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Jessica Lavery

Education

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Doctoral Candidate, Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in Biostatistics

New York, NY

Present - 2019

Relevant Biostatistics Coursework: Data Science I & II, Advanced Statistical and Computational Methods in Genetics and Genomics, Clinical Trial Methodology, Relational Databases and SQL Programming, Causal Inference

Relevant Management and Leadership Coursework: Managerial and Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, Essentials of Teaching and Communication, Public Health Practice and Leadership, Statistical Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Reesarch

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.S. in Biostatistics

Chapel Hill, NC

2014

Thesis: A simulation study comparing different methods of handling missing data in the context of type I diabetes clinical trials.

Relevant Biostatistics Coursework: Probability and Statistical Inference, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Categorical Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, General Linear Models, Design of Public Health Studies, Epidemiology, Survival Analysis, Statistical Consulting

Loyola University Maryland

Bachelor of Science in Statistics, cum laude

Baltimore, MD

2012

Professional Experience

Senior Research Biostatistician

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, NY

Present - 2023

  • Collaborate with the Exercise Oncology and Orthopaedic Surgery services on study design and analysis of prospective and retrospective research studies
  • Member of statistical core for the American Association of Cancer Research Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange (GENIE) biopharmaceutical collaborative. Responsibilities include deriving variables for analysis, reviewing data prior to public release, preparing Analytic Data Guide to accompany public data releases, and maintaining {genieBPC} R package to facilitate researchers in using these complex data.

Research Biostatistician II

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

N/A

2023 - 2020

  • Collaborate with clinical investigators on study design and analysis of prospective and retrospective research protocols.
  • Member of statistical core for the American Association of Cancer Research Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange (GENIE) biopharmaceutical collaborative. Involved in writing standard operating procedures for quality assurance, maintaining a quality assurance dashboard, deriving variables for analysis and performing statistical analyses. Develop and maintain the {genieBPC} R package, available on CRAN and GitHub, to facilitate a reproducible data processing pipeline for AACR Project GENIE BPC data. The package was included on the RStudio blog August 2022 list of the Top 40 New CRAN Packages, out of approximately 200 packages released to CRAN that month.

Research Biostatistician I

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

N/A

2020 - 2018

  • Authored two manuscripts validating the feasibility of using Medicare claims for cancer-specific analyses.
  • Built a project management tool through the R Shiny Application package to easily view the status of past, current and upcoming projects across multiple statisticians.

Assistant Research Biostatistician

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

N/A

2018 - 2017

  • Collaborate with clinicians and health services researchers to answer questions related to healthcare utilization and outcomes for patients with cancer using retrospective institutional data in addition to large population-based administrative databases (e.g. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked data, Medicare claims).
  • Developed a repository of SAS macros for routine tasks (e.g. pulling claims from SEER-Medicare data) to improve efficiency and reproducibility.

Biostatistician

NYU Langone Medical Center

New York, NY

2016 - 2017

  • Analyzed orthopedic health outcomes utilizing large administrative databases (Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey).
  • Consulted with faculty, residents, fellows and musculoskeletal research staff in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery to design studies, manage and analyze data, present results, and write methods and results sections of manuscripts.

Biostatistician

Columbia University Medical Center

New York, NY

2016 - 2014

  • Provided data management, programming and biostatistics support for the Safe Motherhood Initiative (Merck for Mothers), examining the impact of developing standard approaches to treat obstetric emergencies.
  • Utilized large administrative claims databases (National Hospital Discharge Survey, National Vital Statistics System, Premier Perspectives) to explore maternal-fetal outcomes via hierarchical models, age-period-cohort models, and meta-analyses, among other methods.
  • Served as a teaching assistant for Applied Methods in Health Services and Outcomes Research (Spring 2015 and 2016).

Graduate Research Assistant

Rho, Inc

Chapel Hill, NC

2014 - 2013

  • Provided programming support to the federally funded autoimmune disease team by creating and modifying analysis datasets, tables, listings and figures.

