Curriculum Vitae

Summary

I am studying towards a PhD in Population Health Sciences, with an emphasis in biostatistics at the University of Utah and am funded as a Research Assistant. As such, I provide statistical support for papers being published by my department. I am fluent in Portuguese and am proficient in Spanish.

Education

2023 - Present PhD Student Population Health Sciences, University of Utah

2021 - 2023 MS Statistics, Montana State University

2015 - 2016 BS Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Brigham Young University- Hawaii

2011-2014 AA General Studies, Shoreline Community College

2013 - 2014 No Degree, Mathematics, University of Washington

Employment History

2023-Present Research Assistant, University of Utah

• Providing statistical support to papers published by the Department of Population Health Sciences.

2021-2023 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Montana State University

• Course Assistant for Methods of Data Analysis II (STAT 412/512). Topics included: experimental design, multi-factor ANOVA, repeated measures, logistic regression, Poisson log-linear regression, and introductions to multivariate and time series analyses.
• Co-instructor for an introductory course in statistics (STAT 216). Topics included: Traditional and resistant estimators of location and spread, fundamentals of inference using randomization and classical methods, confidence intervals, and tests of hypotheses.

Summer 2022 Instructor, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (Seasonal)

• Developed curriculum and instructed a summer course entitled “Paradoxes and Infinities” to a group of middle school and high school students. Topics included set theory, topology, computer theory, game theory, calculus, moral paradoxes, vagueness paradoxes, self referential paradoxes, and several mathematical paradoxes proposed by Zeno, Cantor, and Russell.

Summers 2016,2017 Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (Seasonal)

• Assistant for a summer course taught to middle school students entitled “Inductive and Deductive Reasoning”. Topics included: sequences, inductive and deductive reasoning, proofs, beginning group theory, combinatorics, and an introduction to cryptology.

2015-2016 Math Tutor/Grader, Brigham Young University- Hawaii

• Substitute for calculus lectures.
• Typeset tutor qualification exams using LaTeX
• Besides math, tutored Java, C++, and Algorithms

Publications

2025 Jacobson BT, DeWit-Dibbert J, Zanca L, Sonar S, Hardy C, Throolin M, Brewster P, Andujo K, Jones K, Sago J, Smith S, Bowen L, Bimczok D. Pathogen delivery route impacts disease severity in experimental Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae infection of domestic lambs. Vet Res 56, 10 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13567-024-01439-y

2024 Jacobson BT, DeWit-Dibbert J, Selong ET, Quirk M, Throolin M, Corona C, Sonar S, Zanca L, Schwarz ER, Bimczok D. Innovative Methodology for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Determination in Mycoplasma Biofilms. Microorganisms. 2024; 12(12):2650. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12122650

Abstracts

2025 Kolomaya AE, Christensen J, Throolin M, Witt DM, Barnes GD, Cameron KA, Passman R, Noseworthy P, Cavanaugh KL, Fagerlin A, Steinberg BA, Ozanne EM. “Patient Values and Anticoagulant Decisions in Atrial Fibrillation: a Secondary Analysis of the RED-AF Shared Decision-Making Trial.” Poster presentation at the 2025 American Heart Association EPI|Lifestyle Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, LA, March 2025.

2024 Jacobson BT, Sebrell TA, Zanca L, DeWit J, Sonar S, Hardy C, Throolin M, Brewster P, Andujo K, Jones K, Jones S, Bowen L, Sago J, Smith S, Bimczok D. Pathogen delivery route impacts disease severity in Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae and Mannheimia haemolytica coinfection. Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, January 2024

2023 Jacobson BT, DeWit J, Zanca L, Adams N, Jones K, Throolin M, Hardy C, Jones S, Kaker A, Sebrell A, Jutila M, Rynda-Apple A, Bimczok D. Health effects of Mycoplasma respiratory coinfection in a domestic sheep model. NIH Institute of Translational Health Sciences Summit, May 2023

2016 Barino K, Throolin M. Probability Models for Rolling Irregular Dice in 2-Dimensions with Special Cases in 3-Dimensions. BYU-H Undergraduate Research Conference May 2016

Volunteer Experience

2017-2019 Missionary-Portugal, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Provided free tutoring in high school and college level mathematics (in portuguese).
• Trained missionaries on use of geocoding scripts when switching from paper to electronic databases
• Led weekly training meetings for a group of six missionaries
• Taught English as a second language regularly.

2016-2017 Math Club Coach, Bellingham Family Partnership

• Organized a math club for a homeschool group.
• Created activities for club members in combinatorics, probability, algebra, number theory, game theory, and topology.

Awards

2022 Math/Science Scholarships, Montana State University

2016 Math Department Scholarship, Brigham Young University- Hawaii

2015,2016 Merit Scholarships, Brigham Young University- Hawaii

2015 Recruitment Scholarship, Brigham Young University- Hawaii

2014 Dean’s List, University of Washington

2013 Vigil Honor, Order of the Arrow-Boy Scouts of America

2012 Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America

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