Name: Meira Golberg
Email Address: mgolberg@uwaterloo.ca
Position: Biostatistician
Biography:
Meira joined the SPIN and DEPRESSD teams as a full-time Biostatistician in January 2024. She completed her BSc in Mathematics and Biology at McGill University (2021), followed by an MMath in Biostatistics at the University of Waterloo (2023).
In addition to her education, Meira has worked in the fields of biostatistics, epidemiology and public health with the Offord Centre for Child Studies (2023), and Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (2023-2024), where has worked on a wide range of projects focused on longitudinal analysis of mental health; unmet healthcare needs; patient non-compliance; and correcting bias from missing data. She also has served as a teaching assistant for several courses at McGill University (2020-2021) and the University of Waterloo (2022-2023) and has extensive experience teaching statistical methodology and associated computational tools.
Meira has designed the statistical analysis plans and carried out analyses for several projects with the SPIN team under the supervision of Brett Thombs and Andrea Benedetti. Her research interests include addressing and minimizing missing data in the SPIN cohort; identifying longitudinal symptom trajectories in SSc; and identifying patterns of pain in SSc. Her primary research interests include problems of missing longitudinal data and measurement bias, and she is leading projects aimed to addressing these issues in the context of both SPIN and DEPRESSD data.
Awards:
- Co-investigator, Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing CDN Databases and Cohorts ($75,000) – CIHR; McMaster University, Faculty of Behavioural Neuroscience & Psychiatry. 2024.
- Graduate Research Studentship Award ($11,000) – University of Waterloo, Faculty of Health Sciences; Faculty of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences. 2023.
- Forbes Scholarship ($2000) – University of Waterloo, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences. 2022-2023.
- Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering Award ($6500) – NSERC; McGill University Department of Engineering. 2020.
- Tomilson Engagement Award for Mentoring ($3000) – McGill University. 2019-2021.
- Ruben Gruber Scholarship ($2000) – McGill University, Faculty of Science. 2019-2020.
- James McGill Award ($3000) – McGill University. 2018-2019.
Selected Presentations:
Golberg, Meira (2024): Using Multiple Imputation to Deal with Missing Data in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Canadian Statistics Student Conference, St. John’s, NL, Canada.
Golberg, Meira (2024): Calibrating weights of major depression classification with reference standard misclassification: Protocol for a case study of individual patient data meta-analysis with the PHQ-9. McGill Statistics Research and Career Day, Montreal, QC, Canada.