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Ellen Kinnee, MA Urban & Regional Analysis Program · Geographic Information System Analyst 3343 Forbes Ave Room 235 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone:  412-624-8884 Email:  ejk40@pitt.edu

Ellen is the project manager for a multi-city research study, "Validating GIS-based Methods to Address Spatial Uncertainty in Clinical Trials."  The study examines to what degree the effectiveness of treatments in three AsthmaNet clinical trials may be modified by indicator of chronic social and environmental exposures.  Ellen was previously a senior GIS specialist supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park, NC where she developed spatial database to improve regulatory air quality models.  She received her MA is geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her master's thesis focused on using GIS and dispersion modeling to assess community cancer risk from large above-ground gasoline storage tanks in Paw Creek, NC.