Kristin Linn, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania, will present: "Estimation and Evaluation of Individualized Treatment Rules Following Multiple Imputation" Data-driven optimal treatment strategies promise to benefit patients, care providers, and other stakeholders by improving clinical outcomes and lowering healthcare costs. A treatment decision rule is a function that inputs patient-level information…

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PhD candidate in Biostatistics, Jonathan Kim, will present: "Bayesian Modeling of Multi-Source Multi-Way Data" PhD Adviser: Eric Lock Biomedical research often involves data collected from multiple sources and these sources often have a multi-way (i.e.. multidimensional tensor) structure. Existing methods that can accommodate multi-source or multi-way data have various limitations on the exact structure of…

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Masters candidate in Biostatistics, Yuntian Zuo, will present: "Competing Risk Analysis of Adverse Events for Gemcitabine-antibacterial Treatment on Multiple Discontinued Reasons" Plan B Adviser: Dr. Benjamin Langworthy In this project, data from the MPACT cancer trial was used to study the reason patients with pancreatic cancer discontinue from the clinical trial, and whether certain adverse…

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With the School of Public Health moving towards becoming antiracist, it is important to provide SPH community members an opportunity to understand what that really means. In this 60 minute interactive session, participants will learn what antiracism is, how it connects to our mission as a School and discuss ways one can begin to approach…

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Xiang Zhu, of the Department of Statistics at Penn State, will present: "Applying an Enhancer Lens to Human Disease Genetics" Over the past two decades, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have advanced the discovery and interpretation of numerous genetic variants influencing complex human diseases. Notably, more than 90% of disease-associated variants are located within non-coding regions…

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Beginning in 2024, Minnesota OSHA will be overseeing an ergonomic standard focused on employees in health care, warehouses, and meatpacking. The talk will cover basic ergonomic principles and apply these to evaluating and resolving ergonomic concerns in these and other locations. About the Speaker: Neil Carlson, MS, CIH continues to work at the University of…

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