Linda Hynan, PhD

Professor
Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry
Graduate Program: Clinical Psychology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390


Office Fax: 214-648-7673

linda.hynan@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Dr. Hynan, an Associate Professor, is a statistical consultant in the Department of Clinical Sciences - Division of Biostatistics. She received her MS in Applied Measurement/Statistics and PhD in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois - Urbana. She joined UT Southwestern in 1999 and is involved in various research projects and clinical trials such as Alzheimers Disease, Acute Liver Failure, and Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She has co-authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and chapters in addition to abstracts and presentations at regional and national meetings.

Dr. Hynan has served on 12 PhD dissertation committees, 20 PsyD project committees, and eight masters theses in the areas of Clinical Psychology, Statistics, Mathematics, and Gerontology. She is the course director and one of the instructors for Conceptual Biostatistics for the Clinical Investigator I as well as one of the instructors for two other team-taught classes in the Department of Clinical Sciences, Biostatistics for Clinical Sciences II and Effective Data Management and Collection.

In 1997, she received the Psi Chi Outstanding Psychology Professor of the Year Award (Baylor University). Dr. Hynan is the current past president of the Southwestern Psychological Association and the Chapter Representative for the North Texas Chapter of the American Statistical Association. She is the statistical review editor for the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal as well as an ad hoc reviewer for several other journals.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana Campus, Psychology (1993)
Graduate SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana Campus, Psychology (1982)
UndergraduateDelaware State College, Mathematics (1979)

Research Interests

Biostatistics
Design of Clinical Trials
Models of Judgment and Decision Making
Multivariate Statistics/Longitudinal Data Analysis
Psychometrics

Publications

Featured
Aβ42 Gene Vaccination prevents Aβ42 deposition in brain of double transgenic mice

Qu B-X, Xiang Q, Li L, Johnston SA, Hynan LS, Rosenberg RN , Journal of the Neurological Science , 2007; (260(1-2)):204-213

Featured
A Randomized, placebo controlled trial of creatinine in children with spinal muscular atrophy

Wong BL, Hynan LS, Iannaccone ST, AmSMART Group , Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease , 2007; (8(3)):101-110

Featured
ABeta42 Gene Vaccination prevents ABeta42 deposition in brain of double transgenic mice

Qu B-X, Xiang Q, Li L, Johnston SA, Hynan LS, Rosenberg RN , Journal of the Neurological Science , 2007; (260(1-2)):204-213

Featured
Acute Liver Failure in Children: The First 348 Patients in the Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Study Group

Squires Jr. RH, Shneider BL, Bucuvalas J, Alonso E, Sokol RJ, Narkewicz MR, Dhawan A, Rosenthal P, Rodriguez-Baez N, Murray KF, Horslen S, Martin MG, Lopez MJ, Soriano H, McGuire BM, Jonas MM, Yazigi N, Shepherd RW, Schwarz K, Lobritto S, Thomas DW, Lavine JE, Karpen S, Ng V, Kelly D, Simonds N, Hynan LS , The Journal of Pediatrics , 2006; (148(5)):652-658

Featured
Differential Diagnosis between Alzheimers and Frontotemporal Disease by the Posterior Cingulate Sign

Bonte FJ, Harris TS, Roney CA, Hynan LS , Journal of Nuclear Medicine , 2004; (45(5)):771-774

Featured
Results of a prospective study of acute liver failure at 17 tertiary care centers in the United States

Ostapowicz G, Fontana RJ, Schi?dt FV, Larson A, Davern TJ, Han SH, McCashland TM, Shakil AO, Hay JE, Hynan L, Crippin JS, Blei AT, Samuel G, Reisch J, Lee WM, ALF Study Group , Annals of Internal Medicine , 2002; (137(12)):947-954

Development of the Texas Spanish Naming Test: A test for Spanish-speakers

Marquez de la Plata C, Vicioso B, Hynan L, Evans HM, Diaz-Arrastia R, Lacritz L, Cullum CM , The Clinical Neuropsychologist , 2008; (22 (2)):288-304

Prenatal Depression in Women Hospitalized for Obstetric Risk

Brandon AR, Trivedi MH, Hynan LS, Miltenberger PD, Labat DB, Rifkin JB, Stringer CA , The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , 2008; (69(4)):635-643

Elevated troponin I levels in acute liver failure: Is myocardial injury an integral part of acute liver failure?

Parekh NK, Hynan LS, de Lemos J, William M. Lee WM, ALF Study Group , Hepatology , 2007; (45(6)):1489-1495

Comparison of Alzheimer Disease in American Indians, Whites, and African Americans

Weiner MF, Hynan LS, Beekly D, Koepsell TD, Kukull WA , Alzheimer’s & Dementia , 2007; (3(3)):211-216

Honors/Awards

Chapter Representative

North TX Chapter of the Am Statistical Assoc (2009)

Past-President

Southwestern Psychological Association (2009)

Program Chair

Society of Applied Multivariate Research (2009)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Statistical Association

Association of Psycholgical Science (Charter Member)

Inst. of Mathematical Statistics

Society for Clinical Trials

Society for Mathematical Psychology