Positions: Full Staff, Quantitative Health Sciences, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2001-present. Departmental Affiliate, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002-present. Education: Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972. A.B., Mathematics and Statistics, Columbia College, New York, 1966. Key Interests: Categorical data analysis, statistical methods in observational epidemiology, sample survey methods, diet and cancer, design and analysis of dental and oral research, bacterial meningitis, multiple sclerosis, pelvic floor disorders, biometric identification/authentication systems.

Honors/Service:
Offices:
President, International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region, 2005.
Chair, Statistics Section, American Public Health Association, 2002; Statistics Section Council, 2005-7, 2001-3.
Chair, Biometrics Section, American Statistical Association, 1997.
Chair, Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences, American Statistical Association, 1992.
Governing Council, International Biometric Society, 1992-5.
Governing Council, American Public Health Association, 1992-4.
Task Force on Design and Analysis in Dental and Oral Research, Board of Directors, 1991-present.
Council of Sections, American Statistical Association, 1991.

Editorial :
Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (2nd edn.).
Associate Editor, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 1990-2000.
Associate Editor, REBRAPE: Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 1989-1994.
Associate Editor, The American Statistician, 1977-84.

Other :
15 NIH Special Study Sections or Special Emphasis Panels.
Recognition Award, American Public Health Association Statistics Section, 1996.
National Research Council “Whither Biometrics?” Committee, 2004-6.
National Research Council Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph, 2001-2.
Keynote speaker, Robert Bohrer Memorial Workshop, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
Invited speaker, 50th Anniversary Symposium, University of North Carolina Department of Biostatistics, 1999.
Lead author, primary articles on categorical data analysis, in Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, and Advances in Biometry: 50 Years of the International Biometric Society.
Fellow, American College of Epidemiology, 2002.
Delta Omega: National Honorary Society in Public Health, alumni member, 2002.
Who's Who in the Midwest, 1983.

Selected Publications:
Books
National Research Council. The Polygraph and Lie Detection. Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph. Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 398 pps., 2003.

Koch GG, Imrey PB, Singer J, Atkinson S, Stokes ME. Analysis of Categorical Data. Montreal: University of Montreal Press, 288 pps., 1985.

Papers and Chapters
Imrey PB, Koch GG. Categorical data analysis. In Armitage P, Colton T, eds., Encyclopedia of Biostatistics 2 nd edn,Vol. 1 (A-CHAP). New York: John Wiley and Sons, 682-707, 2005.

Kuehn DP, Imrey PB, Tomes L, Jones DL, O'Gara MM, Seaver EJ, Smith BE, Van Demark DR, Wachtel JM. Efficacy of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for treatment of hypernasality. Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal 39, 267–276, 2002.

Armstrong RW, Imrey PB, Lye MS, Armstrong MJ, Yu MC, Sani S. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Malaysian Chinese: salted fish and other dietary exposures. International Journal of Cancer 79:228-35, 1998

Imrey PB, Jackson L, Ludwinski P, England AC, Fella GA, Fox BC, Isdale LB, Reeves MW, Wenger JD. A meningococcal disease cluster associated with campus bar patronage. American Journal of Epidemiology 143:624-630, 1996.

Imrey PB, Jackson L, Ludwinski P, England AC, Fella GA, Fox BC, Isdale LB, Reeves MW, Wenger JD. Meningococcal carriage, alcohol consumption, and campus bar patronage. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 33:3133-3137, 1995.

Imrey PB, Chilton NW, Pihlstrom BL and 16 others. Recommended guidelines for American Dental Association acceptance of products for professional, non-surgical treatment of adult periodontitis. Journal of Periodontal Research 29:348-360, 1994.

Clinton SK, Imrey PB, Mangian HJ, Nandkumar S, Visek WJ. The combined effects of energy intake and dietary fat and protein on azoxymethane‑induced colon carcinogenesis. Cancer Research 52: 857-865, 1992.

Imrey PB, Crawford JW, Cohen RL, Alves MEAF, McSwiggin TA, Chambers DA. A cross-sectional analysis of aspartate aminotransferase in human crevicular fluid. Journal of Periodontal Research 26:75-84, 1991.

Stock MC, Downs JB, Gauer PK, Alster JM, Imrey PB. Prevention of postoperative atelectasis with continuous positive airway pressure, incentive spirometry, and conservative therapy. Chest 86:151-157, 1985.

Clinton SK, Imrey PB, Alster JM, Simon J, Truex CR, Visek, WJ. The combined effects of dietary protein and fat on 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene induced breast cancer in rats. Journal of Nutrition 114:1213-1223, 1984.

Roberts CR, Imrey PB, Hosokawa M, Turner J, Alster JM. Reducing physician visits for colds through consumer education. JAMA 250:1986‑1990, 1983. Italian edition, 1:30‑35, 1984; Japanese edition 5:68-69, 1984.

Imrey PB, Koch GG, Stokes ME, in collaboration with Darroch JN, Freeman DH, Tolley, HD. Some reflections on the log-linear model and logistic regression. Part I: Historical and methodologic overview. International Statistical Review 49:265-283, 1981. Part II: Data analysis. International Statistical Review 50:35-63, 1982.

Misner JE, Imrey PB, Smith LA, Bloomfield DK. Secular variation in frequency of premature ventricular contractions (PVC) in untreated individuals. Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 92:117-125, 1978.

Reisner HM, Imrey PB, Yount, WJ. A radioimmunoassay for the Gm(b°) allotype of human immunoglobulins. Immunogenetics 3:327-335, 1976.

Imrey PB, Johnson WD, Koch GG. An incomplete contingency table approach to paired-comparison experiments. Journal of the American Statistical Association 71:614-623, 1976.

Wagner EH, Greenberg RA, Imrey PB, Williams CA, Wolf SH, Ibrahim MA. Influence of training and experience on selecting criteria to evaluate medical care. New England Journal of Medicine 294: 871-876, 1976.

Koch GG, Imrey PB, Reinfurt DW. Linear models analysis of categorical data with incomplete response vectors. Biometrics 28:663-692, 1972.