Congratulations to Will Parker on the successful defense of his dissertation "Transplant center practices and the survival benefit of organ transplantation". The PhD will be awarded to Will in summer quarter.
Congratulations to Xuan Hui on the successful defense of her dissertation “Cancer Analysis Without border: Risk, Classification, and Prevention of Arsenic-induced Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer”. Xuan will be awarded the PhD in summer quarter.
Congratulations to Dayana Delgado on successfully defending her dissertation “Characterizing Gene-Environment Relationships in Diverse Populations”. Dayana will graduate spring quarter.
Congratulations to Qianheng Ma on successfully defending her dissertation “Extensions to Statistical Methods for Analyzing Intensive Multilevel Longitudinal Data Collected by Mobile and Wearable Devices”. Qianheng's advisor is Donald Hedeker, PhD. She will graduate in spring quarter.
We are pleased to announce that Qianheng Ma, 5th year doctoral student, was selected by the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), to receive the 2021 SMEP Dissertation Research Grant.
Robert Nocon successfully defended his dissertation “Understanding the Effects of Medicaid Managed Care”. Robert accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Kaiser Medical School in California. His advisor was Tamara Konetzka, PhD.
Eloesa McSorley successfully defended her dissertation “Evaluating Longitudinal Outcomes of Cognition by Environment, Genes, and Sleep in Aging Individuals” and has accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Eloesa's advisor was Diane Lauderdale, PhD.
Doctoral Student Lizeth Tamayo publishes a paper entitled “Research Participants' Attitudes Towards Receiving Information on Genetic Susceptibility to Arsenic Toxicity in Rural Bangladesh” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32069464/
Kevin Gleason successfully defended his dissertation "Methods for integrative multi-omics association analysis using summary statistics". Kevin's advisor was Lin Chen, PhD. Kevin has accepted a position at AbbVie as Manager of Statistics in the Virology Therapeutic Focus Area.
