Sarah Lotspeich

💎 Emily Huang (Associate Professor) received a shoutout in Ji-Hyun Lee's "Hidden Gems" President's Corner for @amstatnews.bsky.social. We are so lucky to have you, Emily!

Reviewing proofs for a recently accepted paper on a train to the Scottish Highlands? Yes, please. #sabbatical

Such fun bringing stats and crafts together!! And lovely meeting you Lucy 😊

Huge congratulations to two of my favorite colleagues @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & Staci Hepler on their SUCH well deserved CWS awards at #JSM2025 👏 👏

Thank you! 😊

Rescheduled for Friday, September 19 so there’s still time!

🎙️: "Rerouting Our Thinking: Computationally Simple Measures Misrepresent the Food Access Landscape"

🗓️: Friday, Aug 1st, 2–3PM EST

🔗: Register online at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

👋 Want to hear about our recent work on measurement error in food access measures? Sign up for this Friday's North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association Webinar! It's free, and I'd love to see you there!

Love these!! A *significant* addition to the post!

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How many stats puns as slide titles is too many? Asking for a friend...

🆕 I'm excited to share a new arXiv preprint with Anh Nguyen and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social on "Linking Potentially Misclassified Healthy Food Access to Diabetes Prevalence." I couldn't have asked for a better duo to help my first first-author paper come together! 😊

🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2505.01465

Hi Annie! A great question. The data pull for this work was done a year or so ago, but we definitely need to be mindful of data quality and availability going forward. I’m not aware of any other global options but if you are I’d love to know about them! I honestly haven’t looked for them yet.

⚡️ Kind, knowledgable collaborators who shared my vision and amplified my energy.

🗺️ Funds to let my map-loving heart run a little wild and chase a hypothesis.

📈 High-quality public health datasets from CDC that enable research like this.

📄 The most pleasant, constructive peer-review process.

🙏 I'm grateful for a lot with this paper, and I'm excited about all of the future directions that are already underway.🧵

#NRC2025 The 2025 New Researchers Conference, sponsored by Institute of Mathematical Statistics and hosted by Vanderbilt Biostatistics, welcomes applications from early-career researchers (PhDs earned 2018-2025). Space is limited; apply by May 15 to be considered for an invite. nrc2025.github.io

🎙️ Today at 11:30 AM (Central) @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social (Assistant Prof) will be discussing an imputation solution to accurately and efficiently measure access to healthy foods and its relationship to obesity at #ENAR2025. See more 👇

🎙️ Catch Ashley Mullan (Masters Alum) and Cassandra Hung (Undergrad Researcher) at tonight's #ENAR2025 poster session (8-11PM CT). Ashley will discuss visualizing cost-effectiveness for cancer treatment, and Cassandra's work evaluates the impact of measurement error on health disparities models.

Thank you so much!! It’s really my honor 🥹

🤗 Looking forward to connecting with everyone next week, and especially excited for Cassandra Hung’e and @ashleymullan.bsky.social’s poster presentations on Sunday night!

Overcoming data challenges to measure whole-person health in electronic health records The allostatic load index (ALI) is a composite measure of whole-person health. Data from electronic health records (EHR) present a huge opportunity to operationalize the ALI in the learning health sys...

Read the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05380 This project definitely took a village, and I'm immensely grateful to our collaborators for making it such a success! Also, I think this paper has my prettiest figures yet. 👩‍🎨

🆕 I'm excited to share our recently completed work on "Overcoming data challenges to measure whole-person health in electronic health records," for which Joe Rigdon and I received one of the first intercampus collaborative grants from Wake Forest University and Wake Forest School of Medicine.

🤩 Lucky to be your classmate. Even luckier to be your colleague. Yay, Lucy!!

🎉 Last night two of our faculty attended the NC ASA Annual Dinner to hear from Ron Wasserstein about improbability, mingle, and receive awards! Robert Erhardt (Chair and Prof) received the Senior Statistician Award and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social (Assistant Prof) received the Service Award.

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The Vanderbilt Biostatistics paid summer internship program for undergraduates (stipend of up to $4500, May 12 - June 20) is extending its application deadline to February 17 since its website is down. Access the application form directly at redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=A...

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That moment when your mentee catches bugs in her R code that would've taken you so long to find! @ashleymullan.bsky.social, you always make me so proud 🤩

There’s still time! Apply to join us!

😍 What an incredible setting for a conference! Thanks for bringing me to San Diego, @amstatnews.bsky.social! Can’t wait for my first ICHPS.

Combining straight-line and map-based distances to investigate the connection between proximity to healthy foods and disease Healthy foods are essential for a healthy life, but accessing healthy food can be more challenging for some people than others. This disparity in food access may lead to disparities in well-being, pot...

➡️ Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.16385

Sarah C. Lotspeich, Ph.D. - Talks Anticipated

➡️ Slides: www.sarahlotspeich.com/talks