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UPCOMING SEMINARS

2009

All seminars 1:30-2:45pm, MRBIII, Room 1220 unless otherwise noted (room reserved until 2:55pm)

December

• December 30 No Seminar
• December 23 No Seminar
• December 16 Elizabeth Heitman, Ph.D., Ethics in Biostatistics Case Conference
• December 9 Cindy Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• December 2 REDCap by Paul Harris, PhD, Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University

November

• November 25 No Seminar (Day before Thanksgiving)
• November 18 Reproducible Research with R, LaTeX, & Sweave by Theresa Scott, MS, Biostatistician III, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• November 11 Yet another measure of explained variation for survival models by Janez Stare, Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• November 4 A Probit Model with Structured Covariance for Similarity Effects and Source of Volume Calculations by Jeff Dotson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

October

• October 28 Linux Workshop
• October 21 Promoting Ethical Research Through Regulation: Where Did All of These Policies Come From? by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC
• October 14 A parametric model to estimate the proportion from true null in microarray studies by Chang Yu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• October 7 An EM Algorithm for Mixed-Type, Multiple Outcome Regressions with Applications to a Prostate Cancer Study by JoAnn Alvarez, MS, Biostatistician II, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

September

• September 30 Mixed-effects Models with Variance Heterogeneity by David Afshartous, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Miami School of Medicine
• September 23 Where are you going? Complex Markov models to predict changes in organ failure in ICU patients by Linda Peelen, Post-doc Researcher, Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
• Special Seminar September 23 (Note location & time difference) Prognosis and Prognostic research: what, why, and how? presented by Karel G.M. Moons, PhD., Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Netherlands
• Special Seminar September 18 (Note location & time difference) Back to the Future: Life beyond R, by going back to Lisp. presented by Anthony J. Rossini, Sc.D., Group Head, Modeling and Simulation Statistics, Novartis Pharma AG, Modeling and Simulation Global Line Function
• September 16 Complex trait genetics and serotonin by David C. Airey, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Member of the Center for Human Genetics Research, Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

August - September 16 (Summer Break)

• August 14th: Xuefei Wang, PhD, research scientists, University of New Mexico Cancer Center: Long-term leukemia outcome prediction using gene expression and covariate data. PRB 206, 2:30 PM.

July

• July 29
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  • Linux Graphics Seminar presented by Jeff Horner, B.S., Computer Systems Analyst III, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• July 22 Examining Accumulating Evidence: A Likelihood Approach by Jeffrey D. Blume, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• July 15 Statistical Methods to Account for Data Errors Discovered from an Audit by Bryan Shepherd, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• July 08 Longitudinal studies of binary response data following case-control and stratified case-control sampling by Jonathan Schildcrout, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• July 01 Testing Variance Components in Multilevel Linear Models using Approximate Bayes Factors by Ben Saville, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

June

• June 24 Linux Workshop
• June 17 Statistical methods for analysis of graph-constrained genomic data by Caiyan Li, PhD Candidate, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• June 10 Ethics in Biostatistics Case Conference - Promoting Ethical Relationships in the Research Community: Life with Students, Teachers, Mentors, and Collaborators by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC
• June 03 No Seminar. Time reserved for the Annual Supervisors Meetings.

May

• May 27 Linux Workshop: Encryption Tools for Workstations and Laptops by Dale Plummer, BS, Manager, Information Systems, Department of Biostatistics, VUSOM http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/EncryptionToolsForWorkstations
• May 20 Sample Size Adjustments - It's About More Than A Formula by Rafe Donahue, PhD, Associate Director Statistics, BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc., Franklin, TN & Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• May 13 What did/does/will "Statistical" mean in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V)? by Helena Chmura Kraemer, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics in Psychiatry (Emerita), Stanford University
• May 12 SPECIAL SEMINAR & SPECIAL LOCATION Multivariate Reference Regions for ECG Parameters by Kimberly Crimin, PhD, Senior Principal Biostatistician II, Wyeth Research and Development, Collegeville, PA
• May 06 Poisson Regression: Let me count the uses! by Lisa Kaltenbach, MD, Biostatistician II, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

