Patrick Heagerty, professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington in the School of Public Health has joined the editorial staff of the Journal of American Medicine Association (JAMA) as a statistical editor. 

Yates Coley, PhD, UW faculty member and associate investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI), recently received an Emerging Leader Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.

Six student teams from the third cohort of the Department of Biostatistics Master of Science Capstone Program presented capstone project work in early March to an audience of faculty, peers and their sponsor organizations. 

Investigators commonly find mixtures of DNA in a single forensic sample that contain various unequal contributions, like the DNA samples that could come from multiple people using one knife. Now, the development of technologies can reveal and identify smaller, previously undetectable amounts of DNA samples within the mixture, which enables more specific DNA identification. Faculty member Bruce Weir is interviewed.

Models for suicide preventions that are easier to explain and use could have better uptake in health care settings. UW Biostatistics Affiliate Faculty Susan Shortreed was lead author on this recent study which compares the performance of 5 different models developed to identify a patient's risk of suicidal behavior.