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Congratulations to Dr. Lee on being named chair of National Cheng Kung University's Department of Statistics!

Researchers debunk long-standing concern about flu treatment in children Researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt have debunked a long-standing theory about oseltamivir, known as Tamiflu.

Vanderbilt Biostatistics faculty member Yuwei Zhu is co-author of a study debunking claims that Tamiflu causes seizures and other neuropsychiatric events news.vumc.org/2025/08/04/r...

Statisticians from Vanderbilt & 3 Taiwanese universities are presenting a half-day symposium on August 2, featuring @spiekerstats.bsky.social @vandyatvandy.bsky.social and more! Full lineup at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

‘Statisticians Leading the Way’ panel to be part of Joint Statistical Meeting Conference, Aug. 4 news.vumc.org/2025/06/24/s... feat. Vanderbilt Biostatistics faculty Cathy Shyr, Paul Harris & Cindy Chen

Statisticians from Vanderbilt & 3 Taiwanese universities are presenting a half-day symposium on August 2, featuring @spiekerstats.bsky.social @vandyatvandy.bsky.social and more! Full lineup at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Dr. Bob Johnson receives Outstanding Chapter Service award from the ASA We are delighted to announce that the American Statistical Association (ASA) has named Dr. Bob Johnson as a 2025 recipient of its Outstanding Chapter Service Award. His contributions to the Middle Ten...

Congratulations to Dr. Bob Johnson on his Outstanding Chapter Service Award @amstatnews.bsky.social! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... Recently retired from @vanderbilt.edu, Dr. Johnson previously received the award in 1996 for his longtime service to the Virginia chapter.

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Thrilled to see International Journal of STD and AIDS paper first-authored by one of our first VN-Biostat fellows, Dr. Bryan Shepherd, Dr. Muktar Aliyu, and more journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #sicklecell #HIV #kidneydisease #Nigeria #WestAfrica

eNRSA: a faster and more powerful approach for nascent transcriptome analysis Abstract. Nascent RNA sequencing tracks primary transcriptional events, making it crucial for studying the immediate regulatory changes of genes and enhanc

New methods paper @gigascience.bsky.social has an all-Vanderbilt byline, with Biostatistics research assistant professor Jing Wang and data scientist Hua-Chang Chan as co-first authors and professors Yu Shyr and Qi Liu as co-corresponding authors. academic.oup.com/gigascience/... #transcriptomics

Do you know someone who deserves to be recognized for outstanding or groundbreaking work? Is your institution embarking on an exciting project? Send ACTS your story using this form to be highlighted in future issues of the ACTS Connection. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.

We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW

Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center receives federal funding to support world-class research as a Center of Excellence The Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center has received a five-year, $25 million Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center of Excellence award.

Biostatistics faculty Dandan Liu & Panpan Zhang are key members & co-authors of a @kaidikang.bsky.social (PhD 2025) award-winning presentation: Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center receives federal funding to support world-class research as a Center of Excellence   news.vumc.org/2025/07/02/v...

2025 Joint Statistical Meetings - Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. Attended by more than 5,000 people, meeting activities include oral presentations, panel sessions,...

See the ASA @amstatnews.bsky.social full local page for info on caregiver grants and other support for #JSM2025 in Nashville #MusicCity ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm...

Planning your trip to Nashville for #JSM2025? The ASA ( @amstatnews.bsky.social) has created an Insider's Guide for you, with suggestions from Vanderbilt Biostatistics and Mid-TN chapter members (thanks to everyone who weighed in! ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm...

What's in the Senate Version of Trump's Big Policy Bill? The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.

If gutting healthcare for poor people & ensuring the uberwealthy don't see a tax increase reflects your values- well, you're not a good person. There's no point in sugarcoating it. 🤷🏾‍♂️ #OBBB

If you don't approve, call your Representative: www.house.gov/representati...

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@harvardmed.bsky.social putting right on its homepage features about cancer research at risk, threats to research funding and progress, and doctor shortages hms.harvard.edu

My spouse was a big fan of Dead Can Dance back in the day, Lisa Gerrard co-composed the movie score with Hans Zimmer, and the conductor-producer worked directly with her. The insights he's serving up in rehearsals @nashvillesymphony.org = a fun time. #WhatIDoBesidesCheerleadingBiostatistics

Speaking of Nashville Symphony Chorus, the last concert of the season's this Wednesday: www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/conc...