April

• April 29 Likelihood Ratios and Misleading Evidence Part II by Jeffrey D. Blume, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• April 22 Shedding Light on StarBRITE Resources including the Synthetic Derivative co-presented by Melissa A. Basford, Program Manager, Office of Personalized Medicine and Tara T. Helmer, Research Services Consultant, Research Support Services, VUMC
• April 15 Ethics in Biostatistics Case Conference: All in a Days Work: the Ethics and Mathematics of Effort Reporting; by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC
• April 08 Test of Association between Two Ordinal Variables while Adjusting for Covariateshun by Chun Li, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• April 01 Selecting SNPs to Correctly Predict Ethnicity by Joshua Sampson, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University

March

• March 25 Nonparametric Bayes local hierarchical models for biomedical data by David B. Dunson, PhD, Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• March 18 No Seminar (ENAR meetings)
• March 11 Likelihood Ratios and Misleading Evidence by Jeffrey D. Blume, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• March 04 The Role of Education in Biostatistical Consulting with Medical and Health Science Researchers by Robert A. Oster, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine, Senior Biostatistician and Scientist, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

February

• February 25 Linux Workshop, Jeremy Stephens, KDE 4
• February 18 Ethics in Biostatistics Case Conference; Assigning Authorship: Accountability, Credit, and Collegiality by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC
• February 11 Bayesian approaches to model robust and model discrimination designsby Vincent Agboto, MS, PhD, Director, Biometrics Core, Clinical Research Center, Assistant Professor / Biostatistician, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee
• February 04 Case Study of a Maximally Flexible Bayesian Design in Pancreatic Cancer Therapeutics presented by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

January

• January 28 Linux Workshop
• January 21 BioVU -- what are the issues?, by Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Law, Director-Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC
• January 14 Design, Biostatistics, and Research Ethics Program of the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR/CTSA) by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC SOM
• January 07 Bayesian Inference on Changes in Response Densities over Predictor Clusters by Amy H. Herring, ScD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2008

December

• Propensity Scores: Recent Developments by Patrick Arbogast, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC SOM, December 3; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• Ruminations on Statistical Evidence by Jeffrey Blume, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC SOM, December 10; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• Estimating Re-identification Risk in Biomedical Research Databases by Bradley Malin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics Dept, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, December 17; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• December 24, 2008 No Seminar/Clinic this date (HOLIDAY) Linux Workshop
• December 31, 2008 No Seminar/Clinic this date (HOLIDAY) Linux Workshop

November

• Applications of Latent Variable Methods in Item Analysis and Survey Scaling, by Irene Feurer, PhD, Research Professor of Surgery and Biostatistics, Director of Quantitative Services and Outcomes Research, VUMC, November 5; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• A Bayesian Hierarchical Nonlinear Mixture Model in the Presence of Artifactual Outliers in a Population Pharmacokinetic Study, by Leena Choi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC, November 12; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• Biostatistics Ethics Case Conference by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Daniel Ayers, M.S., Senior Associate in Biostatistics, VUMC, November 19; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• November 26, 2008 No Seminar/Clinic this date (HOLIDAY) Linux Workshop

October

• Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biological Pathways, by Lily Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC, October 1; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• On the analysis and interpretation of the results from a questionnaire by Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, MS, Biostatistician II, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC, October 8; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• Cancelled BioVU -- what are the issues?, by Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Law, Director-Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC, October 15; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• The Rise of Quantitative Decision Making in Clinical Care, by Daniel R. Masys, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, VUMC, October 22; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• October 29, 2008 Linux Workshop

September

Welcome Back! Seminar Series resumes September 17, 2008

• QA or Research? Which is which, and why involve the IRB?, by Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Research Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, September 24, 2008; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII 1220
• Better Bayes factors, with applications to clinical trials, by Valen E. Johnson, PhD., Professor, Biostatistics, MD Anderson, September 17; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220

August

• Statistical Bioinformatics in Translational Research, by Jae K. Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine August 22; 1:30-3:00pm, R Light Hall, Room 512

