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James Scott Parrott, Ph.D.

James Scott Parrott, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Program: Health Sciences
Administrative Title: Director
Joint Appointment Title : Professor
Department : Epidemiology
School: School of Public Health
Email: parrotja@shp.rutgers.edu
Office location:
Stanley S. Bergen Building
65 Bergen Street, Room 714C
Newark, NJ 07107

About

I have over 30 years of experience working as a methodological and statistical consultant both within and outside the university setting in such areas as medical and healthcare research, veterans health, public health, evidence-based medicine, childhood obesity, urban poverty, and international aid.
My recent work focuses on evidence synthesis methods and statistical modeling of intervention and outcome and evaluation studies. I have worked on several rehabilitation, behavioral health, epidemiological and clinical trial projects. For the past fifteen years, I have worked as a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey with appointments in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the School of Public Health. I am an adjunct Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University.

I currently serve as the Director of the School of Health Professions Methodology and Statistics Support Team, a center within the school to facilitate faculty research and grant writing. I teach intro and advanced statistical methods and systematic review and meta-analysis to masters and doctoral students. I have mentored over 50 masters and 12 doctoral students on the statistical analyses for their research projects and shepherded many of these students toward publication in recognized peer-reviewed journals.

Education

Ph.D., The University of Chicago

Professional Achievements

2024 Outstanding Article Award: “Comparing Telehealth-Based vs In-Person Soft Skills Training for Persons with Disabilities During COVID-19: A Pilot Study. Weili Lu, Janice Oursler, Smanatha J. Herrick, Ni Gao, Jason Diviney, John Beninato, Tameika Minor, Ke Wang, Gabriela Santiago & J. Scott Parrott. ASGW Conference, Portland, OR, February 2024.

2021 American Spinal Injury Association Apple Award for excellence in publishing in the spinal cord injury rehabilitation literature. Annual Scientific Conference, July 7-10, 2021. For Cirnigliaro CM, La Fountaine MF, Parrott JS, Kirshblum SC, McKenna C, Sauer SJ, Shapses SA, Hao L, McClure IA, Hobson JC, Spungen AM, Bauman WA. Administration of Denosumab Preserves Bone Mineral Density at the Knee in Persons With Subacute Spinal Cord Injury: Findings From a Randomized Clinical Trial. JBMR Plus. 2020 Jun 25;4(8):e10375. doi: 10.1002/jbm4.10375. PMID: 33134767; PMCID: PMC7587457.,  2021

Winner, Top Scoring Poster, Section on Women’s Health. Simonds, A.H., Ball, J., Castro, C., Cenophat, A., Lin, D., Papademetriou, C., Schrank, E., Parrott, J.S. The effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation to reduce acute pain and Opioid consumption after cesarean section delivery. Poster presentation at the American Physical Therapy Association, January 2019, Washington, D.C. , 2019

Excellence in Teaching Award. Rutgers School of Public Health, Newark. 2014,  2014

Swami Kuvalyananda Top Research Abstract Award (2014 Symposium on Yoga Research): Gould-Fogerite S, Cohen ET, Kietrys DM, Ahrens S, Silva M, Soteropoulos P, Parrott JS, Morrison S, Speer D, Donnelly R, Barone D. “Pilot trial of a yoga program for people with moderate disability due to MS: Design of the program, physical effects and mental effects”,  2014

2012 Published Research Award given by the Pediatrics Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2012

Research

Research Interests
Evidence Analysis Methodology
Evidence Based Medicine/Practice
Research Methodology
Statistics
Sociology of Healthcare Professions
Title
 
Sponsor
 
Effective Dates
 
Role
Guided Imagery and Relaxation Techniques as an Adjunct to Preparing and Recovering from Orthognathic Surgery
 
Foundation of UMDNJ through New Jersey Dental School Seed Grant
 
2011 – 2012
 
C0- Investigator
Genocide Evidence Libary
 
Center for Law and Globalization
 
2008 – 2009
 
Principal Investigator
The Relationship between Funding Source and Study Quality: Pilot Study
 
