This professor had to pay “the professor” Kyle Hendricks Chicago Cubs a visit while I was in town for AmericanTransplantCongress - visiting another faculty means I can expense this, right?

Great to spend day HRSA HQ with SRTR scientific review committee!

What better way to cap off UMN Biostatistics & Health Data Science and UMN School of Public Health Jim Neaton's retirement reception than to have BEYONCÉ come give a little concert before her big show? Twitter make it happen!

If you haven't already transported yourself away from X, here's my latest paper on transportability: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bi… Featuring: adaptive treatment strategies, kidney-pancreas transplant, David Vock, SRTR, and more!

🚨#JSM23 attendees, giveaway alert! We are giving away one copy of 'Telling Stories with Data', signed (!!) by Rohan Alexander To enter, retweet this, you must be able to pick up the book on Wed. morning at the booth.

Great summary of some of the methods challenges. As someone who got fb ~2004, fb was WAY different than the current version. Early version of fb didn't have photo albums and was mostly a listing of favorite movies and tv shows. Didn't elicit nearly as many social comparisons

RCT: A Tobacco Longitudinal Care (TLC) program with intensive counseling and combination nicotine replacement therapy is feasible, results in meaningful quit rates, and can be implemented without further modification in the Lung Cancer Screening setting. ja.ma/45mZSjs

Daniel Almirall & coauthors used a SMART to assess adding a prescription medication therapy management referral to a tobacco longitudinal care program for patients eligible for lung cancer screening who smoke & don't respond to early treatment myumi.ch/Pr7yb d3center

.Megan Patrick, Ph.D., Aparajita Sur, Brooke Arterberry, Sarah Peterson, Nicole Morrell & David Vock examined engagement effects in an adaptive preventive intervention for college student drinking myumi.ch/5J2er

There is nothing about an observational study that guarantees it is representative of the target pop. (Heath) Data are challenging to collect (e.g., require consent, integration of EMRs, etc.) and we often just collect the "easiest" data to acquire.

Great and nuanced view 👇 A point I frequently make to students: when people criticize RCTs they (almost) never criticize the randomization part. Many of these challenges would be present in any prospective human health study even if the researchers did not control treatment

No one (and I mean no one) from Chicagoland considers ND, SD, NE, KS, or OK (!) to be Midwest states. They are great plains states. There, I said it

Yuan Zhang, David Vock, Megan Patrick, Ph.D. & Thomas A. Murray propose a method to deal with the two types of misspecification concomitantly, builds interactive models into modified parametric Q-learning with Murphy’s regret function myumi.ch/63n1m