Eliab Woldegebriel
Eliab
Woldegebriel
2024 Intern
College: Middle Tennessee State University
Mentor: Bryan Blette
Project: A Machine Learning Tool for Imputation of Body Fat Percentage
Naij Taylor
Naij
Taylor
2024 Intern
College: Middle Tennessee State University
Mentors: Bryan Shepherd and Gustavo Amorim, with Joshua Slone
Project: Statistical Analysis and Design for International Study of HIV/AIDS
Ermias Takele
Ermias
Takele
2024 Intern
College: Middle Tennessee State University
Mentor: Amir Asiaee
Project: Simulation of Multiple Related Populations and Inference through Data Integration
Morgan Myers
Morgan
Myers
2024 Intern
College: Tennessee State University
Mentor: Tatsuki Koyama
Project: Data Quality Issues and Impact of Data Cleaning Steps on Multivariable Regression Models
Seyde Martinez
Seyde
Martinez
2024 Intern
College: Middle Tennessee State University
Mentor: Siyuan Ma
Project: Linear Regression Analysis Associating the Airway Microbes with Geographical Areas across the United States
Corey Goddard
Corey
Goddard
2024 Intern
College: Howard University
Mentor: Chris Slaughter
Project: Clinical Trial of Montelukast Efficiency in Pediatric Acute Asthma Exacerbations
Vanderbilt Biostatistics at ENAR 2024
The ENAR 2024 Spring Meeting is in Baltimore, from March 10 through March 13. Here are some of the sessions department students, staff, faculty, and alumni are involved with:
Monday, March 11
8:30 a.m. - Knowledge Synthesis Between Psychometric and Neuroimaging Methods: Network Modeling, Latent Factors and More
Publications by faculty and staff, January - February 2024
The following citations from January and February 2024 were compiled via VUMC's CTSA-funded FlightTracker app (bold denotes department members; asterisks denote students, postdocs, or other trainees), totaling more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, plus a few preprints.In addition to those in the below roundup, there were several papers authored by personnel now affiliated with other departments or institutions, and a few more eluded the pull because of timestamp weirdness.
Editorial by Hakmook Kang in Kidney Research and Clinical Practice
Congratulations to associate professor Hakmook Kang on the publication of his editorial "On operational definitions of mortality" by Kidney Research and Clinical Practice on February 19 as an ePub ahead of print.
A genomics publication hat trick
For the third year in a row, a paper co-authored by assistant in biostatistics and director of informatics software development Shawn Garbett has been identified as one of the year's most significant publications in genomic medicine implementation. The Genomic Medicine Working Group of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) named "Population genomic screening for three common heredi