Work In Progress Session
Title: “Internal S-SPIRE Center Round Table Check-In”
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: Manali Patel, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oncology, Stanford Health Care.
Talk Title: “Barriers and Facilitators in the Conduct of Multilevel Community-Based Cancer Research.”
Bio: Dr. Manali Patel is an Assistant Professor at Stanford in the Division of Oncology and a Staff Thoracic Oncologist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She is a health services researcher and directs a research program that focuses on improving equitable delivery of value-based cancer care. She uses principles of community-based participatory research in her work and is the principal investigator of multiple externally funded awards such as the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Patel serves on several national committees focused on improving cancer care delivery and value-based care. She earned her MD and Masters in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by Internal Medicine Residency, Hematology and Oncology Fellowship and several research fellowships in addition to obtaining a Masters in Health Services Research at Stanford
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