Peg Duthie

@plduthie.bsky.social

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Personal account of professional biostatistics cheerleader. Exploring how things work. Standard disclaimers apply.

Open laptop in front of sunny meadow, with list of course titles and dates (available at https://www.vumc.org/cqs/cqs-summer-institute)
Headshots of three Asian students against black background with "Congratulations, May 2026 graduates" in gold text
headshot of white woman with brown pixie cut, wearing brown plaid blazer over camel-colored shirt with black lanyard
Small white dog with bunny ears on sofa with big pile of textured beige cushions
Assistant professor Amber Hackstadt stands with her mentee, MTSU (@mtsuofficial.bsky.social) undergrad Jose Suchite, and the scientific poster they co-authored during Jose's 2025 internship
Chinese American woman with long black hair in black blouse with blurred multistory building in the background
Headshot of man with short black hair and glasses, in white collared suit and suit jacket
Flyer with Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Biostatistics logo and details about the 2026 internship program, with three photos and a QR code. Photos are of a woman pointing to a detail under a graph on a projected slide; a man with two faculty members standing next to a scientific poster; and a woman gesturing while speaking at a lectern
Young Black woman in slate blue jumpsuit next to scientific poster she first-authored, titled "Self-Initiated COVID-19 Testing and Infection Detection Among Essential Workers"
Asian man wearing black shirt
Smiling woman with long blonde wavy hair in a white lab coat.
Chinese American man in gold VU doctoral robes; white man in black faculty robes. Both wear berets with gold tassels and blue velvet hoods
A young man and woman in discussion in front of a laptop screen
Woman with straight chin-length gray hair standing in front of Pacific coastline
White-haired man with glasses smiling as he stands just outside the doorway to his office. He is wearing a button-down shirt and smartwatch and his arms are crossed. The hallway behind him is lined with scientific posters.
Man with gray hair and wire glasses in blue sweater, blue/white checkered button-down, and khaki pants smiles at someone speaking off-camera.
Flyer for the 2025 Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute. Text details on flyer (course names, dates, instructors, pricing) available at tiny url.com/CQSSummer. Illustrations: hand holding a tablet pencil with an overlay of white tech-themed icons; snapshot of woman next to slide projected in front of class, with caption "Qi Liu teaching Big Data, 2024"; three overlapping pastel bell curves with an italic "x" with the caption "Adaptix Trials logo. Details at adaptixtrials.com"
Decorative image of person wearing plaid shirt over gray t-shirt with hands curving around floating white data science icons. Text: July 14-18: Big Data in Biomedical Research (9 am - noon) Yu Shyr and Qi Liu; Regression and Modeling in R (1 - 4 pm) Gustavo Amorim. July 21 - 25: Adaptive Clinical Trial Design (9 am - noon) Ben Saville; Terra-Based Cloud Computing (1 -4 pm) Tiger Sheng
Ad for "The importance of sample size for the development and evaluation of clinical prediction models" by Dr. Richard Riley, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, 7 May 2025, 1:30 pm CT, via Zoom (contact Cierra.Streeter@vumc.org for access), with headshot of man in green-gray shirt.
Portrait of Chinese individual in beige blazer over gray sweater. Text: Dissertation defense // Yan Yan // From Risk Genes to Functional Connectivity: Multi-Dimensional Integrative Frameworks to Unravel Genetic Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease" // Advisor: Hakmook Kang // Monday, May 19, 2025 // 10 a.m. // 10th floor conference room (Room 10105). Questions? Contact Chazlie Miller
Headshots of Kaidi Kang, Lisa Levoir, and Max Rohde, on a black and gold background.
Ad for Statistical Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics Studies, with headshot of Dr. Xiang Zhou, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health // 30 April 2025 // 1:30 - 2:30 pm CT // Virtual Seminar via Zoom. Contact cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access.
Man in white shirt with yellow-gold tie speaking to full room next to slide about electronic health records
Ad with headshot of Dr. Jeffrey Morris, Director of Biostatistics, George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. "Scalable Distributional Regression via Quantile Functional Regression for Data Streams Including Wearable Devices." 16 April 2025, 1:30 - 2:30 pm CT. Hybrid seminar: In person: 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100, Room 11105. Online: Contact cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access.
Elevent students pose with professor Bill Dupont for a class photo
7 students and 2 professors grinning around a table with a Jenga tower in the middle
Ad for hybrid seminar presented by Dr. Wenpin Hou, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, with Dr. Hou's headshot. Leveraging Statistical Models and AI for Genomic Analysis and Biomedical Applications // Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Biostatistics // 9 April 2025, 1:30 - 2:30 pm CT // In person: 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100, Room 11105. Online: Contact cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access.
Four individuals smile for the banquet photographer in a hotel reception room
Screencap of Leena Choi talking alongside the title slide for her project
Screencap of Zoom presentation with Sheau-Chiann Chen speaking alongside the title slide for her project.
Screencap of Zoom presentation with PI Simon Vandekar showing a group photo of his lab in front of a mural
Screencap of Zoom discussion, with Qingyan Xiang (standing near whiteboard with lots of equations) in the speaker window.
Screencap of Laurie Samuels speaking alongside her information slide, which included these bullet points: Happy to work with one group of any size & composition this summer. Independent study/study group rather than project with specific "deliverables". Possible topics: The use of principal component analysis (PCA) and related techniques in population genetics. Richard McElreath's Statistical Rethinking videos (and/or book). Other proposals welcome.
Screencap of Zoom meeting with Lisa Levoir in the main speaker window (woman with glasses and hair pulled back, sitting in front of white bookcase).
Three students greet guests behind a check-in table in a wide hotel hallway
Four people smiling at the camera (one through a mask) at a reception
Ad for presentation by Dr. Wensheng Guo, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Virtual Seminar: contact cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access
Headshot of woman with long brown hair in red scoopneck top, with Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Biostatistics logo. Title: Learn-As-You-Go (LAGO) to Adapt the Invention in An Ongoing Trial to Prevent Trial Failure, 5 March 2025, 1:30 - 2:30 pm CT. Virtual seminar via Zoom. Contact Cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access. Photo caption: Dr. Judith Lot, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
An Asian American woman and African American man in conversation in a wood-paneled dining room
Ad for virtual seminar by Dr. Kris Sankaran, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with headshot of individual with dark curly hair and glasses wearing zippered jacket and white shirt. Seminar is via Zoom: contact Cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access.
* Screencap of a virtual poster session: seven cartoon avatars, each labeled with the attendee's name, mill about in front of a scientific poster mounted on a yellow board. One is studying the poster and the others are chatting/looking around, which honestly reflects my real-life experience of poster sessions. ;)
Ad with VUMC Biostatistics logo, headshot of Chinese American man in suit and tie. Caption: Dr. Kun Huang, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine. Headline: Computational Pathology and Integrative Genomics for Precision Medicine Research, 19 February 2025, 1:30-2:30 pm CT. Hybrid seminar: in person, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100, Room 11105. Online: contact Cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access.
Headshot of bearded man with glasses. Text: The Department of Biomedical Informatics presents DBMI Grand Rounds: Creating a Research Repository for Social Determinants of Health: Pathways, Potential & Peril in Using Public Data: Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 pm CT, 2525 West End Ave, Room 8110, Nashville, Microsoft Teams link available. Questions? Contact lina.sulieman@vumc.org. Speaker: Peter Rebeiro, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Dept of Biomedical Informatics, Dept of Biostatistics. Opening remarks by Lina Sulieman, Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Informatics. CME available.
Three women - two students and one professor - at a round table with handouts, markers, and other brainstorming paraphernalia. One of the women, wearing a deep pink and black flannel shirt, is preparing to write on an easel-sized sticky pad. In the background, more department members are performing the exercise in other groups.
Headshot of woman with straight shoulder-length brown hair, wearing black and white diamond-patterned blouse with dark blazer.
Stock illustration: fingers with digital pen poised above a silver tablet, with overlay of tech symbols in hexagons
Headshot with event info, including Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Signal Detection and Ascertaining Precision of Adverse Event Rates in Clinical Trials, 1:30pm CT. Contact cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access.
Black student intern gestures at a statistic on a projected table titled "Odds Ratio Table."
Ad for Feb. 12 hybrid seminar by Dr. Thomas Lumley: Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Department of Biostatistics logo. Seminar title: "Fitting Mixed Models to Data from Complex Surveys." February 12, 2025, 1:30 - 2:30 pm CT. Hybrid seminar. In person: 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100, Room 11105. Online: Contact cierra.streeter@vumc.org for access. Presenter: Dr. Thomas Lumley, Professor, Chair in Biostatistics, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland
Headshot of man with short brown hair and beard, wearing blue and white gingham button-down shirt, with forest in background.
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar, Wednesday, January 29, 1:30 pm CT, with headshot of presenter Jennifer Park, PhD, Senior Program Officer, Committee on National Statistics, National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Chinese man with long hair and round wire glasses smiles at the camera. Behind him, a room with 100+ department members watches a projected presentation.
Asian woman wearing wire-rim glasses, maroon turtleneck, and black blazer standing in front of stone and forest background.
Individual with close-cropped gray hair and lavender eyeglasses in black shirt
Figure 2 of Joseph et al. 2024 - chloropeth map showing child maltreatment trajectories. Some states are in red, some in green, and some in blue.
Two men stand in front of a china cabinet while holding plates with finger food.
Man in quilted pullover speaking at lectern with IBC logo