Academic History

• Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University, 2002
  Advisor: Ian H. Gotlib
  Dissertation Title: Intergeneration transmission of psychopathology: Psychosocial difficulties among daughters of depressed mothers
  

• M.S., Statistics, Stanford University, 2000
  

• M.A., Psychology, Stanford University, 1997
  

• B.A., Rutgers University, 1995, Summa Cum Laude
  Advisor: Barbara McCrady
  Majors: Psychology & English
  

Professional Experience

• Biostatistician, 2006-2008, Performed statistical analyses for two autism researchers
• Scientific writer/editor, 2006-2008, Edited and prepared papers for publication

• Biostatistician, 2002-2005, Statistical support for faculty, post-docs, and students

• Researcher, 1995-2002, Conducted research on family and social models of depression in adolescence
  
• Research Advisor, 1998-2002, Advised undergraduate, honors, and Master's students conducting independent research
  
• Statistics Consultant, 1999-2002, Consulted on projects across all domains of psychology

• Researcher, Conducted research on user experience and web-browsing; consulted on statistical and modelling issues

• Statistical and Design Consultant, Researched and performed statistical analyses on a large meta-analysis of alcohol treatment outcome research

• Statistical Consultant, Conducted data analysis of large, nationally representative data-set for interdisciplinary group of researchers

• Therapist, conducted one-on-one behavior modification therapy with a 4-year-old autistic boy

• Researcher, Conducted research on alcohol-complicated marriages
  
• Interviewer, PACT Couples Study, Conducted diagnostic and family history phone interviews
  

Departmental and Professional Service

• Board Member, Mad To Live, 2008-present
  
• Advisory Board Member, International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression (iFred), 2006-present
  
• Panel Member, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Institutional Review Board for research involving human subjects, 2002-2005
  
• Panel Member, Ethics Committee for Archimedes Access Research and Technology, Inc. and Cure Autism Now, 2001
  
• Ad-hoc reviewer, Psychological Reports, 2001
  
• Student representative, Stanford University Institutional Review Board on non-medical research involving human subjects, 1999-2000
  
• Seminar Co-leader, Psychology Department, Stanford University, 1998-2002
  Co-designed and conducted a weekly research seminar for undergraduates. Instructed students on issues in research content, project design, hypothesis testing, statistical analysis, and presentation of research findings.
  
• Position developer, Psychology Department, Stanford University, 1999
  Collaborated with the Chair of the Psychology department to create a permanent statistical consultant position to assist graduate student research
  
• SPSS workshop leader, Psychology Department, Stanford University, 1998-1999
  Conducted several workshops instructing graduate students on the use of SPSS, a statistical software package
  
• Student representative, Graduate admissions committee, Psychology Department, Stanford University, 1997
  

Teaching Experience

• Personality Psychology, Summer 1997
  

• Psychology of Gender, Winter 2001
  

• Graduate Level Statistics, Fall 1997
  
• Abnormal Psychology, Winter 1996
  
• Introduction to Psychology, Fall 1996
  

• Graduate Level Personality Psychology, Spring 1999
  
• Clinical Psychology, Spring 1997
  

• Clinical Psychology, Spring 1997
  
• Abnormal Psychology, Winter 1996
  

Honors, Fellowships, and Awards

• Stanford Center on Adolescence Pre-doctoral Fellow, 1999-2000
  
• Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender Graduate Dissertation Fellow, 1999-2000
  
• Graduate Research Opportunities Grant, 1996, 1998
  
• High Honors in Psychology, Rutgers University, 1995
  
• Rutgers University Presidential Scholar, 1991-1995
  
• National Merit Scholar, 1991-1995
  
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1994
  

Publications and Presentations

• Kirschen MP, Davis-Ratner MS, Jerde TE, Schraedley-Desmond P, Desmond JE. (2006). Enhancement of phonological memory following transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Behavioural Neurology, 17, 187-94.

• Shi R, Schraedley-Desmond P, Napel S, Olcott EW, Jeffrey RB, Yee J, Zalis ME, Margolis D, Paik DS, Sherbondy AJ, Sundaram P, Beaulieu CF. (2006). CT colonography: Influence of 3D viewing and polyp candidate features on interpretation with computer-aided detection. Radiology, 239, 768-76.

• Desser T, Rubin G, Schraedley-Desmond P. (2006). Coverage of emergency after-hours ultrasound cases: Survey of practices at U.S. teaching hospitals. Academic Radiology, 13, 249-253.

• Illes J, De Vries R, Cho MK, Schraedley-Desmond P. (2006). ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues) priorities for brain imaging. American Journal of Bioethics, 6, W24-31.

• Kirschen MP, Chen A, Schraedley-Desmond P, Desmond JE. (2005). Load and practice dependent increases in cerebro-cerebellar activation in verbal working memory: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 24, 462-72.

• Wallace AM, Daniel BL, Jeffrey SS, Birdwell RL, Nowels KW, Dirbas FM, Schraedley-Desmond P, Ikeda DM. (2005). Rates of reexcision for breast cancer after magnetic resonance imaging-guided bracket wire localization. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 200, 527-537.

• Sommer G, Olcott EW, Chow LC, Saket RR, & Schraedley-Desmond P. (2005). Measurement of Renal Extraction Fraction with Contrast-enhanced CT. Radiology, 236, 1029.

• Rubin, GD, Lyo JK, Paik DS, Sherbondy AJ, Chow LC, Leung AN, Mindelzun R, Schraedley-Desmond PK, Zinck SE, Naidich DP, & Napel S. (2005). Pulmonary Nodules on Multi-Detector Row CT Scans: Performance Comparison of Radiologists and Computer-aided Detection. Radiology, 234, 274-283.

