Subject: Invitation: Western Tennessee ASA Chapter 2025 Annual Symposium – Register Now
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the Western Tennessee ASA Chapter 2025 Annual Symposium. This event will bring together statisticians, data scientists, and collaborators across academia, healthcare, and industry for a day of learning, networking, and discussion.
📅 Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
🕒 Time: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Program begins at 1:00 PM)
📍 Location: Marlo Thomas GEC Board Room, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Campus, Memphis, TN
🔗 Registration: Click here to register
Program Highlights
- Opening Remarks – Dr. Tomi Mori (Chair, Biostatistics, St. Jude)
- Keynote: Win Ratio and Beyond: Evolution, Applications, and Open Questions in Composite Endpoint Analysis – Dr. Lu Mao (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
- Session 1: Methodological Advances in Clinical Trial Design and Analysis
- Dr. Haitao Pan (St. Jude) – DTE-BOP2: A Bayesian Optimal Phase II Trial Design for Delayed Treatment Effects
- Dr. Yuan Zhang (UTHSC) – Optimizing Dynamic Treatment Regimes via Q-learning
- Session 2: Statistical Methods for Complex Data Structures
- Dr. Chi-Ching (University of Memphis) – Response Surface Methodology for Interval Response
- Dr. Kendrick Li (St. Jude) – Dynamic ROC Curves for Survival Data
- Lightning Presentations: Student presenters with short talks
- Networking and Discussion Sessions
We welcome faculty, students, researchers, and professionals from all areas of statistics and data science. Please register early to secure your spot.
We look forward to seeing you on October 24th!
Best regards,
Western Tennessee ASA Chapter
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Haitao Pan
Associate Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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