Christine Lary (née Duarte) is a Senior Biostatistician and Faculty Scientist I in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. She received her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics with a co-major in Statistics from North Carolina State University.

Prior to joining CORE in 2012, she served as Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Lary’s research focuses on statistical genetics, bioinformatics, clinical prediction models and data mining.

Dr. Lary collaborates extensively with clinical investigators and basic scientists in other centers within the MaineHealth Institute for Research, and maintains collaborations at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Lary also provides biostatistical consulting and research design and analytic support for investigators throughout MHIR.

• Zhang T, Lary CW, Zullo AR, Lee Y, Daiello L, Kiel DP, et al. Post-Hip Fracture Mortality in Nursing Home Residents by Obesity Status. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019;67(9):1983-5.
• Han PKJ, Lary C, Black A, Gutheil C, Mandeville H, Yahwak J, et al. Effects of Personalized Risk Information on Patients Referred for Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose CT. Med Decis Making. 2019:272989X19875966.
• Beauchemin M, Geguchadze R, Guntur AR, Nevola K, Le PT, Barlow D, et al. Exploring mechanisms of increased cardiovascular disease risk with antipsychotic medications: Risperidone alters the cardiac proteomic signature in mice. Pharmacol Res. 2019;152:104589.
• Cardona ID, Kempe EE, Lary C, Ginder JH, Jain N. Frequent versus Infrequent Bathing in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2019.
• Duarte CW, Lindner V, Francis S, Schoormans D. Visualization of cancer and cardiovascular disease co-occurrence using network methods. Journal of Clinical Oncology/Clinical Cancer Informatics. 2017.
• Duarte CW, Murray K, Lucas FL, Fairfield K, Miller H, Brooks P, et al. Improved survival outcomes in cancer patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014;23(1):117-25.
• Duarte CW, Klimentidis YC, Harris JJ, Cardel M, Fernández JR. Discovery of phenotypic networks from genotypic association studies with application to obesity. Int J Data Mining and Bioinformatics. 2015;12(2):129-43.
• Duarte CW, Black A, Murray K, Haskins A, Lucas L, Hallen S, Han P. Validation of the Patient-Reported Outcome Mortality Prediction Tool (PROMPT). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2015.