Dr. Britain A. Mills, Ph.D.

Worth Treatment Center

Weatherford, Texas, United States of America

Research Expertise

Structural equation modeling
Psychometric theory
Psychopathology
Addiction
Judgment and decision making
Scale development
Generalized linear models
Python
Stata
Tableau
R
SAS
SPSS
Predictive analytics
Data vizualization

About

I have over 15 years of experience working with advanced statistics and managing databases for large-scale research studies and small businesses. My statistical experience includes an extensive published record using various forms of the generalized linear model (e.g., regression, logistic regression, etc.), psychometrics and scale development, methods for handling missing data (such as multiple imputation), and power analysis. I am proficient with Stata, Python, and Mplus, and I have experience with Tableau, R, SAS, SPSS, and various other software packages. Throughout my career, I have applied this expertise in varied data contexts, including large epidemiological national surveys, experimental data, longitudinal/repeated measure studies, clinical data, and randomized controlled trials. My history of peer-reviewed publication is a testimony to these technical qualifications and documents dozens of successful collaborations with different individuals across multiple projects and institutions.  My experiences working with researchers, clinicians, and other professionals has honed my communication skills and ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for varied audiences. I also understand how to practically apply these experiences in a business context.  In my most recent position at Worth Treatment Center, I led clinic’s neuropsychological testing program and spearheaded the automation of a data pipeline to streamline patient care.  This pipeline transformed electronic form data (e.g., for tests, intakes, & progress notes) into actionable physician decision-aides and integrated patient scheduling and communications.  At the touch of a button, clinic psychiatrists can now generate a report visualizing changes in a patient’s self-reported symptoms alongside changes in their prescribed medications, or that statistically compare a patient’s test score with clinic and national norms.  By streamlining our clinic’s data workflow, these systems decreased the time physicians spent on extraneous aspects of progress notes by 50% and led to a fourfold reduction in the time staff spent on billing and scheduling. Throughout my career, I have particularly enjoyed my experiences in two recurring contexts.  During scientific peer review, I have always relished the challenge of defending my analytic approach with principled, reasoned arguments amongst experts.  Similarly, the process of helping colleagues outside my areas of substantive expertise gain insights into their own data and research – for example, by helping them map their ideas onto quantitative modeling frameworks or visualize patterns that aren’t immediately apparent in the raw data – has always been especially satisfying.  I am interested in opportunities to provide my expertise on problems like this.

