Pamela G. Coxson
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
Scientific career
FieldsApplied mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco
Doctoral advisorAlan Schumitzky
Other academic advisorsViolet B. Haas

Pamela Gail Coxson is an American applied mathematician specialized in disease modelling. She is a specialist in the division of general and internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Center for Vulnerable Populations.

Life

Coxson was born to Ferne and Richard Coxson.[1] She completed a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Southern California.[2] Her 1979 dissertation was titled On the equivalence between open loop and closed loop control laws for linear systems.[3] Alan Schumitzky was her doctoral advisor.[1]

In 1985, while working as a fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Coxson initiated the Association for Women in Mathematics' Sonia Kovalevsky Math Day program for female high schoolers and their teachers.[4] In 1986, Coxson was a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at Ohio State University.[5] One of her mentors was Violet B. Haas, whom she met in 1983.[5]

Coxson has worked in several areas of applied mathematics including mathematics in pharmacokinetics, catalytic cracking of oil, satellite image processing, and medical imaging.[6] She is a mathematician working as a specialist in the division of general and internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Center for Vulnerable Populations (CVP). Coxson is part of the CVP cardiovascular vascular disease modelling group.[2]

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 Coxson 1979, p. 4.
  2. 1 2 UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations.
  3. ↑ Coxson 1979, p. 1.
  4. ↑ Morrow & Perl 1998, p. 213.
  5. 1 2 Case & Leggett 2016, p. 205.
  6. ↑ OECD Publishing 2015, p. 75.

Bibliography

  • Coxson, Pamela Gail (1979). On the equivalence between open loop and closed loop control laws for linear systems (Ph.D. thesis). University of Southern California. ISBN 9798204619104. OCLC 5703272.
  • Morrow, Charlene; Perl, Teri (1998). Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29131-9.
  • Case, Bettye Anne; Leggett, Anne M. (2016). Complexities: Women in Mathematics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-17109-8.
  • Applying Modeling to Improve Health and Economic Policy Decisions in the Americas The Case of Noncommunicable Diseases: The Case of Noncommunicable Diseases. OECD Publishing. 2015. ISBN 978-92-64-24360-6.
  • "Pamela Coxson, Ph.D." UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
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