Elliot Burghardt, M6G
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MSTP Learning Community: Boulware MSTP Entry Date: August 10, 2015 |
PhD Program: Biostatistics |
Mentors: Daniel Sewell, PhDJoe Cavanaugh, PhD |
Agglomerative and Divisive Hierarchical Bayesian Clustering with Methods for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data
Thesis Defense: November 15, 2021
Committees:
2015 Fall - Foundations Medical Student Liaison Committee
2016-2017 - Vice President of EQUAL Meds (Iowa Queer and Allied Medical Students)
2017-2018 - Board Member/Webmaster of EQUAL Meds (Iowa Queer and Allied Medical Students)
2017-2019 - Graduate Student Senator (Biostatistics)
2018-2019 - Biostatistics Diversity Committee
2018-2019 - Graduate Student Senate Graduate Student Success Committee Chair
2018-2020 - Graduate and Professional Student Government Delegate
2018-2020 - Graduate and Professional Student Government Sustainabilty Committee
2019-2020 - College of Public Health Graduate Student Association President
2016-2017 - MSTP Recruitment Committee
2016-present - MSTP Applicant Task Force
2016-present - MSTP Retreat & I Heart Science Committee
2018-present - MSTP Wellness Committee
Awards:
2015 - University of Iowa Research Foundation Inventor Award
2015 - Research Excellence in Internal Medicine Poster Award
2016, 2017 – University of Iowa Inventor Award
2018 - University of Iowa Graduate College Orientation Specialist
2020 - Ballard Seashore Dissertation Fellowship Fall 2020
Teaching:
Fall 2016 - Foundations Tutor, MOHD I Tutor
Spring 2017 - MOHD III Tutor
Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019 - Step 1 Tutor group
2019 Jan - UI Health Care STEM Night at the Iowa Children's Museum
2021 SUMR - Case-Based Learning (CBL) co-leader for group of SUMR students during two sessions
2021 SUMR - Facilitated two sessions of Clinical Skills Session (patient-provider encounters) to SUMR students
Education:
2013 - BS, Bioengineering - Clemson University
Publications:
Evans LP, Boehme N, Wu S, Burghardt EL, Akurathi A, Todd BP, Newell EA, Ferguson PJ, Mahajan VB, Dutca LM, Harper MM, Bassuk AG. Sex Does Not Influence Visual Outcomes After Blast-Mediated Traumatic Brain Injury but IL-1 Pathway Mutations Confer Partial Rescue. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2020 Oct 1;61(12):7. doi: 10.1167/iovs.61.12.7. PubMed PMID: 33030508; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7582458.
Chahine LM, Brumm MC, Caspell-Garcia C, Oertel W, Mollenhauer B, Amara A, Fernandez-Arcos A, Tolosa E, Simonet C, Hogl B, Videnovic A, Hutten SJ, Tanner C, Weintraub D, Burghardt E, Coffey C, Cho HR, Kieburtz K, Poston KL, Merchant K, Galasko D, Foroud T, Siderowf A, Marek K, Simuni T, Iranzo A. Dopamine transporter imaging predicts clinically-defined α-synucleinopathy in REM sleep behavior disorder. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2021 Jan;8(1):201-212. doi: 10.1002/acn3.51269. Epub 2020 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 33321002; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7818144.
Kruspe S, Dickey DD, Urak KT, Blanco GN, Miller MJ, Clark KC, Burghardt E, Gutierrez WR, Phadke SD, Kamboj S, Ginader T, Smith BJ, Grimm SK, Schappet J, Ozer H, Thomas A, McNamara JO 2nd, Chan CH, Giangrande PH. Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Breast Cancer Cells in Patient Blood with Nuclease-Activated Probe Technology. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2017 Sep 15;8:542-557. doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2017.08.004. Epub 2017 Aug 12. PubMed PMID: 28918054; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5577414.
Picillo M, LaFontant DE, Bressman S, Caspell-Garcia C, Coffey C, Cho HR, Burghardt EL, Dahodwala N, Sanders-Pullman R, Tanner CM, Amara AW; Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative. Sex-Related Longitudinal Change of Motor, Non- Motor, and Biological Features in Early Parkinson's Disease. J Parkinsons Dis. 2021 Nov 4. doi: 10.3233/JPD-212892. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34744052.