Peg Duthie
Personal account of professional biostatistics cheerleader. Exploring how things work. Standard disclaimers apply.
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- Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Yan Yan will defend "From Risk Genes to Functional Connectivity: Multi-Dimensional Integrative Frameworks to Unravel Genetic Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease" on Monday, May 19. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #alzheimers #neuroimaging #genetics #omics
- Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Siwei Zhang will defend her dissertation, "Network Analysis and Visualization of Disease Multimorbidity Using Electronic Health Records and Genetic Biobank Data," on Monday, May 12. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... @ukbiobank.bsky.social #BioVU #genetics #ehr
- Congratulations to Kaidi Kang, PhD; Lisa Levoir, MS; and Max Rohde, PhD, on their graduations this week! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
- Dr. McGowan earned her doctorate in biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu in 2018 👏
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- Interested in spatial transcriptomics? Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting a virtual seminar by Dr. Xiang Zhou @umichsph.bsky.social on Wed 30 April at 1:30 pm CT, sharing recently developed computation methods for statistical analysis.
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- Joint research letter on mature minor doctrine @jama.com Network Open co-authored by senior biostatistician Elizabeth McNeer (MS biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu) & professor @wddupont.bsky.social w/colleagues @emoryrollins.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #vaccination #consent #teenhealth
- On the 2025 ASA Fellows list: Jennifer Van Mullekom @virginiatech.bsky.social, who with Vanderbilt's Mario Davidson has delivering seminars on DEPICT, a six-phase ethical reasoning process tailored to statistics and data science.
- It's a thrill to recognize names in the latest ASA Fellows list. One of the 2025 honorees is Stephanie Hicks (@stephaniehicks.bsky.social), author of SUPER WOMEN: GROWING UP TO BE STATISTICIANS AND DATA SCIENTISTS, available at www.stephaniehicks.com/superwomen/, and a speaker in Nashville in 2023.
- Also co-authored by Vanderbilt Biostatistics' Yu Wang and Qi Liu w/statistical genetic analyst Bryan Helm & colleagues @universityofga.bsky.social @mdanderson.bsky.social @dukeuni.bsky.social and @vanderbilt.edu, in @dev-journal.bsky.social #diabetes journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
- In the May 2025 issue of diabetes (published @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social), paper co-authored by staff scientist Yu Wang and professor Qi Liu with Vanderbilt and @mayoclinic.org colleagues. #metabolomics diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...
- New this month in OTO Open: paper co-authored by Vanderbilt Biostatistics research assistant professor Liping Du (PhD chemical engineering @vanderbilt.edu) & senior biostatistician Xiaoke Feng with colleagues in otolargyngology and medicine. aao-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- New study in asthma this month @ajhgnews.bsky.social co-authored by Vanderbilt Biostatistics associate professor Ran Tao with colleagues @uncpublichealth.bsky.social and more. Tao is co-corresponding author of this paper. www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...
- Published today: an editorial in JAMA Pediatrics (impact factor 24.7 - the highest-ranking pediatrics journal in the world) on error control by John VanBuren @utah.edu and Benjamin French @vugradschool.bsky.social (biostatistics prof and statistical editor @jama.com) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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- #ThrowbackThursday Mark Giganti (MS @uwbiostat.bsky.social; PhD biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu), shown here at his dissertation defense in 2018, is a research scientist at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research @hsph.harvard.edu. hsph.harvard.edu/profile/mark...
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- #NRC2025 The 2025 New Researchers Conference, sponsored by Institute of Mathematical Statistics and hosted by Vanderbilt Biostatistics, welcomes applications from early-career researchers (PhDs earned 2018-2025). Space is limited; apply by May 15 to be considered for an invite. nrc2025.github.io
- Wharton professor Bingxin Zhao (PhD biostatistics @uncpublichealth.bsky.social) is the 2025 winner of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics' Tweedie New Researcher Award, which will underwrite the invited lecture he will deliver at #NRC2025. imstat.org/2025/04/02/i... #VUbiostat
- My colleagues are very much looking forward to @jsm2334.bsky.social's visit this month! Dr. Morris leads biostatistics @pennmedicine.bsky.social www.vumc.org/biostatistic...