• Marks MP, Marcellus ML, Do HM, Schraedley-Desmond PK, Steinberg GK, Tong DC, Albers GW. (2005). Intracranial Angioplasty without Stenting for Symptomatic Atherosclerotic Stenosis: Long-term Follow-up. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 26, 525-530.

• Sherbondy AJ, Holmlund D, Schraedley-Desmond PK, Rubin GD, Winograd T, Napel S. (2005). Alternative Input Devices for Efficient Navigation of Large CTA Studies. Radiology, 234, 391-8.

• Illes J, Kann D, Karetsky K, Letourneau P, Raffin TA, Schraedley-Desmond P, Koenig BA, Atlas SW. (2004). Advertising, patient decision-making, and self-referral to CT and MR imaging. Archives of Internal Medicine, 164, 2415-9.

• Mani A, Napel S, Paik DS, Jeffrey RB, Yee J, Olcott EW, Prokesch R, Davila M, Schraedley-Desmond P, Beaulieu CF. (2004). CT Colonography: Feasibility of Computer-Aided Polyp Detection in a First Reader Paradigm. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 28, 318-26.

• Saket RR, Chow LC, Schraedley-Desmond P, Sommer FG. (2004). Optimizing split-bolus CT Urography: a comparison of protocols employing pharmacologic diuresis vs abdominal compression. Paper presented at the Abdominal Radiology Course, Scottsdale, Arizona.

• Shiffman S, Rubin GD, Schraedley-Desmond P, and Napel S. (2003). Semiautomated segmentation of blood vessels using ellipse-overlap criteria: Method and comparison to manual editing. Medical Physics, 30, 2572-83

• Sundaram P, Beaulieu CF, Paik DS, Schraedley-Desmond P, Napel S. (2003). CT Colonography: Does improved z resolution help computer-aided polyp detection? Medical Physics, 30, 2663-74.

• Schraedley PK, Turner RJ, & Gotlib IH. (2002). Stability of retrospective reports in depression: Traumatic events, past depressive episodes, and parental psychopathology. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43, 307-316.

• Schraedley PK, Traill SK, Rottenberg J, & Gotlib IH. (2002). Risk for Depression in Daughters of Depressed Mothers: Examination of Potential Psychosocial Mechanisms. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, San Francisco, CA.

• Gershon A, Schraedley PK, & Gotlib IH. (2002). Parent and Child Report of Stressful Events in Depressed and Control Adolescents. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, San Francisco, CA.

• Mani A, Napel S, Paik DS, Olcott EO, Yee J, Beaulieu CF, Prokesch R, Jeffrey RB, Schraedley PK. (2002). CT Colonography: Improved Polyp Detection Sensitivity and Efficiency with Computer Aided Detection (CAD). Radiological Society of North America 88th Scientific Sessions.

• Sundaram P, Beaulieu CF, Paik DS, Schraedley PK, Jeffrey RB, Napel S. (2002). CT Colonography: Does Improved Through-Plane (Z) Resolution Aid Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) of Polyps? Radiological Society of North America 88th Scientific Sessions.

• Sherbondy A, Holmlund D, Schraedley PK, Rubin GD, Winograd T, Napel S. (2002). Alternative Input Devices for Efficient Navigation of Large CTA Studies. Radiological Society of North America 88th Scientific Sessions.

• Baudisch, P., Good, N., Bellotti, V., & Schraedley, P. (2002). Keeping Things in Context: A Comparative Evaluation of Focus Plus Context Screens, Overviews, and Zooming.Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seattle: ACM.

• Schraedley, P.K. (2002). Computerized Test Bank and Custom Website to accompany Introduction to Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice by B. Compas and I.H. Gotlib. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

• Schraedley, P.K. (2001). Teaching Statistics Sections. Invited Talk at the 2001 Workshop for Teaching Assistant Training, Stanford University Psychology Department.

• Card, S.K., Pirolli, P., Van Der Wege, M., Morrison, J.B., Reeder, R.W., Schraedley, P.K. & Boshart, J. (2001). Information Scent as a Driver of Web Behavior Graphs: Results of a Protocol Analysis Method for Web Usability. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 498-505). Seattle: ACM.

• Gotlib, I.H., & Schraedley, P.K. (2000). Interpersonal psychotherapy. In Snyder, C.R., & Ingram, R.E. (Eds.). Handbook of Psychological Change: Psychotherapy Processes and Practices for the 21st Century. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

• Schraedley, P.K., Turner, R.J., & Gotlib, I.H. (1999). Reporting bias in depression: Traumatic events, past depressive episodes, and parental psychopathology. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Montreal, Canada.

• Hayward, C., Gotlib, I.H., Schraedley, P.K., & Litt, I.F. (1999). Ethnic differences in the association between pubertal status and symptoms of depression in adolescent girls. Journal of Adolescent Health, 25, 143-149.

• Schraedley, P.K., Gotlib, I.H., & Hayward, C. (1999). Gender differences in correlates of depressive symptoms in adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 25, 98-108.

• Gotlib, I.H., Schraedley, P.K., & Hayward, C. (1998). The effects of pubertal status, age, and ethnicity on the emergence of gender differences in depression. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Cambridge, MA.

• Schraedley, P.K., & Gotlib, I.H. (1998). Explaining the memory bias in depression: The role of life events and adult attachment style. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Cambridge, MA.

• Krasnoperova, E.N. & Schraedley, P.K. (1998). Supportive interactions in dating couples. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

Links

• SPSS guide - written in 2002 for older versions of SPSS, but still seems to get some hits, so here it is.
• Statistics on the web - nice compilation of online statistical resources and links
• Pamarama.com - my personal site
• Modern Mojo - my business site