In addition to events hosted at 2525 West End (such as our weekly Wednesday seminars) and elsewhere at Vanderbilt, our department members are often invited to present lectures, workshops, and courses online and around the world. Here is a sample of what's on the calendar:
September 27, 2023 - ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop 2023, Rockville, Maryland
- Benjamin Saville, "Design and Implementation of Master Protocols for Complex Diseases: What Have We Learned?" - instructor
- Christina Saunders (PhD 2018) is co-teaching this short course and serving a panelist on "Adaptive platform trial implementation - a synthesis of challenges and solutions."
October 12–13, 2023 - AI for Scientific Discovery - A Workshop, Washington, DC
- Bradley Malin, organizer and moderator. The workshop is hosted by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
October 16–18, 2023 - Pfizer Global Statistics Conference, Groton, Connecticut
- Siwei Zhang, "Test Permutation-Based Framework to Evaluate Predictive Model Utilizing High-Dimensional Simulated Biomarker Data" - first author (presentation by summer internship mentor)
October 20–22, 2023 - 2023 OHDSI Global Symposium, East Brunswick, New Jersey
- Siwei Zhang, "PheMIME: An Interactive Web App and Knowledge Base for Phenome-Wide Multi-Institutional Multimorbidity Analysis" - first author and presenter (contributed talk)
December 2, 2023 - ESMO Asia Congress 2023, Singapore
- Yu Shyr, "Novel Study Design and Analysis for Integrating Multi-omics Technologies for Early Detection of Cancer" - invited speaker
December 16–18, 2023 - CMStatistics 2023, Berlin (hybrid). Participants from our department include:
- Jinyuan Liu, "Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods in Mental Health Research" - invited speaker
- Andrew Spieker, "Novel Methods and Practical Strategies for Clinical Trials" - organizer and chair
- Panpan Zhang, "Double Anchoring Events Based Sigmoidal Mixed Model: An Application in Alzheimer's Disease Progression" - invited speaker (presenting virtually)
March 10–13, 2024 - ENAR 2024, Baltimore, Maryland
- Gustavo Amorim, "Recent Advances in the Design and Analysis of Studies Reliant on Error-prone Electronic Health Records Data" - invited speaker
- Bryan Blette, "Methodological Advances in and Practical Considerations for Data Originating from Randomized Trials" - invited speaker
- Jeffrey Blume, "Data Scientists and Biostatisticians: Competitors or Collaborators?" - invited panelist
- Jinyuan Liu, "Knowledge Synthesis Between Psychometric and Neuroimaging Methods: Network Modeling, Latent Factors and More" - invited session organizer and speaker
- Andrew Spieker, "Methodological Advances in and Practical Considerations for Data Originating from Randomized Trials" - invited session organizer and chair
- Thomas Stewart, "Data Scientists and Biostatisticians: Competitors or Collaborators?" - invited panel organizer and chair
- Megan Taylor Jones, "Knowledge Synthesis Between Psychometric and Neuroimaging Methods: Network Modeling, Latent Factors and More" - invited session chair
- Simon Vandekar, "Modern Statistical Methods for Spatial Multiplex Imaging Data" - invited speaker
- Panpan Zhang, "Advances in Statistical Methods for Studying Neurodegenerative Diseases" - invited session organizer and chair
- Alumni in invited roles at ENAR 2024 include Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan