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Sunni Mumford, PhD

Dr. Mumford is nationally and internationally renowned for her research on modifiable dietary and lifestyle factors that affect reproduction — research that has informed official guidelines and recommendations for women, men and couples. This work uses couples-based approaches with participants recruited before conception, and it combines large datasets to disentangle the role of dietary and lifestyle factors. She has also significantly advanced the field via novel methods, in implementation studies and data analyses alike. In the Impact of Diet, Exercise, and Lifestyle (IDEAL) on Fertility Study, for example, her new cohort incorporates innovative wearable technology to address exposure misclassification and specific questions about the timing of physical activity and sleep during infertility treatment — which also allows for more translatable results, given the widespread use of these devices. Dr. Mumford’s interdisciplinary training in nutritional and reproductive epidemiology and biostatistics provides her with unique expertise in the design and analysis of population-based studies to improve the health of women and men across the life course.

Dr. Mumford, along with Kurt Barnhart, MD, MSCE, co-lead the Penn Women’s Health Clinical Research Center, which bridges the DBEI, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Division of Neonatology of the CHOP/PSOM Department of Pediatrics.

Dr. Mumford has been funded by many peer-reviewed intramural NIH research grants and has appeared in publications such as The Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature Communications, and The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. She has garnered many awards, including the Rising Star Award from the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research, the Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiologist Award from the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Mentoring Award. She also was recently appointed as an Editor of the journal Epidemiology and Associate Editor of Fertility & Sterility.

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - Wednesday, September 21, 2022
4:00 am
TOPIC & SPEAKERS For a complete agenda, including all eight topics and info on all of our expert speakers, please see dbei.med.upenn.edu/big-data-2 (https://www.dbei.med.upenn.edu/big-data-2).ABSTRACT & POSTER PRESENTING Attendees are invited to submit abstracts and present posters about their related work during the Sept.19 reception. Once you have registered for the conference, you may indicate your interest and submit your abstract here.
Thursday, June 23, 2022
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

"Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines across the US: A Geographic Information Systems Approach" Inmaculada (Inma) Hernandez, PharmD, PhDAssociate Professor, Division of Clinical Pharmacy Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences I earned my PharmD from the University of Navarra (Spain) in 2013 and my PhD in Health Services Research and Policy from the University of Pittsburgh in 2016. I began my faculty career at the University of Pittsburgh and I joined the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as an Associate Professor with tenure in 2021.

Friday, June 17, 2022
1:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The 8th annual Symposium on Advances in Genomics, Epidemiology and Statistics (SAGES) after two postponements returns Friday, June 17, 2022 in the Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium of the Smilow Center for Translational Research of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.

Thursday, May 12, 2022
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

"The GRADE Approach to Assess the Certainty of the Evidence and Grade the Strength of Recommendations"Alonso Carrasco-Labra, DDS., M.Sc., PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Preventive and Restorative SciencesCenter for Integrative Global Oral HealthUniversity of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine Dr. Alonso Carrasco-Labra, D.D.S., M.Sc., Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences and the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He received his D.D.S.

Thursday, May 12, 2022
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

"The GRADE Approach to Assess the Certainty of the Evidence and Grade the Strength of Recommendations"Raul Alonso Carrasco-Labra, DDS., M.Sc., PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Preventive and Restorative SciencesCenter for Integrative Global Oral HealthUniversity of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine Dr. Alonso Carrasco-Labra, D.D.S., M.Sc., Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences and the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He received his D.D.S.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Title: A flexible approach for the analysis of repeated attempt designsAbstract: It is not uncommon in follow-up studies to make multiple attempts to collect a measurement after baseline. Recording whether these attempts are successful or not provides useful information for the purposes of assessing the missing at random (MAR) assumption and facilitating missing not at random (MNAR) modeling. This is because measurements from subjects who provide this data after multiple failed attempts may differ from those who provide the measurement after fewer attempts.

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