Biostatistics Intern

Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Chapel Hill, NC

2014 - 2013

  • Created an experiential learning internship to gain exposure to the field of biostatistics by volunteering to assist a Master’s level statistician with cancer studies by collaborating with investigators, programming analysis datasets, conducting analyses, and assisting with organizational tasks.

Statistical Programmer I / Clinical Data Associate I

Stat-Tech Services, LLC

Chapel Hill, NC

2013 - 2012

  • Provided programming support as specified in analysis plans for tables, graphs and listings. Validated statistical output and perform quality control as required.
  • Provided data entry and quality control support of statistical packages. Documented data management and validation tasks per standard operating procedures. Responsible for creating, organizing and checking project file content.

Leadership & Service

Memorial Sloan Kettering Biostatistics Service Social Media Committee

Inaugural Committee Chair (2020-2021), Member (2021-2022)

N/A

2022 - 2020

Twitter: @MSKBiostats

  • Initiated Biostatistics Service Twitter account and elevated the online presence of the Service by establishing regular content (e.g., recent publications and grants awarded, spotlight posts, conference presentations).
  • Created social media orientation guide to share with department.
  • Engaged members of the Biostatistics Service via spotlight posts and guest curation.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Bridge to Biostats Committee

Secretary

N/A

Present - 2020

Mission: Foster a more inclusive biostats community by creating programs to increase awareness of and interest in the field of Biostatistics among New York City public high school students.

  • Participated in an 8th grade Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics career day (July 2020)
  • Co-led 8th grade and high school “Biostats Days” to introduce students to biostatistics (December 2020, March 2021, April 2022, July 2022)
  • Mentor for high school student as part of the 2021 Summer Exposure Program in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Office of Diversity Programs
  • Initiated the Bridge to Biostats Twitter account to share opportunities for historically underrepresented groups in STEM

Twitter: @Bridge2Biostats

ENAR Social Media Committee

Inaugural Chair (2021), Past-Chair (2022)

N/A

2022 - 2021

  • Grew ENAR Presence across existing social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) and created an ENAR LinkedIn company page.
  • Reviewed existing ENAR online presence and added enhanced features (e.g., adding LinkTree to Instagram account to make links more accessible).
  • Created systems and processes for social media campaigns.
  • Engaged ENAR leadership via spotlight posts.
  • Highlighted ENAR conferences (ENAR Spring Meeting, ENAR-sponsored sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings).

Twitter: @ENAR_ibs
LinkedIn: ENAR Company Page
Instagram: @ENAR_ibs
Facebook: ENAR

Caucus for Women in Statistics

Various roles for the Caucus for Women in Statistics, which seeks to foster opportunities for the education, employment and advancement of women in statistics.

N/A

2022 - 2019

  • Twitter Social Media Officer (2020 - 2022)
  • Promoting Positive Professional Environments for Everyone committee member (2020-2021)
  • Professional Development Committee Member (2020-2021)
  • Volunteer Coordinator (appointed position, 2019 - 2020). Authored the Volunteer Spotlight series

Twitter: @cwstat

Mentor

1000 Girls, 1000 Futures, New York Academy of Sciences

N/A

2020 - 2018

Share experiences, advice, and resources throughout the course of a year-long mentoring program focused on leadership, critical thinking, communication and academic preparedness.

Volunteer Reviewer

DataKind

N/A

2020 - 2019

  • Review applications for Google.org’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Challenge on the criteria of impact, feasibility, use of AI, scalability and responsibility in order to help identify the most promising ideas that aim to apply artificial intelligence to achieve positive social impact
  • Review applications for data.org’s Inclusive Growth & Recovery Challenge, which allocated funds for ideas that leverage data science to aid communities following COVID-19’s negative impact on the economy.

Honors & Awards

Travel award recipient

Women in Statistics and Data Science

La Jolla, CA

2017

Travel award recipient

Women in Statistics and Data Science

Charlotte, NC

2016

Pi Mu Epsilon

National Mathematical and Statistics Honor Society

N/A

2012

Boston University Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics

Recipient of a full scholarship to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute-funded Boston University Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics. The program modules were in biostatistics, epidemiology, clinical trials, statistical genetics and training in SAS.

