AMBeR Scholars
AMBeR Scholars are PhD students who are fully or partially supported by the network.
Gemma Cadby
The University of Western Australia
Gemma graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) majoring in Applied Statistics. She is currently completing a PhD working with the Scott Kirkbride Melanoma Centre and the Laboratory for Genetic Epidemiology, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. Gemma is assisting in establishing the Western Australian Melanoma Health Study and will be using the health information gathered from this study to investigate the genetic and environmental factors contributing to melanoma. Her research also involves statistical methodology, in particular meta-analysis and the use of instrumental variables.
Julie Marsh
The University of Western Australia
Julie graduated from Hatfield Polytechnic (now the University of Hertfordshire) in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Combined Studies (statistics/computing), and followed that with a Master of Science in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1990. She is a Chartered Statistician (CStat) with the Royal Statistical Society, of which she is also a Fellow, and a member of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society. Julie's research interests include cancer pharmacogenetics, multiple imputation, and methodological research in Genetic Epidemiology. Her current project is investigating how differences in a breast cancer patient's genetic make up and personal risk factors might impact the effectiveness of radiation treatment and hormone therapy.
Sophie Zaloumis
The University of Melbourne
Sophie graduated from The University of Melbourne in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Mathematics and Statistics. In 2006 she began working as a Research Assistant in the Department of Physiology at The University of Melbourne. Her work involved examining the correlations and variance components of blood pressure phenotypes and developing a model for ordinal categorical family data. The data used for both projects was from the Victorian Family Heart Study. At the beginning of 2007 Sophie started her PhD, extending the work she began as a research assistant on modelling ordinal categorical family data.
