The Heller School Faculty and Staff

Senior Programmer

lpanas@brandeis.edu Heller 270 781-736-3943

Expertise

Statistical programming and analysis of large state and national databases

Scholarship

  • Panas, L., Caspi, Y., Fournier, E., and McCarty, D. (2003) Performance measures for outpatient substance abuse services: Group versus individual counseling, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 25 (2003), 271-278
  • Soldz, S., Panas, L., and Rodriguez-Howard, M. (2002). The Reliability of the Massachusetts Substance Abuse Management Information System, The Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58(9), 1057-1069.
  • Caspi, Y., Turner, W. M., Panas, L., McCarty, D., and Gastfriend, D. (2001). The Severity Index: An Indicator of Alcohol and Drug Dependence Using Administrative Data, Alcohol Treatment Quarterly, 19(4), 49-64.
  • McCarty, D., Capsi, Y., Panas, L., Krakow, M. & Mulligan, D. (2000) Detoxification Centers: Who’s in the Revolving Door? Journal of Behavior Health Services & Research, 27 (3), 245-256.
  • Panas, L. (1992) “Test Items for Rasmussen’s An Introduction to Statistics with Data Analysis,” Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.
Lee Panas

Profile

Lee Panas has been a Senior Programmer/Analyst at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy since 2004. He has over 10 years of experience in SAS programming and statistical analysis of large databases. Specifically, he maintained, analyzed and documented the MDPH Bureau of Substance Abuse Services Substance Abuse Management Information System (SAMIS) for 9 years. In addition, he has worked extensively with state databases for prescription drugs, hospitalization and mortality and several national databases including the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), the Medicare claims database, and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Client Information System.

Prior to his career as a programmer/analyst, he taught courses in computer programming and statistics at University of Massachusetts Lowell for 7 years. He has continued working as a statistics instructor at the same school during his time as a programmer/analyst. Throughout his professional career, he has conducted training and seminars for colleagues in SAS Programming and statistics. Additionally, he has worked as a consultant for a publishing company writing manuals to accompany a statistics textbook.

Degrees

University of Connecticut at Storrs
M.S.

University of Lowell
M.S.

University of Lowell
B.S.