Sarah C. Lotspeich, Ph.D.
About Me
Now
💼 Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University in the Department of Statistical Sciences, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
👩🔬 Co-lead the Spatial and Environmental Statistics in Health (SESH) Lab at Wake Forest and the Methods for INcomplete Data (MIND) Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
👋 Co-organize Florence Nightingale Day, welcoming local middle and high schools to explore statistics and data science at Wake
Then
🐏 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Garcia
⚓️ Ph.D. in Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University under the mentorship of Drs. Bryan Shepherd and Ran Tao
🐊 B.S. in Statistics (summa cum laude) from the University of Florida
🚀 Originally from Florida, having grown up in a family of rocket scientists minutes from Kennedy Space Center
The Fast Facts
I love data and people; I especially love data about people.
Email: lotspes AT wfu DOT edu
Latest Hoorays
Milestones, Announcements, and Other Matters Sarah Is Excited About
(See the Hall of Hoorays for Archived Excitement)
March 2025
Undergraduate researcher Cassandra Hung presented her research “Quantifying the Impact of Measurement Error on Health Disparities Models” at the ENAR Spring Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
February 2025
I visited the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics to give a seminar on “Rerouting Our Thinking: Computationally Simple Measures Misrepresent the Food Access Landscape”. [Slides]
January 2025
I spoke about “Electronic health records: With great-ish data comes great responsibility” at the Harrison College of Pharmacy, Auburn University. [Slides]
January 2025
I discussed “Combining EHR data and measurement error methods to quantify the relationships between access to healthy foods and disease” at the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) in San Diego, CA. [Slides]