On a personal note... Bob Johnson, Ph.D. is expecting his first grandchild in January, 2009. Congratulations Bob!

August 29, 2008
Theater Row 1-011
9:00 a.m.

RESEARCH DAY - Student presentations

August 22, 2008
Sanger Hall 3-016
9:00 a.m.

RESEARCH DAY - Student presentations

June 11-24, 2008

Dr. Mark Reimers will be leading the Cold Spring Harbor course on Genome Scale Data Analysis.
Cold Spring Harbor Integrative Statistical Analysis of Genome Scale Data Course

June 1, 2008

The Department of Biostatistics is proud to announce that Dr. Roy T. Sabo will be joining the faculty on June 1st. Dr. Sabo comes to VCU from The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Old Dominion University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics in December of 2007. Dr. Sabo has been teaching at ODU since 2004. His dissertation was on Modeling and efficient estimation of intra-family correlations.

Also joining the department in June is Cynthia Shier Sabo, who will be supporting the department as the Scientific Administrator. Mrs. Sabo has been employed as a Research Associate at the Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. She brings experience in assisting with manuscripts, grant proposals and institutional review board (IRB) submissions. Mrs. Sabo earned her B.S. in Psychology as well as an M.S. in Psychology at Old Dominion University.

ENAR Appointment:
Robert E. Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Regional Advisory Board;
ENAR Representative: JSM 2008 Program Committee

Biostatistical Data Services
R.K. Elswick, Ph.D., Director
Robert Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Director
The Department of Biostatistics has recently created the Biostatistics Data Services (BDS) to provide funded investigators with comprehensive data management. Specifically, the BDS will serve as the data repository for all data collected from studies, will assist in the development and testing of all data forms, will supervise electronic as well as manual data entry, will assure the accuracy, validity, reliability, and completeness of study data, and will collaborate with study investigators and statisticians to formulate the final form of all datasets used for analysis.  Those interested in using the services of the BDS are encouraged to contact Dr. R.K. Elswick (rkelswic@vcu.edu) or Dr. Robert Johnson (rejohnso@vcu.edu).

May 16, 2008

The School of Medicine will recognize the Forbes' students and this year's recipients of the C. C. Clayton Awards on Friday.
The Clayton awards are presented to outstanding PhD and MS students in their second year of study. This year's recipients are Tracy Estes and Tina Cunningham. The presentation will be in room 2-020 Sanger at 11:00 a.m. http://www.medschool.vcu.edu/gp/student2.html
Please plan to attend!

May 13, 2008

Rhonda Ellis and Xiangrong (Talaci) Kong presented papers at the annual John C. Forbes Graduate Student Honors Colloquium (Forbes Day) http://www.medschool.vcu.edu/gp/student3.html ).