Linda Hynan, Ph.D.
Professor

Dr. Hynan is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences - Division of Biostatistics. She received her MS in Applied Measurement/Statistics and PhD in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois - Urbana. She joined UT Southwestern in 1999 and is involved in various research projects and clinical trials such as Alzheimer's Disease, Acute Liver Failure, and Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She has co-authored more than 260 peer-reviewed publications and chapters in addition to abstracts and presentations at regional and national meetings.

Dr. Hynan has served on 23 PhD dissertation committees, 20 PsyD project committees, and 9 masters theses in the areas of Clinical Psychology, Statistics, Mathematics, and Gerontology. She is the course director and one of the instructors for Conceptual Biostatistics for the Clinical Investigator I as well as one of the instructors for in Biostatistics for Clinical Sciences II and Critical Readings in Biostatistics (a senior elective for MS-4 students).

In 1997, she received the Psi Chi Outstanding Psychology Professor of the Year Award (Baylor University). Dr. Hynan is a past president of the Southwestern Psychological Association and the Chapter Representative for the North Texas Chapter of the American Statistical Association. She is the statistical review editor for the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, on the editorial board for The Scientific World Journal and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and a statistical advisor for the journal Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology.

Undergraduate

Delaware State University (1979), Mathematics

Graduate School

Univ of Illinois @ Urbana-Cham (1982), Statistics

Graduate School

Univ of Illinois @ Urbana-Cham (1993), Quantitative Psychology

• Biostatistics
• Design of Clinical Trials
• Models of Judgment and Decision Making
• Multivariate Statistics/Longitudinal Data Analysis
• Psychometrics

Featured Publications

A Randomized, placebo controlled trial of creatinine in children with spinal muscular atrophy

Wong BL, Hynan LS, Iannaccone ST, AmSMART Group Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease 2007 8(3) 101-110

Aβ42 Gene Vaccination prevents Aβ42 deposition in brain of double transgenic mice

Qu B-X, Xiang Q, Li L, Johnston SA, Hynan LS, Rosenberg RN Journal of the Neurological Science 2007 260(1-2) 204-213

ABeta42 Gene Vaccination prevents ABeta42 deposition in brain of double transgenic mice

Qu B-X, Xiang Q, Li L, Johnston SA, Hynan LS, Rosenberg RN Journal of the Neurological Science 2007 260(1-2) 204-213

Acute Liver Failure in Children: The First 348 Patients in the Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Study Group

Squires Jr. RH, Shneider BL, Bucuvalas J, Alonso E, Sokol RJ, Narkewicz MR, Dhawan A, Rosenthal P, Rodriguez-Baez N, Murray KF, Horslen S, Martin MG, Lopez MJ, Soriano H, McGuire BM, Jonas MM, Yazigi N, Shepherd RW, Schwarz K, Lobritto S, Thomas DW, Lavine JE, Karpen S, Ng V, Kelly D, Simonds N, Hynan LS The Journal of Pediatrics 2006 148(5) 652-658

Differential Diagnosis between Alzheimers and Frontotemporal Disease by the Posterior Cingulate Sign

Bonte FJ, Harris TS, Roney CA, Hynan LS Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2004 45(5) 771-774

Results of a prospective study of acute liver failure at 17 tertiary care centers in the United States

Ostapowicz G, Fontana RJ, Schi?dt FV, Larson A, Davern TJ, Han SH, McCashland TM, Shakil AO, Hay JE, Hynan L, Crippin JS, Blei AT, Samuel G, Reisch J, Lee WM, ALF Study Group Annals of Internal Medicine 2002 137(12) 947-954

Prenatal Depression in Women Hospitalized for Obstetric Risk

Brandon AR, Trivedi MH, Hynan LS, Miltenberger PD, Labat DB, Rifkin JB, Stringer CA The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2008 69(4) 635-643

Development of the Texas Spanish Naming Test: A test for Spanish-speakers

Marquez de la Plata C, Vicioso B, Hynan L, Evans HM, Diaz-Arrastia R, Lacritz L, Cullum CM The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2008 22 (2) 288-304

Elevated troponin I levels in acute liver failure: Is myocardial injury an integral part of acute liver failure?

Parekh NK, Hynan LS, de Lemos J, William M. Lee WM, ALF Study Group Hepatology 2007 45(6) 1489-1495

Serum Apoptosis Markers in Acute Liver Failure: A Pilot Study

Rutherford AE, Hynan LS, Borges CB, Forcione DG, Blackard JT, Lin W, Gorman AR, Shaikh OS, Reuben A, Harrison E, Reddy KR, Lee WM, Chung RT, ALF Study Group Clinical Gasrtoenterology and Hepatology 2007 5(12) 1477-1483

• Chapter Representative
  North TX Chapter of the Am Statistical Assoc (2009)
• Past-President
  Southwestern Psychological Association (2009)
• Program Chair
  Society of Applied Multivariate Research (2009)

• American Statistical Association
• Association of Psycholgical Science (Charter Member)
• Society for Mathematical Psychology