Education
PhD, Epidemiology, (in progress), Columbia University, New York, NY
MS, Epidemiology, May 2012, Columbia University, New York, NY
BS, Computer Science (with distinction), May 1998, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Research Interests
Neighborhood determinants of physical activity and health, epidemiologic methods
Employment
2010-2016 Columbia University, New York, NY
Course Instructor, Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant
Specialties: R Statistical Programming, Epidemiologic Methods
2008-2011 AdNectar, Inc, Palo Alto, CA
Software Developer
2004-2008 Pure Networks, Seattle, WA
Lead Developer
1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Software Developer
Awards
Gelman Award for Excellence in Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Heath, 2016
Haddon Award for Excellence in Injury Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Heath, 2016
Society for Epidemiologic Research Student Abstract Award, Second Prize, Mailman School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology, 2015
Donald Gemson Memorial Scholarship for Epidemiology, 2014
SERDigital Award Winner, Society for Epidemiologic Research, 2014
Society for Epidemiologic Research First Prize Winner, Poster Session 2, 2013
Society for Epidemiologic Research Student Prize Winner, Poster Session 2, 2013
Society for Epidemiologic Research Student Abstract Award, First Prize, Mailman School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology, 2013
Gelman Award for Excellence in Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Heath, 2012
Best Poster, Chronic Disease group, Mailman School of Public Health, 2011 Practicum Fair
National Merit Scholar, 1994
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Mooney SJ, Baecker A, Rundle AG. 2013. Comparison of anthropometric and body composition measures as predictors of components of the metabolic syndrome in a clinical setting. Obesity Research & Clinical Practice
Mooney SJ, Winner M, Hershman DL, Feingold DL, Allendorf JD, Wright JD and Neugut, AI. 2013. Bowel Obstruction in Elderly Ovarian Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Study. Gynecologic Oncology
Winner M, Mooney SJ, Hershman DL, Feingold DL, Allendorf JD, Wright JD and Neugut, AI. 2013. Management and Outcomes of Bowel Obstruction in Stage IV Colon Cancer Patients: a Population-Based Cohort Study. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum
Winner M, Mooney SJ, Hershman DL, Feingold DL, Allendorf JD, Wright JD and Neugut, AI. 2013. Incidence and Predictors of Bowel Obstruction in Elderly Stage IV Colon Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Cohort Study. JAMA Surgery.
Mooney SJ, Richards CA, Rundle AG. 2014. There Goes the Neighborhood Effect: Bias Due to Non-Differential Measurement Error in the Construction of Neighborhood Contextual Measures. Epidemiology
Mooney SJ, Knox J, Morabia A. 2014. The Thompson-McFadden Commission and Joseph Goldberger: Contrasting 2 Historical Investigations of Pellagra in Cotton-Mill Villages in South Carolina. American Journal of Epidemiology
Mooney SJ, Bader MDM, Lovasi GS, Neckerman KM, Teitler JO, Rundle AG. 2014. Validity of an Ecometric Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measure Constructed by Virtual Street Audit. American Journal of Epidemiology
Quinn JW, Mooney SJ, Sheehan DM, Teitler JO, Neckerman KM, Kaufman TK, Lovasi GS, Bader MDM, Rundle AG. 2014. Neighborhood Physical Disorder in New York City. The Journal of Maps.
Bader MDM, Mooney SJ, Lee YJ, Sheehan DM, Neckerman KM, Rundle AG, Teitler JO. 2015. Development of a Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System using Google Street View on a National Sample of Block Faces. Health & Place.
Mooney SJ, Westreich DJ, El-Sayed AM. 2015. Epidemiology in the Big Data Era. Epidemiology
Mooney SJ, Joshi S, Cerdá M, Quinn JW, Beard J, Kennedy GJ, Benjamin EO, Ompad DC, Rundle AG. 2015. Patterns of Physical Activity among Older Adults in New York City: A Latent Class Approach. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Joshi S, Mooney SJ, Rundle AG, Kennedy GJ, Benjamin EO, Ompad DC, Beard J, Cerdá M. Beyond METs: Types of Physical Activity and Depression among Older Adults. Age and Ageing, In Press.
