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Shengxin Tu is first author on clustered data paper
Feb. 16, 2024—PhD candidate Shengxin Tu, who presented a seminar on between- and within-cluster Spearman rank correlations last week, is first author of a methods paper titled Rank intraclass correlation for clustered data that Statistics in Medicine published in 2023 (online in August and in print in October), with professor Bryan Shepherd as corresponding author. Statistics in Medicine has...
Congratulations to our December graduates
Dec. 15, 2023—We are thrilled to celebrate the graduations of Hannah Weeks and Elisa Yazdani. Weeks defended her dissertation, “Overcoming Challenges with Real World Data and Clinical Restrictions in Pharmacokinetic Analyses,” in October. Yazdani’s master’s thesis is titled “A Pipeline for High-Throughput Drug Screening,” and she is presently on the research team for Harnessing Big Data to...
Max Rohde is first author on new gene therapy research paper
Nov. 15, 2023—PhD candidate Max Rohde is first author on “Practical and Statistical Considerations for the Long Term Follow-Up of Gene Therapy Trial Participants” published recently in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. The paper outlines “some of the key considerations for designing long term follow-up protocols in the gene therapy setting” and offers “guidance for innovative operational and statistical methods...
Improving Your Odds: Optimizing Your Vanderbilt Biostatistics Application
Nov. 2, 2023—Interested in becoming a biostatistician? Join us on Thursday, November 9, at 6 p.m. Central Time for our virtual info session on applying to our graduate program. Hear directly from our directors of graduate studies and recruitment about what they look for in prospective MS and PhD students, life in Nashville, student successes, and more....
Hannah Weeks dissertation defense – October 24
Oct. 17, 2023—PhD candidate Hannah L. Weeks will defend her dissertation on Tuesday, October 24, at 10 a.m. Central Time, at 2525 West End Avenue, in the 10th floor conference room (suite 1020, room 10105). Her advisor is Matthew Shotwell. All are invited and encouraged to attend. Overcoming Challenges with Real World Data and Clinical Restrictions in...
Welcome to our 2023 first-year cohort
Aug. 31, 2023—We are delighted to welcome seven new students to our program this fall. Kaixing “Charlie” Liu is a new student in our MS program. A native of China, he majored in biological science at Tsinghua University, minoring in economics and statistics. His studies there shaped his interest in the intersection of statistics, health, and programming, and...
Congratulations to our August 2023 graduates
Aug. 15, 2023—We are thrilled to celebrate the graduations of Chiara Di Gravio, Jared Strauch, and Valerie Welty. Welty defended her dissertation, “On False Discovery Rates for Second-Generation p-Values,” in March. Di Gravio defended her dissertation, “Design and Analysis Methods for Modern Biomedical Studies with Longitudinal Outcomes,” in June. Both dissertations and Strauch’s MS thesis will become...
McGowan receives Young Investigator Award
Aug. 9, 2023—Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, a 2018 graduate of our PhD program, was honored this week at JSM2023 with the Young Investigator Award by the American Statistical Association’s Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences section. McGowan’s award-winning paper “Design Principles for Data Analysis” was published in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics online in 2022...
Lotspeich receives David P. Byar Early Career Award
Aug. 8, 2023—#JSM2023 is underway in Toronto, and one of this year’s highlights will be Vanderbilt graduate Sarah Lotspeich (PhD 2021) delivering “Optimal Multi-Wave Validation of Secondary Use Data with Outcome and Exposure Misclassification.” It has been designated the best biometrics paper by an early career investigator (definite as an individual who is currently a student or...
Jamie Joseph wins Anchor Award
Jun. 20, 2023—PhD candidate Jamie Joseph is a 2023 recipient of Vanderbilt University’s Graduate Leadership Anchor Award. Having recently completed her fourth year in the graduate program, Joseph impressed department members with her skills in connecting and inspiring other students even before her studies began (at an open house for prospective students, she organized a get-together for...