PhD Students
COURSE & CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
| 2017-Present |
PHS 7030 - Applied Modern Causal Inference (3 Credits) Dr. Bress developed this new course. It covers some of the applications of modern causal inference methods in observational research with a focus on epidemiology and related fields. The course extends the theoretical frameworks for modern causal inference including counterfactuals, directed acyclic graphs and their use in identifying bias due to confounding, selection bias, and conditioning on intermediates. This course covers research designs and methods that researchers use to support casual inferences in epidemiology and health services research. Some specific topics include randomized trials, instrumental variables, propensity score matching, inverse probability of treatment weighting, marginal structural models, and difference in differences. |
COURSE LECTURES
| 2023 | PI, PHS 7030: Modern Causal Inf AP, 10 students, University of Utah, S. F. E. School of Medicine |
| 2021 | PI, PCTH 6270: Casual Inference in CER, 2 students, University of Utah, College of Pharmacy |
| 2021 | PI, MDCRC 6270: Casual Inference in CER, 6 students, University of Utah, S. F. E. School of Medicine |
| 2021 | PI, PHS 7030: Modern Causal Inf AP, 10 students, University of Utah, S. F. E. School of Medicine |
| 2021 | PI, PHS 7030: Modern Causal Inf AP, 3 students, University of Utah, S. F. E. School of Medicine |
| 2019 | PI, PHS 7030: Modern Causal Inf AP, 12 students, University of Utah, School of Medicine |
| 2017 | PI, PHS 7030: Modern Causal Inf AP, 10 students, University of Utah, School of Medicine |
| 2016-Present | Lecturer, PHS 7300: Health-System Research Methods, 6 students, University of Utah, Population Health Sciences |
| 2014-Present | Lecturer, MDCRC 627: Methods in CER, 2 students, University of Utah, Ctr Clinical & Translational Sci, Delivered 2hrs of didactic lectures on the application of instrumental variables to health and population sciences research to Pharm.D., Ph.D. and M.S. students. |
| 2014-Present | Lecturer, PCTH 7322: Therapeutics III, 59 students, University of Utah, Pharmacotherapy, Delivered 8hrs of didactic lectures on the acute coronary syndrome module to the whole Pharm.D. class |
| 2014 | Lecturer, PCTH 7150: Outcomes Research (Elective), University of Utah, Pharmacotherapy, Delivered 2hrs of didactic lectures on the pharmacogenomics and outcomes research module to Pharm.D. and Ph.D. students |
| 2014 | Guest Lecturer, EPID 520: Genetics in Epidemiology (Elective), University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Two-hour lecture delivered to 20 MS and PhD students in the school of public health. |