On Monday, April 8, at 10 am Central Time, VBDCC Design & Analysis Unit director Matt Shotwell will participate in the Institute for Global Health's Grand Rounds on the work of the ACTIV-4 Host Tissue platform trial. The online event will be held on Teams.

We are delighted to announce the promotion of Jessica "Jess" Lai to lead program manager, in effect as of March 29. With extensive experience as a central scheduling supervisor (for Nationwide Children's Hospital) and patient access manager (for Ohio State University Medical Center), Lai was recruited to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2021 as a senior program manager for VICTR.

Congratulations to assistant professor Bryan Blette on the publication of "Assessing treatment effect heterogeneity in the presence of missing effect modifier data in cluster-randomized trials," published today in Statistical Methods in Medical Research. In the words of senior author Michael Hardy, it is a "great methods review & very clever simulation study - give it a read!" 

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Quanhu "Tiger" Sheng to associate professor of biostatistics, educator track, effective as of April 1. A graduate of Nanjing University (BS, botany) and the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (MS, biochemistry and molecular biology; PhD, bioinformatics), Dr.

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Tess Stopczynski to senior biostatistician. A graduate of the University of Vermont's MS program in statistics, Stopczynski's research interests include infectious diseases, survival analysis, categorical data analysis, and trials design. Her publications include peer-reviewed papers in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, Hospital Pediatrics, Clinical Cancer Research, and Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Benjamin French, PhD, professor of biostatistics and director of graduate studies, has been elected to the National Council for Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) for a six-year term. Chartered by Congress in 1964, the NCRP provides scientific analysis, information, and recommendations concerning radiation protection, and its council consists of one hundred leading scientists. Dr.