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2019

The Symposium will be held on April 25-26, 2019. This event will be sponsored by Cerner Corporation, the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association, , 

 

 

Symposium Keynote Address

Statistical Methods for Improving and Evaluating HIV Treatment Outcomes Using Electronic Health Records

 

Presented by Joseph Hogan, Sc.D.

Professor of Statistics, - Brown University, Fellow of the ASA

 

Symposium Invited Presentations 

Title talk 1: An Overview of an Industrial Healthcare Data Science Platform

Presenter: Chad Cole, Ph.D 
                  Data Scientist, Population Health, Cerner Corporation
                  Tyler Cook, M.S.
                  Data Scientist, Population Health, Cerner Corporation


Title talk 2: Use of Electronic Health Record Data to Prevent no Shows at Pediatric Practices

Presenter: Justine Shults, Ph.D.
                 Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania 

 

Title talk 3: Comparison of Correlated Biomarkers at Clinically Affordable Operating Points in Trichotomous Settings with Applications to Prostate Cancer

Presenter: Leonidas Bantis, Ph.D.
                 Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science

 

Title talk 4: Bayesian Approaches for High-Dimensional Data Analysis

Presenter: Gyuhyeong Goh, Ph.D.
                 Assistant Professor, Kansas State University, Department of Statistics

 

 

Symposium Short Course
Data Science and Deep Learning for Statisticians
Date Thursday April 25th 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM)



Presented by
Hui Lin, Ph.D., Data Scientist with Netlify, San Francisco, CA

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April 26th – 27th, 2012  Symposium

  • 5th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
  • Keynote Speaker: Richard Simon, PhD, Chief of the Biometric Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute
  • Keynote Address: “Biostatistics for Discovery, Prediction, and Decision Making in Biomedical Research”
  • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
  • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

     April 26th, 2012 Pre-Symposium Short Course

      • Presenter: Bradley Carlin, PhD,  University of Minnesota
      • Title:Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials

     

          April 7th – 8th, 2011  Symposium

          • 4th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
          • Keynote Speaker: Paula  Roberson, PhD, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Science
          • Keynote Address: Translational Science: Challenges for Biostatisticians
          • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

             April 7th, 2011 Pre-Symposium Short Course

                  • Presenter: Frank E. Harrell Jr. Vanderbilt University 
                  • Title:Regression Modeling Strategies

                 

                April 8th-9th, 2010 - Symposium

                • 3rd Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
                • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
                • Keynote Speaker: David L. DeMets, PhD, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
                •  Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC 

                  April 8th, 2010 Pre-Symposium Short Course

                        • Title: “Introduction to the design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials”
                        • Presenter: Allan Donner, PhD FRSC, University of Western Ontario 

                     

                     

                    April 2nd-3rd , 2009 Symposium

                     

                     

                        • 2nd Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
                        • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael H. Kutner, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University.
                        • Keynote Address: Analysis of Fixed Effects ANOVA Models with Missing Cells”
                        • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
                        • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC 

                      April 2nd, 2009 Pre-Symposium Short Course

                        • Title:Evaluating Probability of Success for Internal Decision Making in Early Drug Development
                        • Presenters: Narindra Nangia PhD, Martin King PhD, and Jane qian, PhD Abott Laboratories 

                       

                       

                       May 8-9th, 2008 Symposium

                        • 1st  "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
                        • Keynote Speaker 1: Dallas E. Johnson, Ph.D., Dept. of Statistics, Kansas State University.
                        • Keynote Address: Some Messy Experimental Designs”
                        • Keynote Speaker 2: Walter W. Stroup, Ph.D. Dept. of Statistics, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
                        • Keynote Address: Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models To Design Studies and Assess Power”
                        • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
                        • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC