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Summer Frank-Pearce, Ph.D.
Biostatistics & Epidemiology

Summer Frank-Pearce, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Research

Hudson College of Public Health
801 Northeast 13th Street, Room 338
Post Office Box 26901
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73126-0901

(405) 271-8001, x31196

Summer-FrankPearce@ou.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 2016
  • M.P.H., Biostatistics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 2008
  • B.S., Zoology, University of Oklahoma, 2000

Appointments:

  • Associate Professor of Research in Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Biostatistics, Hudson College of Public Health, OUHSC, 2025–present
  • Assistant Professor of Research in Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Biostatistics, Hudson College of Public Health, OUHSC, 2017-2025

Teaching 

  • BSE 5163 Biostatistics Methods I 

Clinical/Research Interests:

  • Empowering smoking cessation in sexual and gender minoritized individuals (SGM) through engagement in SGM-serving volunteer activities
  • Multilevel/mixed model methods 
  • Longitudinal data analysis 
  • Missing data problems 
  • Smartphone based smoking cessation interventions 
  • Automated mobile contingency management for smoking cessation 
  • Improving prostate cancer screening rates, especially for African American men
  • Culturally tailored smartphone interventions for smoking cessation 
  • Missing data problems in tobacco cessation studies 
  • Analysis of binary outcomes in the presence of time varying covariates

Select Publications:

Link to Dr. Frank-Pearce's current publications

Select publications:

  1. Sedani, AE, Frank-Pearce, SG, Chen, S, Peck, JD, Campbell, JE, Chou, AF, Beebe, LA. (In press). Impact of Quitline Services on Tobacco Cessation: An Application of Modern Epidemiological Methods. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2024
  2. Kendzor, D. E ., Businelle, M. S., Frank-Pearce, S. G., Waring, J. J.C., Chen, S., Hebert, ET, Swartz, M. D., Alexander, A. C., Sifat, M. S., Boozary, L. K., Wetter, D. W.   Small financial incentives for smoking cessation among socioeconomically disadvantaged adults: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA Network Open, 7(7), e2418821. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.18821
  3. Businelle, MS, Benson, L, Hébert, ET, Neil, J, Kendzor, DE, Frank-Pearce, S, Kezbers, KM, Vidrine, D, Gaur, A. Project phoenix: Pilot randomized controlled trial of a smartphone-delivered intervention for people who are not ready to quit smoking. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2024 May 31;260:111351. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111351. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38838477; PMCID: PMC11179962
  4. Bui, TC, Hoogland, CE, Chhea, C, Sopheab, H, Ouk, V, Samreth, S, Hor, B, Vidrine, JI, Businelle, MS, Shih, YCT, Sutton, SK, Jones, SR, Shorey, Fennel,l B, Cottrell-Daniels, C, Frank-Pearce, SG, Ngor, C, *Kulkarni, S, Vidrine, DJ. Ending tobacco use through interactive tailored messaging for Cambodian people with HIV (Project EndIT): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2023 Jun 29;12:e48923. doi: 10.2196/48923. PMID: 37384390; PMCID: PMC10365624.
  5. Kendzor, DE, Businelle, MS, Vidrine, DJ, Frank-Pearce, SG, Shih, YT, Dallery, J, Alexander, AC, *Boozary, LK, Waring, JJC, Ehlke, SJ. Mobile contingency management for smoking cessation among socioeconomically disadvantaged adults: Protocol for a randomized trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2022 Mar;114:106701. DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106701. PMID: 35114409; PMCID: PMC9514803.