Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to announce the 2020 Duke-Industry Statistics Symposium (DISS2020), which is to be held on April 1-3, 2020. The direct link for registration to the symposium and the short courses is https://sites.duke.edu/diss/register/. Group discount for registration fee is available and please contact xiaofei.wang@duke.edu for more details.
The Duke-Industry Statistics Symposium is organized by the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine and co-sponsored by Amgen, ASA-NC Chapter, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, ICSA, IQVIA, Janssen, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Merck, PAREXEL, PPD, SAS, UCB and ViiV. The symposium was established seven years ago to discuss challenging issues and recent advances related to the clinical development of drugs, biologics and devices and to promote research and collaboration among statisticians from industry, academia, and regulatory agencies.
The theme for this year will be "Emerging Clinical Initiatives in Pharmaceutical Development: Methodology and Regulatory Perspectives." DISS2020 will be held at the Durham Hilton in Durham, NC, about one mile from Duke University campus. The first day will be devoted to four short courses. The 2nd day will begin with a keynote speech by Dr. ShaAvhrée Buckman-Garner is the Director of the Office of Translational Sciences (OTS), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Fifteen parallel sessions will be followed as well as a poster session. On the morning of the 3rd day, Dr. David Page, Chair for the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics with Duke University School of Medicine will give a keynote speech on Machine Learning from Electronic Health Records followed by another ten parallel scientific sessions.
Attached is a draft program book for the symposium, which summarizes the schedule of the two and half day event. Please feel free to forward the flyer along this announcement to your colleagues or whoever may have interest in the event. For updated information about program schedule, talk abstracts, registration and travel, please visit https://sites.duke.edu/diss.
We are excited about this great event and look forward to seeing you on April 1-3 in Durham, North Carolina.
Sincerely yours,
The Organizing Committee of DISS2020
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Xiaofei Wang
Duke University Medical Center
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