Michael Szafron, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Public Health

Designations

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, 2009
• Bachelor of Education (BEd), University of Saskatchewan, 2009
• Master of Science (MSc), University of Saskatchewan, 2000
• Bachelor of Science (BSc), Brandon University, 1997

Email: michael.szafron@usask.ca
Phone: (306) 966-5468

Areas of Research Interest

• Monte Carlo simulations
• Statistical methods associated with Monte Carlo data
• Computational biomodelling of the structure/function of biopolymers
• Statistical methods for the health sciences including survey data

Recent Grants/Awards

B. J. Davison, C. Gutwin, M. Szafron, and K. Visvanathan.  Profiling Prostate Cancer Patients’ Preferences to Facilitate Treatment Decision Making .  SHRF Establishment Grant.  April 2012 to March 2015.

P. Chilibeck, D. Candow, A. Baxter-Jones, S. Kontulainen, M. Szafron and G. Zello.  Ibuprofen supplementation after resistance training and its effects on bone in older woman.  Catalyst Grant: Drug Safety & Effectiveness in Underrepresented Population. CIHR.  October 2012 to September 2013.

B. J. Davison, C. Gutwin, K. Visvanathan, L. Holtslander, L. Raccine, and M. Szafron.  Profiling Patient Preferences to Facilitate Treatment Decision Making.  Canada’s Motorcycle Ride for DAD Prostate Cancer Research. September 2011 to August 2012. 

Select Publications

C. Soteros and M. Szafron.  Crossing-sign discrimination and knot-reduction for a lattice model of strand passage.  Biochemical Society Transactions.  (accepted January 8, 2013).

C. Soteros, K. Ishihara, K. Shimokawa, M. Szafron, and M. Vazquez. Signed unknotting number and knot chirality discrimination via strand passage. Statistical Physics and Topology of Polymers with Ramifications to Structure and Function of DNA and Proteins; Aug 2-6, 2010; YITP, Kyoto. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement.  191:78-95 (2011)

Szafron, M. L. and Soteros, C. E. The effect of juxtaposition angle on knot reduction in a lattice model of strand passage, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 322001

Szafron, M. L. and Soteros, C. E. Knotting probabilities after a local strand passage in unknotted self-avoiding polygons, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 245003

Current Courses

• PUBH 805.3: Biostatistics for Public Health

Current Research

Other Courses

• PUBH 804.3:  Foundations for Public Health
• PUBH 898.3:  Biostatistics for Public Health II