Bio
Dr. Fields is Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical Research at Saint George’s University in the Office of Research. He is the consulting biostatistician for the university, and teaches courses in research methods, research ethics, and biostatistics. He is also the Director of the dual-degree MD-MSc in Biomedical Research, MD-PhD in Biomedical Research and the MD-MSc Bioethics programs in the School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Fields has authored or co-authored over 500 research and consulting studies.
Previously, he was Professor of Statistics at Brigham Young University, and before that he was on the faculty at United States Naval Postgraduate School where he was the Director of the International Health Resources Management Program working with senior government leaders around the world from Albania to Zimbabwe.
He completed his doctoral studies in Management Science with specialization in statistics at The Pennsylvania State University after receiving a Master of Business Administration degree and a Master of Engineering degree from Brigham Young University.
Research & Interests
- Research Methodology: Quantitative and Qualitative
- Design of Experiments
- Biostatistics
- Bioethics
- Textual Analysis
Affiliations
- Professor: Biostatistics, Biomedical Research, and Bioethics, St. Georges University, Grenada
- Member: Association of Clinical Research Professionals
Journal Articles
- Francis McGill, Paul Fields, et al. (2024), “Investigating Under-reported Human Papillomavirus Genotypes in Grenadian Women through Self-sampling for Cervical Cancer Screening,” Pan American Journal of Public Health, Vol 48.
- Daryl Ramai, Paul Fields, et al. (Sept 2018), "Individual and Geospatial Characteristics Associated with Use and Non-use of the Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) for Colorectal Cancer Screening in an Urban Minority Population," Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
- Andrew Ofosu, Paul Fields, et al. (June 2018), ''Slicing versus Looping-Efficacy and Safety of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (EDS) versus Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) in Patients with Non-Pedunculated Polyps Larger than 20 mm," Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
- Nadia Solomon, Paul Fields, et al (Nov 2017), "Cystic echinococcosis in Turkana, Kenya: 30 years of Imagining in an Endemic Region," Acta Tropical
- Nicole Taurisano, Paul Fields, et al. (Oct 2017), "Streptococcus Phocaea in Marine Mammals of Northeastern Pacific and Arctic Canada a Retrospective Analysis of 85 Postmortem Investigations," Journal of Wildlife Diseases
- Calum Macpherson, Paul Fields, et al. (Aug 2016), "Clinical and Serological Insights from the Asian Lineage Chikungunya Outbreak in Grenada, 2014: An Observational Study," American Journal of Infectious Disease and Hygiene
- Tara Paterson, Paul Fields, et al. (2014), “Canine Generalized Demodicosis Treated with Carrying Doses of a 2.5% Moxidectin + 10% Imidacloprid Spot-on and Oral Ivermectin: Parasiticidal Effects and Long-term Treatment Outcomes,” Veterinary Parasitology
- Paul Fields, Alan Melby, Geoffrey Koby (2014), “What is Quality? A Management Discipline and the Translation Industry Get Acquainted,” Traducció i qualitat, Attila Görög and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón (Ed.), Revista Tradumatica: Tecnologia de la traduccio, 12:404-412.
- Bruce Schaalje and Paul Fields (2012), “Open-Set Nearest Shrunken Centroid Classification in Genomics”, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 41(4):638-652.
- Bruce Schaalje, Paul Fields, et al. (2011), “Extended Nearest Shrunken Centroid Classification: A New Method for Open-set Authorship Attribution of Texts of Varying Sizes”, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 26(1):71-88.
Selected Projects
- Development of multivariate techniques for classification analysis of large data sets of quantitative and qualitative data
- Development of virtual reality representations of quantitative and qualitative data
- Development of artificial intelligence applications in quantitative and quality data analysis