July

• "Ethical Standards in Biostatistics: The American Statistical Association's Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice" PART II - Cases and Application by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC July 2; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

June

• Linux Workshop, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University June 25; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Reproducible Research with R, LaTeX, & Sweave, by Theresa Scott, M.S., Biostatistician III, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine June 18; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Evaluating Subunit Diagnostic Tests by Weighted GEE, by Carol Lin, MPH, PhD, Quantitative Sciences and Data Management Branch NCHHSTP, June 11; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Statistical Methods and Statistical Pitfalls in Biomarker Research, by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine June 4; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

May

• Linux Workshop, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University May 28; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• When Death was Not the Outcome of Interest: Communicating a match between longitudinal data analysis methods and research aims when follow-up is truncated by death, by Laura Lee Johnson, PhD, Statistician, Office of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), NIH May 21; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• SPECIAL SEMINAR Statisticians on the Inside: Thoughts on writing fundable grants and protocols, by Laura Lee Johnson, PhD, Statistician, Office of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), NIH May 21; 9:00-10:00am, MCN, C2209
• "Ethical Standards in Biostatistics: The American Statistical Association's Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice", by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC May 14; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• The Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials: Methodological and Biostatistical Considerations, by Jeff A. Sloan, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Oncology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic May 7; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• On the equivalence of some medical cost estimators with censored data, by Hongwei Zhao, Sc.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, NY May 5; 1:30-2:30pm, Light Hall, Room 202 (note special Monday seminar)

April

• Linux Workshop, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University April 30; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• The Cost of Checking Proportional Hazards, by Bryan Shepherd, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt April 23; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• No seminar - this date and time is reserved for the AnnualSupervisorsMeetings. April 16; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Monte Carlo Error Assessment in Statistical Experiments, by Elizabeth Koehler, MS, Department of Biostatistics, April 9; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• The separation of timescales in Bayesian survival modeling of the time-varying effect of a time-dependent exposure, by Sebastien Haneuse, PhD., Assistant Investigator, The Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle April 2; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

March

• Linux Workshop, General Linux information and security tips, by Jeff Horner, BS, and Jeremy Stephens, BS, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University March 26; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• None (ENAR), March 19; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Comparison of internal validation methods on the procedure of constructing a survival prediction model for proteomic studies, by Chiu-Lan "Heidi" Chen, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Cancer Division, Vanderbilt University March 12; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• A Case Study in Pharmacologic Colon Imaging Using Principal Curves in Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, by Brian Caffo, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University March 5; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

February

• Testing Random Effects in the Linear Mixed Model Using Approximate Bayes Factors, by Benjamin Saville, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Ph.D. Candidate February 27; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• CANCELED Targeted Maximum Likelihood Learning Applied to Clinical Trials and Discovery, by Mark van der Laan, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, UC Berkeley February 20; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Survival Estimation for a Composite Outcome When Ascertainment of Events Is Delayed, by T. Charles Casper, PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, February 13; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Kernel mixtures of Gaussian Processes, by Richard F. MacLehose, MS, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Services, February 6; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Special Seminar Conflict-of-Interest Concerns in Biomedical Statistics, by Peter B. Imrey, PhD, Quantitative Health Sciences, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, February 4; 2:00-3:00pm, MRBIII Room 3131

January

• Linux Workshop, Beginner's level look at the department twiki, Cole Beck, B.S., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University January 30; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Potential Problems and Ambiguities Associated with "Well-Fitting" Structural Equation Models, by Andy Tomarken, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Psychology Vanderbilt University January 23; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Choosing the Best Items: An objective multi-model approach to applied psychometrics, by Warren Lambert, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Vanderbilt Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement (CepiProject) and Director of the Statistical and Methodological Core at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (KC) January 16; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• A Grammar of Graphics: past, present and future, by Hadley Wickham, Iowa State University, January 9; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• ggplot2: An Implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R, by Hadley Wickham, Iowa State University, January 9; 10:00-11:00am, MCN, C2209
• Winter Holidays - No Workshop on January 2

Prior Years

• 2007 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series
• 2006 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series
• 2005 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series
• 2004 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series

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