Katherine Detre Scholar
The Katherine Detre Scholarship has been established to supplement financial support provided through a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) position in the Epidemiology Data Center. Recipients of this scholarship are promising incoming students who exemplify the strengths and spirit of Katherine Detre.
Katherine Detre, MD, DrPH, founded the Epidemiology Data Center (EDC) in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh and directed the center for over 25 years. Among other projects, Dr. Detre led the PTCA Registry and later the Dynamic Registry, the Liver Transplant Database, and the landmark Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) and BARI 2D clinical trials.
First and foremost, Dr. Detre was committed to improving the care of patients through the rigorous analysis of clinical evidence. Her intellectual curiosity and extraordinary determination were an inspiration to her colleagues and students.
Selection Criteria
- The recipient must be accepted into a graduate program (MPH, MS, DrPH, PhD) in the Epidemiology Department.
- The recipient must demonstrate strong quantitative skills. This could be through experience or successful course work in, for example, biostatistics, statistics, math, psychology or engineering.
- The recipient will have a position in the EDC mentored by EDC faculty.
- The recipient must demonstrate a commitment to advancing Public Health knowledge. The candidate should aspire to understand disease mechanisms and be interested in evaluating disease prevention and/or treatment.
Recipients
2006-2007 Sheng-Chia Chung, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, BARI 2D GSR
2007-2008 Sheng-Chia Chung, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, BARI 2D GSR
2008-2009 Jennifer Njoroge, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SAVE GSR
2009-2010 Jennifer Njoroge, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SAVE GSR
2010-2011 Andrew Althouse, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, BARI 2D GSR
2011-2012 Andrew Althouse, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, BARI 2D GSR
2012-2013 Marc Tian, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SNAP GSR
2013-2014 Marc Tian, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SNAP GSR
2014-2015 Sylvia Lin, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, HBRN GSR
2015-2016 Sylvia Lin, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, HBRN GSR
2016-2017 Kathleen Creppage, DrPH candidate in Epidemiology, TED GSR
2017-2018 Kathleen Creppage, DrPH candidate in Epidemiology, TED GSR
2018-2019 Alexis Nasr, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SWAN-HDL GSR
2019-2020 Alexis Nasr, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SWAN-HDL GSR
2020-2021 Yuqing Chen, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SWAN GSR
2021-2022 Yuqing Chen, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SWAN GSR
2022-2023 Gerard Portela, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, MINT GSR
2023-2024 Gerard Portela, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, MINT GSR
2024-2025 Samantha Zhang, PhD candidate in Epidemiology, SONO Sleep Study GSR
Position after EDC
Research Associate
Clinical Epidemiology
Institute of Health Informatics
Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
University College London
Jennifer Njoroge, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, College of Medicine
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus Ohio
Andrew Althouse, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Supervisor of Statistical Projects
Heart and Vascular Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Marc Tian, PhD
HEOR RWD Scientist/Consultant
TechData Service Company, LLC, NYC
Hsing-Hua Sylvia Lin, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Kathleen Creppage, DrPH, MPH, CPH
Lead Scientist and Senior Epidemiologist
Naval Marine Corp Public Health Center
Department of the Navy
Contracted by Booz Allen Hamilton
Alexis Nasr, MD, PhD
Senior Research Statistician at Highmark Health
Gerard Portela, MPH, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard University
412-624-5447
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Mailing Address
Epidemiology Data Center
University of Pittsburgh
4420 Bayard Street, Suite 600
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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