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D. Scott Obrosky, MS

E-mail: obrosky@earthlink.net
Phone: 412-939-2911

• Positions
  • Music Director, Forest Avenue Presbyterian Church
  • Organist, St. Thomas Lutheran (Missouri Synod)
• Memberships
  • American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
  • American Guild of Organists (AGO) (Pittsburgh Chapter)
  • Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM)
  • Church and Synagogue Library Association (CSLA)

  • Hymn Society in the United States and Canada

  • National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NAPM)

  • Organ Historical Society (OHS)
  • Presbyterian Association of Musicians
• Online Subscriptions
  • Building Church Leaders
  • Building Small Groups
  • Christianity Today Library
  • Preaching Today
• Current Interests
  • Database indexing of music
  • Hymns and the lectionary
  • Hymn festival design, see e.g.
    • July 22, 2007: Mary Magdalene/The Women in Christ's Life
    • February 11, 2007: The Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6:17-49)
    • July 30, 2006: We All Are One in Mission (Ephesians)
    • June 5, 2005: Amazing Grace (Romans)
    • February 16, 2003 (Healing)
  • Movies and the lectionary
  • Church libraries and classification techniques
• Other Current Musical and Church Interests and Pursuits
  • Educational
    • Jazz Music Theory
    • Enrolled in the Scofield Bible Correspondence Course
  • Classical
    • Exploring non-church compositions by composers better-known for church work (e.g., Stanford, Parry)
    • Other recent focus: Rachmaninov [Try Bychkov video of The Bells, Symphonic Dances, Symphony #2]
    • Favorite musical work by far: Mahler's 6th Symphony and have: Abbado (Berlin PO, plus the Lucerne video*), Bernstein (NY and Vienna, plus the Vienna video), Boulez, Chailly, Gergiev, Jansons, Karajan,  Mackerras, and Tennstedt. [*a must-see]
    • Anything by the Strauss family [Try the Carlos Kleiber 1989 New Year's Concert DVD, but Abbado, Harnoncourt, Jansons, Karajan, Maazel,  Mehta, Muti, Ozawa, Pretre versions from 1987 to the present all good as well]
    • Favorite conductor: Claudio Abbado (especially Abbado's Mahler)
    • Favorite recording label: Naxos (extremely broad repertoire, great price)
  • Contemporary Christian
    • Sara Groves (Try Add to the Beauty, Tell Me What You Know)
    • The late Rich Mullins (Try Here in America w/Bonus DVD)
  • Contemporary Christian-inspired
    • Over the Rhine (Try Changes Come (Live), Ohio, The Trumpet Child)
  • Popular
    • Sara McLachlan (Try Mirrorball DVD, Afterglow CD/DVD combo [combo may be out of print])
  • Broadway musicals and film scores, especially by
    • George and Ira Gershwin (Try Maureen McGovern's live concert of songs, snap up an out of print CD soon)
    • Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
    • John Williams

  My other life as a medical researcher, statistician, and systems analyst...

• Affiliations
  • Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (2004-)
  • Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (1992-)
• Publications
• Presentation at 2008 VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) meeting in Baltimore, February 13-15:
  • Lead author and presenter:
    • Oral presentation: Obrosky DS, Burkitt KH, Zickmund SL. A Data Security Framework for Research Study Databases Using Metadata. (Abstract)
  • Co-author:
    • Oral presentation: Burkitt KH, Obrosky DS, Sinkowitz-Cochran RL, Cuerdon T, Miller LJ, Mor MK, Jain R, Moreland ME, Muder RR, Fine MJ. A National VA Initiative to Decrease Nosocomial MRSA Infection: A Pre-Post Survey of Employee Knowledge, Attitudes, and Prevention Practices. (Abstract)
    • Poster: Zickmund SL, Obrosky DS. Methodological Issues in Using Mixed Methods Data: The Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Data at the Analytical Level. (Abstract)
• Current Research Interests and Projects
  • Agile software development processes
  • Change management
  • Clinical trials project and data management
  • Community-acquired pneumonia processes of care (Key article)
  • Communities of practice
  • Data warehouse applications in medical research
  • Disparities in health services
  • Libraries and classification techniques
  • Long-range planning and infrastructure development
  • Medical cost analysis
  • Metadata and automated application and database generation (Key article)
  • Microsoft SharePoint for documentation and collaboration
  • Object models
  • Program implementation/process evaluation
  • Project portfolio management
  • Quality improvement initiatives
  • Risk in patients with pulmonary embolism
  • Skill inventories
  • Telemedicine and diabetes management
• Education
  • MS Statistics, 1987, Carnegie Mellon University
  • BS Managerial Economics and Statistics, 1986, Carnegie Mellon University
  • BS Applied Mathematics (Operations Research) and Economics, 1985, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Also doctoral-level coursework in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Services Administration, and Clinical Research at the University of Pittsburgh 1991-1996, and periodic auditing in these areas thereafter
• Memberships
  • American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
  • International Biometric Society (IBS)
  • Project Management Institute (PMI)

  • Society for Clinical Trials (SCT)

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