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Sarah Hartz, MD
Current
Position
Instructor in Psychiatry
Education and Training
BA: Knox College, Galesburg, IL, 1996
PhD in Statistics: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2003
MD: University of Iowa 2005
Residency: Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital, 2005-2009
Major Awards
-The George Winokur Award for Resident Research, First Prize, 2007
-National Council on Measurement in Education Educational Technology Applications Award, 2005
American Psychological Association Distinguished Dissertation, Division of Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics, 2003
-National Council on Measurement in Education Brenda H Lloyd Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2003
-Horace W. Norton Prize for the most outstanding thesis research in statistics, 2002
-Maurice Tatsuoka award for excellence in educational measurement, 2001
Areas of Clinical Interest
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, substance dependence
Areas of Research Interests
Genetic studies of psychiatric illnesses
Key Publications
Roussos, L.A., DiBello, L.V., Stout, W., Hartz, S.M., Henson, R.A., & Templin, J.L. (in press). The fusion model skills diagnosis system. In J.P. Leighton & M.J. Gierl (Eds.), Cognitive diagnostic assessment for education: Theory and applications (pp. 275-318). Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
Hartz, SM, Ben-Shahar, Y, and Tyler, M. (2001) Logistic growth curve analysis in learning and memory data. Animal Cognition 3(4):185-189
Ben-Shahar, Y, Thompson CK, Hartz SM, Smith BH, and Robinson GE. (2000) Performance on a reversal learning test is associated with division of labor in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Animal Cognition 3(3): 119-125
Grossman M, Hartz SM, Koops WJ (1999). Persistency of lactation yield: a novel approach. Journal of Dairy Sciences. 82(10):2192-7
Bolt, D, Froelich, AG, Habing, B, Hartz, S, Roussos, L, & Stout, W. (1999) An Applied and Foundational Research Project Addressing DIF, Impact, and Equity: with Applications to ETS Test Development. ETS Technical Report
Barton JW, Hartz SM, Klasson KT, et al. (1998) Microbial removal of alkanes from dilute gaseous waste streams: Mathematical modeling of advanced bioreactor systems. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology 72: (2) 93-98.