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NEWS November, 2009 The Biostatistics Mo-Team "Rotzbremse" is in full swing in its drive to support Men's Health through the Movember Foundation. The Foundation holds a moustache growing event each November that raises funds and awareness for men's health. Our guys have fielded an impressive team: Check it out at: http://us.movember.com/mospace/members/search/page/1/q/rotzbremse All who wish may donate there. Cheer on your favorites! Congratulations and thanks, guys, for your efforts! October, 2009 Congratulations to our faculty who were prominently recognized at the 2009 meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA), Ron Brookmeyer and Rafael Irizarry. Ron has been named to deliver the Lowell Reed Lecture, an address given each year at the annual APHA meeting by an individual who has contributed to the field of statistics and public health statistics through his/her contributions in research, teaching and service. His lecture was entitled "Measuring the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Challenges and Opportunities." Rafael was presented with the 2009 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, which recognizes a statistician age 40 years or younger who has made outstanding contributions to public health statistics. Ron's lecture and Rafael's award presentation both occurred in the Spiegelman and Statistics Section Awards Session. The Lowell Reed Lecture commemorates the life and career of Dr. Lowell Reed, a Hopkins giant who became Chair of our Biostatistics department in 1926, served as the Dean of the School of Public Health from 1937 to 1946, and was University President from 1953 to 1956. The Spiegelman and Statistics Section Awards Session was held on Tuesday Nov 10 at 2:30 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. Read the 2009 Annual Department letter here! Congratulations to Debra Moffitt, whose painting, “Skipjack Dawn” took First Prize honors in the Marine Painting category at the recently held Havre de Grace Plein Air Painting Competition. More information about the show can be found at http://www.hdgpleinair.com/. Debra can be seen here with her award-winning painting as well as a second entry. All paintings will be on display through October 31; a portion of all sales will go to benefit the charity Soroptimist International. September, 2009 Congratulations to Haley Hedlin and Bruce Swihart, co-recipients of this year's June B. Culley Award, which honors outstanding achievement by a Biostatistics student on their school-wide examination paper. Congratulations as well to Haley and Bruce's advisor, Brian Caffo. August, 2009 Congratulations to Brian Caffo who, together with primary author Naresh Punjabi and colleagues on the Sleep Heart Health Study, has published a highly visible article, “Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study,” in the August 18 issue of PLoS Medicine. The paper’s findings are being widely publicized in the international press. It reports an association between sleep disordered breathing and mortality, rising to an estimated two-fold increase in death hazard for those with severely disordered breathing as compared to those without disordered breathing among middle- to older-aged men. Professor Rafael Irizarry has been named on the ScienceWatch list of Most Cited Institutions from 1999–2009. According to ScienceWatch, the listing, published this month, names scholarly institutions which “attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters indexed journals” over the period of January 1, 1999-April 30, 2009. Johns Hopkins rated third; Professor Irizarry was named as one of nine particularly prolifically cited Hopkins faculty, for statistical work that has substantially improved the output of gene chip technology. The full report can be found at http://sciencewatch.com/inter/ins/09/09Top20Overall/. Congratulations to Rafael! Professor Rafael Irizarry has been named as the 2009 Presidents' Award winner by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). As COPSS documents describe, The Presidents' Award is "given annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics." It is arguably the profession's most prestigious award honoring early career contributions, offered jointly by the five major statistical societies comprising COPSS: the American Statistical Association, Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Statistical Society of Canada, and the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society. The award recognized Professor Irizarry for contributions of which we are well aware: his leadership and world-class contributions in science both biological and statistical, his teaching and mentoring, and his development and promulgation of practice-transforming software. We are enormously proud of him. I invite you to celebrate his accomplishments with him and us. Our proud congratulations to Professors Rafael Irizarry and Dan Scharfstein, who were presented as Fellows