Congratulations to former visiting student Chia-Jung "Charlene" Chang (PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at National Cheng Kung University), research assistant professor Chih-Yuan Hsu, and professors Qi Liu and Yu Shyr on the publication of "VICTOR: Validation and inspection of cell type annotation through optimal regression." The article on this new method appeared online ahead of print on October 15 and will go to press as part of

Alumnus Zhijun Yin (MS, 2017) is co-PI of this ARPA-H funded project, and professor Bradley Malin is a member of the team.

The 2024 AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Annual Symposium will take place in San Francisco from November 9 through November 13. Department members with work to be presented at the symposium include:Saturday, November 9Workshop 17, "REDCap on FHIR: Implementing and Using Clinical Data Interoperability Services" - professor Paul Harris, co-instructor/author 

The 2024 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference is underway in Reston, Virginia, from October 16 through 18. We are proud of the department members and alumni involved with this year's meeting. They include:MS student Zongyue Teng

The Department of Biostatistics' Statistical Computing Series focuses on the implementation of statistical models and methods, statistical computation and graphics. These informal meetings allow experienced statisticians and developers to share their expertise on computing topics with practitioners across Vanderbilt. On Thursday, October 31, at 1:00 pm, application developer Savannah Obregon will present "Introduction to GitHub," on Microsoft Teams:

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Brant Imhoff to senior biostatistician, effective October 1. Imhoff earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics at Miami University (Ohio), where he won the Teradata Analytics Challenge in 2020 for COVID-19 time series modeling and completed his thesis, "Evaluating Scores for Comparing Powerlifters." He worked as a statistician for the Army National Guard and credit risk analyst for Macy's prior to joining our department in 2022.

Congratulations for the following faculty and staff members for reaching these service milestones at Vanderbilt University Medical Center: NameYears at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Aaron Lee to senior biostatistician, effective September 27. A 2021 graduate of our MS program, Lee is supervised by professor Tatsuki Koyama and supports investigators across the medical center and beyond by planning and conducting statistical analyses, plus preparing formal reports and presentations about those analyses using RStudio, LaTeX, and R Markdown.

Each year, our department produces, presents, and publishes hundreds of papers and software packages. We are pleased to recognize some of the best work from the past year: 'Left to right, top: Savannah Obregon, Cole Beck, Shawn Garbett, Onur Orun. Bottom: Bryan Blette, Shengxin Tu, Bryan Shepherd

Bradley Malin, Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science, is co-director of ADVANCE (AI Discovery and Vigilance to Accelerate Innovation and Clinical Excellence) and quoted in the article.