Past Activities

• April 28^th – 29^th, 2016  Symposium

o    9^th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Gregory Campbell, PhD., President of GCStat Consulting and Former Director of Biostatistics at FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health

o    Keynote Address: “Statistical Innovations  in Medical Device Clinical Trials”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

• Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• April 28^th, 2016 Pre-Symposium Short Course
• Presenter: Maura Stokes, PhD,  SAS
• Title: “Modelling Longitudinal Categorical Response Data”

 

• March 31^st, 2016 Spring Chapter Meeting

o   Presenter : James V. Zidek, PhD,  University of British Columbia, Canada

o   Title: “Getting to the US 2008 0.075ppm Standard for Ozone and Beyond: The Statistician’s Story”

o   Location: Manhattan, KS

• October 29^th, 2015 Fall Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: Susanne May, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle
• Title: “The Rise and Fall of Hypertonic Saline(With Sugar on Top)”
• Location: Overland Park, KS

 

• October 29^th, 2015 ASA Traveling Course
• Presenter: Susanne May, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle
• Title: “Introduction to Clinical Trials”
• Location: Overland Park, KS
• Co-sponsor: KU Med Center

 

• April 23^rd – 24^th, 2015  Symposium

o    8^th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: David Morganstein, MA, President of the American Statistical Association, Vice President and Director of Westat’s Statistical Unit

o    Keynote Address: “Communications A Two-way Street”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

• Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• April 2^nd, 2015 Spring Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: KyungMann Kim, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Title: “Drug Safety and Vioxx® Controversy”
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• October 23^rd, 2014 Fall Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: Ronald L Wasserstein, PhD, Executive Director on the American Statistical Association
• Title: “Energizing the Future of the Statistics Profession”
• Location: University of Kansas Medical Center, School of Nursing Atrium

 

• April 24^th – 25^th, 2014  Symposium

o    7^th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Scott Berry, Ph.D, President and Senior Statistical Scientist, Berry Consultants, LLC

o    Keynote Address: “Innovation in Trial Design: Who let the Bayesians in?”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

• Location: Overland Park, KC

 

• April 24^th, 2014 Pre-Symposium Short Course
• Presenter: Simon Sheather, PhD,  Texas A&M University
• Title: “Modern Regression Methods for Predictive Business Analytics Using SAS JMP”

 

• April 10^th, 2014 Spring Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: Sudipto Banerjee, PhD, University of Minnesota
• Title: “On Complex Spatial Dependencies: Low-Rank Cross-Covariance Models”
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• October 17^th, 2013 Fall Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: Richard De Veaux, PhD Williams College
• Title: “Examples of Data Mining in Sports”
• Location: Overland Park, KS

 

• October 17^th,  2013 ASA Traveling Short Course
• Presenter: Richard De Veaux, PhD Williams College
• Title: “Successful Data Mining in Practice”
• Location : Overland Park, KS

 

• April 18^th – 19^th, 2013  Symposium

o    6^th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Sharon-Lise T. Normand, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health

o    Keynote Address: “Statistical Methods for Assessing the Comparative Safety and Effectiveness of Medical Devices: Distributed Networks, Auxiliary Data Sources, and Learning Curves”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

• Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• April 18^th, 2013 Pre-Symposium Short Course
• Presenter: Thomas Love, PhD,  Case Western Reserve University
• Title: “Using Propensity Scores to Design and Analyze Observational Studies”

 

• April 4^th, 2013 Spring Chapter Meeting
• Presenter:  Hui Zou, PhD, Stanford University
• Title:  “Variable Screening and the Kolmogorov Filter”
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• October 11^th, 2012 Fall Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: Xiaotong Shen, PhD University of Minnesota
• Title: “Simultaneous Supervised Clustering and Feature Selection Over a Graph”
• Location: Diastole Scholar's Center, UMKC

 

• May 3^rd, 2012 Spring Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: Noel Cressie, PhD The Ohio State University
• Title: “The Statistical Nature of Satellite Retrievals”
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• April 26^th – 27^th, 2012  Symposium

o    5^th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Richard Simon, PhD, Chief of the Biometric Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute

o    Keynote Address: “Biostatistics for Discovery, Prediction, and Decision Making in Biomedical Research”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

• Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• April 26^th, 2012 Pre-Symposium Short Course
• Presenter: Bradley Carlin, PhD,  University of Minnesota
• Title: “Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials”

 

• October 27^th, 2011 Fall Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: David Morganstein, MS, Westat
• Title: “The ASA: Recent Activities and Future Plans”
• Location: KU Med Center

• October 27^th, 2011 ASA Traveling Course
• Presenter: David Morganstein, MS, Westat
• Title: “Analysis of Sample Data”
• Location: KU Med Center
• Co-sponsor: KU Med Center

 