Maresca MM, Hoepner L, Hassoun A, Oberfield SE, Mooney SJ, Calafat AM, Ramirez J, Freyer G, Perera F, Whyatt R., Rundle A. Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Childhood Body Size in an Urban Cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives, In Press
Bader MDM, Mooney SJ, Rundle AG, Protecting Personally Identifiable Information when Using Online Geographic Tools for Public Health Research. American Journal of Public Health, In Press
Mooney SJ, Grady ST, Sotoodehnia N, Lemaitre RN, Wallace ER, Mohanty AF, Yee J, Siscovick DS, Rea T, McKnight B, Kwok PY, Mak A, Hesselson S, Lovasi GS. In the Wrong Place with the Wrong SNP: Beta-2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene Modifies the Association between Stressful Neighborhood Conditions and Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Epidemiology, In Press
Mooney SJ, DiMaggio CJ, Lovasi GS, Neckerman KM, Bader MDM, Teitler JO, Sheehan DM, Jack DW, Rundle AG. Using Google Street View to Assess Environmental Contributions to Pedestrian Injury. American Journal of Public Health, In Press
Articles for a General Audience
“Searching for the Cause of a Mysterious Epidemic”, The 2×2 Project, August 20, 2014
“Is BMI the Best We Can Do?”, The 2×2 Project, December 26, 2012
Invited Talks
Big Data, Data Science, and Epidemiology (to Pfizer’s Epidemiology Group), 9/16/2015
The Built Environment and Physical Activity among Older Adults: Integrating Data Science with Hypothesis-Driven Approaches (to Mailman School of Public Health Cancer Seminar, Columbia University), 2/20/2015
Norms, Stigma, and Social Isolation in the Obese: An Agent-based Approach (to University of North Carolina Social Epidemiology Seminar), 11/12/2014
Using Google Street View for Pedestrian Injury Research (to Mailman School of Public Health Injury Epidemiology Cluster Seminar, Columbia University), 10/16/2014
Validity in Crowd-sourced Science: Perspectives from Public Health (to Socioeconomic Data and Application Center, Columbia University), 6/13/2014
Guest Lectures
Using R for Data Visualization (at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 7/2015)
Measurement Error for Environmental Epidemiology (at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 11/2014)
The Thompson-McFadden Commission, the Public Health Service, and Pellagra (at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 10/2014)
Spatial Analysis in R (at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 4/2014)
Graphics in R (at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 3/2014)
Introduction to Social Network Analysis (at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 11/2013)
The Thompson-McFadden Commission, Joseph Goldberger, and Pellagra (at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 10/2013)
Big Data in R (at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 5/2013)
Using Google Street View and Spatial Analysis to Assess Neighborhood Conditions (at Barnard College, 4/2013)
Aggregation of erroneous individual-level measures in neighborhood context studies (at CUNY School of Public Health, 1/2013)
Conference Presentations and Posters
Further Explorations of Statistical and Mechanistic Interactions (at Society for Epidemiologic Research, 6/2015)
Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Quantifying GPS Error for Studies of Physical Activity in Urban Spaces (at Society for Epidemiologic Research, 6/2015)
Moving Beyond Self-Report: Neighborhood Disorder, Safety and Physical Activity (at Population Association of the Americas, 4/2015)
Tools for Vision Zero: Using Information Technology to Assess Pedestrian Injury Risk (at New York Community Epidemiology Forum, 2/2015)
Norms, Stigma, and Social Isolation in the Obese (at Society for Epidemiologic Research, 6/2014) — PRESENTATION
Ecometrics and Validity of a Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measure Constructed by Virtual Street Audit (at Society for Epidemiologic Research, 6/2014) — PRESENTATION
To Match or Not to Match: Control Selection Strategies in Disease Biomarker Discovery Studies (at Society for Epidemiologic Research, 6/2014)
To Match or Not to Match: Control Selection Strategies in Disease Biomarker Discovery Studies (at New York Community Epidemiology Forum, 2/2014)
Broken Windows by Way of Microsoft Windows: Ecometrics and Validity of a Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measure Constructed by Virtual Street Audit (at SERdigital, 11/2013) — PRESENTATION
There Goes the Neighborhood Effect: Bias Due to Non-Differential Measurement Error in the Construction of Neighborhood Contextual Measures (at Society for Epidemiologic Research, 6/2013)
Are We Overestimating Neighborhood Effects on Cancer Outcomes? (at American Society for Preventive Oncology, 3/2013)
