TSHS at JSM 2025 Recap

TSHS JSM 2025 recap

The 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) was held August 2-7 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences section of the ASA was the main sponsor of a variety of exciting events, including:

• Two Invited Panel Sessions:

  • Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Opportunities in Biostatistics Graduate Education

  • Innovations in Incorporating Collaborative Skills throughout the Statistical Training Pathway

• One Topic Contributed Paper Session:

  • Addressing Faculty Salary Inequities in Higher Education

• Two Contributed Paper Sessions:

  • Applications, Innovations, and Education in Modern Statistics

  • An Analysis of Students’ Learning Outcomes and Experiences in Graduate Biostatistical Methods

  
  

• Three roundtable lunch sessions:

  • Lunch with Jayawant Mandrekar on Strategies for Integrating Statistics into Health Sciences Education at an Academic Medical Center

  • Lunch with Matt Hayat on Using JASP to Teach Bayesian Statistics to Health Science Students

  • Lunch with Milo Schield on Teaching Causal Inference Using Observational Data

In addition, TSHS also co-sponsored several sessions with other peer sections as the main sponsor. For a complete list of these sessions, please refer to the blog post by our 2025 Program Chair-Elect Alex Kaizer here.

The TSHS Mixer was held on August 4^th and began with approximately 40 attendees enjoying a variety of hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. Our sincere thanks and gratitude to STATA for sponsoring the mixer. After attendees had a chance to mingle, Jaya Satagopan, Chair of TSHS, gave a warm welcome and invited all present to participate in the door prize drawings which included the following donations:

• Stress balls (8) from NCSS Statistical Software

• Pen with stylus (5) and lanyards (5) from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

• Notebook (2) and socks with statistics motifs (2) from PHASE

• Books (2) from Springer:

  • Dose findings and beyond in pharmaceutical development Edited by J Ye, D-G Chen, W Zhou, Q Deng, JC Cappelleri

  • Modeling binary correlated responses using SAS, SPSS, R, and STATA by JR Wilson, KA Lorenz, and LP Selby

• Book (1) from Cambridge University Press

  • Regression for health and social science – Applied linear models with R by D Zelterman

• Vouchers (3) for free books from CRC Press – Taylor & Francis Group

The recipients expressed great appreciation for their prizes!

The mixer also showcased the recipients of TSHS awards:

Outstanding Teaching Award given to Jianghu (James) Dong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Young Investigator Award given to Sarah Samarodnitsky, PhD, Assistant Attending Biostatistician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Distinguished Achievement Award given to Ann Brearley, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

The Best 2025 JSM Presentation Award goes to Lynette M. Smith, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, for her presentation “Replication, Replication – Creation of a Biostatistics Capstone Course.” Dr. Smith will be presented with this award during JSM 2026.

During the mixer, we also recognized and celebrated TSHS member Cynthia Long, PhD, who was elected as a 2025 ASA Fellow “For her pioneering work in bringing statistical methods to the chiropractic profession, for her outstanding and innovative statistics and research education for the health sciences; and for service and exceptional leadership to ASA”.

The mixer was a wonderful event and well attended. We greatly appreciate everyone’s contributions and attendance. Please stay in touch and remain up to date with TSHS through our:

• Website: https://community.amstat.org/tshs/

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