Ben Brewer, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist for the Center of Biostatistics and Health Data Science. He recently graduated from the Kansas University Medical Center, where his research focused on ROC-based methods for cutoff estimation under tree and umbrella ordering settings. He also has over seven years of experience serving as a biostatistician in collaborative research environments across a wide variety of subject settings, including sleep health, nutrition, exercise science, autism spectrum disorders, maternal health, pediatric cardiology, and more. He has never come across a research question that he found to be dull or trivial and is humbled to have the opportunity to learn about the scientific disciplines he supports statistically. He is fluent in R, SAS, and MATLAB and competent with SPSS, Stata, SQL, and JMP. Since 2018, he has mentored the statistical development of nearly a dozen Ph.D. students, authored or co-authored forty research publications, and both written and been supported by several research grants.
Alvarado AV, Burns KF, Brewer B, Robson SM. (2025) The Physical Home Food Environment in Relation to Children’s Diet Quality and Cardiometabolic Health. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2024.09.006
Laxton P, Healy S, Brewer B, McCormick B, Orsega-Smith E, Smith L, Daly J, Patterson F. (2025) Multi-level factors associated with the sedentary behavior of adults with intellectual disabilities in community living arrangements. Disability and Health Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2025.101836
Davis R, Poor A, Swanik CB, Hall M, Brewer B, Higginson J. (2025) Adductor Strain in a US Major League Soccer Team: A Prospective Cohort Study. Biomechanics, 5(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomechanics5010017
Slocum C, Langdon JL, Munkasy BA, Brewer B, Oldham JR, Graham V, Buckley TA. (2025) Multifaceted concussion assessment battery: sensitivity at the expense of specificity? The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 53(3):220-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/00913847.2024.2442901
Bantis LE, Brewer B, Nakas CT, Reiser B. (2024) Statistical Inference for Box-Cox based Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves. Statistics in Medicine, 43(30):6099-6122. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10252
D’Agata M, Hoopes EK, Keiser T, Patterson F, Szymanski KM, Matias AA, Brewer B, Witman MA. (2024) Device-estimated sleep metrics do not mediate the relation between race and blood pressure dipping in young black and white women. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 26 (7).
Brewer B & Bantis LE. (2023) Cutoff estimation and construction of their confidence intervals for continuous biomarkers under ternary umbrella and tree stochastic ordering settings. Statistics in Medicine, 43(3):606-623. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.9974
Hoopes EK, Witman MA, D’Agata MN, Brewer B, Edwards DG, Robson SM, Malone SK, Keiser T, Patterson F. (2023) Sleep Variability, Eating Timing Variability, and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Early Adulthood. Journal of the American Heart Association, 12(19). https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.123.029662
Brewer B, Pepper S, Ratnayake IP, Mudaranthakam DP. (2023) Rurality Impacts Mammography Screening Adherence Among Mid-life Women in the Kansas Region. Cancer Control, 30. https://doi.org/10.1177/10732748231187836
Laxton P, Healy S, Brewer B, Patterson F. (2023) Prevalence of current smoking and association with meeting 24-h movement guidelines: Results from a national convenience sample of autistic adults. Autism, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231178571
Hoopes EK, Brewer B, Robson SM, Witman MA, D’Agata MN, Malone SK, Edwards DG, Patterson F. (2023) Temporal Associations between Nightly Sleep with Daytime Eating and Activity Levels in Free-Living Young Adults. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsad123
Healy, S., Brewer, B., Laxton, P., Powers, B., Daly, J., McGuire, J., Patterson, F. (2022) Brief Report: Perceived Barriers to Physical Activity Among a National Sample of Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52(10):4583-4591.
Covington, LB, Satti, A., Brewer, B., Blair, R., Duffy, I., Laurenceau, JP, Mayberry, S., Cordova, A., Hoopes, EK, Patterson, F. (2022) Concordance in caregiver and child sleep health metrics among families experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage: A pilot study. Journal of Applied Research on Children, 13(1).
