Julia Whitman
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Thesis: Properties of Variance Estimators in Finite Sample Sizes
Advisor: Andrew Spieker
MS, Epidemiology, Imperial College London; BA, English and Spanish, University of St. Andrews
At Meta since 2024. Currently Data Scientist IV.
Honors include: Alavi Mandell Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging for Assessment and Comparison of 18F-Fluorocholine PET and 99mTc-Sestamibi Scans in Identifying Parathyroid Adenomas: A Metaanalysis, 2022
Whitman’s career in public health research started at Imperial College London, where she focused on chronic disease and cancer epidemiology. During her studies, she also edited regional HIV prevention proposals in Eastern Europe and the Balkans for the United Nations Development Program. She has since worked an intern at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, clinical trials coordinator in the gastrointestinal oncology department at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and data manager and clinical research analyst for UCSF’s Center for Neuroendocrine Tumors, where she enjoyed collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to answer questions in areas ranging from genomic medicine and survival analysis to in-clinic quality improvement.
Research interests include: neuroendocrinology, clinical trials