Presentations, Workshops, and Posters

An invited talk in a symposium titled “Can we have our cake and eat it too? Integrating epidemiologic and econometric methods to causal inference”, organized by Ellicott Matthay.

An invited seminar at the North Carolina State University Department of Statistics.

An invited talk at the 2025 ENAR Spring Meeting, in a session titled “It’s All About the Estimand: Asking the Right Questions to Best Inform Health Policy Decisions” organized by Nandita Mitra.

A methods webinar in a series sponsored by the NIMH-funded Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness, aiming to highlight advanced quantitative methods and mixed methods to help answer important questions in mental health services research.

An invited virtual seminar for the University of Pennsylvania Health Policy / Center for Health Initiatives and Behavioral Economics analytics group.

A 2-hour pre-conference workshop at ICHPS 2025 on blending high-quality design, analysis, and qualitative research to produce impactful policy evaluation studies.

An invited talk on the policy trial emulation framework with application to mental health at the Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health.

Health policy researchers often have questions about the effects of state policy on individual-level outcomes collected over multiple …

An invited virtual seminar as part of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association’s monthly webinar series.

Health policy researchers often have questions about the effects of a policy implemented at some cluster-level unit, e.g., states, …

A talk at SER 2023 in an invited symposium titled “Specifying and emulating target trials to estimate causal effects of complex exposures” organized by Ellen Caniglia.

Health policy researchers often have questions about the effects of state policy on individual-level outcomes collected over multiple …

A contributed presentation at JSM 2022. Part of a session on “Statistical Methods in Policy Evaluation: From COVID-19 to Medical Cannabis–Related Policy”.

A talk for the Research in Progress seminar series from the Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longeivty in Mental Illness. I provide an overview of difference-in-differences (DiD), highlight a challenge (and solution) that arises when using individual-level data in DiD analyses, and offer guidance on when and how individual-level data is useful.

A contributed presentation at JSM 2022. Part of a session on “Statistical Methods in Policy Evaluation: From COVID-19 to Medical Cannabis–Related Policy”.

A poster at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2022. I describe a simulation study investigating performance of difference-in-differences methods using hierarchical data for state-level health policy evaluation.

A talk at the 2022 American Causal Inference Conference offering advice on communicating cutting-edge methods for an applied audience, drawing on experience with using the augmented synthetic control method in a paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Part of a session on methodological innovations for challenges in health policy and clinical care.

A 2-hour pre-conference workshop on adaptive interventions and SMARTs geared towards behavioral health scientists at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting 2022.

A 45-minute seminar on dynamic treatment regimens (DTRs) and sequential multiple-assignment randomized trials geared towards a clinical audience.

The Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness hosts trainings for researchers interested in methods used in health services research. This series of videos provides an introduction to the use of SMARTs to build high-quality adaptive interventions for health services.

A 45-minute seminar on dynamic treatment regimens (DTRs) and sequential multiple-assignment randomized trials for a clinical audience.

A dissertation defense completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Statistics) at the University of Michigan.

A contributed oral presentation at ENAR 2021.

A contributed oral presentation at JSM 2020.

A contributed oral presentation at ENAR 2020.

An oral presentation given as part of an invited session at CMStatistics 2019 on recent advances in methods for dynamic treatment regimes.

A contributed oral presentation at JSM 2019.

A contributed oral presentation at the 2019 Society for Clinical Trials Annual Meeting.

A poster presented at the 2019 Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences.

An oral presentation for a topic contributed session at JSM 2018 on “issues and advances in power calculations for mental health studies”.

A poster presented during the 7th Annual Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health.

A contributed oral presentation at the 2018 ENAR Spring Meeting.

A poster presented at the 2017 Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences. Winner, Best Departmental Poster (Statistics).

A 45-minute invited presentation on SMARTs with binary outcomes for the U-M Department of Statistics’ Graduate Student Seminar.

A poster at the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences. Winner, Best Departmental Poster Award, Biostatistics.

A contributed poster at the 2014 IMPACT Symposium on Multiplicity Adjustment and SMARTs.