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Benjamin J. Brintz, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments: Internal Medicine - Research Assistant Professor

Divisions: Epidemiology

Academic Office Information

ben.brintz@hsc.utah.edu

Education History

Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Utah School of Medicine
Data Science
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Training Oregon State University
Statistics
Ph.D.
Graduate Training Oregon State University
Statistics
M.S.
Undergraduate Grinnell College
Mathematics/Statistics
B.A.

Selected Publications

  1. Wahlig TA, Brintz BJ, Prettyman M, Azman AS, Leung DT (2021). A Novel Luminescence-Based Serum Bactericidal Assay for Vibrio cholerae Reduces Assay Variation, Is Time- and Cost-Effective, and Directly Measures Continuous Titer Values. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 105(3), 622-626.
  2. Ungricht EL, Culp C, Qu P, Jensen N, Harris JT, Brintz BJ, Mamalis N, Olson RJ, Werner L (2021). The effect of longitudinal and torsional ultrasound on corneal endothelium cells: An experimental study in rabbit eyes. J Cataract Refract Surg, 48(3), 349-354.
  3. Ahmed SM, Shah RU, Fernandez V, Grineski S, Brintz B, Samore MH, Ferrari MJ, Leung DT, Keegan LT (2021). Robust Testing in Outpatient Settings to Explore COVID-19 Epidemiology: Disparities in Race/Ethnicity and Age, Salt Lake County, Utah, 2020. Public Health Rep, 136(3), 345-353.
  4. Reimer JR, Ahmed SM, Brintz B, Shah RU, Keegan LT, Ferrari MJ, Leung DT (2021). Using a clinical prediction rule to prioritize diagnostic testing leads to reduced transmission and hospital burden: A modeling example of early SARS-CoV-2. Clin Infect Dis, 73, 1822-1830.
  5. Brintz BJ, Haaland B, Howard J, Chao DL, Proctor JL, Khan AI, Ahmed SM, Keegan LT, Greene T, Keita AM, Kotloff KL, Platts-Mills JA, Nelson EJ, Levine AC, Pavia AT, Leung DT (2021). A modular approach to integrating multiple data sources into real-time clinical prediction for pediatric diarrhea. Elife, 10.
  6. Malhotra NR, Smith JD, Jacobs AC, Johnson CE, Khan US, Ellison HB, Brintz BJ, Millar MM, Cloud WG, Nahmias J, Hendershot KM, Smith BK (2020). High value care education in general surgery residency programs: A multi-institutional needs assessment. Am J Surg, 221(2), 291-297.
  7. Shahrin L, Chisti MJ, Brintz B, Islam Z, Shahid ASMSB, Hassan MZ, Leung DT, Chowdhury F (2020). Clinical and laboratory predictors of 30-day mortality in severe acute malnourished children with severe pneumonia. Trop Med Int Health, 25(11), 1422-1430.
  8. Brintz BJ, Howard JI, Haaland B, Platts-Mills JA, Greene T, Levine AC, Nelson EJ, Pavia AT, Kotloff KL, Leung DT (2020). Clinical predictors for etiology of acute diarrhea in children in resource-limited settings. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 14(10), e0008677.
  9. Brintz B, Fuentes C, Madsen L (2018). An asymptotic approximation to the N-mixture model for the estimation of disease prevalence. Biometrics, 74(4), 1512-1518.
  10. Kroll AJ, Garcia TS, Jones JE, Dugger K, Murden B, Johnson J, Peterman S, Brintz B, Rochelle M (2015). Evaluating Multi-Level Models to Test Occupancy State Responses of Plethodontid Salamanders. PLoS One, 10(11), e0142903.