Lee Lucas

PhD, RN, MS

Associate Director for Research

Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

(207) 662-2132 Office

(207) 662-3110 Fax

Dr. Lee Lucas was one of the founding members of CORE and currently serves as the Associate Director. Dr. Lucas completed a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Maine and obtained a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh. Before beginning her research career, she also worked as a nurse for 15 years. She is a quantitatively trained epidemiologist, interested in research methods and statistical analysis regardless of content area. She works with residents, fellows, and attending clinicians to design and analyze research projects from multiple disciplines. In addition, she has extensive experience using large administrative databases to answer health services related questions, with particular expertise in cardiology treatment. She collaborates extensively with investigators at Dartmouth, participating in Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care projects. She has an extensive publication list, including research articles in JAMA and Circulation and the Dartmouth Atlas of Cardiovascular Health Care.

Selected peer-review publications (in chronological order)

Cauley JA, Lucas FL, Kuller LH, Vogt MT, Browner WS, Cummings SR. Bone Mineral Density and Risk of Breast Cancer in Older Women. JAMA. 1996; 276:1404-8.
Cauley JA, Salamone LM, Lucas FL. Postmenopausal Endogenous and Exogenous and Exogenous Hormones, Degree of Obesity, Thiazide Diuretics, and of Osteoporosis. In Maarcus, R, ed. Osteoporosis. San Diego: Academic Press, 1996.
Kuller LH, Cauley JA, Lucas FL, Cummings S, Browner WS. Sex Steroid Hormones, Bone Mineral Density, and Risk of Breast Cancer. Environmental Health Perspectives. 1997; 105(suppl 3):593-599.
Wennberg DE, Lucas FL, Birkmeyer JD, Bredenberg CE, Fisher ES. Variation in Carotid Endarterectomy Mortality in the Medicare Population: Trial Hospitals, Volume, and Patient Characteristics. JAMA. 1998; 279:1278-81.
Mayo SW, Eldrup-Jorgensen J, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE, Bredenberg CE. Carotid Endarterectomy After NASCET and ACAS: a Statewide Study. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 1998; 27:1017-23.
Lucas FL, Cauley JA, Stone RA, Cummings SR, Vogt MT, Weissfeld JL, Kuller LH. Bone Mineral Density and Risk of Breast Cancer: Differences by Family History of Breast Cancer. American Journal of Epidemiology. 1998; 148:22-9.
McGrath PD, Wennberg DE, Malenka DJ, Kellett, Jr., MA, Ryan TJ, O’Meara JR, Bradley WA, Hearne MJ, Hettleman B, Robb JF, Shubrooks S, VerLee P, Watkins MW, Lucas FL, O’Connor GT. Operator volume and outcomes in 12,998 percutaneous Coronary interventions. Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group. Journal of American College of Cardiology. 1998; 31:570-6.
Cauley JA, Lucas FL, Kuller LH, Stone K, Browner W, Cummings SR. Elevated Serum Estradiol and Testosterone Concentrations with a High Risk for Breast Cancer. Annals of Internal Medicine 1999; 130:270-7.
Lucas FL, Wennberg DE, Malenka DJ. Variation in the use of Echocardiography. Effective Clinical Practice 1999; 2:71-5.
Wennberg DE, Birkmeyer JD, Lucas FL. Pounds of Prevention for Ounces of Cure: Surgery as a Preventive Strategy. Lancet .1999 ;353 (Suppl 1):9-11.
Wennberg DE, Maleka DJ, Sengupta A, Lucas FL, Vaitkus PT, Quinton H, O'Rourke D, Robb JF, Kellett, Jr., MA, Shubrooks, SJ, Bradley WA, Hearne MJ, VerLee P, O'Connor GT. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in the elderly: Epidemiology, Clinical risk factors, and in-hospital outcomes. American Heart Journal. 1999;137(4):639-45.
Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Mortality and carotid endarterectomy: Translating results of clinical trials. Cardiology Review. 1999; 16: 13-16.
Birkmeyer JD, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Potential benefits of regionalizing major surgery in Medicare patients. Effective Clinical Practice 1999;2:277-83.
Finison KS, Wellins CA, Wennberg DE, Lucas FL. Screening mammography rates by specialty of the usual care physician. Effective Clinical Practice 1999;2:120-5.
McGrath PD, Wennberg DE, Dickens JD, Siewes AE, Lucas FL, Malenka DJ, Kellett MA, Ryan Jr. Relation between operator and hospital volume and outcomes following percutaneous coronary interventions in the era of the coronary stent. JAMA 2000;284:3139-44.
Finlayson EV, Birkmeyer JD, Stukel TA, Siewes AE, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Adjusting surgical mortality rates for patient comorbidities: more harm than good? Surgery 2002;132:787-94.
Birkmeyer JD, Siewers AE, Finlayson EV, Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Batista I, Welch HG, Wennberg DE. Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med 2002;347:693-6.
