The Hall of Hoorays
Milestones, Announcements, and Other Matters Sarah Was Excited About
February 2025
I visited the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics to give a seminar on “Rerouting Our Thinking: Computationally Simple Measures Misrepresent the Food Access Landscape”. [Slides]
January 2025
I spoke about “Electronic health records: With great-ish data comes great responsibility” at the Harrison College of Pharmacy, Auburn University. [Slides]
January 2025
I discussed “Combining EHR data and measurement error methods to quantify the relationships between access to healthy foods and disease” at the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) in San Diego, CA. [Slides]
December 2024
I presented on “Connecting healthy food proximity and disease: Straight-line vs. map-based distances” at CMStatistics in London, England. [Slides]
December 2024
I presented on “Imputing inequality: Efficient methods for estimating food access in low-access communities” at the International Biometric Conference (IBC) in Atlanta, GA. [Slides]
October 2024
I presented on “Missing and misclassified wells: Challenges in quantifying the HIV reservoir from dilution assays” at the Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference (WSDS) in Reston, VA. [Slides]
October 2024
Ashley Mullan and I wrote a guide for first-time attendees of the Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference (WSDS) conference in Reston, VA. [Guide]
October 2024
Mentees Anh Nguyen and Ashley Mullan presented at the 3rd Annual International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science in a session on “Chart-toppers and Cliffhangers: Stats in pop culture.”
October 2024
I presented on “Operationalizing a whole-hospital, whole-person health score in the EHR despite data quality issues” for the 3rd Annual International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science. [Slides]
October 2024
I visited National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Rockville, Maryland to discuss “Missing and misclassified wells: Challenges in quantifying the HIV reservoir from dilution assays.” [Slides]
August 2024
First day of school! Headshots for the new grad students (and they insisted on taking one of me, too).
August 2024
It was so fun seeing so many familiar faces in the Invited Poster Session at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon.
August 2024
I presented on “Combining straight-line and map-based distances to quantify neighborhood-level food access and its impact on health” at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon. [Poster]
July 2024
I delivered the keynote address "Connecting healthy food proximity and disease: Straight-line vs. map-based distances" at the conclusion of the Big Data Summer Institute at the University of Michigan. [Slides]
July 2024
I was fortunate to visit the final symposium for the Big Data Summer Institute at the University of Michigan. I enjoyed meeting with BDSI students and faculty! And the summer Michigan weather was divine.
June 2024
I had a wonderful time making new connections at the International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics! We even had time to enjoy some of the oldest cities in Portugal.
June 2024
I traveled to Braga, Portugal to present at my first International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics! I spoke about “Semiparametrically correcting for data quality issues to estimate whole-hospital, whole-body health from the EHR.” [Slides]
June 2024
I attended my first WNAR Annual Meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado! I shared work with Ashley Mullan on “Adjusting for misclassification to quantify the relationship between diabetes and local access to healthy foods.” [Slides]
May 2024
Congratulations to lab members Ashley Mullan (left) and Abby Draeger (center) on their graduations from Wake Forest! My Wednesdays will be so much less fun without you two.
May 2024
For their final projects in probability, students brought the bivariate normal distribution to life! They created (and decorated!) 3D models using the WakerSpace laser.
April 2024
Abby Draeger presented her honors thesis "Unearthed Disparities: Exploring the Effects of Earthquakes on HIV Care Accessibility in Latin America" to a packed room of Wake Forest students and faculty. Awesome job, Abby!
April 2024
Ashley Mullan successfully defended her M.S. thesis "Adjusting for Misclassification to Quantify the Relationship Between Diabetes and Local Access to Healthy Foods." Way to go, Ashley!
March 2024
I spoke about how “Extrapolation before imputation reduces bias when imputing heavily censored covariates” at the HiTec Meeting & Workshop on Complex Data in Econometrics and Statistics. [Slides]
March 2024
I was lucky enough to speak at the ENAR Spring Meeting alongside some amazing researchers about "Harnessing Surrogate Markers to Enrich Our Analyses and Study Designs." [Slides]
March 2024
Ashley Mullan presented M.S. thesis work "Adjusting for Measurement Error to Quantify the Relationship Between Diabetes and Local Access to Healthy Foods" at the ENAR Spring Meeting. Thesis defense here she comes!
February 2024
I visited Davidson College to share research on "Overcoming computational hurdles to quantify food access and its impact on health: a statistical approach." [Slides]
January 2024
I was invited to attend "Bridging Statistical Strategies for Censored Covariates" at the Banff International Research Station. It was like a winter wonderland!
January 2024
I discussed our finding that “Extrapolation before imputation reduces bias when imputing heavily censored covariates” at the Banff International Research Station. [Slides]