ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL STATISTICIANS (ACTStat)
August 2-3, 2014
The Westin Waterfront Hotel, W-Harbor Ballroom 3 - 425 Summer Street,
Boston, MA 02210, T (617) 532-4872
If you have any questions in regards to the ACTStat and or its annual meeting please contact Jackie Jorland jjorland@kumc.edu or (913) 945-9419
Registration details:
Registration for both days August 2nd & 3RD - $300.00 includes annual dinner, and lunches for both days. After 6/15/14 registration cost is $350.00.
Saturday August 2, 2014 - single day registration $200.00. Lunch & annual dinner are included. After 6/15/14 registration cost is $250.00.
Annual Dinner cost for significant other $60.00.
Sunday August 3, 2014 - single day registration $150.00. Lunch is included. After 6/15/14 registration cost is $200.00.
Refreshments throughout both days will be provided and are included in the registration fees.
Registration will open April 1, 2014- further details will follow.
Annual meeting will be held at The Westin Waterfront Hotel - 425 Summer Street, Bosotn, MA 02210, T (617) 532-4872
Saturday, August 2 |
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12:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM |
Welcome - Mayo |
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM |
Perkins - Best Practices for Biostatistical Consultation and Collaboration in Academic Health Centers |
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM |
Enders - Statistical competencies for learners |
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM |
Coffee break |
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM |
Spratt - Biomarker Discovery: Case Studies, Pitfalls, and Successess |
4:30 PM -6:00 PM |
ACTStat Business Meeting • Treasurer's Report • Election results and announcement of new ACTStat Officers • Incorporation of the ACTStat - by laws revision • Other business |
7:00 PM |
Dinner at "The Barking Crab Boston" 88 Sleeper St, Boston, MA 02210 (617) 426-2722 |
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Sunday, August 3 |
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Lesser - The use of Analogies and Metaphors to Help Clinicians and Investigators Better Understand the Principles and Practice of Biostatistics |
9:00 AM -10:00 AM |
Gajewski - Bayesian accrual monitoring and prediction with software tools |
10:00 AM -11:00 AM |
Pollock & Ittenbach - The Interface Between Biostatistics and Data Management |
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM |
Hurwitz - Brigham and Women's Hospital Innovative Approaches to Teaching Ethics in Biostatistics Curricula Dawson - University of Iowa Teaching Statistical Ethics Via Lectures, Group Discussions, and Peer Mentoring Cabral - Boston University School of Public Health A Graduate Course on Ethics in Biostatistical Practice Chaloner - University of Iowa Topics for a Statistical Ethics Course: Are Your Analyses Reproducible? Is Your Clinical Trial Design Ethical? Are Mendel's Data Too Good? Group Discussion |
12:15 PM -1:15 PM |
Lunch |
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM |
Break |
1:30 PM - 1:35 PM |
ACTStat: Potential Future Initiatives, Introduction, Leah Welty, PhD |
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM | Bridges to the other ACTStat Carter - Report on program committee for Translational Science 2015 Perkins - Formation of BERD Special Interest Group (SIG) in ACTStat |
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM | Potential continuation of BERD Working Group Activities Enders - Education Gelfold - Ethics Pollock - Data Management and Quality |
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM | Annual Survey - Past, present, and future Rickey Carter, PhD; Maurizio Macaluso, MD, DPH; Hossein Rahbar, PhD; Bob Oster, PhD; and Leah Welty, PhD |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Break-out sessions and discussion |
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