On Saturday, May 13, 2023, Doctors Jeff Yufeng Yang, Sydney T. Thai, Emilie Danielle Duchesneau, Christine D. Hsu were celebrated for achieving their PhD degrees at the UNC 2023 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. Congratulations on their tremendous accomplishments, and we wish them every success in their future endeavors!

Throughout their studies, these graduates have make remarkable contributions to Pharmacoepidemiology, as proven through their dissertation research and ongoing work. Please join us in congratulating Doctors Duchesneau, Hsu, Thai, and Yang on their momentous achievements!

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Jeff Yang, MSPH successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled, “Treat-to-Target Monitoring Colonoscopy in US Adult Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease” on Monday, November 7, 2022. Our research group is so proud of Jeff’s accomplishments and wish him the best in this next exciting page of his career!

We are thrilled to welcome the three newest members of our research group – Bria Carmichael, Jeanny Wang, and Xiaomeng (Olivia) Chen! These first year students will be soaking in all that the Department of Epidemiology has to offer – and are so excited to see where their research interests lead. Welcome! Learn about the members of our research group here

Sydney Thai, MS successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled, “Frailty Screening and Impairment Patterns in Older Adults with Cancer: A Dissertation using the Cancer Aging and Resilience Evaluation (CARE) Registry” on Monday, July 25, 2022. Our research group is so proud of Sydney’s accomplishments and wish him success in this new phase of his career starting his own consulting business and exploring new research initiatives in machine learning, EHRs, and malnutrition research.

Christine Hsu, PharmD successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled, “Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance Trends in Individuals with Cirrhosis in North Carolina, 2010-2018” on Monday, June 20, 2022. Our research group is so proud of Christine’s accomplishments and wish her well on her next steps as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston!

Dr. Jihye Park successfully defended her thesis titled “Adjuvant radiation therapy and outcomes among older women with early-stage endometrial cancer” on March 7, 2022.

Dr. Sejin Lee successfully defended her thesis titled “Real-World Treatment Patterns and Outcomes for Patients with Advanced Melanoma: Immunotherapy versus Targeted Therapy” on March 15, 2022.

Congratulations on these AMAZING accomplishments – our team is so proud of you!

We want to express a HUGE congratulations to the newly-minted PhD in our group, Dr. Charley Gaber! Charley successfully defended his dissertation today titled: The comparative effectiveness of trimodal therapy versus definitive chemoradiation in older adults with locally advanced esophageal cancer. 

In July, Charley will be joining the faculty of the Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy within the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois – Chicago. We are so proud of you Charley – congrats again on this awesome accomplishment!

Congrats to everyone on their hard work over the past year! Given all of the pandemic-related challenges, I am so impressed by the care and support you provided to each other. Give yourselves a pat on the back. Below is just a snapshot of papers from the last year that include 2 or more members of the research group – awesome work, team!

 

Danielle Chun

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35064061/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34782282/

 

Emilie Duchesneau

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35088492/

 

Charley Gaber

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34957646/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33652152/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33617725/

 

Christine Hsu

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34782282/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34032998/

 

Shahar Shmuel:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34291817/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33000867/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33119144/

 

Sydney Thai

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33119144/

 

Michael Webster-Clark

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33729546/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33615349/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33350433/ 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33119144/

 

Jeff Yang

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33119144/

 

Congratulations to Charley Gaber, Jeff Yang, Christine Hsu, and Sydney Thai for achieving their interim dissertation meeting milestones! One step closer to the finish line – keep up the great work!  Additional congratulations to Emilie Duchesneau who successfully defended her dissertation proposal! Three cheers for our team – hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray!