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Professor Jiayang Sun Case Western Reserve University jsun @case

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research and Education Programs http:// epbiwww.case.edu. Professor Jiayang Sun Case Western Reserve University jsun @case.edu. October 21, 2013. Research Faculty.

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Professor Jiayang Sun Case Western Reserve University jsun @case

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsResearch and Education Programshttp://epbiwww.case.edu Professor Jiayang Sun Case Western Reserve University jsun@case.edu October 21, 2013

  2. Research Faculty • The Dept. has a long history of outstanding research, with internationally known faculty and a Nobel Prize winner, Frederick C. Robbins. • It currently has 28 primary faculty, 87 secondary/adjunct faculty, and more expected. • It is strongly interdisciplinary, with links across the CWRU campus and extending to the UH, CCF, MetroHealth, and to similar entities across the US and internationally.

  3. Graduate Programs • PhD program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics with five concentrations • Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics • Global Health Epidemiology  • Health Behavior and Prevention • Health Care Organization, Outcomes, and Policy  • Modern Biostatistics  • MS programs • Master's of Public Health (MPH) • Master's in Biostatistics (MS) • Integrated BS/MS program with MS in Biostatistics

  4. WhyBiostatistics • Statistics is the science of data. • Biostatisticsaddresses all aspects of statistics that arise from medical and health-related sciences, with tools, techniques and science essential to these areas and applicable to all areas requiring statistics expertise. • Job Prospect: As stated in the NY Times: “For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics.” Further, Wall St also projected: Future statistics job openings by 2020 as a percentage of 2010 employment is 74.5%.

  5. CWRU Biostatistics Offerings • PhDin Epidemiology and Biostatistics w. modern biostatistics concentration • MS in Biostatistics w. expanded options • BS (Applied Math/Stat)/ MS (Biostatistics) (5y) • HITMS certificate (3 additional courses to the current MS program) • Introduction to Health Informatics (3credits) – new • Health Care Information Management & Systems (MIDS 432/NUNI 432; 3credits) • Projects in Health IT (EECS or programming related, 3credits)

  6. Questions?

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