Boston, MA

2011

Invited Presentations

Career Paths in Biostatistics

Opportunities in STEM Seminar for CPaMS Scholars students at Loyola University Maryland

Virtual

2023, 2022

Oh The Places You Could Go: Surprising Careers in Statistics and Data Science

Panelist at the ENAR Spring Meeting.

Virtual

2021

Project GENIE BPC Quarterly Subcommittee Meetings

N/A

N/A

2020

Data Driven: The Role of Biostatistics in Cancer Research and Health Policy

Invited seminar for the Mathematics and Statistics Department at Wake Forest University.

Wake Forest, NC

2019

Plurality and perinatal mortality: preterm delivery as a mediating effect.

Invited presentation at the Perinatal Epidemiology scientific forum at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine’s 36th Annual Pregnancy Meeting.

Atlanta, Georgia

2016

Contributed Presentations

Assessing Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Time-to-Event Outcomes

Columbia Biostatistics Annual Research Symposium

N/A

2023

Analyzing Clinical and Genomic Oncological Data with {genieBPC} and {gnomeR}

Co-presented with Samantha Brown, Karissa Whiting, Hannah Fuchs R/Medicine Conference Demo Day presentation

N/A

N/A

Writing functions with the {tidyverse}

Co-presented with Daniel Sjoberg for Memorial Sloan Kettering Open Study Group Seminar Series

N/A

2022

Corresponding presentation:Writing Functions with the {tidyverse}

Pan-cancer evaluation of homologous repair deficiency somatic mutations and response to first-line anti-neoplastic therapy

Poster presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting

N/A

2021

Defining Real-World Recurrence in the AACR Project GENIE BPC Data

Contributed oral presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting

N/A

2021

AACR Meeting News Blog Post

Skills and Strategies for Successful Negotiation

Women in Statistics and Data Science. Session organizer and moderator for contributed panel discussion with Dr. Emma Benn, Professor Lori Evarts, Dr. Shanthi Sethuraman, and Dr. Kelly Zou.

N/A

2020

A Statistician’s Role in a Quality Assurance of a Multi-Institution Electronic Health Record Curation Project

Women in Statistics and Data Science. Contributed oral presentation.

N/A

N/A

Go with the Flow: Data Visualization Using Sankey Bar Charts

Women in Statistics and Data Science. Contributed poster presentation.

N/A

N/A

Progression-free survival estimates in non-small cell lung cancer when RECIST is unavailable: Project GENIE’s integration of genomic, therapeutic and phenomic data

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Virtual Annual Meeting. Contributed poster presentation. In collaboration with Dr. Katherine Panageas and the AACR Project GENIE BPC team.

N/A

N/A

It’s Time to Shine with the timetrackR App

Presented at RLadies NYC meeting

New York, NY

N/A

It’s getting hot in here: A novel application of heatmaps to health outcomes research

International Conference for Health Policy Statistics. In collaboration with Bach PB, Panageas KS.

San Diego, CA

N/A

A Comparison of Provider Profiling Approaches with Respect to Low-Volume Providers

Joint Statistical Meetings. In collaboration with Lipitz-Snyderman A, Li DG, Bach PB, Panageas KS.

Denver, CO

2019

Real World Evidence to Profile Hospitals’ Quality of Surgical Cancer Care

Academy Health Datapalooza

Washington, D.C.

N/A

Language and tools for establishing influence as an early-career statistician

Women in Statistics and Data Science

La Jolla, California

2017

Biostatistics Coordinating Center Safe Motherhood Initiative Quarterly Updates

Present at the quarterly meetings of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (April 2015, July 2015, January 2016). In collaboration with Cande Ananth, PhD.

N/A

2016 - 2015

Other Professional Experience

Using Unique Associations to Address Health Policy Questions

Session chair, Joint Statistical Meetings

Denver, CO

2019

The Social Statistician: Navigating Social Media in 2019

Roundtable organizer and facilitator, Joint Statistical Meetings

Denver, CO

N/A

Invited participant, Women’s Leadership Conference

N/A

Baltimore, MD

2012

Publications

Please see Google Scholar for a complete list of publications.