The Weekly WIP has been canceled due President’s Day.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Speaker: Liam Rose, PhD, Health Economist and Investigator with the Health Economics Resource Center at VA Palo Alto.
Talk Title: “An Introduction to Causal Inference with Observational Data.”

Bio: Dr. Rose’s research focuses on applied microeconomics with an emphasis on econometric techniques that can provide causal inference. His work focuses on access to care, utilization, and changes in health in the transitions to Medicare and retirement. Liam has a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Work In Progress Session

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Isabella Chu, MPH, Associate Director, Data Core, Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine
Talk Title: TBD

Bio: Isabella Chu is the Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences Data Core. Her research interests focus on the impact of housing and transportation policy on health and equity.
Her role at PHS is the acquisition of high value health datasets for research. The PHS Data Core specializes in hosting high-risk data which are used by hundreds of researchers to answer questions in precision and population health. PHS scope includes governance, regulatory compliance, data security, privacy, ethics and data management. The computational platform developed at PHS has been used by several universities throughout the United States.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Julie Tsu-Yu Wu, MD, PhD, Medical oncologist, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System
Talk Title: “Implementing Precision Oncology for Lung Cancer Survivors”

Bio: Julie Wu is a staff medical oncologist at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and with the VA National Oncology Program. With primary mentor Shipra Arya and co-mentors Leah Backhus and Summer Han, she works on improving lung cancer outcomes through the rapidly growing fields of implementation science and data science. Specific projects include targeting high risk Veterans for lung cancer screening, guiding lung cancer treatment by leveraging nation-wide clinical tumor sequencing, and informing clinical trial policy. Her work with Shipra Arya is funded through a Merit Supplement to the PAUSE trial, a multi-center clinical trial to improve outcomes in surgery patients through multidisciplinary intervention.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu