DATE OF BIRTH
19 November 1955
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Science (Macquarie University) - 1981
Strands: Biology, Statistics, Computing
Diploma of Education, Secondary (Sydney Institute of Education) - 1984
Master of Applied Statistics (Macquarie University) - 1992
PhD (University of Sydney – subject matter medical statistics) - 2013
MEMBERSHIPS
Member, Statistical Society of Australia (lapsed)
Member, Bone Marrow Transplant Society of Australia and New Zealand (BMTSANZ) (lapsed)
CAREER EXPERIENCE:
Administrative Officer, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1982-87
Duties:
- Information services - resolving enquiries for information on general ABS statistics and population census statistics.
- Population Census - leading a team involved in evaluating and where necessary, changing census collection district boundaries in NSW for the 1986 census. Participating in the conduct of the field phase of the population census.
- Retail Census - leading a team involved in collection and processing of forms for the 1985-86 Retail Census.
- Survey of Earnings - supervising a group involved in despatch, collection and processing of forms for the Survey of Employee Earnings and hours.
Statistician, Census Applications Pty Ltd, 1987 - 1996.
Duties:
- Training, LOTUS 1-2-3 and CASAS (Census Applications Small Area System - spreadsheet based census analysis program).
- Statistical analysis and consulting.
- Administration of surveys.
- LOTUS and database programming
Senior analyst / Statistician, Australasian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Registry (ABMTRR), St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. August 1995 – June 2021. Part-time 3 days per week.
Duties: Maintain and analyse the Australasian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Registry (ABMTRR), an Australasia-wide registry of bone marrow / peripheral blood stem cell transplants. Produce and distribute the ABMTRR Annual Data Summary. Carry out statistical analysis of particular patient groups. Participate as co-leading author or author of papers submitted to peer-reviewed journals. Prepare and present oral presentations and posters for international conferences. Participate in database design and redesign.
Manager / Director / Environmental Scientist / Statistician, Statworks Pty Ltd statistical consultancy, August 1995 – present time. Currently usually available Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
Duties:
Statistical consulting to government and industry on medical analysis projects, sample design, waste and recycling composition audits, and social science projects.
See spreadsheet: PROJECTS 2021 SW FOCUS ON WASTE.xlsx
Statistician / researcher, Multicultural Health Unit, South-Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service, NSW Health. 2006 – 2007. Part-time 2 days per week.
Duties: Assemble relevant statistics from ABS Population Census, NSW Hospitals Inpatient Data Collection and other sources to produce publications focusing on population health indicators in local government areas in South-Eastern Sydney and Illawarra regions.
Statistician / researcher, Statistics Section, NSW Department of Community Services (DOCS), January 2007 – June 2008. Part-time 2 days per week.
Duties: Assemble indicators of disadvantage for small areas in NSW from Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data sources and link these with data on notifications of possible child neglect and abuse from DOCS database. Perform correlations and multiple regression analysis to assess associations between demographic / social factors and rates of notifications. This research was written up as a research project with the title “Resilient Communities”.
Software packages used:
MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Access, SPSS, SAS, Stata, R (basic knowledge), Endnote (basic knowledge), NCSS (basic knowledge), ABS Census Table Builder, MS Teams, Zoom, Google Scholar.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Rundle, D, L Barclay, I Nivison-Smith and B Lloyd. Maternal country of origin and infant birthplace: Implications for Birth-weight. Aust NZ J Obst Gynaecol 1996; 36: 430-434.
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2. Atkinson, K, I Nivison-Smith and T Hawkins. Haemopoietic cell transplantation in Australia 1992-95: a report from the Australian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Registry. ANZ J Med 1997; 27:408-419.
3. Atkinson, K, K Fay, K Downs and I Nivison-Smith. Lenograstim administration to HLA-identical donor-recipient pairs to accelerate marrow recovery post transplant”. Bone Marrow Transplant 1997; 19: 15-21.
4. Atkinson, K, I Nivison-Smith, A Dodds, A Concannon, S Milliken and K Downs. A comparison of the pattern of interstitial pneumonitis following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation before and after the introduction of prophylactic Ganciclovir therapy in 1989. Bone Marrow Transplant 1998; 21: 691-695.
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5. Lord, RVN, JJ Ling, TB Hugh, MJ Coleman, BD Doust, I Nivison-Smith. Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis after Laparoscopic vs Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy. Archives of Surgery 1998; 133: 967-973.