International Life Sciences Institute
 
2008 – 2009
 
Co- Investigator
Vegetarian Nutrition Evidence Analysis and Evidence Based Guidelines
 
American Dietetic Association Foundation
 
2007 – 2009
 
Project Leader
Childrens Healthy Bodies: Childhood Overweight Program Assessment
 
The Cooper Institute and Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
 
2005 – 2005
 
Primary Investigator
Analysis of Return on Grant Investment in Christian Publishing Projects
 
Lilly Endowment
 
2005 – 2005
 
Primary Investigator
Scaling-Up Smart Library
 
North Central Educational Research Laboratory
 
2000 – 2001
 
Principal Investigator
Closing the Achievement Gap
 
North Central Educational Research Laboratory
 
1999 – 2000
 
Principal Investigator
Globalizing Law: Political Influence in the Legal Construction of Markets by the UN.
 
American Bar Foundation
 
2003 – 2004
 
Co-investigator
Health Outcomes Military Exposure Living Evidence Analysis Program (HOME-LEAP) *Major Goals: to facilitate a living evidence analysis program, including: i) development of a broad structure and framework to conduct evidence reviews, ii) establish and train a team of analysts to efficiently extract relevant data from article and reports, iii) design workflows (i.e., database searches ? extraction ? organization ? presentation), iv) modify the existing Systematic Review Data Repository Plus+ to accommodate AHBPCE’s focused reviews, and v) complete review of one respiratory condition.
 
VA- New Jersey Health Care System
 
7/1/2022-6/30/2024
 
Principal Investigator
Mediating the Science and the Practice of Healthcare: Health Insurance Companies, Health Reform and Evidence Based Practice
 
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Foundation
 
2010 – 2011
 
Principal Investigator
US Department of Defense, Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) Aim 1: To determine a lower effective dose of neostigmine to induce bowel evacuation by transcutaneous administration by iontophoresis. Aim 2: To determine a more optimal ratio of neostigmine to glycopyrrolate administered by transcutaneous administration by iontophoresis to prevent cholinergic or anti-cholinergic side effects. Aim 3: To test a commercially available and/or design and develop a user-friendly wireless system to deliver neostigmine and glycopyrrolate to predictably induce bowel evacuation
 
US Department of Defense
 
2019-2022
 
C0- Investigator

Publications

 

Title   Authors   Where and When
Predicting Recurrent Deficiency and Suboptimal Monitoring of Thiamin Deficiency in Patients with Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
 
Parrott, J.M., Parrott, A.J., Parrott, J.S., Williams, N.N., Dumon, K.R.
 
Nutrients 2024, 16(14), 2226; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16142226
Mechanism-centric regulatory network identifies NME2 and MYC programs as markers of Enzalutamide resistance in CRPC.
 
Panja, S., Truica, M. I., Yu, C. Y., Saggurthi, V., Craige, M. W., Whitehead, K., Tuiche, M. V., Al-Saadi, A., Vyas, R., Ganesan, S., Gohel, S., Coffman, F., Parrott, J. S., Quan, S., Jha, S., Kim, I., Schaeffer, E., Kothari, V., Abdulkadir, S. A., & Mitrofanova, A.
 
Nat Commun, (2024). 15(1), 352. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44686-5
Loss of lower extremity bone mineral density 1 year after denosumab is discontinued in persons with subacute spinal cord injury.
 
Cirnigliaro CM, La Fountaine MF, Parrott JS, Kirshblum SC, Sauer SJ, Shapses SA, McClure IA, Bauman WA.
 
Osteoporos Int. (2023). Apr;34(4):741-748. doi: 10.1007/s00198-023-06679-w. Epub 2023 Feb 3. PMID: 36735054.
What We Are Missing: Using Machine Learning Models to Predict Vitamin C Deficiency in Patients with Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
 
Parrott, J. M., Parrott, A. J., Rouhi, A. D., Parrott, J. S., & Dumon, K. R.
 
Obes Surg. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-023-06571-w
Discriminating mild traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder using latent neuroimaging and neuropsychological profiles in active-duty military service members.
 
de Souza, N. L., Esopenko, C., Jia, Y., Parrott, J. S., Merkley, T. L., Dennis, E. L., … & Tate, D. F.
 
