Elizabeth Stuart, PhD
Our next speaker for the Brody Center Seminar Series this spring will be Dr. Elizabeth Stuart from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Stuart will be presenting on “Combining randomized trial and electronic health record data to understand treatment effect heterogeneity: Promises and pitfalls.”
More about the speaker: Elizabeth A. Stuart, Ph.D. is the Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Chair and Bloomberg Professor of American Health in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management. She received her PhD in Statistics from Harvard University in 2004. Her research interests are in design and analysis approaches for estimating causal effects in experimental and non-experimental studies, including questions around the external validity of randomized trials and the internal validity of non-experimental studies, as well as methods for combining data sources to assess treatment effect heterogeneity and methods for evidence synthesis. Much of her work is for statistical methods for mental health and substance use, and she co-directs at T32 program on causal inference with complex data in behavioral health. She has published over 400 papers and has received research funding for her work from the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the WT Grant Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health and has served on advisory panels for the US Department of Education, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Statistical Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, received the mid-career award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the ASA, the Gertrude Cox Award for applied statistics, Harvard University’s Myrto Lefkopoulou Award for excellence in Biostatistics, and the Society for Epidemiologic Research Marshall Joffe Epidemiologic Methods award.