NIH has awarded Dr. Zhigang Li a 5-year R01 grant with a total cost of $2.3 million dollars to develop “Mediation Analysis Methods to Model Human Microbiome Mediating Disease-Leading Causal Pathways in Children” (1R01GM123014). In this project, Dr. Li will lead a team consisting of biostatisticians, epidemiologists and a pediatrician […]
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“Estimating the causal effect of treatment in observational studies with survival time end points and unmeasured confounding” by Jaeun Choi, Ph.D., and A. James O’Malley, Ph.D.
SummaryEstimation of the effect of a treatment in the presence of unmeasured confounding is a common objective in observational studies. The two-stage least squares instrumental variables procedure is frequently used but is not applicable to time-to-event data if some observations are censored. We develop a simultaneous equations model to account […]
Geisel Announces New Master’s Degree in Health Data Science
Dartmouth’s Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS) is offering a new master’s degree with a concentration in health data science beginning in fall 2018. This new degree is part of Dartmouth’s innovative interdisciplinary graduate program, which trains doctoral students in bioinformatics, biostatistics, and epidemiology. “I’m very excited to see […]
Tor Tosteson, Sc.D., will Lead Team of Geisel Researchers with $1 Million Award for Comparative Outcomes Research
A team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, led by Tor Tosteson, Sc.D., has been approved for a $1 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to design new methods for comparing the effectiveness of alternative therapies that can lead to improvements in practice and […]
Virtual Presentation on Big Data Tools
Please join the Division of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Biomedical Data Science for a virtual presentation of the ESRI Big Data Tools on Friday, February 17th, 2017 in Williamson 373 at 12pm – 1pm. Mansour Raad, a Senior Software Architect at ESRI who specializes in Big Data GIS […]
Gear Up for Research at Dartmouth and DHMC
For faculty, researchers, and graduate and professional school students, “Gear Up!” will showcase information management tools, apps, and research support systems to help you kick your research projects into high gear. Gear Up is sponsored by Dartmouth SYNERGY: Clinical and Translational Science Institute and organized by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries […]
Dartmouth joins other institutions in using NASA space technology to find cancer biomarkers
Through a shared research network, scientists use a NASA machine learning algorithm to search for cancer biomarkers. Read more here http://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-ways-tech-is-improving-cancer-res….
Biomedical Data Science Faculty Present Research at 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, IL
Several Biomedical Data Science faculty presented research at the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Chicago, IL, July 30th-August 4th. JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. Title: Hierarchical Regression and Variance-Function Modeling to Estimate the Inter-Rater Intraclass Correlation Coefficient in Assessments of Shared Decision Making […]
Latest Hospital Ratings Not as Straightforward as They Appear – Valley News
Lebanon — Giving consumers a simple tool to guide them in seeking better health care was the purpose when the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week issued star ratings for 3,662 American hospitals. At least CMS got the “simple” part right. The star ratings are intended to […]
BMDS’s David Qian awarded the 2016 John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research
Lebanon, NH On June 11, David Qian PhD ’16 (Quantitative Biomedical Sciences) was awarded the 2016 John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research at the Dartmouth College’s Graduate Investiture Ceremony. The Strohbehn Award is awarded annually to a graduating Ph.D. candidate who best exemplifies qualities of a scientific […]