HPSS Student Award Winners at JSM 2008 - Topic Contributed Session - Monday, August 4, 2008, 2:00-3:50pm

Awards presented at the HPSS Business Meeting and Mixer
Monday, August 4, 2008 5:30-8pm
Rock Bottom Brewery
1001 16th St., Denver, CO
A few blocks stroll from the Convention Center!

Current undergraduate or graduate students at any level, as well as those graduating in 2007 who wished to present research they conducted as students, were eligible to participate.

Papers entered in the Student Competition involve a methodological innovation or a creative application of statistical analysis to an issue in health policy. Research for the submitted papers does not have to be complete, but competitors submit an abstract prospectus describing the planned research, including the nature of the intended innovations.

This is an excellent opportunity for students to present their work and begin to launch their professional careers, and we have received submissions of very high quality.

2008 winners:

Shoshana Daniel, University of Pennsylvania
An algorithm for optimal tapered matching, with application to disparities in survival
Wen Gu, University of Washington
Estimating the capacity for improvement in reisk prediction with a marker
Nan Hu, University of Washington
A new synthesis method for multiple linear regression
Megan Othus, Harvard University
A class of semiparametric mixture cure survival models with dependent censoring
James Perin, University of North Carolina
Semi-parametric efficient estimator for incomplete longitudinal binary data with application to smoking trends




We are pleased to remember the previous winners of the HPSS student paper competitions:





2007 winners:

Benjamin French, University of Washington
Analysis of Longitudinal Data to Evaluate a Policy Change
Ying Huang, University of Washington
Evaluating predictive capacity of continuous biomarkers
Michael Law, Havard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare
Is Newer Always Better? Re-evaluating the Benefits of Newer Pharmaceuticals
Charles Minard, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Testing for Trends in a Two-State Markov Model with Applications in Smoking Cessation Studies
Qing Pan, University of Michigan
Evaluating Bias Correction in Weighted Proportional Hazards Regression




2006 winners:

• Kate Stewart (Harvard Medical School), "Understanding Self-Reported Disability Among the Elderly: A Novel Use of Anchoring Vignettes"
   
• Haijun Ma (University of Minnesota), "Hierarchical and Joint Site-Edge Methods for Medicare Hospice Service Region Boundary Analysis"
   
• Ulysses Diva (University of Connecticut), "Extending the Capture-Recapture Methodology to Estimate Disease Subpopulation Sizes in the Presence of Disease Cross-Classification"
   
• Justin Timbie (Harvard University), "Methods for Profiling the Value of Hospital Care Following Acute Myocardial Infarction"
   
• Philip Dinh (University of Washington), "Nonparametric Statistical Methods for a Cost Effectiveness Analysis"
   




2005 winners:

• John Robinson (John Hopkins University), "A Hierarchical, Multivariate, Two-part Model for Profiling Providers' Effects on Health Care Charges"
   
• Eloise Kaizar (Carnegie Mellon University), "Do Antidepressants Cause Suicide in Children? A Bayesian Metaanalysis"
   
• Hai (Kevin) Lin (The University of Texas), "A Comparison of Estimators of Population Slope under Informative Dropout"
   
• Rebecca Boehm (Medical University of South Carolina), "On the Utility of Estimators of Stochastic Models of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease"
   
• Manuela Buzoianu (Carnegie Mellon University), "Optimal Bayesian Design for Patient Selection in a Clinical Trial"
   




2004 winners:

• Douglas Levy (Harvard U), "Covariate Adjustment in Clinical Trials with Nonignorable Missing Data and Noncompliance"
   
• Yulei He (U Michigan), "Handling Missing Longitudinal Covariates in Child-development Study: A Functional Multiple Imputation Approach"
   
• Marianne Bertolet (Carnegie Mellon U), "Inclusion of Sampling Weights in Mixed-Effects Models: A Comparison of Two Methods"
   
• Jeff M. Allen (ACT and U Iowa), "Comparison of Fixed and Random-effects Methods for Predicting Cancer Incidence in Iowa Counties Using SEER Data"
   
• Maria E. Montez (Boston U), "Statistical Model Comparisons for Prediction of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Cost in the Veterans Health Administration"
   




2003 winners:

• I-Chan Huang (John Hopkins U), "Application of a propensity score approach for risk adjustment in multiple physician group profiling on asthma care"
   
• Min Zhang (Cornell U), "Profiling pharmacy expenditures in managed care: Bayesian inference for a 2-part hierarchical model"
   
• Roberto Leon (U York), "Mental Health and Wages: An Empirical Analysis"
   
• Anirban Basu (Chicago U), "Estimating Marginal and Incremental Effects on Health Outcomes using Flexible Link and Variance Function Models"
   
• Alex R. de Leon (U Calgary; PhD from U Alberta), "General mixed-data model: Extension of general location and grouped continuous models"
   




2002 winners:

• Doug Schaubel (UNC), "Regression Modelling of Gap Time Hazard Functions for Serial Failure Time Data"
   
• Bingming Yi (NCSU), "A Factorial Design to Optimize Cell-Based Drug Discovery Analysis"
   
• Rivka Yanetz (Bar-Ilan U.), "Application of the Proportion Explained to the Analysis of Length of Stay in Hospital after Surgery"
   




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