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Edward Gracely

Edward Gracely, PhD

Associate Professor


Department: Family, Community & Preventive Medicine

Education

  • PhD in Quantitative Psychology - Temple University (1986)

Awards & Honors

  • Distinguished Service Award for service as editor of the newsletter for the Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences (2011)
  • Golden Apple Award from the Dornsife School of Public Health graduating class (2011)
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society (elected by College of Medicine faculty, 2008)
  • Angelo Pinto Basic Science Educators Award (2008)
     

Memberships / Professional Affiliations

  • American Statistical Association
  • ASA's Committee on Human Rights and Scientific Freedom (friend and former member)

Dr. Ed Gracely received his PhD from Temple University in psychology (Quantitative Division) in 1986 and has been a faculty member at Drexel University (or institutions that later merged with Drexel, notably MCP) since then.

Gracely is an associate professor of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine at the College of Medicine, where he teaches statistics, epidemiology and research methods to the medical students in the Frontiers course (for which he has received several Golden Apple Awards), and statistics to biomedical graduate students. He also sits on several committees and does statistical consulting.

Gracely has a joint appointment with the Drexel School of Public Health where he is the course director for the Introduction to Biostatistics course (for which he received a Golden Apple award in 2011), and a mentor each year to several master’s students.

Gracely also serves on the editorial board of both Pain and Pain Medicine, and has a substantial number of publications reflecting collaborative work with primary researchers. His research interests include the logic of multiple comparisons, statistics education and ethical philosophy. Gracely is a member of the American Statistical Association and webmaster, formerly newsletter editor, for the Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences (from which he received the Distinguished Service Award in 2011). He is active in Statistics Without Borders, which provides pro bono consulting services to low-resource researchers, mostly in developing countries.

In the Media

Publications

Dr Gracely is primarily a consulting statistician, although he has published first-author work in several areas. He works with a wide array of researchers at Drexel and sometimes outside institutions. He has over 150 consulting and personal publications, plus some book chapters, presentations, and so on. Here are examples in selected areas:

Commentaries and Editorials on Statistical Methods

"So, why do I have to correct for multiple comparisons? Concepts and commentary on Turk et al."
Gracely, EJ
Pain, 2008 (Oct 31): 481-482

"The Role of Quasi-Experimental Designs in Pain Research" (Editorial)
Gracely, E
Pain Medicine, 2004 (June), 52(2), 146-147

"A statistical point of view" (a brief, invited commentary piece on an illustrative article)
Gracely, EJ
Lab Animal, 1998 (July/August), 27(7), 20

Collaborative Work in Medical Education

Predictors of medical students' ethical decision-making: a pilot study using the Theory of Interpersonal Behavior
Li H, Novack DH, Duke P, Gracely E, Cestone, C, Davis T
Patient Education and Counseling, available online May 23, 2020

"Impact and Reception of a Required 4-Week Palliative Medicine Rotation"
Simmons BB, Petrie A, Gracely E
Family Medicine, 2018 (April); 50(4), 287-290

"eLearning to enhance physician patient communication: A pilot test of 'doc.com' and 'WebEncounter' in teaching bad news delivery"
Daetwyler CJ, Cohen DG, Gracely E & Novack DH
Medical Teacher. 2010 (Sept.) V32 (9) e381-e390

"The Power Of Repetition In Mastering Cardiac Auscultation: A Psychoacoustic Model"
Barrett, MJ, Kuzma, MA, Seto, TM, Richards, P, Mason, D, Barrett, D, Gracely, EJ
American Journal of Medicine, 2006 (Jan.), 119(1), 73-75

Public Health

Evidence linking air pollution and blood pressure mediated by body weight in China
Wang Q, Gracely EJ, Liu L
Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, epub ahead of print, April 2020

"Knowledge, Attitudes, and Acceptability of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis among Individuals Living with HIV in an Urban HIV Clinic"
Jayakumaran JS, Aaron E, Gracely E, Schriver E, Szep Z
PLoS ONE [Electronic Resource]. 11(2):e0145670, 2016

"Results from a Secondary Data Analysis Regarding Satisfaction with Health Care among African American Women Living with HIV/AIDS"
Baker, JL, Rodgers CRR, Davis ZM, Gracely E, and Bowleg L
JOGNN, Sept-Oct 2014, 43, 664-676

Primary prevention of lead exposure--blood lead results at age two years
Campbell C, Gracely E, Tran M, Starkey N, Kersten H,  Palermo P, Rothman N, Line L,  Hansen-Turton T
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2012 (April) 9, 1216-1226

Physical Therapy (mostly from doctoral committees)

"Development of student goals in school-based practice: Physical therapists’ experiences and perceptions"
Wynarczuk KD, Chiarello LA, Fisher K, Effgen S, Palisano RJ, & Gracely E
Disability & Rehabilitation, published online May 14, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2019.1602673

"Effects of a Collaborative Intervention Process on Parent-Therapist Interaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial"
An M, Palisano RJ, Yi C, Chiarello LA, Dunst CJ, Gracely EJ
Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics, Published online 2018 (08): , DOI: 10.1080/01942638.2018.1496965

"Predictors of Independent Walking in Young Children with Cerebral Palsy"
Begnoche DM,  Chiarello LA, Palisano RJ, Gracely EJ, Westcott McCoy S, Orlin MO
Physical Therapy, June 18, 2015 (e pub ahead of print). Print: Feb 2016; 96(2), 183-192

Philosophy

"Playing games with infinity: The devil's offer"
Gracely, EJ
Analysis, l988, 48, 113.
Reprinted in Fogelin, RJ & Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter Understanding Arguments, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Orlando, FL, 1991, pp 278-279.
Reprinted in Palmer, M The Question of God, Routledge, London, 2001

"On the noncomparability of judgments made by different ethical theories"
Gracely, EJ
Metaphilosophy, 1996 (July), 27(3), 327-332

"Comment on Shrader-Frechette's 'Parfit and mistakes in moral mathematics'"
Gracely, EJ
Ethics, 1989, 100, 157-159

Book Chapters

"Justification of the number of animals to be used"
Gracely, EJ,
Chapter 13, pp 237-251 in Silverman, J, Suckow, MA, and Murthy, S, The IACUC Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, third edition 2014
Similar chapter appeared in the two previous editions as well

"Statistics and Clinical Trials"
Gracely, EJ,
In: Brady L., Yaeger T. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Radiation Oncology, New York, Springer, 2012 (October)

"General Principles for Statistical Election Auditing"
Rotz, W and Gracely EJ
Chapter 6.5.1, pp 220-230, in Scheuren FJ and Alvey, W, Elections and Exit Polling, Wiley 2008

See all of Dr. Gracely's works in MyBibliography on PubMed


Contact Information


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