Goodney PP, Siewers AE, Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE, Birkmeyer JD. Is surgery getting safer? National trends in operative mortality. J Am Coll Surgeons 2002;195:219-27.
Goodney PP, Lucas FL, Birkmeyer JD. Should volume standards for cardiovascular surgery focus only on high-risk patients? Circulation 2003;107:384-7.
Fisher ES, Wennberg DE, Stukel TA, Gottlieb DJ, Lucas FL, Pinder EL. The implications of regional variation in Medicare spending. Part 1: the content, quality, and accessibility of care. Ann Intern Med 2003;138:273-87.
Fisher ES, Wennberg DE, Stukel TA, Gottlieb DJ, Lucas FL, Pinder EL. The implications of regional variation in Medicare spending. Part 2: health outcomes and satisfaction with care. Ann Intern Med 2003;138:288-98.
Goodney PP, Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Finlayson EV, Birkmeyer JD. Hospital volume, length of stay, and readmission rates in high-risk surgery. Ann Surgery 2003;238:161-7.
Birkmeyer JD, Stukel TA.; Siewers AE, Goodney PP, Wennberg DE, Lucas FL. Surgeon volume and operative mortality in the United States. NEJM 2003;349:2117-27.
Vannorsdall MD, Arkel YS, Ku DH, Lucas FL, Himmelfarb J. Perioperative topical bovine thrombin exposure is not associated with hemodialysis graft thrombosis. Kidney International 2003;64:690-6.
Clark DE, DeLorenzo MA, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Epidemiology and short-term outcomes of injured Medicare patients. J Am Getriatr Soc 2004;52:1-8.
Wennberg DE, Lucas FL, Siewers AE, Kellett MA, Malenka DJ. Outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions performed at centers without and with onsite coronary artery bypass graft surgery. JAMA 2004;292:1961-8.
Clark DE, DeLorenzo MA, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Injuries among older Americans with and without Medicare. Am J Public Health;2005:273-8.
Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. Long-term outcomes of regional variations in intensity of invasive vs medical management of Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction. JAMA 2005;292:1329-37.
Barnato AE, Lucas FL, Staiger D, Wennberg DE, Chandra A. Hospital-level racial disparities in acute myocardial infarction treatment and outcomes. Med Care 2005;43:320-9.
Al-Khatib SM, Lucas FL, Jollis JG, Malenka DJ, Wennberg DE. The relation between patients’ outcomes and the volume of cardioverter-defibrillator implantation procedures performed by physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;46:1536-40.
Lucas FL, DeLorenzo MA, Siewers AE, Wennberg DE. Temporal trends in the utilization of diagnostic testing and treatment for cardiovascular disease in the United States, 1993-2001. Circulation 2006;113:374-9.
Lucas FL, Stukel TA, Morris AM, Siewers AE, Birkmeyer JD. Race and surgical mortality in the United States. Annals of Surgery 2006;243:281-6.
Barry MJ, DeLorenzo MA, Walker-Corkery ES, Lucas FL, Wennberg DE. The rising prevalence of androgen deprivation among older American men since the advent of prostate-specific antigen testing: a population-based cohort study. BJU International 2006;98:973-8.
Wilson CT, Fisher ES, Welch HG, Siewers AE, Lucas FL. US trends in CABG hospital volume: the effect of adding cardiac surgery programs. Health Affairs 2007;26:162-68.
Clark DE, Lucas FL, Ryan LM. Predicting hospital mortality, length of stay, and transfer to long-term care for injured patients. J Trauma 2007;62:592-600.
Jha AK, Staiger DO, Lucas FL, Chandra A. Do race-specific models explain disparities in treatments after acute myocardial infarction? Am Heart J 2007;153:785-91.
Lucas FL, Siewers AE, DeLorenzo MA, Wennberg DE. Differences in cardiac stress testing by sex and race among Medicare beneficiaries. Am Heart J 2007;154:502-9.
Clark DE, Ryan LM, Lucas FL. A multi-state piecewise exponential model of hospital outcomes after injury. J Applied Statistics 2007;34:1225-39.
Goodney PP, Lucas FL, Likosky DS, Malenka DJ, FIsher ES. Changes in the use of carotid revascularization among the Medicare population. Arch Surg 2008;143:170-3.
Plumer A, Duan H, Subramanaiam S, Lucas FL, Miesfeldt S, Ng A, Liaw L. Development of fragment-specific osteopontin antibidies and ELISA for quantification in himan metastatic breast cancer. BMC Cancer 2008;8:38.
Spratt DI, Kramer RS, Morton JR, Lucas FL, Longcope C. Characterization of a prospective human model for study of the reproductive hormone responses to major illness. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab (April 15, 2008) doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00472.2007.
Malenka DJ, Kaplan AV, Lucas FL, Sharpe SM, Skinner JS. Outcomes following coronary stenting in the era of bare-metal vs the era of drug-eluting stents. JAMA 2008;299:2868-76.