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

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

Publications