There is no one way to give a good talk, but there are many paths towards a bad talk: A dog metaphor on how to give a research talk.
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Headlines featuring UW Biostatistics people and research.
Written by Witten: Call Me Callie
IMS Bulletin,
SPH researchers to work on six early-stage UW Population Health Initiative projects
SPH Blog,
Six interdisciplinary teams awarded tier 1 pilot grants by the Population Health Initiative, UW Biostatistics faculty member Lianne Sheppard is a member of one of the teams and Research Scientist Matt Conomos is part of another.
Statistical Methods for Exploring Causal Relationships between Risk Factors and Liver Disease
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA),
Sarah Monsell, a biostatistician at the Center for Biomedical Statistics in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington, explains the statistical methods used in a recent liver disease study, describes their application to the study of liver MRI PDFF, and discusses the generalizability of the results of the study.
Written by Witten: FOOSH!
IMS Bulletin,
A cautionary tale from IMS contributing editor and UW professor of biostatistics and statistics, Daniela Witten
MRI reveals long-term organ abnormalities after COVID-19
Interesting Engineering,
COVID-19 can affect various organs in the body, such as the brain, lungs, heart, and kidneys. But what happens to these organs after the infection is over? How long does it take for them to heal? A new study has tried to answer these questions by using MRI scans to look at multiple organs of people hospitalized with COVID-19. UW Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics Daniela Witten comments on the study.
New study of Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations gets $38.7M grant
Fred Hutch News,
Fred Hutch will act as coordinating center for a large study of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in overlooked populations. UW Biostatistics faculty members and Hutch researchers Garnet Anderson and Kwun Chuen (Gary) Chan are part of the center’s leadership team. Affiliate faculty member Li Hsu is also part of the new study .
Wildfires – and their toxic smoke – are affecting us more often. What can we do about it?
CNN,
“Treating these (wildfire smoke events) as exceptional events, that implies they’re unusual. But they’re getting to be so common that from a protecting public health view that doesn’t make sense,” said DEOHS and Biostatistics Professor Lianne Sheppard.
Elizabeth Thompson Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Statistics,
The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, has elected Dr. Elizabeth Thompson as a Fellow. She was selected for her substantial contributions to the advancement of science and for her work in the area of Statistics which has had a beneficial influence on the world.