PhD/MSc Alumni
2005
Thesis Title: Co-op Report
First Position: PhD Student Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC
Current Position: Director of Epidemiology, Oxford Outcomes
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: A Novel Meta-Analysis of Disparate Datasets in Stem Cell Culture
First Position: Sessional Instructor, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Bayesian Curve Fitting with Roughness Penalty Prior Distributions
Supervisor: Paul Gustafson
First Position: Data Analyst, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Does Culture Affect the Location of Death among Cancer Patients in British Columbia?: A Pilot Study Utilizing Standard and Novel Statistical Methods in End-of-Life Research
Supervisor: Maria C. Barroetavena
First Position: PhD Student Department of Statistics, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Effect of Shorter Screening Intervals on the Survival Probability of Women Diagnosed with Breast
Supervisor: Andrew Coldman
First Position: Biostatistician, Fisheries Centre, UBC
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models with Dropout and Missing Covariates When the Dropout Depends on the Random Effects
First Position: PhD Student Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Current Position: Google Inc.
Program: MSc
Thesis Title: Simultaneous Non-Parametric Constrained Regressions of Unbalanced Longitudinal Data
Supervisor: Nancy E. Heckman
First Position: Position: Statistician, iCapture Centre, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
Program: MSc
2004
Thesis Title: Separation Index, Variable Selection and Sequential Algorithm for Cluster Analysis
Supervisor: Harry Joe
First Position: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Program: PhD
Thesis Title: Identifying Possible Bladder Cancer Occupational Carcinogens via a Case-Control Study and JEM
First Position: Statistical Analyst, Health Economics Unit, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Program: MSc