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Knashawn Morales, ScD, and Wei-Ting Hwang, PhD, have been named as new Fellows of the American Statistical Association. The world’s largest community of statisticians, the ASA is known as the “Big Tent for Statistics.” Read more about Dr. Morales. Read more about Dr. Hwang.
US News & World Report has issued its first-ever ranking of doctoral programs in biostatistics — and the one taught by our faculty is #6, up from #12! “A field where career opportunities are expected to grow.” See those rankings here.
Spotlights
Biostatistics Alum Arman Oganisian: To Show Healthcare Costs, Make Few Assumptions
Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez, PhD, Associate Professor of Informatics
In the News
January 2022
Negative descriptors appear more often in clinical notes for Black patients — new findings that build on what we already know, says Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH: “Such biases won't go anywhere without systemic interventions,” she comments.
January 2022
How do we define “asymptomatic” COVID-19 cases? That can vary, says Michael David, MS, MD, PhD. Some patients have chronic respiratory symptoms as baseline, from congestive heart failure to allergies.
January 2022
Amid the omicron surge, more patients are coming into the hospital for other reasons but testing positive for Covid-19 once they arrive. M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, says that many now come with chronic conditions that normally are treated elsewhere — but now, because of the strain that the latest surge is placing on the system, hospitals are the only option available to them.
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