Wenbo Wu

Just published in JOSS: 'rjaf: Regularized Joint Assignment Forest with Treatment Arm Clustering' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07843

🚨 HHS reorganization reports raise alarms about AHRQ & health research. In today's Situation Report, we highlight a recent letter from Congress calling for the preservation of AHRQ amid a possible HHS reorganization: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-03...

Please consider signing up for this webinar about dynamic prediction methods, given by Dr. Alessandro Gasparini from Red Door Analytics on Feb 12 and sponsored by the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section.

ASA Community The ASA Community is an online gateway for member collaboration and connection.

📢📢The 4th Lifetime Data Science Conference will take place May 28–30, 2025, at New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, NY, USA. This event will feature keynotes by Drs. Nicholas Jewell and Mei-Ling Lee, short courses, 60+ invited sessions, and a banquet on May 29. Register and join us!

Making kidney tests work for everyone The United States has moved to deracialize kidney diagnostics. The move addresses major health-equity issues — but it also shines a light on a problematic clinical test.

Our study, the first post-implementation evaluation of the removal of race adjustment from the eGFR equation, is discussed in this Nature feature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We found no change in nephrology referrals & visits

Our paper, led by Marika Cusick proceedings.mlr.press/v248/cusick2...

A special shout-out to @alecmcclean.bsky.social and @idiaz.bsky.social for getting this incredible work done within a couple of months!

Excited that I will join @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Data Science in June 2025!
@idiaz.bsky.social
and I are seeking a postdoc to work on statistics, causal inference, ML, LLMs, NLP, etc. Details at forms.stat.ufl.edu/statistics-j.... Feel free to apply and share!

RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians Kennedy and advisers say the system drives doctors to perform costly surgeries rather than combating chronic disease.

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 + Democrats have also called for more $$ for primary care.

"There’s no way you can just sit down & do a `big thing', or at least I can’t. So I just went back to doing lots of little things, & hoping that some of them will turn out okay. Statistics is a wonderfully forgiving field... all you have to do is get an idea & keep at it."

- Brad Efron #statsquotes