Dan Landemann – Underdiagnosis of hypertension in children and adolescents
Category: Resident
Using electronic health records showed that approximately 75 percent of children with hypertension have not had their hypertension detected. Extrapolated to the national level, of the estimated 2 million children with hypertension, 1.5 million have undiagnosed
hypertension.
Peter J. Townsend – Disease cluster detection: theory, experiments and software
Category: Student
Developed a new graph-theoretical method to detect arbitrarily shaped clusters. The method draws from several disciplines, including cartography, graph theory, and statistics. To make this method available to the epidemiology
research community and to public health practitioners, they created an open source cluster detection software package
