Biostatistics Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

 

Nandita Mitra, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics, Vice Chair of Education and Co-Director of the Center for Causal Inference, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
A Causal Framework for Evaluating Drivers of Policy Effect Heterogeneity Using Difference-in-Differences
Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 18, 2024
Location: C217-CPHB

Mehrdad Moharrami, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa
Pending
Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 10, 2025
Location: C217-CPHB

Sandra Safo, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota
Pending
Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 24, 2025
Location: C217-CPHB

Devin Koestler, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center; Co-Director of the Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource, Site-Director for Kansas-INBRE Bioinformatics, and Director of the Quantitative ‘Omics Core of the Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine
Pending
Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 7, 2025
Location: S106-CPHB

Ronghui (Lily) Xu, PhD
Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, Department of Mathematics and Halicioglu Data Science Institute; Faculty, UCSD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology PhD Program, University of California, San Diego, CA
Pending
Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 21, 2025
Location: C217-CPHB

 

Past Seminars

 

Ciprian Crainiceanu, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Biostatistical Methods for Wearable Devices with Applications to NHANES and UK Biobank

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 4, 2024
Location: C217-CPHB

Xihong Lin, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Statistics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Coordinating Director, Program in Quantitative Genomics, Harvard Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Build an End-to-end Scalable Data Science Ecosystem by Integrating Statistics, AI, and Genomics and Heath

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 9, 2024
Location: N120-CPHB

Preceptorship Reports (Holzwarth, Rysavy, Coleman and Lu)
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 29, 2024
Location: C217-CPHB

Preceptorship Reports (Mahoney, Kpozehouen, Jiang and Johnson)
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 22, 2024
Location: C217-CPHB

Valerie Durkalski-Mauldin, PhD
Distinguished University Professor; Director, Data Coordination Unit, Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina
Non-Inferiority Trials: Past, Present and Future of this Unique Clinical Trial Design

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 8, 2024
Reception: 4:30 pm Monday, April 8, 2024
Location: C217-CPHB

Shweta Bansal, PhD
Professor, Department of Biology, Georgetown University
Unraveling Host Behavioral Heterogeneity for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Control

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 18, 2024
Location: C217-CPHB

Katherine McLaughlin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University
Targeted Random Door-to-Door Sampling Design for COVID-19 Informed by Community Wastewater

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 12, 2024
Location: C217-CPHB

Hyunseung Kang, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Trials Under General Interference

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 5, 2024
Location: C217-CPHB

Preceptorship Reports (Amy Wu, Jake Alston and Keeley Powers)
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, December 4, 2023
Location: S030-CPHB

Nathan Wikle, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
Bayesian Causal Inference with Uncertain Physical Process Interference

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 27, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Jing Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics
Time-Since-Infection Models for Modeling Infectious Diseases

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 6, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Youjin Lee, PhD
Manning Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University
Causal Inference, Spillover Effects, and Policy Effect Evaluation

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 23, 2023
Location: C217 CPHB

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, PhD
Professor, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine; Director, Center for Viral Evolution; Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Statistical and Computational Methods for Modern Large-Scale Comparative Genomics

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 9, 2023
Location: C217 CPHB

Jeremy M.G. Taylor, PhD
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Professor of Biostatistics, Pharmacia Research Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Associate Director for Biostatistics, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan
Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 25, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Preceptorship Reports (Ross, Petrachaianan, Gaire)
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

David Benkeser, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Exposure-Induced Confounding of Missingness in Cause of Failure with Applications in Estimating Strain-Specific Efficacy of Vaccines

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, May 1, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Preceptorship Reports (Erickson, McCabe)
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Preceptorship Reports (Peterson, Steinberg, Marshall)
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 24, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Bo Li, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Statistics Methods for Climate Change and Sustainability

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 10, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Thaddeus Tarpey, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Director, PhD Graduate Program in Biostatistics, NYU Langone Health
Recent Advances in Precision Medicine and Optimizing Individualized Treatment Rules (ITRs)

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 3, 2023
Location: S025AB-CPHB

Yeonhee Park, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Clinical Trial Designs for Precision Medicine

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 27, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Erik Boonstra, Jared White and Stephanie Lewis
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 20, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Daniel F. Heitjan, PhD
Professor of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Professor of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Real-Time Prediction in Clinical Trials: A Statistical History of REMATCH

