Medical College of Wisconsin Biostatistics Events

• March 4* - Dr. Michael Martens
• April 11** - Dr. James Berger from Duke University & Dr. Wesley Johnson from UC Irvine (WI Chapter Workshop)
• April 18* - Dr. Jarad Niemi from Iowa State University
• April 25* - Dr. Lu Mao from UW Madison

* 12-1:15 p.m.
** All day or a half day

To be notified of upcoming Biostats Talks, email Gabby Williams

View 2025 Events for upcoming 2025 Guest Speakers.

12/03/2024: Large Sample Inference with Dynamic Information Borrowing | Dr. Sergey Tarima, MCW, Division of Biostatistics

10/08/2024: Scalable Smoothing in High Dimensions with BARTS (PDF)| Dr. Sameer Deshpande, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

10/15/2024: Non-Linear Inverse Problems in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PDF) | Dr. Nikolai Mickevicius, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., Biophysics

10/17/2023: Sample Size & Power Determination for Common Nonlinear Regression Models with Potential Stratification | Michael Martens, PhD - Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.

10/22/2024: A Tour of Oblique Random Survival Forests (PDF) | Nicholas Pajewski, PhD, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University

10/24/2023: Multiple Testing in Sequential Experiments (PDF) | Michael Baron, PhD - Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University 

11/14/2023: TBD | Chen-Han Yu, PhD - Assistant Professor and Applied Statistics Director, Marquette University

11/12/2024: Optimal Relevant Subset Design (PDF) | Dr. Adam Lane, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children's

10/17/2023: Sample Size & Power Determination for Common Nonlinear Regression Models with Potential Stratification (PDF) | Michael Martens, PhD - Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. 

10/24/2023: Multiple Testing in Sequential Experiments (PDF) | Michael Baron, PhD - Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University (

11/14/2023: TBD | Chen-Han Yu, PhD - Assistant Professor and Applied Statistics Director, Marquette University

12/06/2022: Deep Neural Networks with Knockoff Features Identify Non-Linear Causal Relations and Estimate Effect Sizes in Complex Biological Systems (PDF) | Hyun Jung (HJ) Park, PhD, University of Pittsburgh's School of Public Health 

11/15/2022: Accelerated Fitting of Joints Models (PDF) | Yan Gao, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / Division of Biostatistics

11/04/2022: Optimising Group Sequential and Adaptive Designs: Where Frequentist meets Bayes (PDF) | Christopher Jennison, PhD, University of Bath, United Kingdom 

10/04/2022: Using Selection and Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Mortality Outcome (PDF) | Stacy Zhang, PhD, New York University, Long Island School of Medicine 

09/27/2022: Spatio-Temporal Process Monitoring Using Exponentially Weighted Spatial LASSO (PDF) | Kai Yan, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / Division of Biostatistics

04/19/2022: What is Old is New Again: Pragmatism, Marvin Zelen, and Advanced Care Planning | Nick M. Pajewski, PhD (PDF), Wake Forest University 

04/18/2022: Predictive Analysis: On Knee X-ray Image and Mosquito Spectral Data | Manzur Farazi, PhD (PDF), Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. / Department of Pediatric Surgery

04/14/2022: Statistical Methods for Integrative Analyses of High Dimensional Datasets | Sean McCabe, PhD (PDF),  Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

04/12/2022: Scalable Risk Modeling for Administrative Databases and Disease Registries | Wenbo Wu, PhD (PDF), University of Michigan 

04/05/2022: Statistical Method for Multivariate Survival and Competing Risks Data in Case Co-hurt Design | Soyoung Kim, PhD (PDF), Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / Division of Biostatistics

03/22/2022: Development and Validation of the Diabetes Outcome Model for the US (DOMUS)| Aaron N. Winn, PhD (PDF), Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / School of Pharmacy

03/08/2022: Design and Analysis Considerations for an Umbrella Trial for Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Megan Othus, PhD (PDF), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

02/22/2022: Designing Case-Cohort Studies | Jianwen Cai, PhD (PDF), University of North Carolina

12/05/2021: Bayesian Knockoff Generators for Robust inference under complex data structure | Michael Martens, PhD (PDF), Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / Division of Biostatistics

11/16/2021: A unified linear mixed model for familial relatedness and population structure in genetic association studies | Tao Wang, PhD (PDF), Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / Division of Biostatistics

10/05/2021: CAR T-cell therapy: Clinical Outcomes and Statistical Considerations | Amy Moskop, PhD (PDF), Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / Department of Pediatrics / Children's Wisconsin

02/25/2020: Structural Bioinformatics and the Next Frontiers of Genetic Data Interpretation | Michael Zimmermann, PhD (PDF), Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact, the Biostats 2020 seminar series was canceled until further notice. These steps were in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and MCW internal leadership's guidelines and recommendations at the time.

06/07 - 06/08: Ensemble Learning with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees | Robert E. McCulloch, PhD, Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University & Rodney Sparapani, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin

11/05/2021:State of the Art Strategies for Addressing Selection Bias when Comparing Two or More Treatment Groups | Daniel McCaffrey, PhD, Associate Vice Presidents, ETS Insights

05/26/2023: CTSI Spotlight Seminar Series: Working with EHR Data: Defining Your Outcomes | Sergey Tarima, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics

04/28/2023: CTSI Spotlight Seminar Series: Working with EHR Data: Defining the Study Cohort | Aniko Szabo, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics

03/31/2023: CTSI Spotlight Seminar Series: Designing Observational Studies Using Electronic Health Record Data | Ruta Brazauskas, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics

07/15/2022: An Introduction to Big Data Mining of Electronic Health Record with Jupyterhub, R, SQL, and SAS (PDF) | Kristen Osinski, Senior Enterprise Business Analyst, CTSI; Rodney Sparapani, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Bradley Taylor, MBA, Chief Research Informatics Officer, CTSI

10/09/2020 Simple Statistics with Excel (PDF) | Aniko Szabo, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) / Division Biostatistics

Data Peers is a unique opportunity to learn and network with professionals who work with data on a daily basis in our community, including MCW, Children’s Wisconsin, UW-Milwaukee, Zablocki VA, and Marquette. The meet-up is a mix of presentations and networking opportunities that provide you with valuable insights into the daily work of our speakers.

During these sessions, attendees have the chance to hear from a variety of departments and learn about the innovative work being done in the field of data analysis. The speakers provide valuable insights into their daily work, allowing us to gain a better understanding of the latest trends, technologies, and methodologies in the industry.

Upcoming Events:

October 11, 2023: 3-4 p.m., Hub A9030
November 1, 2023: 3-4 p.m., Hub A6628
December 6, 2023: 3-4 p.m., Hub A2545