
Overview
Academic Appointments
- Professor of Social Work and Biostatistics
Administrative Titles
- Dean of the Columbia School of Social Work
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- BS, 1985 Fairfield University
- ScD, 1989 Harvard School of Public Health
Committees, Societies, Councils
Member, Council on Social Work Education
Member, Society for Social Work & Research
Honors & Awards
Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University, 2006
Award for Teaching Excellence, Mailman School of Public Health, 2006
Fellow of the American Statistical ASsociation, elected 2012
Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Prize from Harvard School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics, 2012
Omicron Kappa Upsilon, Dental Honor Society, inducted 2012
Research
Research Interests
- Biostatistical Methods
- Public Health Education
Selected Publications
Begg MD, Fried LP, Glover JW. Delva M, Wiggin M, Hooper L, Saxena R, de Pinho H, Slomin E, Walker JR, Galea S (2015). Measuring the impact of curricular change: Short-term results from the new Columbia Core Curriculum. American Journal of Public Health 105: e7-e13.
Begg MD, Bennet LM, Gadlin H, Moss M, Tentler J, Schoenbaum E (2015). Graduate Education for the Future: New Models and Methods for the Clinical and Translational Workforce. Clinical and Translational Science 8: 787-792.
Pfirman SL, Begg MD (2012). Perspective: Troubled by Interdisciplinarity? Science Career Magazine, Issue for April 06, 2012, accessed 06.21.2012 at http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/art....
Meyers FJ, Begg MD, Fleming M, Merchant C Strengthening the Career Development of Clinical Translational Scientist Trainees: A Consensus Statement of the Clinical Translational Science (CTSA) Research Education and Career Development Committees Clinical and Translational Science 5(2) 132-137 2012
Begg MD, Vaughan RD Are biostatistics students prepared to succeed in the era of interdisciplinary science? (And how will we know?) The American Statistician 65(2) 71-79 2011
Kulage KM, Larson EL, Begg MD Sharing Facilities & Administrative Cost Recovery to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Research Academic Medicine 86(3) 394-401 2011
Huskins WC, Silet K, Weber-Main AM, Begg MD, Fowler VG, Hamilton J, Fleming M Identifying and Aligning Expectations in a Mentoring Relationship Clinical and Translational Science 4(6) 439-447 2011
Begg MD, Parides MK Separation of individual-level and cluster-level covariate effects in regression analysis of correlated data Statistics in Medicine 22 2591-2602 2003
Begg M Analyzing k(2x2) tables under cluster sampling Biometrics 55 302-307 1999
Desai M, Begg MD A comparison of regression approaches for analyzing clustered data American Journal of Public Health 98 1425-1429 2008