The Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of ASA hope you will join us for our annual Fall Chapter Meeting and Dinner on November 11, 2016 at the University of Kansas-Edwards in Overland Park, Kansas. Short course (see separate event page) and keynote address will both be given by Dr. Andrea Troxel from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Andrea B. Troxel is Professor and Associate Director of Biostatistics at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Director of the Abramson Cancer Center's Biostatistics Core, Director of Biostatistics at the Leonard Davis Institute Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at Penn, and Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. In addition to her extensive experience in the design, conduct, and analysis of all phases of clinical studies, she has published on missing data, sensitivity analyses, and the development of statistical methodology for analysis of clinical trials. Recently she has focused on issues in pragmatic clinical trials, including methods of consent, non-standard randomization, rapid-cycle innovation, and multiple comparisons. She is the author of more than 175 articles in the literature of statistical methodology, cancer, behavioral research, and other areas of medicine. Dr. Troxel is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association; Associate Editor of Statistics in Medicine, a premier journal in biomedical statistics; and serves on Data Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) for randomized trials in cancer, cardiac devices, smoking cessation, and behavioral therapies.
Chapter Meeting (KU-Edwards Regents Center 110)
6 PM Social Mixer
6:30 PM Dinner
7:15 PM Chapter Business
7:30 PM Keynote
8:30 Dismissal
Note: This event is being held in conjunction with the first annual Career Day in Statistics. The event page with registration link can be found at http://community.amstat.org/kwmchapter or by visiting our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/events/313084539071897/).
For questions, please contact Jo Wick at stats_education@kumc.edu.