Elizabeth A. Lieber, B.A.

Heart Center Statistical Programming Team Lead
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences / JJN3
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195

e-mail: liebere3@ccf.org

Brief Description:
Elizabeth began her career at the Cleveland Clinic in 1996. She is a member of the Heart Center Team which supports research projects conducted by the Cleveland Clinic’s Heart and Vascular Institute. These projects range from short, one-time analyses, to long-term prospective studies, to international, multi-center clinical trials.

Her main responsibilities include initial meetings with project investigators to discuss database options and data collection form creation, assisting in data query resolution, creating SAS data sets from the investigator's database, combining/mapping  multiple departmental databases, working closely with the statistician to program statistical tests, producing reports and/or graphical representation of the test results, and continued collaboration with the investigator and statistician for any future analyses the project may require.

Languages and Platforms:
SAS/Base, SAS/Graph, SAS/Stat, SAS/SQL, SAS/JMP, Oracle SQL*Plus, UNIX, WindowsXP

Selected Publications:
Klein AL, Jasper SE, Katz WE, Malouf JF, Pape LA, Stoddard MF, Apperson-Hansen C, Lieber EA. The use of enoxaparin compared with unfractionated heparin for short-term antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation patients undergoing transoesophageal echocardiography-guided cardioversion: Assessment of Cardioversion Using Transoesophageal Echocardiography (ACUTE) II randomized multicentre study. European Heart Journal 2006 Dec; 27(23):2858-286.

Klein AL, Grimm RA, Jasper SE, Murray RD, Apperson-Hansen C, Lieber EA, Black IW, Davidoff R, Erbel R, Halperin JL, Orsinelli DA, Porter TR, Stoddard MF. Efficacy of transesophageal echocardiography-guided cardioversion of patients with atrial fibrillation at 6 months: a randomized controlled trial. American Heart Journal 2006 Feb; 151(2):380-389.

Allan L. Klein, MD, Richard A. Grimm, DO, Susan E. Jasper, BSN, R. Daniel Murray, PhD, Carolyn Apperson-Hansen, MStat, Elizabeth A. Lieber, BA, Ian W. Black, MD, Ravin Davidoff, MB, BCH, Raimund Erbel, MD, Jonathan L. Halperin, MD, David A. Orsinelli, MD, Thomas R. Porter, MD, Marcus F. Stoddard, MD, and the ACUTE Steering and Publications Committee for the ACUTE Investigators:  Electrophysiology Efficacy of transesophageal echocardiography–guided cardioversion of patients with atrial fibrillation at 6 months: A randomized controlled trial.  American Heart Journal Vol. 151 #2.

Jasper SE, Lieber EA, Murray RD, Apperson-Hansen C, Black IW, Grimm RA, Pape LA, Klein AL for the ACUTE Investigators.  Impact of cardioversion strategy on functional capacity in patients with atrial fbirillation:  The Assessment of Cardioversion Using Transesophageal Echocardiography (ACUTE) Study.  American Heart Journal 2005; 149:309-15.

Klein AL,  Jasper SE, Apperson-Hansen C, Lieber EA, Katz WE, Malouf JF, Stoddard MF. Safety and Efficacy of Enoxaparin Strategy Compared with Unfractionated Heparin Strategy for Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation Using Transesophageal Echocardiograph:  Preliminary Results from the Assessment of Cardioversion Using Transesophageal Echocardiography (ACUTE) II Study.  Circulation 2005; 112(17)II-378[1863].

Klein AL, Murray RD, Grimm RA, Li J, Apperson-Hansen C, Jasper SE, Goodman-Bizon AS, Lieber EA, Black, IW. Bleeding Complications in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Cardioversion Randomized to Transesophageal Echocardiography Guided and Conventional Anticoagulation Therapies. American Journal of Cardiology. 2003, 92:161-165.

Tejan-sie SA, Murray RD, Black IW, Jasper SE, Apperson-Hansen C, Li J, Lieber EA, Grimm RA, Klein AL. Spontaneous Conversion of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Schedules for Electrical Cardioversion:  an ACUTE Trial Ancillary Study. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2003, 42:1638-43.

R Daniel Murray, S Ahmed Tejan-Sie, Susan E Jasper, Mina K Chung, Richard A Grimm, Carolyn Apperson-Hansen, Elizabeth A Lieber, Allan L Klein. Atrial Mechanical Function and Eight-Week Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Atrial Flutter Undergoing Electrical Cardioversion:  Results from the ACUTE Clinical Trial.  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2002; 39:376A (1163-49).

Murray RD, Goodman AS, Lieber EA, Jasper SV, Grimm RA, Garcia M, Miller DM, Klein AL. National use of the transesophageal guided approach to cardioversion for patients in atrial fibrillation.  American Journal of Cardiology 2000; 85:239-44.

Last update: February, 2009