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Publications

Risk taking under the influence: A fuzzy-trace theory of emotion in adolescence
Developmental Review
2008
Explaining Contradictory Relations Between Risk Perception and Risk Taking
Psychological Science
2008
Neurobiological and memory models of risky decision making in adolescents versus young adults.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
2011
Semantic processing in “associative” false memory
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
2008
Theoretically motivated interventions for reducing sexual risk taking in adolescence: A randomized controlled experiment applying fuzzy-trace theory.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
2014
Is Qualitative Research Second Class Science? A Quantitative Longitudinal Examination of Qualitative Research in Medical Journals
PLoS ONE
2011
Do stressful events account for the link between socioeconomic status and mental health?
Journal of Public Health
2013
Emergent self-regulation skills among very young ethnic minority children: A confirmatory factor model
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
2013
Interference processes in fuzzy-trace theory: Aging, Alzheimer's disease, and development.
Inhibition in cognition.
Recollection rejection of false narrative statements
Memory
2020
Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking Among U.S.–Mexico Border and Non‐Border Mexican Americans
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2011
Decomposing Associations Between Acculturation and Drinking in Mexican Americans
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2012
Epidemiology of drinking, alcohol use disorders, and related problems in US ethnic minority groups
Handbook of Clinical Neurology
2014
The distribution of alcohol consumption and the prevention paradox in Brazil
Addiction
2011
Behavioral Self‐Regulation, Early Academic Achievement, and the Effectiveness of Urban Schools for Low‐Income Ethnic Minority Children
American Journal of Community Psychology
2018
Converging evidence supports fuzzy-trace theory's nested sets hypothesis, but not the frequency hypothesis
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2007
Employment Status, Depression, Drinking, and Alcohol Use Disorder in Puerto Rico
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2016
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Alcohol Use and Major Depressive Disorder Across Hispanic National Groups
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2016
The Role of Immigration Age on Alcohol and Drug Use Among Border and Non-Border Mexican Americans
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2014
Age at First Drink, Drinking, Binge Drinking, and DSM‐5 Alcohol Use Disorder Among Hispanic National Groups in the United States
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2014
Alcohol-related social problems among Mexican Americans living in U.S.–Mexico border and non-border areas
Addictive Behaviors
2012
The Hispanic Americans Baseline Alcohol Survey (HABLAS): Predictors of Alcohol Attitudes and Expectancies in Hispanic National Groups
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2010
Gender differences in the relation between mothering behaviors and child-behavior problems among Hispanic preschoolers.
Developmental Psychology
2016
Modeling emotional influences on human decision making under risk
Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2005.
Framing Ethnic Variations in Alcohol Outcomes from Biological Pathways to Neighborhood Context
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2014
Alcohol use among Mexican American U.S.–Mexico border residents: Differences between those who drink and who do not drink in Mexico
Addictive Behaviors
2013
Ethnic differences in mothering qualities and relations to academic achievement.
Journal of Family Psychology
2017
The Hispanic Americans Baseline Alcohol Survey (HABLAS): Is the “Prevention Paradox” Applicable to Alcohol Problems Across Hispanic National Groups?
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2011
Developmental Transactions Between Self‐Regulation and Academic Achievement Among Low‐Income African American and Latino Children
Child Development
2018
Discrepant Trends in Income, Drinking, and Alcohol Problems in an Emergent Economy: Brazil 2006 to 2012
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2015
Factors Associated with Depression Among Mexican Americans Living in U.S.–Mexico Border and Non-Border Areas
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
2015
Cross‐Border Policy Effects on Alcohol Outcomes: Drinking Without Thinking on the U.S.–Mexico Border?
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2014
Rates and predictors of DUI among U.S.–Mexico border and non-border Mexican Americans
Accident Analysis & Prevention
2013
Gender Differences in the Epidemiology of Alcohol Use and Related Harms in the United States
Alcohol Research: Current Reviews
2020
Binge Drinking and Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics Among Mexican Americans Residing on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2015
The dimensionality and measurement properties of alcohol outcome expectancies across Hispanic national groups
Addictive Behaviors
2012
An assessment of individual-level factors associated with alcohol treatment utilization among Mexican Americans
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
2014
Factor Structure of the Clinical Research Appraisal Inventory (CRAI)
Evaluation & the Health Professions
2013
Hispanic Americans Baseline Alcohol Survey (HABLAS): Effects of Container Size Adjustments on Estimates of Alcohol Consumption Across Hispanic National Groups
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
2012
Blunt Multiple Trauma (ISS 36), Femur Traction, and the Pulmonary Failure-Septic State
Annals of Surgery
1985
Disentangling Contributions of Bar Attendance, Drinking, and Other Factors to Elevated Acute Alcohol Problems on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
2015
Drinking Context and Companions as Predictors of Alcohol Use Among Border and Non-Border Mexican Americans
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
2014
Abstracts from the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making
Medical Decision Making
2005
Modeling orbitofrontal involvement in decision making on a gambling task
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2003.
Perceived Parental Sexual Norms Measure
PsycTESTS Dataset
2014
COVID-19: An Emerging Rapidly Evolving Situation
Journal of Basic and Applied Research in Biomedicine
2022

Education

Ph.D., Cognitive Development / August, 2009

Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Texas Christian University

B.S., Neuroscience / May, 2000

Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Experience

Worth Treatment Center

Director of Health Informatics and Psychometrics / 2018Present

Statistical Consultant / 20152018

Faculty Associate, University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas / 20122016

Co-Director of Tracking and Evaluation, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Clinical and Translational Alliance for Research / 20102014

Research Associate, University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas / 20092011

Graduate Research Associate, Cornell University, Department of Human Development / 20052008

Graduate Research and Teaching Associate, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Psychology / 20012005

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