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- Dr. Bill Dupont (@wddupont.bsky.social) has been teaching statistical analysis to Vanderbilt Master of Public Health students for 28 years. Here's the latest Biostatistics II cohort at the conclusion of this year's course.
- #ThrowbackThursday 2019 student party, including several now-PhDs who will receive their hoods on May 9, 2025! #VU2025
- Congratulations to Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor Ben French (PhD @uwbiostat.bsky.social) and lead biostatistician Hank Domenico (MS applied statistics Purdue) on their team winning PCORI funding for controlling high blood pressure. news.vumc.org/2025/04/08/v... #cardiovascular #hypertension
- Wenpin Hou, assistant prof of biostatistics @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, is visiting Vanderbilt Biostatistics today and tomorrow. Her interests include genomics data, LLMs & foundation models. A recent paper in Nature was on using ChatGPT to annotate sc data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- #ThrowbackThursday Mario Davidson, associate professor of biostatistics (third from left), is honored at the 2022 Academy for Excellence in Education banquet as the winner of the Chazen Award for Innovation in Medical Education. www.vumc.org/aet/academy-...
- New paper in Ocular Immunology & Inflammation @tandfresearch.bsky.social co-authored by senior biostatisticians Xiaoke Sarah Feng & Xiangyu Ji (MS biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu) & professor Qingxia Cindy Chen (PhD biostatistics @uncpublichealth.bsky.social). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- It's been eons since I posted updates about an event in real time, but the annual Vanderbilt Biostatistics Faculty Lightning Talks always gets me excited about the research opportunities for the students. (1/n)
- Nandita Mitra @pennmedicine.bsky.social and Andrew Spieker ( @spiekerstats.bsky.social) @vumedicine.bsky.social are running for the Society of Causal Inference board. See candidate statements and vote by April 18 at sci-info.org/2025-electio... #CausalInference
- VUMC News feature about ResearchMatch's Expert Advice Tool, described in a Journal of Clinical and Translational Science with authors from VICTR, @vumcdbmi.bsky.social and @vumedicine.bsky.social, with biostatistics professor Paul Harris as senior author. news.vumc.org/2025/02/13/h...
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- Vanderbilt Biostatistics associate professor Andrew Spieker (@spiekerstats.bsky.social) is running for American Statistics Association Biometrics Chair. As faculty affairs and communications lead for his department, I can attest that he is wonderful to work with and for - please vote for him!
- New this month in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery: paper on granulomatosis with polyangiitis co-authored by Vanderbilt Biostatistics members using single-cell RNA sequencing aao-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- New this month in Pediatrics: paper on neonatal opioid withdrawal co-authored by Vanderbilt senior biostatistician Elizabeth McNeer (MS biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu) with colleagues @vumcdbmi.bsky.social publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a... #RiskManagement #analgesics
- New this month in Journal of Pathology: colorectal cancer paper co-authored by researchers @vanderbilt.edu in biostatistics (including professor Qi Liu) and various biology/immunology teams, plus @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social & JHU medicine pathsocjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Vanderbilt Biostatistics is in New Orleans, at #ENAR2025! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
- Mullan ( @ashleymullan.bsky.social) is now a PhD student in biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu.
- Congratulations to Kaidi Kang (@kaidikang.bsky.social; soon PhD 2025 @vanderbilt.edu) on winning the 2025 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... He is pictured here (left) with Tianyi Sun (PhD 2024) and Shengxin Tu (PhD 2024 and a past Pathbreaking Discovery winner)
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- #ThrowbackThursday #ENAR Laurie Samuels (PhD 2017; now research associate prof @vanderbilt.edu), Allison Hainline (PhD 2018; now principal biostatistician @glaxosmithkline.bsky.social), Ofer Harel (now dean @uconn.bsky.social) & @lucystats.bsky.social (PhD 2018) @enar-ibs.bsky.social 2023.
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- Today (Wednesday 3.19) Vanderbilt Biostatistics welcomes Dr. Wensheng Guo (DBEI @pennmedicine.bsky.social) virtually. He will present "Time-to-event analysis with unknown time origins via longitudinal biomarker registration" at 1:30 CT. www.vumc.org/biostatistic... #DataModeling
