Lawrence Lessner Associate Professor School of Public Health, SUNY Research Scientist NYS Department of Health Address: University at Albany, School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics One University Place GEC, Room 130 Rensselaer, NY 12144-3456 Phone: (518) 402-0306 or (518) 869-2011 Fax: (518)402-0380 E-mail:LLessner@nycap.rr.com

Education:

• PhD- Mathematics
• MPH- Epidemiology
• MA - Biostatistics

Courses Taught:
Survival Analysis 1 and 2, Linear Models 1 and 2, Seminar on Ecological Analysis, Seminar on Poisson Point Processes and Applications.

Research intrests
Nonparametric survival analysis for biostatistics, linear models, generalized linear models and generalized estimating equations, research papers in the analysis of the AIDS epidemic (prevalence and incidence with back calculation) and support statistical projects in toxilogical assessment with special interest in small area estimation.

Selected Publications:

Lessner, L : The Estimation of HIV Incidence for Women of Childbearing Age In New York City, accepted and in prepartion

Lessner, L; HIV Prevalence for New York State Using Newborn Seroprevalence Data and AIDS Surveillance Data, accepted and in preparation

Lessner, L.: Estimating HIV Incidence: An Ill-Posed Problem Journal of Socioeconomic Planning, 1998

Lessner, L.: Back Calculation, The Assessment of an Ill-Posed Problem, Part 2 Journal of Socioeconomic Planning, 1998

Lessner, L.: Projection of AIDS Incidence in Women in New York State American Journal of Public Health 1991; 81 (Supplement): 30-34

Stoneburner, R., Lessner, L: Insight into the Infection Dynamics of the AIDS Epidemic: a Birth Cohort Analysis of New York City AIDS Mortality American Journal of Epidemiology 1993; 138: No. 12

Smith, PF; Mikl, J; Truman, BI; Lessner, L; Lehman, JS; Stevens, RW; Lord, EA; Broaddus, RK; Morse, DL: HIV Infection Among Women Entering the New York State Correctional System American Journal of Public Health 1991; 81 (Supplement): 35-40

Blum, S; Singh, TP; Gibbons, JA; Lessner, L; Fordyce, EJ; Chiasson, MA; Weisfule, I; Thomas, PA: Survival with AIDS in New York City: The Experience of the First Decade of the Epidemic American Journal of Epidemiology 1994; 134: No. 4

Ivan S.,Huang X., Lessner L., Carpenter D.O., Hazardous Waste Sites and Stroke I New York State, Environmental Health, http://www.ehjournal.net/content/4/1/18, Aug. 29, 2005

Huang X., Lessner L., Carpenter D.O., Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Hypertensive Disease, Environmental Reaserach, www.sciencedirect.com , February 3, 2006

Kouznetsova M., Huang X., Ma J., Lessner L., Carpenter D.O., Increased Rate of Hospitalization for Diabetes and Residential Proximity of Hazardous Waste Sites, Environmental Health Perspectives, http://dx.doi.org/ , August 18, 2006