• April 28^th, 2011 Spring Chapter Meeting
• Presenter: James Booth, PhD Cornell University
• Title: “Simple Modeling Strategies for Biological Data”
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• April 7^th – 8^th, 2011  Symposium

o    4^th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Paula  Roberson, PhD, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Science

o    Keynote Address: Translational Science: Challenges for Biostatisticians

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

• Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• April 7^th, 2011 Pre-Symposium Short Course
• Presenter: Frank E. Harrell Jr. Vanderbilt University 
• Title: “Regression Modeling Strategies”

 

• October 20^th, 2010 Fall Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Dr. Keith Muller of the University of Florida
• Title: “A Good N Despite a Bad Start: A Practical Guide to Easy Internal Pilots”
• Location: KU Med Center

 

• April 8^th-9^th, 2010 - Symposium

o   3^rd 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 8^th, 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

 

• March 11^th, 2010 Spring Chapter Meeting
• Speaker: Karen Kafadar, University of Indiana
• Title: “Effect of Length Biased Sampled Sojourn Times on the Survival Distribution from Screen-Detected Diseases”
• Location: Holiday Inn, Manhattan

 

• November 17^th, 2009 Fall Chapter Meeting  

• Speaker: Dr. peter Austin, University of Toronto
• Title: “Statistical issues in provider profiling: optimal decisions about provider performance and assessing variability”
• Location: KU Med Center, School of Nursing

 

• April 13^th, 2009 Spring Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Dr. Howard Hogan, US Bureau of the Census
• Title of Presentation: "Population Change Using the American Community Survey"
• Location:Washburn University Union, Topeka, KS

 

• April 2^nd-3^rd , 2009 Symposium
• 2^nd 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 2^nd, 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

 

·         October 17, 2008 Fall Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Dr. Jianqing Fan, Department of Operation Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
• Title of Presentation: "Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Semiparametric Estimation of Covariance Function"
• Location: KUMC School of Nursing Room 1050

 

• October 10^th, 2008 ASA sponsored short course
• Presenter: Suzanne May
• Course title: Applied Survival Analysis
• Location: MU Medical Center, KC

 

• May 8-9^th, 2008 Symposium
• 1^st  "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

 

• March 27^th, 2008 Spring Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Dr. David Banks, Department of Statistics, Duke University
• Title of Presentation: "Statistical Issues in Metabolomics"
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• October 17^th, 2007 Fall Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Dr. Xiao-Li Meng, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
• Title of Presentation: "The True meaning of i.i.d. in (Applied) Statistics"
• Location: MU Medical Center, KC

 

• April 5^th, 2007 Spring Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Dr. Allan Rossman, Cal Poly
• Title of Presentation: "Introducing Students to Statistics"
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• October 16^th, 2006 Fall Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Morgan C. Wang, University of Central Florida
• Title of Presentation: "Maximum Likelihood Regression Trees"
• Location: Kansas City, MO 

 

• April 27^th, 2006 Spring Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Shane Reese, Brigham Young University
• Title of Presentation: "Hierarchical Models for Permutations"
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• April 14^th, 2006  ASA sponsored short course
• Presenter: Scott Berry, Ph.D., Berry Consultants
• Course Title: Bayesian Clinical Trials
• Location: University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

 

• October 19^th, 2005 Fall Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Alex Dmitrienko, Global Statistical Science, Eli Lilly and Company
• Title of Presentation: "Sequential Hypothesis Testing with Applications to Clinical Trials"
• Location: Kansas City, MO

 

• April, 2005 Spring Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
• Title of Presentation: "Bayesian Clinical Trials"
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• September 13^th, 2004 Fall Chapter Meeting 

o    Speaker: Alan Agresti, University of Florida

o    Title of Presentation: "A Twentieth Century Tour of Categorical Data Analysis"

o    Location: Kansas City, MO

 

• April 15, 2004 Spring Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Jim Albert, Bowling Green State University
• Title of Presentation: "A New Look at an Old Baseball Statistic"
• Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• April 2^nd, 2004  ASA sponsored short course
• Presenter: Charles Davis, Ph.D., Elan Pharmaceuticals
• Course Title: Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Repeated Measurements
• Location: Helzberg School of Management, Rockhurst University

 

• October 30^th – 31^st, 2003  Fall Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Donald Rubin, Harvard University
• Title of Presentation 1: "Causal Inference Through Potential Outcomes: Application to Quality of Life Studies with 'Censoring' Due to Death"
• Title of Presentation 2: "Multiple Imputation for Item Nonresponse: Current Theory and Examples"
• Location: Kansas City, MO

 

• March 26^th, 2003 Spring Chapter Meeting 

• Speaker: Dick DeVeaux, Williams College
• Title of Presentation: "Successful Data Mining in Practice: Where Do We Start?"
• Location: Manhattan, KS