Training
2013 PhD, Biostatistics, McGill University
2009 MSc, Statistics, McGill University
2008 BSc, Honours Applied Mathematics, McGill University
2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2012 Visiting Research Associate, Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
2011 Visiting Student Researcher, Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
2009 MSc, Statistics, McGill University
2008 BSc, Honours Applied Mathematics, McGill University
2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2012 Visiting Research Associate, Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
2011 Visiting Student Researcher, Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Affiliations
2014- Professeure adjointe (Assistant Professor, tenure track), Faculté de pharmacie, Université de Montréal
2015- Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiololgy, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
2015- Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiololgy, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
Publications:
Luque Fernandez MA, Schomaker M, Rachet B, Schnitzer ME (2018) Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation for a Binary Treatment: A Tutorial. Statistics in Medicine, accepted January 2018.
Auger N, Arbour L, Schnitzer ME, Healy-Profitós J, Nadeau G, Fraser William D (2018) Pregnancy Outcomes of Women with Spina Bifida. Disability and Rehabilitation, accepted January 2018.
Shrier I, Platt RW, Steele RJ and Schnitzer ME (2018) Estimating causal effects of treatment in a randomized trials when some participants only partially adhere. Epidemiology, 29(1): 78-86. Link
Schnitzer ME, Cefalu M (2017) Collaborative targeted learning using regression shrinkage. Accepted in Statistics in Medicine, September 2017.
Awad C, Canneva A, Chiasson CO, Galarneau A, Schnitzer ME, Sheehan NL, Wong AYJ (2017) PHIRST Trial - Pharmacist Consults: Prioritization of HIV Patients with a Referral Screening Tool. AIDS Care: Psychology, Health & Medicine - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 14: 1-10. Link
Antaky E, Choinière M, Schnitzer ME, Martin E, Berbiche D, Perreault S, Lussier D, Lalonde L (2017) Identifying heavy healthcare users among primary care patients with chronic non-cancer pain. Canadian Journal of Pain, 1(1): 22-36. Link
Pang M, Schuster T, Filion K, Schnitzer ME, Eberg M, Platt R (2016) Effect Estimation in Point-exposure Studies with Binary Outcomes and High-dimensional Covariate Data – a Comparison of Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting. International Journal of Biostatistics, 12(2). Link
Schnitzer ME, Steele RJ, Bally M, and Shrier I (2016) A causal inference approach to network meta-analysis. Journal of Causal Inference, 4(2). Link
Auger N, Fraser, WD, Schnitzer ME, Leduc L, Healy-Profitós J, and Paradis G (2016) Recurrent preeclampsia and accelerated cardiovascular risk, Heart, 103(3): 235-243. Link
Naimi AI, Schnitzer ME, Moodie EEM, and Bodnar LM (2016) Mediation Analysis for Health Disparities Research. American Journal of Epidemiology 184(4): 315-324. Link
Schnitzer ME, Lok JJ and Gruber S (2016) Variable selection for confounder control, flexible modeling and Collaborative Targeted Minimum Loss-based Estimation in causal inference. International Journal of Biostatistics 12(1): 97-115. Files Link
Schnitzer ME, Lok JJ and Ron Bosch (2016) Double robust and efficient estimation of a prognostic model for events in the presence of dependent censoring. Biostatistics 17(1): 165-177. Files Link
(Short invited article) Shrier I, Schnitzer ME, and Steele RJ (2015) When Intention to Treat is not the question : Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the causal e ect of treatment. Cochrane DB Syst Rev Suppl 1 : 27-28. Link
Schnitzer ME, van der Laan MJ, Moodie EEM, and Platt RW (2014) Effect of Breastfeeding on Gastrointestinal Infection in Infants: A Targeted Maximum Likelihood Approach for Clustered Longitudinal Data. Annals of Applied Statistics 8(2): 703-725. Link
Schnitzer ME, Moodie EEM, van der Laan MJ, Platt RW, and Klein MB (2014) Modeling the impact of hepatitis C viral clearance on end-stage liver disease in an HIV co-infected cohort with Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Biometrics 70(1): 144–152. Link
Schnitzer ME, Moodie EEM, and Platt RW (2013) Targeted maximum likelihood for marginal time-dependent treatment effects under density misspecification. Biostatistics 14(1): 1-14. Link
Schnitzer ME, Hudson M, Baron M, Steele RJ, and the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group (2011) Disability in systemic sclerosis -- a longitudinal observational study. Journal of Rheumatology 38: 685-692. Link
Walker JG, Steele RJ, Schnitzer ME, Taillefer S, Baron M, the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group, and Hudson M (2010) The association between disease activity and duration in systemic sclerosis. Journal of Rheumatology. 37: 2299-2306. Link
Auger N, Arbour L, Schnitzer ME, Healy-Profitós J, Nadeau G, Fraser William D (2018) Pregnancy Outcomes of Women with Spina Bifida. Disability and Rehabilitation, accepted January 2018.
