2024-25
August 14, 2024: Huang-tz Anita Ou, Professor in the Department of Pharmacy and the Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, RWE-based health outcomes and economic assessments to support reimbursement decisions in Taiwan
September 25, Francesca Farina, Research Associate, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology-Urogynecology, University of Chicago, Fear of dementia: Why it’s important and what we can do about it
October 23, Olga Morozova, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Using modeling to improve public health decision-making in the presence of interference
November 20, Robert Smith, Research Associate, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Where should new parkrun events be located? Modelling the potential impact of new events on socio-economic inequalities in access and participation. Video available HERE.
December 11, Jamie Griffin, Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology-Urogynecology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Opportunities for patient-centered self-report assessment and medical decision making: Two cheers for patient-reported outcomes
January 29, Ashley Leech, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Decision Analysis for Prenatal Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Ethical & Practical Considerations
March 26, Joon-Wook Ban, Fellow, University of Chicago Medicine, Systemic Reviews in Decision-Making. Video available HERE.
April 16, Lesli Skolarus, Professor of Neurology, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, and James Burke, Professor of Neurology, Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, A workshop thinking about medication prioritization among stroke survivors
April 30, Julia Slejko, Associate Professor, Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research (P-SHOR), University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Health Inequality Aversion in the United States.
May 28, Austin Wesevich, MD, MPH, MS, Instructor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine
2023/2024
September 6, 2023
James Altunkaya, MSc
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in the Health Economics Research Centre at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
Building a new patient-level model for prediabetes
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October 13, 2023
Narges Mohammadi
Ph.D. Student in Operations Management and Analytics
Imperial College Business School, London
Optimal post-treatment recurrence surveillance: the case of head and neck cancer
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November 29, 2023
Melissa I. Franco, MPH
3rd year PhD student in Health Policy (Decision Science)
Stanford University
Health Policy Modeling of Breast Cancer in Mexico: A diagnostic and treatment capacity constraint analysis
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January 31, 2024
Jennifer Hwang, DO
PITCH fellow, Section of General Internal Medicine
University of Chicago
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February 28, 2024
William F. Parker, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
2022/2023
July 27, 2022
Michael Hermsen, University of Chicago
Critical Care Allocation Under Crisis Standards of Care
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August 31, 2022
Jenny Spencer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
Modeling Disparities in Cervical Cancer Prevention and Screening
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October 5, 2022
Yuan Ji, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago
Yitan Zhu, PhD, Computational Scientist IV, Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Prediction of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression Using Artificial Intelligence And Electronic Health Records
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October 26, 2022
Chien-Ching Li, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Health Systems Management
Rush University
Lung Cancer Screening: Practice and Research
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November 30, 2022
Zhiqiu Ye, PhD
AcademyHealth Delivery System Science Fellow
Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation (HDSI)
University of Chicago Medicine
Optimizing CMS Inspection Scheduling: A Simulation Approach
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January 25, 2023
David M. Kent, MD, CM, MS
Director, Predictive Analytics and Comparative Effectiveness (PACE) Center
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS)
Tufts Medical Center
Director, Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) MS/PhD Program
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Professor of Medicine, Neurology, and CTS
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts University
Personalized evidence-based medicine: general principles and the example of PFO-associated stroke
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February 22, 2023
Eric Polley, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences
Director, Biostatistics Laboratory
University of Chicago
Opportunities and challenges in emulating clinical trials using medical claims data: Experiences from the GRADE trial emulation project
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March 29, 2023
Hui Shao, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Hubert Department of Global Health
Emory University
Using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to Support Precision Medicine and Precision Public Health Policy in Diabetes
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April 26, 2023
Reza Skandari, PhD Assistant Professor of Health Operations, Imperial College Business School
Efficient Discovery of Cost-effective Policies in Sequential, Medical Decision-Making Problems
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May 31, 2023
David D. Kim, PhD
University of Chicago
Development and Validation of the U.S. Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease Microsimulation (DOC-M) Model: Health Disparity and Economic Impact Model
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June 28, 2023
Tricia J. Johnson, PhD
Rush University
Improving the Health of Very Low Birth Weight Infants from an Economic Lens