Medicine doctoral programs at Northwestern University

Interdisciplinary training for modern population and health research.

The Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program (HSIP) offers doctoral student training across multiple disciplines within the health sciences, spanning from informatics and program evaluation to implementation science and outcomes research. It builds upon existing master degree programs in these fields and incorporates new areas of strength in measurement and health behavior. Integration across these programs provides the flexibility for doctoral students to receive rigorous interdisciplinary training in the core content needed for population and health research in the 21st century.

Lindsay dissertation focused on understanding the relationship between social determinants of health and cardiovascular health using sequential pattern mining and machine learning techniques.

Dissertation Title: Complex Exposures to Social Determinants of Health through Young Adulthood and Associations with Mid-life Cardiovascular Health and Events: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.

The doctoral program in Health Quality and Patient Safety within the Health Sciences Integrated Program enabled Gayle to develop practical skills for improving healthcare quality and patient while also researching methods for advancing the field. Gayle dissertation on end-of-life care quality for older adults with multiple chronic conditions was supported by an R36 research grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Clinical Services Research Fellow, Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, Health Services and Outcomes Research.

Dr. Yonek holds a Bachelor of Science in Animal Physiology from the University of California at San Diego and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from San Diego State University.

Julie is currently completing an NIMH-funded clinical services research fellowship in the Psychiatry at UCSF.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Population Epigenetics, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Health and Biomedical Informatics.

Yinan is continuing this research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Population Epigenetics at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center within the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Preventive Medicine. He also serves as a member of the Student Editorial Board for the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). And he is a New Investigators Committee member at the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA).

HSIP Student: Yikuan Li Receives AHA Pre-doctoral Fellowship.

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