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 20, 2023
Location: C217-CPHB

Saonli Basu, PhD
Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Efficient SNP-based Heritability Estimation using Gaussian Predictive Process in Large-scale Cohort Studies

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 7, 2022
Location: C217-CPHB

Yeongjin Gwon, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Recent Development in Bayesian Network Meta-Regression for Aggregate Ordinal Outcomes

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 31, 2022
Location: C217-CPHB and https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/99782089237?pwd=NzVqdk9CaDVRNUN5Z1N6empVUXhUZz09

Qi Long, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Robust Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Analysis of Complex EHR Data

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 24, 2022
Location: C217-CPHB

Jenna Wiens, PhD
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab, College of Engineering, University of Michigan
Realizing the Potential of AI in Clinical Care - Understanding and Overcoming Barriers

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 17, 2022
Location: C217-CPHB

Wei Zhang, PhD
Corporate Vice President, Head of Medicine of Greater China, Boehringer Ingelheim, Shanghai, China
Turning Patient Focused Innovations into life-Changing Treatments

Talk: 8:00 am Monday, September 26, 2022
Location: ZOOM: HTTPS://UIOWA.ZOOM.US/J/92259023554?PWD=WVHOV1LORU50MHJLTWJ4DKW1CZAYUT09

Tyler H. McCormick, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Statistics & Sociology, University of Washington
Identifying the Latent Space Geometry of Network Models through Analysis of Curvature

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 19, 2022
Location: C217-CPHB (zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/92290214355?pwd=SHRYYzhaQ3NlcTRQOGhHOHVwNktYZz09 )

Leianne Pallagao, Devin Spolsdoff, Jacob Seedorff and Stephanie Jansson
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, May 2, 2022
Location: Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/92343917636?pwd=anBvczBtZGUwTENtbE9IeGxpdzZ2Zz09

Kailey Mulligan, Reyna Hernandez and Ris Kallem
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Thursday, April 28, 2022
Location: Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/94487730893?pwd=UXU3VXRUQ29FNVZhek5kaldPRVNEdz09

Allison Schuette and Ling Zhang
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 25, 2022
Location: Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91599056537?pwd=dTF5WXgzMVJ4Um8xK3F1OURKYjg4Zz09

Kai Wang, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Two Sample Two Stage Least Squares Mendelian Randomization Using Summary Statistics from Heterogeneous Samples

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 18, 2022
Location: ZOOM: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95421920230?pwd=WGhrbWI5MU5LaGQvaE5wNE5iZHF0UT09

Kendra Plourde, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health
Sample Size Considerations for Stepped Wedge Designs with Subclusters

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 7, 2022
Location: zoom: HTTPS://UIOWA.ZOOM.US/J/93405474087?PWD=B2PTOFLTZMF5MXEZYZJRUVLKAKDGZZ09

Wodan Ling, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Statistical Analysis of Large-Scale Microbiome-Profiling Studies: Batch Effect and Robust Testing

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, January 31, 2022
Location: zoom

Caitlin E. Ward, PhD
CANSSI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada
Sound the Alarm: Modeling Behavioral Changes in Response to Epidemic Intensity

Talk: 3:30 pm Thursday, January 27, 2022
Location: zoom

Emily K. Roberts
PhD Candidate, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Surrogacy Validation with Longitudinal Outcomes for a Gene Therapy

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, January 24, 2022
Location: zoom

Uche Okoro, DrPH
Biostatistician, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Use of Telemedicine in Rural Emergency Departments as an Intervention for Sepsis Management: A Multicenter, Comparative Effectiveness Study

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 25, 2021
Location: Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/96975481622?pwd=QXJ4UXV1UTUrNEt2ZThmVHlxbGNxdz09

Bijaya Adhikari, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa
Exploiting and Optimizing Mobility to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 11, 2021
Location: Zoom: HTTPS://UIOWA.ZOOM.US/J/91810533759?PWD=AUFLZ3BUUMLDDUXTRGLLBVE5RFI4ZZ09

Lan Luo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa
Real-Time Regression Analysis with Streaming Health Datasets

Talk: 3:00 pm Monday, October 4, 2021
Location: Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/92193050246?pwd=VHNuOWxqN2V6SjFnL3I0RUdBY3QyQT09

Jiangang “Jason” Liao, PhD
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Chief, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics; Penn State Cancer Institute
Variance Reduction in the Inverse Probability Weighted Estimators for the Average Treatment Effect using the Propensity Score

