Thursday, May 25, 2017
9:00 am - 10:00 am
John Morgan Class of 1962
"Errors in Variables: Implications for Epidemiological and
Clinical Research Using Administrative Data"
Phyllis Gimotty, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Gimotty's research focuses on statistical methods and their applications in cancer translational research, prevention and control, and risk assessment. She is currently the biostatistics core director for the Wistar/Penn SPORE on Skin Cancer and collaborates with cancer research investigators nationally and internationally. Her primary research interests include categorical and survival analysis, classification trees, longitudinal data, evaluating diagnostic tests and methods for incomplete data.