{"id":12242,"date":"2019-09-04T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T18:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=12242"},"modified":"2019-09-04T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T18:54:19","slug":"geisels-quantitative-biomedical-sciences-program-graduates-first-41-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2019\/geisels-quantitative-biomedical-sciences-program-graduates-first-41-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel\u2019s Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Program Graduates First 4+1 Student"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despina Karalis D \u201918, Guarini \u201919 (photo by Kata Sasvari)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despina Karalis D \u201918, Guarini \u201919 is the first \u201c4+1 student\u201d to receive a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences<\/a> (QBS) program.<\/p>\n

The 4+1 option, available to Dartmouth undergraduates, allows students to enroll in a maximum of three graduate level courses that count toward either the QBS Masters in Epidemiology or Health Data Science\u2014to be completed in one year following their graduation from Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never could have imagined that getting a master\u2019s degree was a possibility for me. I moved to the US from Greece 12 years ago, and I come from a low-income family\u2014I\u2019m the first to go to college,\u201d says Karalis. \u201cEventually, I\u2019d like to go to medical school then conduct research in women\u2019s sexual and reproductive health\u2014it is important to me to be able to create statistical models and do my own analysis. There\u2019s a gap between research findings and how they make their way down to the patient level and I want to be able to translate that to my patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, Karalis is working as a research assistant with Margaret Karagas, PhD, the James W. Squires Professor and chair of the epidemiology department, director of Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center and the Center for Molecular Epidemiology at Dartmouth, and her team. \u201cWe are working on preparing the next New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study (NHBCS) rollout in partnership with ECHO (environmental influences on child health outcomes)\u2014a national birth cohort collaboration,\u201d Karalis says. \u201cI am working on data harmonization between the old cohort data, new data that will be collected, and the surveys.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDepy\u2019s accomplishments as a QBS Master\u2019s student are simply incredible\u2014with an outstanding background as a Dartmouth undergrad, she certainly didn\u2019t shy away from challenging classes, quickly grasped the program\u2019s multi-disciplinary material, and integrated it into her capstone,\u201d Karagas says. \u201cHer research forges the novel area of early childhood food allergies, and the impact of prenatal exposures such as maternal diet. She\u2019s truly been a pleasure to have in the lab and contributed invaluably to our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The QBS master\u2019s program focuses on providing students with an in depth understanding of biostatistics and data analysis unavailable in most epidemiology programs, providing training in epidemiologic methods, biostatistics, bioinformatics, data analysis and translational research to understand population trends, how societal factors create epigenetic changes and contribute to overall health, and how to extrapolate data from scientific studies to different populations.<\/p>\n

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Despina Karalis D \u201918, Guarini \u201919 is the first \u201c4+1 student\u201d to receive a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS) program. The 4+1 option, available to Dartmouth undergraduates, allows students to enroll in a maximum of three graduate level courses that count toward either the QBS Masters in Epidemiology or Health Data Science\u2014to be completed in one year following their graduation from Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[866,443,515],"class_list":["post-12242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-graduate-education","tag-graduate-student","tag-qbs","author-12"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Despina-Karalis-nc1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-3bs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12247,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12242\/revisions\/12247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}