NHLBI T32: Activities

NCSU/Duke T32 CVD biostatistics working group seminar (ZOOM) presents

• Conor Artman  ” Deep Learning for Cardiovascular Assessments without Segmentation” April 6 2023 @ 4:30PM
• Jimmy Hickey “ Improving Event Time Prediction by Learning to Partition the Time Horizon” March 2 2023 @4:30PM
• Michael Gao “Federated Learning for Cardiac Surgery Risk Prediction and Hospital Comparisons” December 1 2022 @ 4:30PM
• Grace Rhodes “Statistical considerations for non-ITT treatment comparisons in the ISCHEMIA trial” October 6 2022 @4:30

Annual Spring DCRI/T32 Meeting

(April 28, 2023 10:00AM-12:00PM)

• Xiaoxia Champon,
• Michael Gao
• Kaiyuan Hua
• Richard Watson
• Conor Artman
• Jimmy Hickey
• Grace Rhodes

Fall Symposium, Department of Statistics, NCSU

(September 1, 2022 4:30PM – 5:30PM)

• Grace Rhodes: “Outcomes with Revascularization Compared with Conservative Management in 3-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease”
• Conor Artman: “ A Robust and Data-Efficient Deep Learning Model for Cardiac Assessment”
• Richard Watson: “Using Big Data to Predict Heart Failure”
• Xiaoxia Champon: “Seasonal Variation in Blood Pressure Control Across US Health Systems”
• Jimmy Hickey: “Unsupervised Survival Clustering with Dynamic Cutpoints”

RCR/Ethics requirements

RCR through Duke Ethics Courses.

Coming Up

Writing Workshop (TBA)

Communicating Science Short Course (TBA)

Selected Informal Social Events

• Dinner for Student/Faculty DCRI/Duke BB/NCSU: November 28 5-7PM. Activities will likely include e.g., dinner, tour, informal talks by faculty/staff, and ping pong. 
• DCRI trainee Microsoft Teams community:   a community for all trainees to either collaborate on technical questions or plan for the “Happy Hour”.  We connect, update and celebrate through social events, which allows us to share experiences and develop a network that could be useful after graduation. 
• Lunch/Dinner welcoming new trainees (yearly event)