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6. Trotman J, I Nivison-Smith and A Dodds. Haemorrhagic cystitis: incidence and risk factors in a transplant population using hyperhydration. Bone Marrow Transplant 1999; 23: 797-801.
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7. Snowden JA, I Nivison-Smith, JC Biggs and PM Brooks. Risk taking in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: are the risks of haemopoietic cell transplantation acceptable? Rheumatology 1999; 38: 321-324.
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8. Nivison-Smith I, KF Bradstock, J Szer, S Durrant, A Dodds, R Hermann, AP Schwarer, J Gibson, LB To and C Arthur. Allogeneic haemopoietic cell transplants in Australia, 1996 – A multi-centre retrospective comparison of the use of peripheral blood stem cells with bone marrow. Bone Marrow Transplant 2001; 28: 21-27.
9. Middleton MH, Nazarenko G, Nivison-Smith I, Smerdely P. Prevalence of malnutrition and 12-month incidence of mortality in two Sydney teaching hospitals. Int Med J 2001; 31:455-461.
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10. Nivison-Smith I, KF Bradstock, AJ Dodds, PA Hawkins and J Szer. Haemopoietic stem cell transplantation in Australia and New Zealand, 1992-2001: progress report from the Australasian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Registry. Int Med J 2005; 35: 18-27.
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11. Mark Lyons and Ian Nivison-Smith. The relationship between religion and volunteering in Australia. Australian Journal on Volunteering 2006; 11: 25 – 37.
12. Mark Lyons and Ian Nivison-Smith. Religion and Giving in Australia. Australian Journal of Social Issues 2006; 41: 419 – 436.
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13. Moore J, Nivison-Smith I, Goh K, Ma D, Bradstock K, Szer J, Durrant S, Schwarer A, Bardy P, Herrmann R, Dodds A. Equivalent survival for sibling and unrelated donor allogeneic stem cell transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2007; 13: 601-7.
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14. Nivison-Smith I, Bradstock KF, Dodds AJ, Hawkins PA, Ma DD, Moore JJ, Simpson JM, Szer J. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Australia and New Zealand, 1992-2004. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2007; 13: 905-12.
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15. Feyler S, Prince HM, Pearce R, Towlson K, Nivison-Smith I, Schey S, Gibson J, Patton N, Bradstock K, Marks DI, Cook G. The role of high-dose therapy and stem cell rescue in the management of T-cell malignant lymphomas: a BSBMT and ABMTRR study. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2007; 40: 443-50.
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16. Moore AS, Shaw PJ, Hallahan AR, Carter TL, Kilo T, Nivison-Smith I, O’Brien TA, Tapp H, Teague L, Wilson SR and Tiedemann K. Haemopoietic stem cell transplantation for children in Australia and New Zealand, 1998-2006: a report on behalf of the Australasian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Registry and the Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology Oncology Group. MJA 2009; 190: 121-125.
17. Mark Lyons and Ian Nivison-Smith. Does Foreign Funding of Civil Society Encourage Democratic or Good Corporate Governance? Some Evidence from Asia. Paper presented to ISTR Conference, Barcelona, 9-12 July 2008.
18. Worthley DL, Ruszkiewicz A, Davies R, Moore S, Nivison-Smith I, Bik To L, Browett P, Western R, Durrant S, So J, Young GP, Mullighan CG, Bardy PG, Michael MZ. Human gastrointestinal neoplasia-associated myofibroblasts can develop from bone marrow-derived cells following allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Stem Cells. 2009; 27:1463-1468.
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19. Copelan EA, Crilley PA, Szer J, Dodds AJ, Stevenson D, Phillips G, Elder P, Nivison-Smith I, Avalos BR, Penza S, Topolsky D, Sobecks R, Kalaycio M, Bolwell BJ. Late Mortality and Relapse following BuCy2 and HLA-Identical Sibling Marrow Transplantation for Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2009; 15:851-855.
20. Nivison-Smith I, Simpson JM, Dodds AJ, Ma DDF, Szer J, Bradstock KF. Relative survival of long-term hematopoietic cell transplant recipients approaches general population rates. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2009; 15:1323-1330.
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21. Pant S, Hamadani M, Dodds AJ, Szer J, Crilley PA, Stevenson D, Phillips G, Elder P, Nivison-Smith I, Avalos BR, Penza S, Topolsky D, Sobecks R, Kalaycio M, Bolwell BJ, Copelan EA. Incidence and reasons for late failure after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation following BuCy2 in acute myeloid leukaemia. Br J Haematol 2010; 148:623-626.
22. Nivison-Smith I, Dodds AJ, Dunckley H, Ma DDF, Moore JJ, Simpson JM, Szer J, Bradstock KF. Increased activity and improved outcome in unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplants for acute myeloid leukaemia in Australia, 1992-2005. Intern Med J 2011; 41:27-34.
23. Nivison-Smith I, Dodds AJ, Doocey R, Ganly P, Gibson J, Ma DDF, Simpson JM, Szer J, Bradstock KF. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for multiple myeloma using reduced intensity conditioning therapy, 1998-2006: factors associated with improved survival outcome. Leuk Lymphoma 2011;52:1727-35.
24. Nivison-Smith I, Dodds AJ, Butler J, Bradstock KF, Ma DDF, Simpson JM, Szer J. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for chronic myelofibrosis in Australia and New Zealand: older recipients receiving myeloablative conditioning at increased mortality risk. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2012; 18:302-308.
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25. Mitchell R, Nivison-Smith I, Anazodo A, Tiedemann K, Shaw P, Teague L, Fraser C, Carter T, Tapp H, Alvaro F, O'Brien T. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Outcomes in Primary Immunodeficiency: A report from the Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology Oncology Group and the Australasian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Registry. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2013; 19:338-343.
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26. Nivison-Smith I, Simpson JM, Dodds AJ, Ma DDF, Szer J, Bradstock KF. A population-based analysis of the effect of autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation in the treatment of multiple myeloma. Leuk Lymphoma 2013; 54:1671-1676.
27. Mitchell R, Nivison-Smith I, Anazodo A, Tiedemann K, Shaw P, Teague L, Fraser C, Carter T, Tapp H, Alvaro F, O’Brien T. Outcomes of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Inherited Metabolic Disorders: A report from Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology/Oncology Group (ANZCHOG) and the Australasian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Registry (ABMTRR). Paediatric Transplantation 2013;17:582-588.
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28. Gordon SJ, Nivison-Smith I, Szer J, Chapman JR. Volunteer unrelated donor experience after administration of filgrastim and apheresis for the collection of haemopoietic stem cells – the Australian perspective. Intern Med J 2013;43:1183-90.
29. Bryant A, Nivison-Smith I, Subramonia Pillai E, Kennedy G, Kalff A, Ritchie D, George B, Hertzberg M, Patil S, Spencer A, Fay K, Cannell P, Berkahn L, Doocey R, Spearing R, Moore J. Fludarabine Melphalan reduced intensity conditioning allotransplanation provides similar disease control in Lymphoid and Myeloid Malignancies-analysis of 344 patients. Bone Marrow Transplant 2014;49:17-23.
30. Bilmon IA, Ashton LJ, Le Marsney RE, Dodds AJ, O'Brien TA, Wilcox L, Nivison-Smith I, Daniels B, Vajdic CM. Second cancer risk in adults receiving autologous haematopoietic SCT for cancer: a population-based cohort study. Bone Marrow Transplant 2014; 49: 691–698.
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31. Ashton L, Le Marsney RE, Dodds AJ, Nivison-Smith I, Wilcox L, O’Brien TA, Vajdic CM. A population-based cohort study of late mortality in adult autologous HSCT recipients in Australia. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2014; 20:937-945.
32. Bilmon I, Nivison-Smith I, Hertzberg M, Ritchie D, Greenwood M, Spencer A, Kennedy G, Bryant A, Moore J. Outcomes following second allogeneic haematopoietic transplants using fludarabine-melphalan conditioning. Bone Marrow Transplant (letter) 2014;49:852-3.
33. Nelson A, Ashton L, Vajdic C, Le Marsney R, Daniels B, Nivison-Smith I, Wilcox L, Dodds A, O’Brien T. Second cancers and late mortality in Australian children treated by allogeneic HSCT for hematological malignancy. Leukemia 2015;29:441-7.
34. Kumarasinghe G, Lavee O, Parker A, Nivison-Smith I, Milliken S, Dodds A, Joseph J, Fay K, Moore JJ et al. Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease in heart and lung transplantation: defining risk and prognostic factors. J Heart and Lung Transplantation – published on-line 10 June 2015.
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35. Nivison-Smith I, Bardy P, Dodds AJ et al. A Review of hematopoietic cell transplants in Australia and New Zealand, 2005 to 2013. ? Journal, 2016.
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