Secondary Data Symposium 2025
A symposium featuring faculty research curated for an audience of clinicians and researchers, brought to you by The Secondary Data Core at The Ohio State University Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

Sessions will cover grants and research ideas using Medicare, MarketScan and All of Us, among others. The schedule of presenters will be posted on the registration page.
There will be three sessions focusing on the use of secondary data for medical research.
Morning session: focuses on extramural/federal funding
Keynote Speaker: Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH
President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute
Using secondary data to change national policy; examples from the U.S. transplant system
Afternoon session: focuses on health disparities research
Secondary Data Core Symposium Agenda
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Guy Brock, PhD, Professor, Deputy Director of the Center for Biostatistics
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Henry Xiang MD, MPH, PhD, MBA Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, Director, Center for Pediatric Trauma Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Jesse Plascak PhD, MPH Associate Professor Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine
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Albert Isaacs, MD, PhD Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine
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Marsha Lopez, PhD, MHS Chief of the Epidemiology Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse
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Rachel Patzer PhD, MPH President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine
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Ayse Odabas, PhD Research Scientist, Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University
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Live Q&A with Ayse
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Break
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David Cheng, PhD, MHS, MS Associate Professor Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, The Ohio State University
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Shaopeng Gu, MS Biostatistics Senior Analyst Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
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Dean Lillard, PhD Professor and Executive Director of the Ohio State Federal Research Data Center, Department of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University
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Presentation by student(s) from Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
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Khalid Mumtaz, MBBS, MSc Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of Research, Hepatology Section, The Ohio State University