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.
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 |
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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 |
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Genocide Evidence Libary |
Center for Law and Globalization |
2008 – 2009 |
Principal Investigator |
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The Relationship between Funding Source and Study Quality: Pilot Study |
International Life Sciences Institute |
2008 – 2009 |
Co- Investigator |
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Vegetarian Nutrition Evidence Analysis and Evidence Based Guidelines |
American Dietetic Association Foundation |
2007 – 2009 |
Project Leader |
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Childrens Healthy Bodies: Childhood Overweight Program Assessment |
The Cooper Institute and Michael and Susan Dell Foundation |
2005 – 2005 |
Primary Investigator |
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Analysis of Return on Grant Investment in Christian Publishing Projects |
Lilly Endowment |
2005 – 2005 |
Primary Investigator |
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Scaling-Up Smart Library |
North Central Educational Research Laboratory |
2000 – 2001 |
Principal Investigator |
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Closing the Achievement Gap |
North Central Educational Research Laboratory |
1999 – 2000 |
Principal Investigator |
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Globalizing Law: Political Influence in the Legal Construction of Markets by the UN. |
American Bar Foundation |
2003 – 2004 |
Co-investigator |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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