of the American Statistical Association on Tuesday evening, August 4. Professor Irizarry’s citation named his signature leadership in methods development and implementation for the analysis of gene expression and other genomic data as well as his leadership in creating and administering Bioconductor and thereby promulgating the culture of reproducible research. Professor Scharfstein’s citation named his major contributions to statistical methodology, particularly for group sequential studies, coarsened data, and causal inference as well as his excellence in advising, teaching, mentoring of graduate students and graduate program administration. The presentation was made at the ASA Awards Session at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC. July, 2009 Congratulations to students Hong Zhu and Yu-Jen Cheng, who have been recognized with Student Travel Awards for papers to be presented at the 2009 Annual meeting of the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, as well as to their advisors, Mei-Cheng Wang (Hong and Yu-Jen) and Ciprian Crainiceanu (Yu-Jen). Hong won for her paper "Analyzing Bivariate Survival Data with Interval Sampling and Application to Cancer Epidemiology" and Yu-Jen for his paper, "Marginal Causal Estimation for the Proportional Hazard Model with Prevalent Sampling." June, 2009 Shanshan Li is this year's recipient of the Glaxo SmithKline Award, sponsored by GSK to encourage interest in the field of Biostatistics and honoring outstanding achievement on the Department of Biostatistics first-year exam. May, 2009 Professor Rafael Irizarry has been named as the recipient of the 2009 Mortimer Spiegelman Award. This honor, awarded annually by the American Public Health Association, recognizes a statistician age 40 years or younger who has made outstanding contributions to public health statistics. The award committee was “enormously impressed with the quality, content, and impact of [Rafael’s] work”. We, too, are enormously impressed, and proud. Rafael has our warm congratulations! Hong Zhu has been selected as the recipient of 2009 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Applied Statistics Symposium Jian-Ping Hsu Memorial Scholarship, and a Student Paper Award, for the paper "Analyzing bivariate survival data with interval sampling and application to cancer epidemiology." The paper has also been selected for a 2009 Boyd Harshbarger Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS) Graduate Student and Junior Faculty Travel Award. Hong will present her paper in June in an Invited Session in honor of Dr. Hsu at the ICSA 2009 Applied Statistics Symposium, San Francisco, CA, as well as at the SRCOS 2009 Summer Research Conference, Jekyll Island, GA. Our enthusiastic congratulations to Hong and to her advisor, Dr. Mei-Cheng Wang. April, 2009 Professors Rafael Irizarry and Dan Scharfstein have been named to the 2009 “class” of Fellows of the American Statistical Association. Professor Irizarry’s citation named his signature leadership in methods development and implementation for the analysis of gene expression and other genomic data as well as his leadership in creating and administering Bioconductor and thereby promulgating the culture of reproducible research. Professor Scharfstein’s citation named his major contributions to statistical methodology, particularly for group sequential studies, coarsened data, and causal inference as well as his excellence in advising, teaching, mentoring of graduate students and graduate program administration. Our proud congratulations to both of these superb faculty members! Congratuations to Gary Chan who was selected as a 2009 inductee for the Alpha Chapter of Delta Omega, the Public Health Honor Society of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Marie Diener-West has been awarded the 2009 Golden Apple for excellence in teaching, large class size, by the Student Assembly Honors and Awards Committee. Only four Golden Apples are given out per year: this is Marie's sixth receipt of the award. We applaud Marie for her commitment to education and celebrate here recognition! Congratulations to Francesca Dominici on her 2009 Diversity Recognition Award from the JHU Diversity Leadership Council. These awards recognize exceptional contributions of faculty, staff and students in advancing and celebrating diversity and inclusiveness at Johns Hopkins. We applaud Francesca for her commitment to creating a gender neutral environment in academia. March, 2009 Congratulations to this year's winners of the Louis I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award: Sandrah Eckel and Maria Tellez-Plaza (Department of Epidemiology). Congratulations to Qing Li, who successfully defended her PhD thesis (Genetic Association Tests: Trio Logic Regression and Score Test) on March 12. Congratulations also to her advisor, Ingo Ruczinski. Congratulations to this year's departmental student award winners: Nick Reich (Helen Abbey Award); and Chongzhi Di (Margaret Merrell Award).
