Congratulations to Garnet Anderson (PhD ’89), senior vice president and director of the Public Health Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and an affiliate professor of biostatistics at the UW School of Public Health, who was one of 36 scientists named to the Washington State Academy of Life Sciences.
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36 new members elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Washington State Academy of Sciences,
Health Care Heroes: Yates Coley
Puget Sound Business Journal,
"As a biostatistician, I get to bring my quantitative and critical thinking skills to wide range of problems." Congratulations to Yates Coley, PhD, on their 2024 Health Care Heroes award from the Puget Sound Business Journal.
UW Biostatistics graduate Xiudi Li (PhD, ’22) joins faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
A recent study used machine-learning models to analyze medical records in an effort to identify risk factors for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). The findings, which appeared in the journal Circulation, not only revealed significant non-medical indicators of OHCA risk but showed that the models used were better at predicting OHCA than current approaches.
Spotlight on first year PhD student Kat Hoffman who talks about her research and the gap between the development of new methodology and practical application in the field.