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Postdoctoral Fellows & Scholars: The Next Adventure

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Elina Misicka, PhD

After earning a PhD in our Epidemiology & Biostatistics program, Elina was a Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences post-doctoral scholar (June 2022-Oct 2024) who earned a fellowship grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (2023). Her postdoctoral mentor was Farren Briggs, PhD. 

Dr. Misicka went on to be a biostatistician at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine and is currently a consultant for Experis. 

 

Andrea Waksmunski, PhD

Andrea R. Waksmunski, PhD

Andrea earned a PhD in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences with PQHS department chair Dr. Jonathan Haines as dissertation research advisor. Read our article about the AMD research study on which she worked. She continued in the Haines lab as a postdoctoral fellow from June 2020 until May 2023. 

Currently Dr. Waksmunski is a medical writer for OPEN Health.