E B E G

September 20, 9:00-10:30 AM

Francesca Dominici will lead us in a discussion of the issues raised in the New England Journal of Medicine article: "The Effect of Air Pollution on Lung Development from 10 to 18 Years of Age"

September 13, 9:00-10:30 AM

Our guest speaker Dr. Brian Schwartz, Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences will give an update and overview of various projects in EHS that are of interest to our environmental team

August 30, 9:00-10:30 AM

Our visitor, Grace Sun, from Lancaster who is working with Dr. Tom Louis on her master's thesis will give presentation

August 23, 9:00-10:30 AM

1) Presentation by Thomas Louis on the relation between time-series and cohort-based estimating of the air pollution effect. This will be a very basic, stationary compartment model that should help see whether the different estimates from the two types of studies are, in fact, compatible. The analysis is more basic than that produced by Duncan Thomas, but is in the same spirit.
2) Present the article by Thomas Louis: The 2003 North American electrical blackout: An accidental experiment in atmospheric chemistry

August 16, 9:00-10:30 AM

1) Presentation by Michelle Schwartz on socio-economic determinants of health from US census data (30 min)
2) Discussion of the PM center grant application
3) Collaboration with University of Maryland investigators on pollen and suicide in 75 US counties

August 4, 9:00-10:30 AM

Peter Diggle from Lancaster University gives an update talk on his spatial statistics work

July 26, 9:00-10:30 AM

Sorina will present some preliminary analyses of the national mortality data from Medicare and PM2.5 national air pollution data from the AIRS

July 12, 9:00-10:30 AM

Roger Peng, post doc in the Dept of Biostatistics, will present on the R data package for NMMAPS. Abstract

May 24, 9:00-10:30 AM

Aidan McDermott will give an update on the Medicare data

May 10, 9:00-10:30 AM

Francesca Dominici and Ciprian Crainiceanu will lead a discussion about Bayesian Model Averaging and brainstorm on how to best take into account model uncertainity in air pollution epidemiology. Abstract

April 26, 9:00-10:30 AM

Our speaker will be Kenny Shum, PhD candidate student in Biostats. His talk will focus on how a multi-level model can deal with over-dispersion in Poisson regression.

April 26, 9:00-10:30 AM

Our speaker will be Kenny Shum, PhD candidate student in Biostats. His talk will focus on how a multi-level model can deal with over-dispersion in Poisson regression.

April 19, 9:00-10:30 AM

Dr. Jonathan Samet will give us an update on particulate matter (PM) issues.

April 12, 9:00-10:30 AM

Brian Caffo speaks on distributed lag models. Abstract

April 5, 9:00-10:00 AM

Dr. Scott Zeger will lead us in a discussion of the paper "The Clean Air Act of 1970 and Adult Mortality". by Kenneth Chay, Carlos Dobkin and Michael Greenstone Abstract

March 22, 9:00-10:00 AM

Our speaker is Rey de Castro, ScD, from EHS. Abstract

March 8, 9:00-10:30 AM

PI's are meeting separately to discuss future projects

March 1, 9:00-10:30 AM

Tim Wyant from Decipher will give us an update on issues surrounding the data

February 16, 9:00-10:30 AM

We will have journal club type meeting, led by Sorina Eftim, PhD candidate in Biostatistics. There will be discussion of two articles, one by C. Arden Pope and another by Gamble.

February 9, 9:00-10:30 AM

Allison Geyh and Tim Buckley from EHS will talk on their traffic study. Detail description

February 2, 9:00-10:30 AM

Leah Welty will present on her work on distributed lag models/temperature and seasonality

January 26, 9:00-10:30 AM

EBEG meeting cancelled due to snow.

January 12, 9:00-10:30 AM

"Journal club" type meeting with discussion of the article Cardiovascular Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution, led by Dr. Zeger

January 5, 9:00-10:30 AM

Limited group meeting.

December 15, 9:00-10:30 AM

Roger Peng gives a update/presentation on seasonal analysis of PM10 and PM2.5

December 11, 9:00-10:30 AM

1)Our guest from the UK, Dr. Peter Diggle, speak on some of his projects in spatial environmental epidemiology.
2) Our Guest Dr. Greg Diette, Assistant Professor in Dept of Medicine - Pulmonary, speak on his study regarding children and asthma.

December 1, 9:00-10:30 AM

Michelle Bell will give an update on her ozone analysis

November 24, 9:00-10:30 AM

Project presentation: Association of Low-Level Ozone and Fine Particles With Respiratory Symptoms in Children With Asthma. Believe it, or not?

November 17, 9:00-10:30 AM

Close meeting with Francesca, Scott, Tom Louis, Aidan, and post docs

November 10, 9:00-10:30 AM

Some updates on data from Aidan McDermott and Michelle Bell on the project

November 3, 9:00-10:30 AM

Pete Meyer will speaking on the topic "Weather or Not: Applying Hill's criteria to the relationship between ambient temperature and mortality"

October 27, 9:00-10:30 AM

1) Project presentation -- Aggregation bias
2) Fitting distributed lag models for highly correlated ozone variables
3) Speaking on project APHENA

October 13, 9:00-10:30 AM

PhD candidate student Sorina Eftim will be speaking on her project

October 6, 9:00-10:30 AM

Brian S. Caffo make speaking on project -- update on Lag Models