Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Events

2022

Introductory Course, Getting Started with Statistical Software (R and RStudio)

  • Speakers: Julia Thompson and Weijia Fan
  • Date: 10/12/2022, 10/19/2022 and 10/26/2022

Genomics Seminar, Genetic Architecture of Kidney Disease

  • Speakers: Krysztof Kiryluk, MD
  • Date: 4/13/2022

 Genetics Seminar, Set-Based Rare Variant Association Tests for Biobank Scale Data

  • Speaker: Seunggeung Lee
  • Date: 02/09/2022

Genomics Seminar, Applications of Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in Spatial Transcriptomics

  • Speaker: Minyao, Li
  • Date: 01/12/2022

Genetics Seminar, Getting Started with Statistical Software (R and RStudio)

  • Speakers: Julia Thompson, Jared Garfinkel, Weijia Fan
  • Date: 01/12/2022, 01/19/2022 and 01/26/2022

2021

Genomics Seminar, Generic Variants Across Human Populations and Our Understanding of The Genetic Basis of Traits

  • Speakers: M. Sesia,  S. Li, Z. Ren, Y. Romano and E.Candes
  • Date:10/13/2021

Genomics Seminar, Analysis of Large-Scale Biobanks and Whole Genome Sequencing Studies

  • Speaker: Xihong Lin, Department of Biostatistics and Statistics, Harvard University
  • Date: 2/11/2021

Genomics SeminarImplementing Genomics into Clinical Care: Prospects and Challenges

  • Speaker: Ali Gharavi, Department of Medicine, Columbia University
  • Date: 1/14/2021

2020

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Introduction to Causal Mediation Analysis

  • Speaker: Kara Rudolph, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 05/12/2020

Mini-Course: Getting Started with Statistical Software (R)

Day 1 will cover importing data, examining data attributes, and manipulating data (creating new variables, stacking vs. merging data sets, etc.). 

Day 2 will cover descriptive statistics and basic statistical analyses (chi-squared tests, t-tests, regression, etc.).

Day 3 will cover data visualization using versatile R plotting functions.

  • Speaker: Cody Chiuzan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 2/4/2020, 2/11/2020, 2/18/2020, 11/6/2020, 11/13/2020, 11/20/2020

2019

Fundamentals of Clinical Trials Design and Conduct Lecture, This lecture is part of the Clinical Research Resource (CRR) mandatory training.

  • Date: 12/18/2019

Biostatistics in Action Seminar Series: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Applications of Penalized Regression Techniques

  • Speaker: Cody Chiuzan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 12/17/2019

Biostatistics in Action Seminar Series: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Machine Learning, Prediction, and Causal Inference

  • Speaker: Caleb Miles, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 11/19/2019

 

Mini-Course: Getting Started with Statistical Software (R)

Day 1 will cover importing data, examining data attributes, and manipulating data (creating new variables, stacking vs. merging data sets, etc.). 

Day 2 will cover data visualization, descriptive statistics, and basic statistical analyses (chi-squared tests, t-tests, regression, etc.).

  • Speaker: Cody Chiuzan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 10/7/2019, 10/14/2019, and 10/21/2019

 

Biostatistics in Action Seminar Series: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Limb-Leaf Designs for Adaptive Exploration of the Dose-Response Curve

  • Speaker: Bin Cheng, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 5/15/2019

 

Biostatistics in Action Seminar Series: Tips for Clinical Researchers, An Introduction to Causal Mediation Analysis

  • Speaker: Linda Valeri, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 3/13/2019

 

Biostatistics in Action Seminar Series: Tips for Clinical Researchers, What Are Correlations and What Do They Measure?

  • Speaker: Martina Pavlicova, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
  • Date: 2/13/2019

 

2018

Biostatistics in Action Seminar Series: Tips for Clinical Researchers, The Purpose of Pilot Studies in Modern Research – Revisited

  • Speaker: Martina Pavlicova, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
  • Date: 12/12/2018

 

Mini-Course: Getting Started with Statistical Software (R)

Day 1 will cover importing data, examining data attributes, and manipulating data (creating new variables, stacking vs. merging data sets, etc.). 

Day 2 will cover data visualization, descriptive statistics, and basic statistical analyses (chi-squared tests, t-tests, regression, etc.).

  • Speaker: Christine Mauro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 11/19/2018 and 11/29/2018

 

Biostatistics in Action Seminar Series: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Limb-Leaf Designs for Adaptive Exploration of the Dose-Response Curve

  • Speaker: Bin Cheng, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics
  • Date: 11/14/2018

 

Mini-Course: Getting Started with Statistical Software (SAS) 

Day 1 will cover importing data, examining data attributes, and manipulating data (creating new variables, stacking vs. merging data sets, etc.).  
Day 2 will cover data visualization, descriptive statistics, and basic statistical analyses (chi-squared tests, t-tests, regression, etc.).

  • Speaker: Christine Mauro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date:  10/15/2018 and 10/22/2018

 

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, How NOT to Conduct a Randomized Clinical Trial

  • Speaker: Bruce Levin, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date:  9/12/2018

 

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, SMART Designs

  • Speaker: Ken Cheung, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date:  5/14/2018

 

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Data Science in Clinical Research

  • Speaker: Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 4/09/2018

 

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Propensity Score Matching (PSM): A Practical Tutorial

  • Speaker: Cody Chiuzan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 3/19/2018

 

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Tools and Tips for Research Data Management

  • Speaker: Debby D’Angelo, MS, Senior Research Biostatistician, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Date: 2/12/2018

2017

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, Talking about Effect Sizes with Your Statistician

  • Speaker: Adam Ciarleglio, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Biostatistics (in Psychiatry), Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 12/11/2017

 

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, The Purpose of Pilot Studies in Modern Research

  • Speaker: Martina Pavlicova, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 11/13/2017

 

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, What’s All the Fuss Over P-Values?

  • Speaker: Bruce Levin, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 10/9/2017

Biostatistics in Action: Tips for Clinical Researchers, What to Expect from Your Statistical Reviewer

  • Speaker: Christine Mauro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
  • Date: 9/11/2017