The purpose of the Education and Professional Development Committee is to coordinate and guide SER’s efforts on education aimed at trainees, junior, and mid-career epidemiologists. The committee will supervise and coordinate education events that occur during the year and during the annual meeting, including SERdigital, SERtalks, SERplaylists and the Early Stage Investigator Project. The committee may develop other areas in which SER can fulfill its mission for education.
Catherine Lesko
Education Committee Chair
Catherine Lesko received her MPH from Emory University and her PhD from the University of North Carolina. She is currently a Research Associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work focuses on applying causal methods to cohort data and improving the HIV care continuum.
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Katherine Keyes
Education Committee Co-Chair
Katherine M. Keyes is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Katherine’s research focuses on life course epidemiology with particular attention to substance use disorders, including long-term outcomes of adverse childhood environments, and cross-generational cohort effects on alcohol outcomes, drug use, and related psychiatric and chronic health outcomes. Her work has centrally focused on adolescent mental health and substance use, including the epidemiology of adolescent opioid, marijuana, and alcohol use in adolescence across historical time. Katherine is an expert in methodological issues in age-period-cohort effect estimation. She is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, has authored two books on epidemiological methods, and her work is funded by the National Institute for Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
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Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168th Street, #724
New York, NY 10032
Kendra Sims
Education Committee Co-Chair
Kendra is a doctoral candidate in Public Health, Epidemiology concentration, at Oregon State University. Broadly interested in data science and aging outcomes, her dissertation focuses on the moderating as well as intermediary factors relevant to associations between perceived discrimination and hypertensive trajectories. Previously, she received a MPH from Boston University and a BA in English and Psychology from Williams College.
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Oregon State University
College of Health and Human Sciences
simske@oregonstate.edu
Education Committee Members
Laura Balzer
Tarik Benmarhnia
Ellen Caniglia
Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist
Lorraine Dean
Audrey Djibo
William Goedel
Eleanor Hayes-Larson
Marni Jacobs
Elizabeth Jensen
Lindsay Kobayashi
Jeremy Labrecque
Xiaojuan Li
Brandon Marshall
William Miller
Ashley Naimi
Kristen Rappazzo
Kara Rudolph
Louisa Smith
Elizabeth Stuart
Peter Tennant
Priyanka Vakkalanka