Assistant Scientist

Academic Degrees

• PHD
• MHS
• Msc

Departmental Affiliation

• Name:

  Epidemiology

  Affiliation Type:

  Primary

  Division:

  Statistics in Epidemiology Group

Departmental Address

Contact Information

Email:

aabraham@jhsph.edu

Phone:

410-502-9763

Fax:

410-955-7587

Link:

SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

Dr. Abraham worked as a biomedical engineer for several years before pursuing a career in epidemiology and public health.  She recieved her Masters degree in Biostatistics in 2005 and her Doctoral degree in  Epidemiology in 2008 from Johns hopkins University.  Dr. Abraham has been on the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins since 2008 and works with the Statistics in Epidemiology group to develop novel methodologic approaches with primary applications in HIV research and chronic kidney disease.

Dr. Abraham works primarily with the data coordinating centers for four large prospective cohort studies housed in the Statistics in Epidemiology group.  Her work with the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Study involves validation and development as well as investigating novel hypotheses related to the progression of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).  Some of this work has been translated to the context of HIV, where CKD and other comorbidities are of primary interest in the modern therapy era as HIV-infected individuals are living fuller lives.  Dr. Abraham has worked with the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) to elucidate the contribution of HIV-infection to kidney function impairment and the interaction of HIV and CKD in increasing the risk of other sequelae such as anemia. 

Dr. Abraham also has an interest in HIV-related cancers such as cervical cancer and HIV drug resistance.  Data from the North American AIDS Cohorts Collaboration on Research and Design(NA-ACCORD) is being used to look at questions pertaining to these health problems.

Honors and Awards

August 2009, NIH LRP Awardee, June 2008 Inductee, Delta Omega Society June 2005 Awardee, Thomas and Louis I Dublin Award October 2004 National Institutes of Health Training Grant September 1995 Rehabilitation Engineering Teaching and Training Grant

Selected Publications

Click for list of all Abraham A citations in PubMed

* Name change from Alison Elaine Gump (Gump A) to Alison Gump Abraham

Click for list of all Gump A citations in PubMed

Furth SL, Abraham AG, Jerry-Fluker J, Schwartz GJ, Benfield M, Kaskel F, Wong C, Mak RH, Moxey-Mims M, Warady BA. Metabolic Abnormalities, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, and GFR Decline in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2011 Sep;6(9):2132-40. PMID: 21841064

Abraham AG, Lau B, Deeks S, Moore RD, Zhang J, Eron J, Harrigan R, Gill MJ, Kitahata M, Klein M, Napravnik S, Rachalis A, Rodriguez B, Rourke S, Benson C, Bosch R, Collier A, Gebo K, Goedert J, Hogg R, Horberg M, Jacobson L, Justice A, Kirk G, Martin J, McKaig R, Silverberg M, Sterling T, Thorne J, Willig J and Gange SJ for the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of IeDEA. Missing Data on the Estimation of the Prevalence of Accumulated HIV Drug Resistance in Antiretroviral-Treated Patients in North America. Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Sep 15;174(6):727-735. PMID: 21813792

Gingo MR, Lucht L, Daly KR, Djawe K, Palella FJ, Abraham AG, Bream JH, Witt MD, Kingsley LA, Norris KA, Walzer PD, Morris A.  Serologic responses to Pneumocystis Proteins in HIV Patients With and Without Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011 Jul 1;57(3):190-196. PMID:  21372726

Longenberger A, Lim JY, Brown TT, Abraham A, Palella FJ, Effros RB, Orchard T, Brooks MM, and Kingsley LA. Low physical function as a risk factor for incident diabetes mellitus and insulin resistance. Future Virology. 2011 Apr; l6(4): 439-449.

Abraham AG, Muñoz A, Furth SL, Warady BA, Schwartz GJ. Extracellular Volume and Glomerular Filtration Rate in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2011 Apr;6(4):741-7. PMID: 21441126

Abraham AG, Gange SJ, Rawleigh SB, Glass SR, Springer G, Samet JM.  Retrospective mortality study among employees occupationally exposed to toner . J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Oct;52(10):1035-41. PMID: 20881618

Estrella MM, Parekh RS, Abraham A, Astor BC, Szczech LA, Anastos K, Dehovitz JA, Merenstein DJ, Pearce CL, Tien PC, Cohen MH, Gange SJ. The impact of kidney function at HAART initiation on mortality in HIV-infected women. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2010 Oct 1;55(2):217-220. PMID: 20581688

Abraham AG, C. Cox, S. West. The Differential Effect of Ultraviolet Light Exposure on Cataract Rate across Regions of the Lens. IOVS 2010 Aug; 51(8):3919-3923.

Gerson AC,  Wentz A, Abraham AG, Mendley SR, Hooper SR, Butler RW, Gipson DS, Lande MB, Shinnar S, Moxey-Mims MM, Warady BA, Furth SL. Health-Related Quality of Life of Children With Mild to Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease. Pediatrics 2010 Feb;125(2):e349-57. PMID: 20083528

Schwartz GJ, Abraham AG, Furth SL, Warady BA, Muñoz A. Optimizing iohexol plasma disappearance curves to measure the glomerular filtration rate in children with chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2010 Jan;77(1):65-71. PMID: 19847157.

Abraham AG, Duncan DD, Gange SJ, West S. Computer-aided assessment of diagnostic images for epidemiological research. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2009 Nov 11;9:74. PMID: 19906311.

Abraham AG, Schwartz GJ, Furth S, Warady BA, Muñoz A. Longitudinal Formulas to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate in Children with CKD. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009 Nov;4(11):1724-30. PMID: 19808217.

Kitahata MM, Gange SJ, Abraham AG, Merriman B, Saag MS, Justice AC, Hogg RS, Deeks SG, Eron JJ, Brooks JT, Rourke SB, Gill MJ, Bosch RJ, Martin JN, Klein MB, Jacobson LP, Rodriguez B, Sterling TR, Kirk GD, Napravnik S, Rachlis AR, Calzavara LM , Horberg MA, Silverberg MJ, Gebo KA, Goedert JJ, Benson CA, Collier AC, Van Rompaey SE, Crane HM, McKaig RG, Lau B, Freeman AM, Moore RD, for the NA-ACCORD Investigators. Effect of early versus deferred antiretroviral therapy for HIV on survival. N Engl J Med 2009;360:1815-1826. PMID: 19339714.

Outwater A, Campbell J, Mgaya E, Abraham AG, Kinabo L, Kazaura M, Kub J.  Homicide death surveillance in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2005. Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot. 2008; Dec;15(4):243-52. PMID: 19051087.

Abraham AG, Congdon NG, Gower E.  The new epidemiology of cataract. Ophthalmol Clin North Am. 2006; Dec;19(4):415-25.  PMID: 17067897.

Gump A, LeGare M, Hunt D.  The application of Fitts' law to individuals with cerebral palsy. Perceptual and Motor Skills 2002; 94:883-895, 2002. PMID: 12081294.

Gump A, Haughney L, Fredberg JJ.  Relaxation of activated airway smooth muscle: relative potency of isoproterenol versus tidal stretch. Journal of Applied Physiology 2001; 90(6):2306-2310. PMID: 11356796.