Hi, I’m Joanne Beer, currently a postdoctoral fellow working with Drs. Kristin Linn and Russell Shinohara in the Penn Statistical Imaging and Visualization Endeavor (PennSIVE) group at the University of Pennsylvania. I studied for my PhD in biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. My dissertation focused on developing interpretable prediction models using neuroimaging data. My dissertation co-advisors were Drs. Robert Krafty and Stewart Anderson.
My research interests include the development and application of statistical methods to problems in psychiatry and neuroscience. I am also interested in the classification of mental disorders in systems like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and efforts to establish a diagnostic classification system that is both valid and reliable using approaches such as those outlined in the Research Domain Criteria initiative of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Joanne Beer 