Healy, S., Brewer, B., Hoopes, EK, Paller, A., Mayberry, S., McGuire, J., Daly, J., Laxton, P., Patterson, F. (2022) Identifying the most proximal multi-level factors associated with meeting each of the 24-hour movement behavior recommendations in a sample of autistic adults. Disability and Health Journal. https://10.1016/j.dhjo.2022.101367
Garcia, J., Brewer, B., Healy, S., Patterson, F. (2022). The Temporal Relationships Between 24-h Movement Behaviors Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Advances in Neurodevelopment Disorders, 6(2):1-9. https://10.1007/s41252-022-00238-w
Ashare, RL, Brewer, B., Patterson, F., Hubbard, A., Longacre, ML. (2022). Psychological and behavioral moderators of physical health among caregivers and non-caregivers. Geriatric Nursing, 43(7):77-84. https://10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.11.004
Healy, S., Brewer, B., Laxton, P., Powers, B., Daly, J., McGuire, J., Patterson, F. (2021). Brief Report Perceived Barriers to Physical Activity Among a National Sample of Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05319-8
Hoopes, EK, Patterson, F., Berube, FR, D’Agata, M., Brewer, B., Malone, SK, Farquhar, WB, Witman, MA. (2021). Actigraphy-derived rest – activity rhythms are associated with nocturnal blood pressure in young women. Journal of Hypertension. https://doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000002966
Healy, S., Brewer, B, Palmeire, K., Daly, J., McGuire, J., Patterson, F. (2021). 24-h movement behaviors among autistic adults: Differences by sex, age, and level of independence. Disability and Health Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101108
Patterson, F., Brewer, B., Blair, R., Grandner, M., Hoopes, EK, Ma, G., Criner, G., Satti, A. (2021). An exploration of clinical, behavioral, and community factors associated with sleep duration and efficiency among middle-aged Black/African American smokers. Sleep Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2021.01.006
Hoopes, EK., Witman, MA, D’Agata, M., Berube, FR, Brewer, B., Malone, SK, Grandner, M., Patterson, F. (2021). Rest-activity rhythms in emerging adults: implications for cardiometabolic health. Chronobiology International, 38(364):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/07420528.2020.1868490
Healy, S., Brewer, B., Garcia, J., Daly, J., Patterson, F. (2020). Sweat, Sit, Sleep: A Compositional Analysis of 24-hr Movement Behaviors and Body Mass Index among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2434
Longacre, ML, Brewer, B., Hubbard, A., Ashare, RL, Patterson, F. (2020). Caregiver Health by Context: Moderating Effects of Mental Health and Health Behaviors. Western Journal of Nursing Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945920964936
Rawal, R., Fanelli Kuczmarski, MT, Cotugna, N., Brewer, B., Beydoun, MA, Hughes, V., Zonderman, A., Evans, MK. (2020). Aspects of Dietary Diversity Changes across Adulthood in Racially Diverse Adults. Nutrients, 12(8):2455. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12082455
Mennella, JA, Reiter, AR, Brewer, B., Pohlig, RT, Stallings, VA, Trabulsi, JC. (2020). Early Weight Gain Forecasts Accelerated Eruption of Deciduous Teeth and Later Overweight Status during the First Year. Journal of Pediatrics, 225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.06.019
Ching Chai, S., Li, I., Pacanowski, CR, Brewer, B. (2020). Effects of Four-Week Supplementation of Ashwagandha and B-Vitamins on Mood and Stress Relief. Current Developments in Nutrition, 4(S2):1195. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa057_011
Gangemi, AJ, Satti, A., Zantah, M., Blair, R., Brewer, B., Ma, G., Grandner, M., Davey, A., Criner, G., Patterson, F. (2020). Sleep Duration and Efficiency Associated With Better Functional Exercise Capacity in African American Smokers at Risk for COPD. Chest. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.03.070
Patterson, F., Connick, E., Brewer, B., Grandner, M. (2019). HIV status and sleep disturbance in college students and relationship with smoking. Sleep Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2019.05.002
Fanelli Kuczmarski, MT, Brewer, B., Rawal, R., Pohlig, RT, Zonderman, A., Evans, MK. (2019). Aspects of Dietary Diversity Differ in Their Association with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in a Racially Diverse US Adult Population. Nutrients, 11(5):1034. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11051034