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 13, 2021
Location: C217-CPHB / virtual

Nathan Cunicelli, Annika Helverson, Eldon Sorensen, and Ryan Kurth
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, May 3, 2021
Location: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/99003167202?pwd=R2JQZWpvN095N1ZINHNuSjl2cFZjUT09

Grant D. Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Computational Strategies for fully Bayesian State-Space Models of Infectious Diseases

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 26, 2021
Location: HTTPS://UIOWA.ZOOM.US/J/96647037936?PWD=VXQ1SUS2NUJVBNLCQW0XB2DTV2LSQT09

Erliang Zeng, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Iowa Institute for Oral Health Research & Department of Preventive & Community Dentistry, The Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3), College of Public Health Department of Biostatistics, College of Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa
Big Biological Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: Perspectives and Computational Methods

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 5, 2021
Location: zoom

Zhiguo Li, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University
A New Robust and Powerful Weighted Logrank Test

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 22, 2021
Location: zoom

Benjamin E. Deonovic, PhD
Research Scientist, Corteva Agriscience
Extensions and Approximations to Latent Variable Models in Psychometrics and Educational Measurement

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 8, 2021
Location: Zoom

Patrick Breheny, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
False Discovery Rates for Penalized Regression Models

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 22, 2021
Location: zoom

Daniel K. Sewell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Model-Based Edge Clustering: Discovering the Contexts in which We Connect

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 8, 2021
Location: Zoom

Michelle Smith, Linder Wendt and Guanlan Xu
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Location: zoom

Tabitha Peter and Collin Nolte
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, December 7, 2020
Location: Zoom

Montse Fuentes, PhD
Executive Vice President and Provost, Professor of Statistics, Actuarial Science and Biostatistics, University of Iowa
Spatial Statistical Modelling of Neuroimaging Data

Talk: 11:00 am Thursday, February 20, 2020
Reception: 12:00 pm Thursday, February 20, 2020
Location: C217 CPHB

Milan Stehlik, PhD
Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Iowa (Department of Applied Statistics & Linz Institute of Technology, Johannes Kepler Institute of Statistics, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile)
On Cancer Risk Assessment

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 17, 2020
Location: C217 CPHB

Leslie Ain McClure, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
Developing Nationwide Exposures to Assess Geographic Differences in Diabetes Incidence: Tales from the Diabetes LEAD Network

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 3, 2020
Location: C217 CPHB

Matthew Davis, Anna Gudjonsdottir, Bradley Loeffler and Journey Penney
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, December 9, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Carissa Comnick, Hanh Pham, Chandler Pendleton
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Location: S030 CPHB

Brian J. Smith, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Biostatistics Core Director, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Iowa
Introduction to the MachineShop R Package for Statistical and Predictive Modeling

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 4, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Mary Kathryn (Kate) Cowles, PhD
Professor, Departments of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Biostatistics, University of Iowa
Bayesian Eigenvector Selection to Mitigate Residual Autocorrelation in Generalized Linear Models

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 14, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Eva A. Enns, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Follow the Sex: The Influence of Network Structure on the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Partner Management Strategies for STI Control

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 23, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Stephen L. Hillis, PhD
Research Professor of Radiology-Perceptual Research, Departments of Radiology and Biostatistics, University of Iowa
Methodology for Analysis of Multi-Reader Diagnostic Imaging Data

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 9, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Barry D. Nussbaum, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County; 2017 President, American Statistical Association; former Chief Statistician, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
I Never Met a Datum I Didn’t Like

Talk: 10:30 am Monday, July 15, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Ying Zhang, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics. College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Semiparametric Analysis of Longitudinal Data Anchored by Interval-Censored Events

Talk: 3:15 am Thursday, June 6, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Melissa Jay, Elliot Burghardt and Evan Walser-Kuntz
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 1:30 pm Friday, May 3, 2019
Location: S030 CPHB

Eva Petkova, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health
Generated Effect Modifiers in Precision Medicine

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 29, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Uche Nwoke and Nina Kim
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 12:30 pm Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Annie (Peiyong) Qu, PhD
Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Individualized Multilayer Tensor Learning with an Application in Imaging Analysis

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 22, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Yuko Y. Palesch, PhD
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina
Trials and Jubilations of Clinical Trials Networks

