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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