New study in #HSR Wiley Clinical and Health from Wenbo Wu PhD et al develop a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm that identifies social determinants of health (SDoH), including housing, transportation, food, and medication insecurities, social isolation, abuse, neglect, or

Please consider registering for the upcoming webinar on semi-competing risks featuring Sebastien Haneuse at Harvard Biostatistics, happening on June 28! Details at amstat.users.membersuite.com/events/2e04bc9….

If you are coming to #SER2024 and are interested in learning how to define and estimate causal effects for complex exposures (continuous, multivariate, ordinal, etc) in longitudinal studies using off-the-shelf software, join us in this workshop!

Thrilled to share that I have been selected as a Butler-Williams Scholar! Can't wait to interact with trailblazers and promote data science in aging and health disparities research in August!

Our Division is hosting its inaugural yearly Biostatistics Symposium, and this year the topic is Causal Inference! We have an exciting lineup of speakers listed below. If you are in the NYC area, please join us! Link to register in the QR below.

The Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University has an open rank position in Statistics this year. Check out the job ad 👉 careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5206… Please feel free to spread the word if you know any interested candidates. Many thanks!😊

Come work with us at CMU! We're hiring tenure-track asst profs in the Dept of Statistics & Data Science cmu.edu/dietrich/stati…

A Johns Hopkins University study found that measuring 162 quality metrics cost >$5 mil. Our team at UC San Diego Health, led by Drs. Aaron Boussina and Shamim Nemati, found that LLMs are a great way to scale quality measurement - needed for a learning health system. Paper: ai.nejm.org/stoken/default…

We (Jan Witowski and I) co-founded a startup! We want to personalize cancer treatment for every patient using AI. It's a fascinating research journey. I am very proud of what we achieved as a team. There is still so much to be done. Join us! jobs.ashbyhq.com/ataraxis-ai

RFK Jr and aides are weighing changes to billions of dollars in Medicare physician payments. Their thesis: the current payment model, which rewards specialty care and surgeries, has created bad incentives that harm our health. Many experts + Dems agree. washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11…

The second day of #DIScience24 will feature the panel: "Marathon vs. Sprint: Getting the Pace Right" with Rinad Beidas, PhD, Leora Horwitz, Dr. Whitney Irie (EYE-ree), and Andrew Quanbeck. Explore the full meeting agenda here: academyhealth.confex.com/academyhealth/…

To improve the quality of observational studies, target trial emulation requires careful specification of design elements, analytic methods for addressing confounding, and reporting of sensitivity analyses. Perspective by Rebecca Hubbard and colleagues: nej.md/4fzNIJl

Excited that I will join Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor of Data Science in June 2025! Iván Díaz and I are seeking a postdoc to work on statistics, causal inference, and AI/ML (LLMs, NLP, etc). See forms.stat.ufl.edu/statistics-job… for details. Thanks for considering and sharing!

To single out one racial / ethnic group in a comment about unethical use of AI is unacceptable. I can’t even imagine if another minority group was targeted in the keynote speech, what the general outrage would be. We might be nice, but we are not pushovers.

I’m sorry but I still believe in academia as a place where you can nurture a lot of creativity in the service of basic science (or ‘fundamental science’ as the cool kids say now). harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harvar…

Postdoctoral Research Associate Wenbo Wu Come join us at JHU if you are motivated to use stats, causal inference, AI/ML, LLMs, and NLP to advance health care. To read the full job description and apply, see link in the thread! #ai_machine_learning #artificial_intell...

The 4th Lifetime Data Science Conference will take place May 28–30, 2025, at New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn. This event will feature keynotes by Drs. Nicholas Jewell and Mei-Ling Lee, 60+ invited sessions, and more. Register now! community.amstat.org/lids/events/20…

Massive NIH cuts to research infrastructure threaten the foundation of U.S. research—putting our future at risk. We need innovation in funding, not dismantling our research engine. My take in STAT: statnews.com/2025/02/08/nih…

Falls are thought to be common in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. This #ASNCJASN study investigates and finds that falls were common in a cohort of patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis with chronic pain, occurring in 28% of individuals.