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 15, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Joyee Ghosh, PhD
Associate Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa
Some Advances in Bayesian Regression Models

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 8, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Michael P. Jones, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa College of Public Health
Linear Regression with Left-Censored Covariates and Outcome

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 25, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Yuguo Chen, PhD
Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Community Detection in Multi-Layer Networks

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 11, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Michael Seedorff, PhD
Quantiative Analyst, Google
Statistics and Big Data at Google

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 25, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Stephanie A. Kliethermes, PhD
Research Director, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine; Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin
Understanding the Impact of Youth Early Sport Specialization: Issues in Study Design and Appropriate Outcome Measures

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, January 28, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Mei-Yin C. Polley, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Director of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Patient Registry Core, Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence
Power Estimation on Biomarker Studies where Events are Already Observed

Talk: 1:00 pm Thursday, January 10, 2019
Location: C217 CPHB

Michelle Weitz and Michael Bishop
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Rob Deardon, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary
Parameterization via Emulation: Spatial Models of Infectious Disease Transmission

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, December 3, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Emine O. Bayman, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesia and Biostatistics, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and College of Public Health
Acute to Chronic Pain after Thoracic Surgery

Talk: 10:00 am Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Evan Mayo-Wilson, DPhil, MPA
Assistant Scientist, Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Increasing Trust in Clinical Trials

Talk: 10:00 am Monday, November 12, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Qian Shi, PhD
Consultant/Cancer Center Statistics, Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Associate Professor of Biostatistics/Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Associate Director for Biostatistics/Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
Leveraging the Data of Yesterday for Tomorrow

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 29, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Jun (Vivien) Yin, PhD
Associate Consultant/Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics/Department of Health Sciences Research, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics/Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Dose-Finding Designs Incorporating Toxicity from Multiple Treatment Cycles and Continuous Efficacy Outcome

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 29, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Mitchell A. Thomann, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Analytics–Statistical Innovation Center, Eli Lilly and Company
Innovative Dose-Finding for Drug Development

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 22, 2018
Location: N110 CPHB

Adrian E. Raftery, PhD
Professor, Departments of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
Bayesian Population Projections with Migration Uncertainty

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 8, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Shuangge Ma, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University
Pan-Disease Clustering Analysis of the Trend of Period Prevalence

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 17, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Miguel Hernan, MD, DrPH
Kolokotrones Professor, Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
How Do We Learn What Works? A Two-Step Algorithm for Causal Inference from Observational Data

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 10, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Juned Siddique, DrPH
Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Measurement Error Correction and Sensitivity Analysis in Longitudinal Dietary Intervention Studies using an External Validation Study

Talk: 10:00 am Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Location: S030 CPHB

R. Dennis Cook, PhD
Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
An Introduction to Envelopes

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 23, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Aixin Tan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
Subgroup Analysis in Regression using Mixture of Finite Mixture Models

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, April 9, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Zack W. Almquist, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Modeling the Social Support Networks of the Homeless

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 26, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Dale Zimmerman, PhD
Professor of Statistics, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
The 12-Seed over 5-Seed Upset and other Perceived Anomalies of March Madness: Are They Real, and What’s Responsible for Them?”

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, March 5, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Jae-Kwang Kim, PhD
Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
Data Integration for Big Data Analysis in Finite Population Inference

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 26, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Patrick Ten Eyck, PhD
Director, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Core, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa College of Public Health
An Alternate Approach to Pseudo-Likelihood Model Selection in the Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling Framework

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 19, 2018
Location: C217 CPHB

Hyunkeun (Ryan) Cho, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Various Statistical Models for Longitudinal Data with Application to a Randomized Controlled Trial

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, February 5, 2018
Location: S030-CPHB

Sean DeVries and Nick Seedorff
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Javier Flores, Marie Ozanne and Caitlin Ward
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, December 4, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Jacob J. Oleson, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biostatistics; Director of the Center for Public Health Statistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Hierarchical Bayesian Models for the Spread of Infectious Diseases

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 13, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Naveen Narisetty, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Faculty Affiliate, Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bayesian Approaches for Quantile Regression Under Censoring

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 6, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Christopher S. Coffey, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics, Director of Clinical Trials Statistical Data Management Center, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Statistical Aspects of the Childhood & Adolescent Migraine Prevention (CHAMP) Study

