Past Events

Dr. Briana Stephenson from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will present "Mixture model approaches to address disparities in cancer care"

Drs. Batel Blechter and Jessica Madrigal will present their ongoing research as fellows in DCEG

Dr. Yates Coley of Kaiser Permanente presents on health disparities that may be perpetuated by clinical prediction models.

Dr. Meredith Shiels delivers a seminar in the NIH Director's Seminar series on her research program, which utilizes a combination of innovative contemporary approaches to confront high-impact public health questions using descriptive analyses and population-based databases

Dr. Ludmil Alexandrov presents "Anthology of unusual patterns of somatic mutations in cancer genomes"

Dr. Lorin Crawford presents "Machine Learning for Human Genetics and Genomics: A Multi-Scale View on Complex Traits and Disease"

Summer interns present the epidemiologic or genetic research projects they completed under the guidance of mentors in all branches of DCEG.

Join EPICOH 2020 when Dr. Debra Silverman, the 2020 EPICOH Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, presents a keynote lecture titled "Diesel Exhaust and Lung Cancer: A 20-year Saga." The Award recognizes an individual for her sustained outstanding contributions to the science of occupational epidemiology, and the impact of her work on the field and public health policy.

My research interest focuses on the development of statistical methods for analyzing electronic health record data, using these methods to model the natural history of intervening stages in the carcinogenic process, and the development of evidence-based cancer screening guidelines. I will discuss some of the critical statistical challenges involved in analyzing such data, and why standard tools for absolute and relative risk estimation are biased. I will introduce new statistical models that can be used to produce unbiased estimates in cohort studies with multiple time point data and biospecimen collection. These models are used to develop new risk-based management guidelines for cervical cancer. I will also discuss risk models and benefit models for oral cancer and lung cancer screening.