Hong Zhu
has been named the winner of the Biostatistics subset of the 2009 Delta Omega poster competition
for
her project: Understanding Progression of Ovarian Cancer in the US from SEER
Data: A Semiparametric Joint Model for Bivariate Survival Distribution with
Interval Sampling. We understand that there was large participation
this year, making for a very close competition. Our congratulations to all who
participated, and our special congratulations to Hong on her winning entry! Congratulations to Yu-Jen Cheng, who successfully defended his PhD thesis (Statistical Methods for Failure Time Data with Biased Sampling and Measurement Errors) on March 3. Congratulations also to his advisors, Mei-Cheng Wang and Ciprian Crainiceanu. February, 2009 Congratulations to Rob Scharpf, who has just been awarded funding for his K99/R00 submission entitled "Statistical methods for assessing copy number variation from SNP arrays". The K99/R00 award is a new mechanism to provide up to five years of support: one - two years of mentored support and three subsequent years of independent support. Rob's project proposes to develop novel statistical approaches to improve locus-level estimation of DNA copy number, inference of copy number variant regions, and the association of copy number variants with phenotypes. January, 2009
Professor Rafael Irizarry will deliver the January 28 seminar in the 2008-2009 Dean's Lecture Series. His title is "The Role of Statistics in the Genomic Revolution: Rescuing Signal from a Sea of Noise." The lecture is scheduled for 4-5 PM in Sheldon Hall, W1214, and a reception with follow immediately thereafter. Our congratulations ot Rafael! New NCI initiative on joint training program announced. Congratulations to Sandy Eckel and Jessie Myers, who have won ASA Health Policy and Statistics Section Student Paper Awards for work to be presented at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings! Congratulations as well to their advisors, Tom Louis (Sandy) and Francesca Dominici (Jessie). Sandy and Jessie were two of five winners in the competition.
Congratulations to Professor Rafael Irizarry and his colleagues, whose 2007 Biostatistics "Exploration, normalization, and genotype calls of high-density oligonucleotide SNP array sdata" has been named a "fast breaking paper" in Mathematics by Essential Science Indicators. The recognition identifies the paper as one of the most-cited in its discipline published during the past two years. Congratulations to Rafael Irizarry and his colleagues, including Biostatistics Ph.D student Hao Wu, who will have a pair of papers to appear in Nature Genetics. The papers are entitled "The human colon cancer methylome shows similar hypo- and hypermethylation at conserved tissue-specific CpG island shores" and "Large histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylated chromatin blocks distinguish differentiatied from embryonic stem cells." Rafael is the lead author on the first; Hao is the co-lead author on the second, which will appear on the February cover. December, 2008 We have had an accomplished end to our autumn '08! Our warm congratulations... ... to Constantine Frangakis, who has been promoted to Professor with Tenure. ... to Ciprian Crainiceanu, who has been awarded an NIH R01 grant as Principal Investigator, "Statistical Methods for Multilevel Multivariate Functional Studies." Ciprian's JHU colleagues Brian Caffo and Naresh Punjabi are collaborators, as well as David Ruppert from Cornell. The proposed research framework will lead to automatic, data based, methods for studying how medical disorders may disturb sleep and whether sleep disruption is related to health consequences. ...to Howard Chang, Jessie Myers, and Yu-Jen Cheng, who have recognized with Student Travel Awards for papers to be presented at the 2009 Annual meeting of the International Biometrics Society / Eastern North American Region, as well as to their advisors, Roger Peng (Howard), Francesca Dominici (both Howard and Jessie), and Ciprian Crainiceanu (Yu-Jen). Howard won for his paper "Bayesian Model Averaging For Clustered Data:Imputing Missing Air Pollution Data"; Jessie, for her paper "Learning from Near Misses in Medication Error Reports: A Bayesian Approach"; and Yu-Jen, for his paper, "Cox Models with Smooth Functional Effect of Covariates Measured with Error." We are delighted to announce that Dr. Karen Bandeen-Roche has been appointed as the Frank Hurley and Cathernie Dorrier Professor and Chair of the Department. Dean Klag, in his announcement, expressed that "she cares deeply about the Department and is the perfect person to lead what is one of the finest biostatistics departments in the world." Congratulations Karen! Drs. John McGready and Dan Scharfstein were named in a December 1 press release as two of six “exceptional teachers” in the School of Public Health for the first term of the 2008-09 academic year. As stated by the release, recognition of excellent teaching requires “a rating of excellent by