Paul Elson, Sc.D.
Quantitative Health Sciences /JJN3
Taussig Cancer Center/R41
Telephone: (216)444-7775
Fax: (216)636-2498
elsonp@ccf.org

Positions:
Associate Staff, Quantitative Health Sciences,
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2005-present

Associate Staff, Biostatistics and Epidemiology,
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1993-2004

Education:
Sc.D. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (Major: Biostatistics), 1991

 

Key Interests:
Dr. Elson is head of the Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Center's Biostatistics Unit and director of the Cleveland Clinic's General Clinical Research Center's(GCRC) Biostatistics Core. His statistical research interests are group-sequential methods and clinical trials.

Selected Book Chapters and Publications:
 Elson, PJ, Witte, RS and Trump, DL. (1988) Prognostic factors for survival in patients with recurrent or metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Research, 48:7310-7313.

Elson, P. Use of the fast fourier transform algorithm in the calculation of the operating characteristics of group-sequential clinical trials. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 20:491-498, 1995

Elson, PJ, Prognostic factors in advanced renal cell carcinoma. In Renal and Adrenal Tumors: Biology and Management, Oxford University Press. Editors, Belldegrun, A, Figlin,R, Vaughn, ED, Ritchie, A, Oliver, T, 2003.