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| Biostatistics
Facility Core |
Educational
Support |
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Here we provide a brief summary
of the education support provided by the Biostatistics
Facility Core, broken into three sections: Seminars,
Guidance of graduate students, and Community outreach
and education. |
Seminars
- Dr. Gauderman has given several talks on the
analysis of gene-smoking and gene-age interaction
in lung cancer, in which both the results and
methods of analysis were stressed. He has also
given several talks on the statistical methods
used to analyze lung function measures in the
Children's Health Study. Dr. Berhane has given
talks on methods for analyzing longitudinal data
with application to lung function and air pollution,
and a talk on analyzing multivariate survival
data with application to breast cancer. |
| Guidance of graduate
students - Dr. Gauderman has guided
two students, John Morrison and Sylvia Tan, in master's
thesis projects related to environmental health.
After completing their degrees, both Mr. Morrison
and Ms. Tan became members of the Biostatistics
Facility Core and they continue to apply their statistical
expertise to the area of environmental health. Dr.
Gauderman is currently guiding another student on
a master's thesis related to the effects of air
pollution on lung development in children. Dr. Berhane
has guided one student, Ms. Yu Fen Li, on a master's
thesis investigating the relationship between environmental
tobacco smoke and lung function, and he is currently
guiding her on a Ph.D. thesis in the area of air
pollution and respiratory health. Dr. Navidi, former
Director of the Biostatistics Facility Core, guided
a master's thesis project related to air pollution
prior to his departure. |
Community
outreach and education - Dr. Gauderman
has responded to two requests by KPCC radio in
Pasadena to do shows on the topic of air pollution
and children's respiratory health. In these two
radio shows, Dr. Gauderman summarized results
from the Children's Health Study and responded
to listener's questions. Dr. Gauderman also served
as a science fair judge at Francisco Bravo High
School. Dr. Berhane worked with Ms. Hricko in
the evaluation of the KICK Asthma L.A. program. |
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