at least 75 percent of the students in the categories of ‘Overall Course’ and ‘Overall Instructor.’” Congratulations to John and Dan! November, 2008 Congratulations to Kenny Shum, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on November 18. Congratulations to Professors Aravinda Chakravarti, Dani Fallin, Rafael Irizarry, Fernando Pineda, and Sarah Wheelan, who led in projects recently announced for funding under the University’s Discovery Initiative of its Framework for the Future Process. Drs. Irizarry and Wheelan were among key personnel for the proposal “Nucleating a Discipline: Creating Leadership in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.” Dr. Irizarry was among key personnel in a second winning proposal together with Drs. Chakravarti, Fallin, and others: “Johns Hopkins Individualized Medicine Program.” Dr. Pineda was among key personnel for the proposal “Initiative in Computational Learning.” We celebrate your achievement. October, 2008 Congratulations to Yen-Yi Ho, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on October 27. September, 2008 Congratulations to our part-time faculty member Simon Day, who has been named a joint editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A ("Statistics in Society")! Professor Rafael Irizarry is currently listed as the world's fourth most cited researcher in the general field of mathematics on the ISI Web of Knowledge. Dr. Irizarry's listing has been recognized in the current Johns Hopkins University Provost report to the University Leadership. Congratulations, Rafael! Congratulations to Giovanni Parmigiani and his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center who, together with their co-authors, have published a pair of papers in the September 4 issue of Science Express. The papers are entitled "An Integrated Genomic Analysis of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme" and "Core Signaling Pathways in Human Pancreatic Cancers Revealed by Global Genomic Analyses." The former seeks to identify genetic alterations in the most common and lethal form of brain cancer, and the latter, to advance understanding of the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer. August, 2008
Congratulations to Gary Chan and Benilton Carvalho, who successfully defended their PhD theses on August 19 and 21, respectively. Congratulations to Scott Zeger, who was awarded the Wilks Memorial Award from the American Statistical Association on August 5. This award recognizes contributions (either recent or past) to the advancement of scientific or technical knowledge, ingenious application of existing knowledge, or successful activity in the fostering of cooperative scientific efforts that have been directly involved in matters of national defense or public interest. July, 2008 Congratulations to Marco Carone, this year's recipient of the June B. Culley Award, which honors outstanding achievement by a Biostatistics student on the second-year paper! June, 2008 Congratulations
to Professor
Mei-Cheng Wang
and her colleagues on their grant, "Statistical Methods for HIV/AIDS Research,"
recently awarded by the NIAID for a four-year period. Professor Wang's
co-investigators include two other of our faculty, Drs.
Constantine
Frangakis and
Daniel Scharfstein,
and two external colleagues, Drs.
Ying
Qing Chen (Fred Hutchinson Clinical Research Center) and
Yijian
Huang (Emory). The research to be conducted will develop new
statistical models and methods to better address challenges for the
interpretation of survival, recurrent events and marker process data arising in
HIV/AIDS clinical trials and cohort studies and thus improve the accuracy and
precision of resulting findings. Congratulations to
Professor Rafael
Irizarry and his colleagues, whose 2003 Biostatistics paper "Exploration,
normalization, and summaries of high density oligonucleotide array probe level
data" has been named a "current classic" by
Essential Science Indicators.
Current Classics is a listing of papers per field having the greatest absolute
increase in cumulative citations from the previous bimonthly period to the
current period. Professor Irizarry's paper was the Current Classic in
Mathematics for the period October, 2007-December 2007. May, 2008 Congratulations
to Hopkins Biostatistics faculty and students
Roger Peng,
Howard Chang,
Aidan McDermott,
Scott Zeger
and
Francesca Dominici and their colleagues
Michelle Bell
(Yale University) and
Jon Samet (Johns Hopkins Epidemiology) for their
article in the May 14 issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association investigating the health effects of course
particulate air pollution. April, 2008
Departmental
faculty and staff receiving special recognition for
teaching from the School of Public Health are:
John McGready and
Brian Caffo (Golden
Apple Award);
Ciprian Crainiceanu (Advising,
Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award);
Brian Whitcomb (Teaching
Assistant Recognition Award); and
Patty Hubbard (Staff
Recognition Award).
