Marilyn Morrissey, MPH, Coordinator of Clinical Research Programs
Ms. Morrissey has over twenty years of experience in health care, including fourteen years in cancer and heart disease research. Her research experience includes field operations management, field staff training, and development of data quality assurance guidelines for large epidemiologic studies. As Research Coordinator for the Pain Research Group she oversees the development of research protocols; assures protocol compliance with federal, contractual, and institutional guidelines; monitors study progress of clinical trials conducted in multi site cooperative groups; and prepares new applications and ongoing progress reports for various funding sources.
- MPH, The University of Texas School of Public Health
- BS, Saint Louis University
Selected References:
Mendoza TR, Wang XS, Cleeland CS, Morrissey M, Johnson B. Wendt JK, Huber SL. The rapid assessment of fatigue severity in cancer patients. Cancer 1999;85:1186-1196.
Orlander PR, Goff DC, Morrissey M, Ramsey DJ, Wear ML, Labarthe DR, Nichaman
MZ. The relation of diabetes to the severity of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and post
MI survival in Mexican-Americans and non-hispanic whites: the Corpus Christi Heart
Project. Diabetes 1994; 43:897-902.Bell RL, Nichaman MZ, Morrissey M, Wear ML, Sasaki H, Ramsey DJ, Labarthe DR.
Comparison methods of case ascertainment in the Corpus Christi Heart Project. American
Journal of Epidemiology 1989; 130:843.E-mail address: mmorriss@mdanderson.org