May 7, 2026
Introduction
10:00 – 10:10am Welcome
Guy Brock, PhD, Professor, Deputy Director of the Center for Biostatistics.
Obtaining Grant Funding for Healthcare Research Using Secondary Data
10:15-10:30am – Beau Meyer, DDS, MPH Associate Professor, Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University
Using Medicaid claims data to determine the effectiveness of dental reimbursement policy in changing oral health outcomes
10:35-10:50am – Marsha Lopez, PhD, MHS Chief, Epidemiology Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH
Opportunities for developing a research career using existing data
Keynote Speaker
11:00-11:45am – Shirley Wang, PhD, ScM Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Insights from Emulation of Randomized Clinical Trials with Nonrandomized Database Analyses
11:45am-12:00pm – Live Q&A with Dr. Shirley Wang
Lunch Session
12:10-12:30pm – Amy Curry Sturm, MS, CGC Executive Director and Principal Investigator, Ohio State Genomic Health and Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, The Ohio State University
Ohio State Genomic Health and the Helix Research Network: Research Opportunities
12:30-12:40pm – Live Q&A with Amy
12:40-1:00pm Break
Overview of Impactful Secondary Data Sources
1:00-1:15pm – Kai Johnson, MD Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Oncology, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Reviewing the clinical relevancy of data within NCDB versus CancerLinQ
1:20-1:35pm – Robert Ashmead, PhD Director of Statistical Methods, Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center
Medicaid Claims and Administrative Data: Secondary Data Examples from the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center
1:40-1:55pm – Rachel Kirven, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology, The Ohio State University
Diagnostic Delays in Adult-Onset Atopic Dermatitis: Insights from a PCORnet Retrospective Cohort Study
2:00-2:15pm – Patrick Sweigert, MD, FACS, DABOM Assistant Professor-Clinical, Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Ohio State University
Navigating New Frontiers in Obesity Management with Epic Cosmos Real-World Data
Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
2:20-2:35pm – TBD