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.
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Congratulations to Daniel Schwartz, 3rd year doctoral student in Biostatistics, who was selected by the Social Statistics, Government Statistics, and Survey Research Methods sections of the American Statistical Association to receive a Student Paper Award at the 2020 Joint Statistical meetings in Philadelphia. The title of his paper is “Estimation of the Site-Average Treatment Effect in Multisite Randomized Trials with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects.” This paper is a joint effort with Stephen W.
