Steve Simon earned a PhD in Statistics from the University of Iowa in 1982.
His training emphasized applied statistics and he served for two years as the
student head of the University Statistical Consulting Service.
His first job after graduation was a tenure track position at Bowling Green
State University in the College of Business. In addition to teaching
undergraduate and MBA students, he developed a research program that
emphasized the use of benchmark data sets for the evaluation of statistical
software for numerical accuracy problems. Several of his benchmark data sets
were adopted as Statistical Reference Data Sets by the National Institute for
Standards and Technology and are published on their web site.
Steve then took a managerial position at the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a branch of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition to statistical consulting and
research, he supervised a group of programmers and statisticians. His group
was one of the first to deploy a local area network in CDC. Steve also
supervised a two year project on data acquisition and analysis. As part of
this project, he set up laboratory robotics, instrumental interfaces, and a
client-server system for data storage.
Steve was co-author on a research paper that NIOSH selected for the Alice
Hamilton Award for best overall publication in Occupational Safety and Health
in 1990. A second research paper also won the overall award in 1991 and a
third paper was a finalist for this award in 1992. A fourth publication,
which appeared in print after Steve left NIOSH, won the 1999 Alice Hamilton
Award in the category of animal research.
Also while at NIOSH, Steve Simon actively promoted the use of Total Quality
Management. He served on several quality teams and served as both team leader
and team facilitator. He also gave several lectures on the use of control
charts and other quality tools.
In 1996, Steve joined Children's Mercy Hospital, where he is currently
working. He is responsible for the statistical consultation for all research
at the hospital. He is currently funded as a co-investigator on two NIH
grants and has helped several other people acquire research funding.
At his current job, Steve produces web pages that explain how to design and
analyze medical research studies. In 1997, Steve's presentation "Medical
Statistics Case Studies on the Web" was voted as the best presentation in the
area of Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences at the Joint Statistical
Meetings. One of these web pages "How to Read a Medical Journal Article" has
been translated into Spanish and posted on two different international
medical sites.
Throughout his career, Steve has been an active researcher. He has
co-authored over 40 publications in a variety of Medical and Statistical
Journals. He has produced a series of invited editorials for the Lab Corner
of the Journal of Andrology and has been paid for a commercial publication in
Computer Language magazine.
Steve is widely sought out for his teaching skills. He has co-organized a
special two day short course at the national meeting of the American Society
for Reproductive Medicine (Statistical Methods and Experimental Design in the
Reproductive Laboratory). He gave an invited presentation for the regional
meeting of the Biometric Society (Statistical Methods for Human Reproductive
Toxicology Research), and led several discussions about statistical analysis
at a national workshop (Methods for Semen Studies in Humans). He has also
been to give presentation for numerous local professional groups and
societies (covering areas in computer software, statistics, and medicine).
Steve has a unique combination of skills. He has broad computer expertise
and in-depth knowledge of statistical applications. He has applied these
skills in medical, business, and managerial settings.
