University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Heltshe received her PhD in biostatistics from the University of Colorado School of Public health in 2007. She worked as a statistician with Denver Childrens Hospital Cystic Fibrosis Center from 2002 through 2007 while completing her doctoral work. Under the mentorship of Dr. Accurso, she participated in research of CF lung function, microbial diversity, proteomics, and inflammatory markers. In 2005 she performed a systematic review of the statistical methodology of The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in a report to their editors. Dr. Heltshe received a Cancer Research Training Fellowship through the National Cancer Institute in 2007 and completed a year long post-doc with the Biometrics Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. In 2009 she returned to Cystic Fibrosis research by assuming a Senior Biostatistician position at the CF Foundations Therapeutic Development Network (TDN) in Seattle, WA. She has devoted an extensive effort to CF newborn growth endpoints and standards with a continued commitment to biomarkers and nutritional facets in the CF population. Maintaining those responsibilities with the CFF TDN, in fall of 2010 she was concurrently made Acting Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Washington. Current research interests include clinical trial efficiency and endpoints in the CF population, statistical methods and exposure estimates in epidemiological studies, and statistical validation techniques.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM PDT