2016 Symposium

Pipelines Into Biostatistics Annual Symposium

DuBois Bowman Keynote Speaker
DuBois Bowman
Keynote Speaker

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Yawkey Conference Center, Room 306/307
Thursday, July 21, 2016

AGENDA
2016 Symposium Schedule
8:30 – 9:00am Registration & Breakfast

Session I – Opening Remarks and Introductions
9:00 – 9:20am

Rebecca Betensky, Professor of Biostatistics and Principal Investigator, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Meredith Rosenthal, Associate Dean for Diversity and Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Xihong Lin, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Session II – Keynote Speaker
9:20 – 10:20am Biostatistics: Paving the Way in the Big Data Era

DuBois Bowman, Professor of Biostatistics and Chairman of the Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Session III – Summer Program Research Project Presentations
10:25 – 10:45am Changes in Health-Related Quality of Life after Bone Marrow Transplantation for Severe Sickle Cell Disease

Thabat Dahdoul, California State University – Fullerton ’17
Rebekah Loving, University of Hawaii – Hilo ’19
Marcus Spearman, Johns Hopkins University ’17
Faculty Mentor: Donna Neuberg, Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Postdoc Mentor: Kristen Stevenson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

10:50 – 11:10am Break and Refreshments

11:10 – 11:30am Controversy in Pharmacogenomics

Alejandra De Jesús-Soto, University of Puerto Rico – Cayey ’17
Mark Ruprecht, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities ’18
Patricia Vera-González, University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras ’17
Faculty Mentor: Rafa Irizarry, Professor of Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Graduate Mentor: Will Townes, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:35 – 11:55am Design Considerations for Two-Phase Studies in Cluster-Correlated Settings, with Application to Anti-Retroviral Treatment Programs in Resource-Limited Settings

Matthew Blake, Boston College ’16
Maria Fernandes, UMass Amherst ’17
Deja Washington, Xavier University of Louisiana ’17
Faculty Mentor: Sebastien Haneuse, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Postdoc Mentor: Claudia Rivera, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

12:00 – 12:20pm The Politics of Power Plants: Is Congressional Voting Associated with Pollution Emissions?

Janelle Walker, Medgar Evers College ’16
Joseph Zoller, Carnegie Mellon University ’18
Faculty Mentor: Cory Zigler, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Postdoc Mentor: Chanmin Kim, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

12:25 – 12:45pm Predicting Diabetes Diagnosis in African Americans Using Ensemble Machine Learning

Kimberlyn Bailey, Le Moyne College/SUNY Owsego ’16
Jarvis Miller, Rice University ’16
Valerie Santiago González, University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras ’17
Faculty Mentor: Sherri Rose, Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Graduate Mentor: Savannah Bergquist, Harvard University

Session IV – Summer Program Alumni: Conversation Over Lunch
12:50 – 2:00pm Networking Lunch

Please take a moment to visit project posters of our recent alumni:

Comparison of Substitution Models in the Phylogenetic Inference of Retroviruses
Cassandra Burdziak, Rutgers University‘16
Evaluation of Pre-Analytical Variability in Circulating Cell-Free DNA Using Digital PCR and Molecularly-Tagged Sequencing
Havell Markus, Arizona State University ’17

2:00 – 2:45pm Journeys in Biostatistics After the Summer Program

Scarlett Bellamy, Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at HUP
Quincy Greene, The Center for Education and Public Initiatives (CEPI), College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Rebecca Hubbard, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
DeJuran Richardson, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lake Forest College
Jennifer Smith, Epidemiologist, United States Public Health Service

Session V – Post-Baccalaureate Research Project Presentations
2:50 – 3:10pm Binary Instrumental Variable Model For Causal Inference

Jimmy Nguyen, Post-Baccalaureate Program Participant
Faculty Mentor: Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiologic Methods, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

3:15 – 3:35pm Prenatal Metal Exposures and Birthweight in Mexico City

Marcia Higgins, Post-Baccalaureate Program Participant
Faculty Mentor: Brent Coull, Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

3:40 – 3:55pm Closing Remarks

Rebecca Betensky, Professor of Biostatistics and Principal Investigator, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health