The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, (2022). 10-1097.
Latent Neuropsychological Profiles Are Better Than Structural Neuroimaging Profiles In Differentiating Active-Duty Military Service Members With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
 
De Souza, N., Esopenko, C., Jia, Y., Parrott, J. S., Merkley, T., Dennis, E., … & Tate, D.
 
Journal Of Neurotrauma (2022). (Vol. 39, No. 11-12, Pp. A20-A20)
Comparing Telehealth-Based vs. In-Person Soft Skills Training for Persons with Disabilities During COVID-19: A Pilot Study.
 
Lu, W., Oursler, J., Herrick, S. J., Gao, N., Diviney, J., Beninato, J., … & Parrott, J. S.
 
The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2023: 1-21.
Functional Status and Engagement in Physical Activity Among Maintenance Dialysis Patients: A Mixed Methods Study.
 
Rothpletz-Puglia, P., Brown, T. L., Peters, E., Thomas-Hawkins, C., Kaplan, J., Myslinski, M. J., Mysliwiec, J., Parrott, J. S., & Byham-Gray, L.
 
Kidney Med, (2022). 4(6), 100469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100469
Disparities in national and state estimates of COVID-19 vaccination receipt and intent to vaccinate by race/ethnicity, income, and age group among adults = 18 years, united states.
 
Nguyen, K. H., Anneser, E., Toppo, A., Allen, J. D., Scott Parott, J., & Corlin, L.
 
Vaccine, 2021. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.11.040
Association between white matter organization and cognitive performance in athletes with a history of sport-related concussion.
 
de Souza, N. L., Buckman, J. F., Dennis, E. L., Parrott, J. S., Velez, C., Wilde, E. A., . . . Esopenko, C.
 
Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, (2021) 43(7), 704-715.
Mapping the Evidence on Rapid Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections: A Scoping Review.
 
Rubinstein ML, Wolk DM, Babady NE, Johnson JK, Atkinson B, Makim R, Parrott JS.
 
J Appl Lab Med. (2021). Jul 7;6(4):1012-1024. doi: 10.1093/jalm/jfab041. PMID: 34125211.
A Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) and algorithms including NAAT for the diagnosis of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in adults.
 
Kraft, C., Parrott, J.S., Cornish, N., Rubinstein, M., Weissfeld, A., McNult, P., Nachamkin, I., Humphries, R., Kirn, T., Bard, J.D., Lutgring, J., Gullett, J., Bittencourt, C., Benson, S., Bobenchik, A., Sautter, R., Baselski, V., Atlas, M., Marlowe, B., Miller, N., Fischer, M., Richter, S., Gilligan, P., and Snyder J.
 
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, (2021). 32(3):1-34. DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00032-18
Using risk of bias domains to identify opportunities for improvement in food- and nutrition-related research: An evaluation of research type and design, year of publication, and source of funding.
 
Myers, E. F., Parrott, J. S., Splett, P., Chung, M., & Handu, D.
 
PLoS One, (2019). 13(7), e0197425. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197425
Managing Complexity in Evidence Analysis: A Worked Example in Pediatric Weight Management.
 
Parrott, J. S., Henry, B., Thompson, K. L., Ziegler, J., & Handu, D.
 
J Acad Nutr Diet. (2018). doi:10.1016/j.jand.2018.01.016
Integrative (epi) Genomic Analysis to Predict Response to Androgen-Deprivation Therapy in Prostate Cancer.
 
Panja, S., Hayati, S., Epsi, N. J., Parrott, J. S., & Mitrofanova, A.
 
EBioMedicine, (2018). 31, 110-121. doi:10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.04.007
Inpatient staffing needs for registered dietitian nutritionists in 21st century acute care facilities
 
James Scott Parrott
 
Vol. : (2015 ) , Publication ID: 25812783 . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25812783?dopt=Abstract
Development of a predictive energy equation for maintenance hemodialysis patients: a pilot study
 
James Scott Parrott
 
Vol. : (2014 ) , Publication ID: 24355819 . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24355819?dopt=Abstract