Addison McGhee earned a M.S. in Biostatistics at Harvard and a B.S. in Statistics at UW-Madison. As an undergraduate, he worked with Dr. Christine Wilson-Mendenhall at the UW-Madison Center for Healthy Minds. His work with Dr. Wilson-Mendenhall focused on analyzing patient writing samples to link personal pronoun-usage with symptoms of depression/anxiety/stress.
During his time at Harvard, Addison interned at the clinical trial firm Repare Therapeutics, where he fit mixed effects models to analyze patient hemoglobin levels. He also built an R Shiny dashboard to display and monitor patient lab results over the course of treatment.
Addison is an alumnus of the UW-Madison McNair Scholars program, the UW-Madison CeO program, and the Harvard Summer Program in Biostatistics and Computational Biology.
At Repare, Addison was a biostatistics intern from July 2022 to Sept. 2023. His work involved maintaining and enhancing five different R Shiny applications for each of Repare's oncology drug trials. The apps serve as tools for monitoring patient safety, detecting inconsistencies in the data, and informing future drug trials. Addison also fit mixed effects models to analyze hemoglobin levels and the onset of anemia in patients.
At the Center for Healthy Minds, Addison served as an undergraduate research assistant to Dr. Christine Wilson-Mendenhall from Sept. 2019 to Dec. 2020. He focused on using multiple linear regression to analyze patient writing samples and scores on psychometric tests. The analysis results suggested significant correlations among personal pronoun usage ("I-talk") and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Addison presented a poster of his work with Dr. Wilson-Mendenhall (available here) at the Association for Psychological Science 2020 Virtual Poster Showcase.
