HPH NOW, May 12, 2006, Exams and Defenses

Eric Joel Tchetgen, doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will present his dissertation, "Statistical Methods for Robust Inference in Causal and Missing Data Models," on Friday, May 12, in Building 2 Room 426, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Tyler John Vander Weele, doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will present his dissertation, "Contributions to the Theory of Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs," on Friday, May 12, in Building 2 Room 426, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Liliana Orellana, doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will take an oral examination on Monday, May 15, in Kresge 202, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Cognate Field: Epidemiology and Infectious Disease.

Margaret Claire Nikolov, doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will present her dissertation, "Statistical Methods for Assessing Source-Specific Health Effects of Air Pollution," on Monday, May 15, in Building 2 Room 426, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Susan Chemerynski, doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Health, will take an oral examination on Wednesday, May 17, in Landmark 404, 9:00 a.m. Major: Toxicology. Minor 1: Biostatistics. Minor 2: Risk and Decision Sciences. John Evans will chair.

Katherine von Stackelberg, doctoral student in the Departments of Environmental Health and Health Policy and Management, will present her dissertation, "Contingent Valuation for Ecological and Noncancer Risk Reductions within an Integrated Human Health and Ecological Risk Framework," on Wednesday, May 17, in KSG 439, 9:30 a.m.

Po-Yu Lai, doctoral student in the Department of Population and International Health, will take an oral examination on Wednesday, May 17, in Building 3 (Kresge) 206, 10:00 a.m. Major: Health Systems. Minor 1: Health Care Finance. Minor 2: Outcome Measurement. Yuanli Liu will chair.

Laura Forsberg White, doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will present her dissertation, "Real-Time Quantification of Infectious Disease Epidemics," on Monday, May 22, in Building 2 Room 426, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.