Leading biostatisticians and scholars are featured in our weekly department seminar series which covers a wide range of topics, issues and methods relevant to the field of biostatistics.
Seminars are usually held Thursdays from 3:30-5:00 p.m. PST unless otherwise listed. Check our Calendar for upcoming lectures.
Recent Recordings
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Macronutrient Intake and Chronic Disease Risk Among Postmenopausal US Women, special seminar presented Thursday, November 17, 2022 by Ross Prentice, PhD, Professor, Cancer Prevention and Biostatistics Programs, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch, and Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington.
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2022 Ross L. Prentice Lecture. Augmenting Randomized Trials with Observational Data: Lessons from Trials Past and Present, presented March 10, 2022 by Holly Janes, PhD, Professor and Associate Head of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Program, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health.
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Debiased Inference on Heterogeneous Quantile Treatment Effects with Regression Rank-Scores, presented January 20, 2022 by Alexander Giessing, PhD, Acting Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Washington
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Robust Inference and Model Selection Using Bagged Posteriors, presented January 13, 2022 by Jeffrey Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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A Case Study in What Can Go Wrong: Perspectives on FDA’s Accelerated Approval of Aducanumab in Alzheimer’s Disease, presented January 6, 2022 by Scott S. Emerson, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics, University of Washington
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Robust Mendelian Randomization in the Presence of Residual Population Stratification, Batch Effects and Horizontal Pleiotropy, presented November 18, 2021 by Carlos Cinelli, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Washington
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Graphical modeling of Genome-wide Genealogies Provides Insights into Human Evolution and Disease, presented November 4, 2021 by Anthony Wilder Wohns, D.Phil., Postdoctoral Associate at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Design for HIV Prevention Trial with Counterfactual Placebo Incidence Based on Recency Test, presented October 28, 2021 by Fei Gao, PhD, Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Biostastics, University of Washington
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Do clinical prediction models perpetuate health disparities? Assessment of racial and ethnic disparities in suicide prediction models, presented October 21, 2021 by Yates Coley, PhD, Assistant Investigator, Biostatistics Unit, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
- A simple cure for bias from weak instruments and horizontal pleiotropy in Mendelian randomization, presented October 10, 2021 by Ting Ye, assistant professor of biostatistics, University of Washington. Recording includes recognition of 2021 Donovan J. Thompson award recipient, Mike Hellstern.
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