Shrier I, Platt RW, Steele RJ and Schnitzer ME (2018) Estimating causal effects of treatment in a randomized trials when some participants only partially adhere. Epidemiology, 29(1): 78-86. Link
Schnitzer ME, Cefalu M (2017) Collaborative targeted learning using regression shrinkage. Accepted in Statistics in Medicine, September 2017.
Awad C, Canneva A, Chiasson CO, Galarneau A, Schnitzer ME, Sheehan NL, Wong AYJ (2017) PHIRST Trial - Pharmacist Consults: Prioritization of HIV Patients with a Referral Screening Tool. AIDS Care: Psychology, Health & Medicine - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 14: 1-10. Link
Antaky E, Choinière M, Schnitzer ME, Martin E, Berbiche D, Perreault S, Lussier D, Lalonde L (2017) Identifying heavy healthcare users among primary care patients with chronic non-cancer pain. Canadian Journal of Pain, 1(1): 22-36. Link
Pang M, Schuster T, Filion K, Schnitzer ME, Eberg M, Platt R (2016) Effect Estimation in Point-exposure Studies with Binary Outcomes and High-dimensional Covariate Data – a Comparison of Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting. International Journal of Biostatistics, 12(2). Link
Schnitzer ME, Steele RJ, Bally M, and Shrier I (2016) A causal inference approach to network meta-analysis. Journal of Causal Inference, 4(2). Link
Auger N, Fraser, WD, Schnitzer ME, Leduc L, Healy-Profitós J, and Paradis G (2016) Recurrent preeclampsia and accelerated cardiovascular risk, Heart, 103(3): 235-243. Link
Naimi AI, Schnitzer ME, Moodie EEM, and Bodnar LM (2016) Mediation Analysis for Health Disparities Research. American Journal of Epidemiology 184(4): 315-324. Link
Schnitzer ME, Lok JJ and Gruber S (2016) Variable selection for confounder control, flexible modeling and Collaborative Targeted Minimum Loss-based Estimation in causal inference. International Journal of Biostatistics 12(1): 97-115. Files Link
Schnitzer ME, Lok JJ and Ron Bosch (2016) Double robust and efficient estimation of a prognostic model for events in the presence of dependent censoring. Biostatistics 17(1): 165-177. Files Link
(Short invited article) Shrier I, Schnitzer ME, and Steele RJ (2015) When Intention to Treat is not the question : Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the causal e ect of treatment. Cochrane DB Syst Rev Suppl 1 : 27-28. Link
Schnitzer ME, van der Laan MJ, Moodie EEM, and Platt RW (2014) Effect of Breastfeeding on Gastrointestinal Infection in Infants: A Targeted Maximum Likelihood Approach for Clustered Longitudinal Data. Annals of Applied Statistics 8(2): 703-725. Link
Schnitzer ME, Moodie EEM, van der Laan MJ, Platt RW, and Klein MB (2014) Modeling the impact of hepatitis C viral clearance on end-stage liver disease in an HIV co-infected cohort with Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Biometrics 70(1): 144–152. Link
Schnitzer ME, Moodie EEM, and Platt RW (2013) Targeted maximum likelihood for marginal time-dependent treatment effects under density misspecification. Biostatistics 14(1): 1-14. Link
Schnitzer ME, Hudson M, Baron M, Steele RJ, and the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group (2011) Disability in systemic sclerosis -- a longitudinal observational study. Journal of Rheumatology 38: 685-692. Link
Walker JG, Steele RJ, Schnitzer ME, Taillefer S, Baron M, the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group, and Hudson M (2010) The association between disease activity and duration in systemic sclerosis. Journal of Rheumatology. 37: 2299-2306. Link
