medicine Research Day. 2013
· Prince Nelson, S. Preliminary Steps for Developing A New Statistical Algorithm for Classifying and Predicting Disease Outcome from Binary and Continuous Predictors and their Interactions. Poster presented at MUSC Student Research Day. 2014
· Prince Nelson, S. A New Statistical Algorithm for Classifying and Predicting Disease Outcome from Binary and Continuous Predictors and their Interactions. Presentation given at the SC-ASA meeting. 2014
· Prince Nelson, S. A New Statistical Algorithm for Classifying and Predicting Disease Outcome from Binary and Continuous Predictors and their Interactions. Invited speaker at University of North Carolina. 2014
· Prince Nelson, S. C.Logic: An Extension of Logic Regression. Invited speaker at Proctor and Gamble, Cincinnati, OH 2015
· Prince Nelson, S. C.Logic: A Method for Predicting Disease Outcome. Oral presentation at MUSC Student Research Day 2014 (Second Place Winner).
· Prince Nelson, S. Genetic and Environmental factors leading to Lupus in the SC Gullah Population. Invited speaker at MUSC’s EE Just Symposium 2015
· Prince Nelson, S. A Novel Statistical Method for Identifying Genetic and Environmental Interactions that Lead to Disease. Poster presentation Eastern North Atlantic Region of the International Biometric Society conference, Baltimore, MD 2014
· Prince Nelson, S. A Novel Statistical Method for Identifying Genetic and Environmental Factors Leading to Health Disparities. Invited poster James E. Clyburn lecture. Columbia, SC 2014
· Prince Nelson, S. A Novel Statistical Method for Identifying Genetic and Environmental Factors Leading to Health Disparities. Invited speaker Proctor and Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio 2015
· Prince Nelson, S. C.Logic: An Algorithm to Classify Dichotomous Disease Outcomes Using Interactions Between Dichotomous and Continuous Predictors. JSM 2016 Chicago, IL
· Frequent motivational presentations at local k-12 institutions.
· Prince Nelson, S “The Influence of Mathematical Preparedness on Student Performance in an Engineering Statics Course” Embry Riddle 2017 Daytona Beach, FL
· From Poverty to PhD, Mainland High School Daytona Beach, FL 2017
· Making Sense of the Madness: Using Statistics to Predict the NCAA Basketball Tournament, The Citadel 2019
Other Experience
· Panelist in mentoring presentations to encourage undergraduate minorities to pursue graduate degrees (at least twice per year each year at MUSC)
· MUSC College of Graduate Studies Admissions Committee
· Selected to give presentation to MUSC board of trusties
· Homework Helper at Carolina Youth Development Center (CYDC)
· Invited to present research at the Proctor and Gamble company in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Skills
· Microsoft Word and Excel
· R computer language for statistics
· SAS
· PLINK
· BEAGLE
· Adobe Photoshop
· LaTex and MikTex
· Proficient in Spanish and Portuguese
· Fiction Author (as Sybil Nelson and Leslie DuBois)
Publications
· Yuen, H., Prince Nelson, S. Test-Retest Reliability of Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-49) in Adults with Systemic Sclerosis. Paper published in Special Care in Dentistry. June 2013 p. 27-33
· White-Gilbertson, S., Prince Nelson, S. et.al Analysis of the National Cancer Data Base to Describe Treatment Trends in Stage IV Oral Cavity and Pharyngeal Cancers in the United States, 1998-2012. Journal of Registry Management (JRM), Winter 2015 Issue p. 146-151
· (2017) An evaluation of common methods for dichotomization of continuous variables to discriminate disease status, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 46:21, 10823-10834, DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2016.1248783
· Prince Nelson S, Ramakrishnan, R., Nietert, P., Kamen, D., Ramos, P., Wolf, B. A Comparison of Joint and Marginal Dichotomization of Interacting Variables to Discriminate Disease Status. Communication in Statistics Theory and Methods, submitted to Statistics and Medicine
References
· References available upon request