Aggregation of erroneous individual-level measures in neighborhood context studies (at Society for Epidemiologic Research Student Web Meeting, 11/2012)
Bowel Obstruction in Advanced Colon Cancer Patients (at Society for Epidemiologic Research, 6/2012)
Using Google Street View to Perform Neighborhood Audits (at International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 5/2012)
Grants
National Cancer Institute T32 training grant #CA09529, Trainee
Columbia University Injury Center Pilot Grant, “Pedestrian Environment Characteristics Associated with Pedestrian-Motor Vehicle Collisions in New York City”, Co-PI with Dr. Andrew Rundle, Total Funds: $7,500
EPIC FUND, $429 to attend 2015 Population Association of the Americas Conference
EPIC FUND, $300 to attend 2013 Society for Epidemiologic Research Conference
EPIC FUND, $229 to visit Public Health Service Archives
Professional Service
Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Journal of Epidemiology, Epidemiology, Journal of Urban Health, Public Health Nutrition, Injury Epidemiology
Social Determinants of Health Master’s Certificate Journal Club
– session co-facilitator, October 2013
– session leader, February 2014
– session leader, September 2014
Student Representative, Columbia University Epidemiology Department Curriculum Committee
Education Chair, Student-PostDoc Committee, Society for Epidemiologic Research
Teaching Experience (Courses)
“Epidemiologic Analysis using R”, Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University, Summer 2015 (Course Co-Instructor)
“Agent-Based Modeling”, Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University, Summer 2015 (Course Co-Instructor)
“Applications of Epidemiologic Research Methods II”, Epidemiology 9489, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Spring 2015 (Course Instructor)
“Systems Science & Population Health”, Epidemiology 8427, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Spring 2015 (Teaching Assistant; Dr. Abdulrahman El-Sayed, Professor)
“Environmental Epidemiology”, Epidemiology 8432, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Fall 2014 (Teaching Assistant; Dr. Andrew Rundle, Professor)
“Critical Thinking in Epidemiology”, Epidemiology 9400, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Fall 2014 (Teaching Assistant; Dr. Andrew Rundle, Professor)
“Epidemiologic Analysis using R”, Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University, Summer 2014 (Course Instructor)
“Applications of Epidemiologic Research Methods II”, Epidemiology 9489, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Spring 2014 (Teaching Assistant; Dr. Charles DiMaggio, Professor)
“Critical Thinking in Epidemiology”, Epidemiology 9400, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Fall 2013 (Teaching Assistant; Dr. Andrew Rundle, Professor)
“Epidemiologic Analysis using R”, Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University, Summer 2013 (Course Instructor)
“Applications of Epidemiologic Research Methods II”, Epidemiology 9489, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Spring 2013 (Teaching Assistant; Dr. Charles DiMaggio, Professor)
“Cancer Epidemiology”, Epidemiology 8414, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Fall 2012. (Teaching Assistant; Dr. Alfred I Neugut, Professor)
“Epidemiologic Analysis using R”, Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University, Summer 2012. (Teaching Assistant; Dr. Charles DiMaggio, Professor)
Teaching Experience (Workshops)
“Introduction to R using RStudio”, Society for Epidemiologic Research, June 2014
“Using R for Simulation”, Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University, Summer 2015 (Co-Instructor)
Technical Skills
Statistical Programming: R, SAS
Data Management: MySQL, Hadoop
General Programming: C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, PHP
Application Frameworks: Win32/COM, Spring, Rails, Django, JQuery
US Patents
US Patent #8892993, Translation File. Issued November 18, 2014.
US Patent #8316438, Network management providing network health information and lockdown security. Issued November 20, 2012
US Patent #7739246, System and Method of Merging Contacts. Issued June 15, 2010.
US Patent #7734577, Composite User Interface and Framework, Issued June 8, 2010.
US Patent #7581177, Conversion of Structured Documents. Issued August 25, 2009.
US Patent #7516145, System and Method for Incrementally Transforming and Rendering Hierarchical Data Files. Issued April 7, 2009
US Patent #7406660, Mapping Between Structured Data and a Visual Surface. Issued July 29, 2008.
US Patent #7191934, Authoring Arbitrary Documents using DHTML and XSLT. Issued March 13, 2007.