Announcements
Announcements
Saluting our rising experts, virtually: Nandita Mitra, PhD, Chair of the Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (GGEB), presented the 2020 class as part of the recent Biomedical Graduate Studies (BGS) ceremony. Read more.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for the position of Chair of the DBEI. The DBEI is an international leader in biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics; its faculty collaborates with biomedical researchers throughout the University. Learn more about the position.
Yong Chen, PhD (pictured) and Pamela Shaw, PhD, have been named Fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the field’s largest and most prestigious professional organization in the United States. Read more.
The Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association—the world’s largest community of statisticians—has honored Hongzhe Li, PhD, with its Award for Reseach Excellence. Read more about Dr. Li.
The Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association has selected Rebecca Hubbard, PhD, as a winner of its 2020 Mid-Career Award. The award recognizes leaders in health care policy and health services research for their excellence at the frontier of statistical practice. Read more about Dr. Hubbard.
Mary Regina Boland, PhD, has been awarded the designation of Fellow of AMIA, the American Medical Informatics Association. This achievement signals that the designee is an expert in evidence-based informatics practice and is engaged with a community of lifelong learners who apply the latest advances in informatics to improve health and health care. Read more.
Jason Moore, PhD, FACMI, cohosts a new podcast, the first to focus on hot topics in biomedical informatics. The debut episode introduces the series and opens a discussion on deep phenotyping. Listen now.
Congratulations to our biostatistics students who have received honors recently from the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics and from the American Society for Human Genetics! Read more.
For his “groundbreaking research that has advanced our understanding and application of health informatics to improve the health of vulnerable populations and influence health policy,” George Demiris, PhD, has been elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine. Read more.
J. Richard Landis, PhD, has been selected as the 2019 David L. DeMets Lecturer in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Lecturer exemplifies rigorous development and application of quantitative methodological principals, married with deep engagement in an area of biomedical investigation. Read more.
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