March, 2008 Congratulations to this
year's departmental student award winners:
Sandy Eckel
(Helen
Abbey Award);
Marco Carone,
Bryan James, and
Bruce
Swihart (Louis
I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award);
Wenyi
Wang (Jane
and Steve Dykacz Award);
Gary Chan
and Yue
Yin (Margaret
Merrell Award). December, 2007
Gary Chan,
Chongzhi Di,
and Chi Wang
are recipients of ENAR Distinguished
Student Paper Awards. November, 2007
Simina Boca
is this year's recipient of the
Glaxo
SmithKline Award, sponsored by GSK to encourage interest in the field of
Biostatistics and honoring outstanding achievement on the Department of
Biostatistics first-year exam. October, 2007 Jointly-appointed
assistant professor
Frank Curriero's
paper "On
the use of non-Euclidean distance measures in geostatistics"
has just been chosen by the International Association for Mathematical Geology
as the best paper in their journal Mathematical Geology for 2006. Congratulations
to Professor
Giovanni Parmigiani and
PhD student
Simina Boca for their
contributions to the Science paper "The
genomic landscapes of human breast and colorectal cancers,"
by the Vogelstein team.
Professor Ron
Brookmeyer has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. It is one of the highest honors for those in the biomedical profession.
September, 2007 Assistant Professor
Roger Peng is
the winner of this year's chili cook-off. Click
here
to view a photo of all of our cook-off competitors and supporters with Roger,
who is sporting his trophy sombrero. June, 2007 In
a recent issue of Alzheimer's & Dementia,
professor
Ron Brookmeyer and colleagues estimate that
Alzheimer's disease cases will quadruple worldwide by
2050.
Read the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Press Release.
Assistant professor
Hongkai Ji has received
an award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Richard L.
Gelb Cancer Research Fund. Dr. Ji was recognized for his work on decoding
transcriptional regulatory programs in tumors dependent on hedgehog signaling.
May, 2007
Professor
Francesca Dominici is
this year's
Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer at Harvard
University's Department of Biostatistics. Previous Hopkins faculty members who
have been so honored are
Steve Goodman,
Ron Brookmeyer, and
Giovanni Parmigiani.
Associate
Professor Rafael
Irizarry is the recipient of the American Statistical Association's 2007
W.J. Youden
Award in Interlaboratory Testing. Dr. Irizarry's recent paper on
multiple-laboratory comparison of microarray platforms was recognized for
its outstanding contributions to the design and/or analysis of interlaboratory
tests. PhD candidate
Sheng Luo
(advisor: Ciprian
Crainiceanu) is the recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the
American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE).
This award recognizes the best paper presented by a "Young Investigator" at a
session of the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings sponsored by the SIE. PhD candidate
Bruce
Swihart has won second prize in the Mason F. Lord Lecture Poster Competition
for his poster "Compression of Multi-State Morbidity." The competition drew
entries from faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students in a diversity of
program, including the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Mental
Health, and Population, Family and Reproductive Health in the School of Public
Health, as well as the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology in the School of
Medicine. Congratulations to Bruce on work that exemplified the power of
biostatistics to elucidate issues of import for public health and clinical
medicine!
Professor Marie
Diener-West has been chosen as the 2007 recipient of the
Ernest
Lyman Stebbins Medal. The award is given for outstanding teaching that
crosses multiple school departments. April, 2007 Departmental
faculty and students receiving special recognition for teaching
from the School of Public Health are: Ingo
Ruczinski
(Advising,
Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award)
and Ming An (Teaching
Assistant Recognition Award).
March, 2007 Congratulations to this
year's departmental student award winners:
Ming An and
Robert
Scharpf for the
Helen
Abbey Award for Excellence in Teaching;
Robert
Scharpf for the
Margaret Merrell Award for Excellence in Research; and Susan Hutfless
(Epidemiology) and
Sheng Luo
(Biostatistics) for the
Louis
I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award for the Advancement of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics. Sheng has also received the following additional
honors for his research on the stochastic nature of tobacco addiction behavior:
the ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award,
the IMS Laha Travel Award,
and Delta Omega
Alpha Chapter's Scientific Poster Competition overall winner. Professor
Francesca Dominici
is the recipient of the 2007 Gertrude M. Cox Award. Established in 2003 through
a joint agreement of RTI International and the Washington Statistical Society
(the Washington, DC, chapter of the American Statistical Association), this
award is given annually to recognize a statistician making significant
contributions to statistical practice.
Professor and Chair
Scott Zeger
has been awarded the
2007 Marvin
Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from Harvard University's
Department of Biostatistics. This annual award was established to honor Dr.
Marvin Zelen's long and distinguished career as a statistician and his major
role in shaping the field of biostatistics and recognizes an individual in
government, industry, or academia, who by virtue of his/her outstanding
leadership, has greatly impacted the theory and practice of statistical science.
February, 2007
Visiting assistant professor
Derek Cummings
is the recipient of a
Career Award at the Scientific Interface, given by the Burroughs
Wellcome Fund to support physical and computational scientists entering
biology.
December, 2006 PhD candidate
Sheng Luo
has received an International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR)
Distinguished Student Paper Award for the 2007 ENAR Spring Meeting in Atlanta.
October, 2006
Scott Zeger has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. Election to this prestigious body affirms his remarkable contributions to medical science, health care and public health. It is one of the highest honors for those in the biomedical profession.
See details.
September, 2006
Congratulations to
Sining Chen, assistant professor of EHS and Biostatistics,
Giovanni Parmigiani, Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics,
Wenyi Wang, Biostatistics PhD student, and their collaborators for their paper on MMPro, a statistical model that predicts colon cancer among at risk patients. The paper appears in the September 27, 2006, issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
July, 2006 View faculty member
Tom
Louis's
Presidential Address from the International
Biometric Society's XXIIIrd International Biometric Conference. PhD
candidate
Rob Scharpf is the
recipient of a BioC 2006 Student Contributor Award, co-sponsored by the American
Statistical Association's Section on Statistical Computing and the Bionconductor
Foundation of North America. June, 2006 Faculty
member
Karen Bandeen-Roche has
been named chairperson of NIH's Biostatistical Methods and Research Design Study
Section, Center for Scientific Review, for the term July 1, 2006 through June
30, 2008.
Faculty member
Francesca Dominici is the
recipient of the 2006 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, given each year by the
Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association in recognition of
outstanding contributions to public health statistics by a statistician under
the age of 40.
Postdoctoral fellow
Holly Janes
has received a Young Investigator Award from the
American Statistical Association's Statistics in Epidemiology Section. PhD
candidate
Yun Lu
has received a travel award to the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings from the
American Statistical Association's Statistics in Epidemiology Section.
May, 2006 Faculty member
Marie Diener-West has been elected a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association. April, 2006 Departmental
faculty receiving special recognition for teaching are: Scott
Zeger (Golden
Apple Award) and Brian
Caffo (Advising,
Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award).
March, 2006 Congratulations to this year's departmental student
award winners:
Kenny Shum for the Helen
Abbey Award;
Brian Egleston for the
Jane
and Steve Dykacz Award;
Hormuzd Katkifor the Margaret
Merrell Award; and
Kelly Benke and Yun
Lu/J.Morel
Symons
for the Louis
I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award. Recent
work by
Francesca Dominici,
Roger Peng,
Michelle Bell,
Luu Pham,
Aidan McDermott,
Scott Zeger, and
Jonathan Samet on
associations between short-term exposure to fine
particulate matter and hospitalization was featured as
the lead article in the March 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
View the Bloomberg School of Public Health press release.
January, 2006 Recent
work on trauma-center care by Biostatistics alumna
Ellen
MacKenzie, faculty member
Daniel Scharfstein, PhD candidate
Brian
Egleston, and colleagues was featured in the January 26 issue of the New
England Journal of Medicine.
View the Bloomberg School of Public Health press release. December, 2005 Congratulations
to assistant professor
Ciprian Crainiceanu,
who is the 2006 recipient of the American Statistical
Association's Noether Young Scholar Award, which honors
research and teaching in nonparametric statistics.
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