Department of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics

Faculty Biography

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston is dedicated to improving the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.


Joseph Lucke, PhD.

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Education:

BA, Psychology & Mathematics: Rice University, Houston, TX

MA, Psychology: Kansas University, Lawrence, KS

PhD, Psychology: Kansas University, Lawrence, KS

Social Measurement: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Clinical and Research Interests:

  1. Bayesian statistics
  2. Observational (quasi-experimental) designs
  3. Measurement and psychometrics
  4. Causality and causal inference

Publications (selected):

  • Dorn LD, Lucke JF, Loucks TL, Berga SL. In press. Salivary cortisol reflects serum cortisol: Analysis of circadian profiles. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry.
  • Gill SL, Reifsnider E, Lucke JF. In press. Effects of Support on the Incidence and Duration of Breastfeeding. Western Journal of Nursing Research.
  • Villagran MM, Lucke JF. 2005. Translating Communication Measures for Use in Non-English-Speaking Populations. Communication Research Reports, 22(3), 247-251.
  • Lucke JF. 2005. 'Rassling the Hog': The Influence of Correlated Item Error on Internal Consistency, Classical Reliability, and Congeneric Reliability. Applied Psychological Measurement, 29(2), 106-125.
  • Lucke JF. 2005. The and the of Congeneric Test Theory: An Extension of Reliability and Internal Consistency to Heterogeneous Tests. Applied Psychological Measurement, 29(1), 65-81.
  • Lucke JF. 2004. Fall Prevention Programs for the Elderly: A Bayesian Secondary Meta-Analysis. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 36(3), 48-64.
  • Lucke KT, Lucke JF, Martinez, H. 2004. Evaluation of a Peer + Professional Telephone Intervention with Spinal-Cord-Injured Individuals Following Rehabilitation in South Texas. Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health, 10(2), 68-74.
  • Rosenzweig MQ, Bender CM, Lucke JF, Yasko JM, Brufsky, AM. 2004. The Decision to Prematurely Terminate a Trial of RWUEPO Due to Thrombotic Events. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 27(2). 184-189.
  • Lucke KT, Coccia H, Goode JS, Lucke JF. 2004. Quality of Life in Spinal Cord Injured Individuals and Their Caregivers During the Initial Six Months Following Rehabilitation. Quality of Life Research.
  • Coffey CE, Ratcliff G, Saxton JA, Bryan RN, Fried LP, Lucke JF. 2001. Cognitive Correlates Of Human Brain Aging: A Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 13, 471-485.
  • Rudy EB, Lucke JF, Whitman GR, Davidson LJ. 2001. Benchmarking Patient Outcomes: Why and How. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 33(2), 185-189.
  • Bernardo LM, Gardner MJ, Lucke J, Ford H. 2001. The Effects of Core and Peripheral Warming Methods on Temperature and Physiologic Variables in Injured Children. Pediatric Emergency Care, 17(2), 138-142.
  • Lucke JF. 1999. An Introduction to the Odds Ratio. Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 31(1), 254-257.
  • Coffey CE, Saxton JA, Ratcliff G, Bryan RN, Lucke JF. 1999. Relation of Education to Brain Size In Normal Aging: Implications for the Reserve Hypothesis. Neurology, 53, 189-196.
  • Wakim AN, Galla-Elizeus K, Lucke J, Schlosser J, Sokolski J. 1998. Endometrial Appearance During Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation for Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Fertility & Sterility, 70(1S) Suppl 1, 169S.
  • Shackney SE, Pollice AA, Smith CA, Janocko LE, Sweeny L, Brown KA, Singh SG, Gu L, Yakulis R, Lucke JF.1998. Intracellular Coexpression of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, Her-2/neu, and p21ras in Human Breast Cancers: Evidence for the Existence of Distinctive Patterns of Genetic Evolution That Are Common to Tumors from Different Patients. Clinical Cancer Research, 4, 913-928.
  • Coffey CE, Lucke JF, Saxton JA, Ratcliff G, Unitas LJ, Billig B, Bryan RN. 1998. Sex Differences in Brain Aging: A Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Archives of Neurology, 55, 169-179. Erratum: Archives of Neurology, 55, 627.
  • Sekula LK, Lucke JF, Heist EK, Czambel RK, Rubin RT. 1997. Neuroendocrine Aspects of Primary Endogenous Depression XV: Mathematical Modeling of Nocturnal Melatonin Secretion in Major Depressives and Normal Controls. Psychiatry Research, 69, 143-153.
  • Lucke JF. 1996. Student's t-Test and the Glasgow Coma Scale. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 28(4), 408-413. Rotenstein D, Lucke JF. 1996. The Growth of Growth Hormone Treated and Nontreated Children Before and After Tethered Spinal Cord Release. Pediatric Neurosurgery, 24, 237-241.
  • Brandt B, DePalma J, Irwin M, Shogan J, Lucke JF. 1996. Comparison of Central Venous Catheter Dressings in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients. Oncology Nursing Forum, 23(5), 829-836.
  • Kluger Y, Paul DB, Lucke JF, Cox P, Colella JJ, Townsend RN, Raves JJ, Diamond DL. 1996. Early Tracheostomy in Trauma Patients. European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 3(2), 95-101.

 

Faculty Biography

Joseph Lucke, PhD.
  • Joseph Lucke, PhD.
    Associate Professor
  • Department of Pediatrics
    Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
    6431 Fannin Street, MSB 2.106
    Houston, Texas 77030
  • phone: (713) 500-5651
    fax: (713) 500-0519
    e-mail: Joseph.F.Lucke@ uth.tmc.edu
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