Many U.S. Adults Wouldn't Test for Suspected COVID, Survey Shows Findings reveal factors that may shape self-test decisions

Why I wear a mask even during Symphony Chorus rehearsals: Many U.S. Adults Wouldn't Test for Suspected COVID, Survey Shows www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Alzheimer's & Dementia: Vol 21, No 7 Click on the title to browse this issue

In the June issue @alzdemjournals.bsky.social: paper with first authors @kaidikang.bsky.social (PhD biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu 2025) & assistant professor Panpan Zhang, & associate professor Dandan Liu as senior/corresponding author doi.org/10.1002/alz.... #neurology #reproducibility #Alzheimers

👏 Huge congratulations to Assistant Prof @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social Lotspeich for her Societal Impact Award from the @cwstat.bsky.social! Dr. Lotspeich is being recognized for her outstanding efforts and impact on social justice through your collaboration, leadership, and partnerships.

🆕 Check out this new article in @hbr.org written by @lucystats.bsky.social (Assistant Prof) and Jeff Camm (Prof in @wakeforest.bsky.social School of Business) demystifying the use of percentages in statistics. Read more ⬇️

🆕 I'm excited to share a new arXiv preprint with Anh Nguyen and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social on "Linking Potentially Misclassified Healthy Food Access to Diabetes Prevalence." I couldn't have asked for a better duo to help my first first-author paper come together! 😊

🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2505.01465

Dr. Lin is co-teaching "a practical tutorial for analyzing complex data with minimum assumptions" at #JSM2025 with Vanderbilt assistant prof of biostatistics and psychiatry Jinyuan Liu & professor Xin Tu @ucsandiego.bsky.social ww3.aievolution.com/JSMAnnual202... #microbiome #HIV #HighThroughput

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Vanderbilt Biostatistics prof Bill Dupont @wddupont.bsky.social (shown here at Friday's intern presentations) is on the scientific committee of the 2025 Stata Conference in Nashville July 31-August 1, right before #JSM2025: www.stata.com/meeting/us25 The venue is close to a great museum & eateries!

Predicting Heart Failure Outcomes Using Patient-Reported Health Status: Real-World Validation of the KCCQ-12 - PubMed In outpatient heart failure care, lower KCCQ-OS scores were strongly associated with increased hospitalizations and mortality, with the greatest risk among patients with scores <25. Noncompletion of t...

Brand-new @jaccjournals.bsky.social - paper on predicting heart failure outcomes co-authored by Vanderbilt lead biostatistician Amy Perkins and professors Rob Greevy and Michael Matheny. #MachineLearning #HealthInformatics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40499980/ #PCORI #NIHfunded

VUMC-led research a step closer to understanding, preventing asthma Infants who develop a “wheezing illness” or infected by RSV before their 1st birthday are at increased risk for subsequent and severe viral infections and childhood asthma.

Nice piece this week about an asthma study co-authored by Vanderbilt Biostatistics' Tebeb Gebretsadik and Siyuan Ma: news.vumc.org/2025/06/17/c... #NIHfunded #pediatrics

Flyer for the 2025 Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute. Text details on flyer (course names, dates, instructors, pricing) available at tiny url.com/CQSSummer. Illustrations: hand holding a tablet pencil with an overlay of white tech-themed icons; snapshot of woman next to slide projected in front of class, with caption "Qi Liu teaching Big Data, 2024"; three overlapping pastel bell curves with an italic "x" with the caption "Adaptix Trials logo. Details at adaptixtrials.com"

Early registration (20% discount) for the CQS Summer Institute is open through June 17. www.vumc.org/cqs/cqs-summ...

Instructors include Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor Ben French, who is teaching Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data July 17-18.

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Thinking about submitting a talk to LatinR this year?
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Whether it’s your first abstract or your fifth, we’re here to help!
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Vanderbilt Biostatistics prof Tatsuki Koyama is on this team. The study was highlighted as highly impactful in Dr. Jane Freedman's State of the Department of Medicine Address last week. news.vumc.org/2025/06/06/v...