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 30, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Caglar Koylu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa
Analysis of Big Longitudinal Patient Mobility Data for Evaluating Efficiency of a Health Care System

Talk: 4:00 pm Monday, October 9, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Aaron C. Miller, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science; Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa
Using Mobile Device Sensors for Influenza Forecasting and Surveillance

Talk: 3:30 am Monday, September 11, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Barry D. Nussbaum, PhD
President, American Statistical Association
It’s Not What We Said, It’s Not What They Heard, It’s What They Say They Heard

Talk: 10:00 am Thursday, June 15, 2017
Location: N120-CPHB

Anna Reisetter, Anna Smith and Ziqian Chen
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 am Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Elizabeth Bair and Cody Hansen
Graduate Students
Preceptorship Reports

Talk: 3:30 am Monday, May 1, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Kai Wang, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Statistical Mediation Analysis via Likelihood

Talk: 3:30 am Monday, April 24, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Deborah V. Dawson, PhD
Morris Bernstein Professor of Dentistry; Director, Division of Biostatistics and Research Design, College of Dentistry, Dows Institute for Dental Research, University of Iowa
The Genetic Origins of Biometry

Talk: 3:30 am Monday, April 17, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

M. Kathryn Cowles, PhD, and Juan Cervantes, PhD Candidate
Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Iowa
Accounting for Spatial Correlation in Bayesian Linear and Generalized Linear Models: What, Where, When, Why?

Talk: 3:30 am Monday, April 3, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Byron J. Gajewski, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource, University of Kansas Cancer Center
Multidisciplinary Research for Reducing Early Preterm Birth: Bayesian Models for Adaptive Design and Accrual Prediction

Talk: 3:30 am Monday, March 27, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Christopher S. Coffey, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Clinical Trials Statistical and Data Management Center, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Increasing the Practicality of Innovative Trial Design

Talk: 3:30 am Monday, March 6, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Yuan Huang, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate/Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University
Promoting Similarity of Sparsity Structures in Integrative Analysis

Talk: 10:30 am Friday, January 20, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Kaleab Z. Abebe, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Biostatistics, and Clinical and Translational Science Center for Research on Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Carving Out a Niche in Clinical Trials as a Collaborating (Bio)statistician

Talk: 10:30 am Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Hyunkeun Ryan Cho, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Western Michigan University
Efficient Quantile Marginal Regression for Longitudinal Data with Dropouts

Talk: 10:00 am Friday, January 13, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Nicole Bohme Carnegie, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
EstimatinCausal Effects in the Presence of Network-Mediated Interference in Cluster-Randomized Trials of Infectious Disease Prevention

Talk: 10:00 am Monday, January 9, 2017
Location: S030 CPHB

Thomas Murray, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Robust Treatment Comparison Based on Utilities of Semi-Competing Risks in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Talk: 10:00 am Thursday, December 15, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB

Jaime Lynn Speiser
Biostatistics PhD Candidate, Medical University of South Carolina
Decision Tree and Random Forest Methodology for Clustered and Longitudinal Binary Outcomes

Talk: 10:00 am Monday, December 12, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB

Kwang-Youn A Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
A Biostatistician's Career in the Medical School

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 14, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB

Li-Xuan Qin, PhD
Associate Member/Co-Director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, Soft Tissue Sarcoma Specialized Program of Research Excellence, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
On the Use of Careful Study Design for Molecular Biomarker Discovery and Molecular Classification

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, November 7, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB

Daniel Sewell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa
Clustering Dynamic and Evolving Data

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, October 24, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB

Andrew A. Neath, PhD
William and Margaret Going Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Examples of How a P-Value Interpretation Depends on the Underlying Statistical Philosophy

Talk: 3:30 pm Friday, September 30, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB

Sharon L. Lohr, PhD
Vice President and Associate Director, Westat, Inc.
The Essential Survey Statistician

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 26, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB

Diqiong ‘Joan’ Xie, PhD
Mathematical Statistician
Working at FDA as a Statistician

Talk: 3:30 pm Monday, September 12, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB

Tommy Wright, PhD
Research Mathematical Statistician, Center for Statistical Research and Methodology, U.S. Bureau of the Census
The Equivalence of Neyman Optimum Allocation for Sampling and Equal Proportions for Apportioning the U. S. House of Representatives

Talk: 11:00 am Friday, June 17, 2016
Location: S030 CPHB