The Symposium will take place at the Cerner Vision Center on Cerner Corporation’s World Headquarters campus in Kansas City, Missouri on April 26-27, 2012. This event is sponsored by the Cerner Corporation, the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association, and the Department of Biostatistics at The University of Kansas Medical Center.
Symposium Keynote Address
Thursday April 26th 1:30-2:30 pm
Biostatistics for Discovery, Prediction, and Decision Making in Biomedical Research
Richard Simon, Ph.D.
Chief of the Biometric Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute
Symposium Invited Presentations
Multidimensional regression for comparing and mapping anatomical structures
Kendra Schmid, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Recent Advances in the Analysis of Interval-censored Failure Time Data and Their Applications
Tony (Jianguo) Sun, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia
Integrating High Dimensional Data Structures with Statistical Models: Applications to Genetics
Michael Brimacombe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center
Efficiency and Better Decision Making - the Use of Adaptive Designs and Bayesian Statistics in Drug Development
Yili Pritchett, Ph.D.
Director of Clinical Statistics Group, Abbott Laboratories
Pre-Symposium Short Course
Thursday April 26th 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials
Bradley Carlin, Ph.D.
Mayo Professor in Public Health and Head of the Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health