MRC BSU Centenary Conference 2014: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
In celebration of the MRC Biostatistics Unit's Centenary year
The main four conference themes were: - Evidence Synthesis to Inform Health - Statistical Genomics - Complex Observational and Longitudinal Data - Design and Analysis of Randomised Trials
Website: http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/mrc-biostatistics-conference/
Monday 24 March 2014 - 11.30-13.00, Fitzpatrick Hall Professor Sylvia Richardson's opening speech of the Medical Research Conference on Biostatistics.
MRC Biostatistics Unit's Past-Director Session: Nicholas E. Day Chair: Sheila Bird
Speakers: - Nicholas E. Day, "The MRC Biostatistics Unit - from the past into the future" - Norman Breslow, "Using the Whole Cohort in the Analysis of Case-Control Data: Applications to the Women's Health Initiative Trials" - Vern Farewell, "Historical perspective: Dr. John Brownlee, First 'Director' of the MRC Statistical Department"
Wednesday 26 March 2014 - 13.30-15.00, Fitzpatrick Hall Invited closing session, MRC Biostatistics Unit's current Director - Sylvia Richardson Chair: Sach Mukherjee
Speakers: - Sylvia Richardson, "Biostatistics: Where we go from here" - Arnoldo Frigessi, "Integrative genomics: learning from layers of data" - Duncan Thomas, "Emerging challenges in statistical genetics"
Wednesday 26 March 2014 - 11.00-12.30, Fitzpatrick Hall Theme 4 invited: Design & Analysis of Randomized Trials Chair: Adrian Mander
Speakers: - Andy Grieve, "Adapting for Success: The Genesis of Adaptive Designs" - Mahesh Parmar, "Randomized Trials: New Designs for New Challenges"
Wednesday 26 March 2014 - 09.00-10.30, Fitzpatrick Hall Theme 3 invited: Complex Observational and Longitudinal Data Chair: Fiona Matthews
Speakers: - Per Kragh Andersen, "Causal inference in survival analysis based on pseudo-observations" - Robin Henderson, "Dynamic analysis of longitudinal and event history data"
Tuesday 25 March 2014 - 15.30-17.00, Fitzpatrick Hall Theme 2 invited: Statistical Genomics Chair: Lorenz Wernisch
Speakers: - Leonardo Bottolo, "Multivariate mixture priors for subgroups classification" - Chris Holmes, "Computational decision theory and Bayesian methods in genomics" - Dirk Husmeier, "Bayesian modelling and inference in complex biosystem"
Tuesday 25 March 2014 - 11.00-12.30, Fitzpatrick Hall Theme 1 invited: Evidence Synthesis for Health Chair: Daniela De Angelis
Speakers: - Tony Ades, "Synthesis of treatment effects, Mappings between outcomes, and test responsiveness" - Adrian Raftery, "Bayesian Reconstruction of Past Populations for Developing and Developed Countries"
Tuesday 25 March 2014 - 09.00-10.30, Fitzpatrick Hall Contributed Session: Complex and Observational Longitudinal Data Chair: Li Su
Speakers: - Antonio Gasparrini -London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,"A modelling framework for exposure-lag-response associations" - Gilbert MacKenzie -University of Limerick, Centre of Biostatistics, Ireland,"Covariance modelling for bivariate longitudinal processes" - Jane L Hutton -University of Warwick,"Chain Event Graphs for Informative Missingness" - Ivonne Solis-Trapala -MRC Human Nutrition Research, "The association and potential pathways between adiposity and bone phenotype in healthy postmenopausal women" - Daniel Commenges -INSERM, "Mechanistic versus marginal structural models for estimating the effect of HAART on CD4 counts" - Özgür Asar -Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, "Dynamic modelling of kidney function with interventions at acute kidney injury occurrences"
Monday 24 March 2014 - 14.00-15.30, Fitzpatrick Hall MRC Biostatistics Unit's Past-Director session: Simon G. Thompson Chair: Vern Farewell
Speakers: - Simon G Thompson, "Biostatistics in the 21st Century?" - Peter Diggle, "Informative missingness and/or informative non-missingness: what can spatial epidemiology learn from longitudinal data analysis?" - Tony Johnson, "Historical perspectives: Professor Major Greenwood, Second Director of the MRC Statistical Department (1927-1945)"
Monday 24 March 2014 - 16.00-17.20, Fitzpatrick Hall Session with invited speakers from among MRC Biostatistics Unit's professorial or pharmaceutical past-PhD students Chair: Ian White
- Neils Keiding, "Standardization and confounder control during the BSU years"
- K K Cheng, "Learning from the best"
- Peter Holmans, "Extracting biological meaning from genomic data using pathway analysis: application to schizophrenia"
Monday 24 March 2014 - 17.40-18.20, Fitzpatrick Hall Session with invited speakers from among MRC Biostatistics Unit's professorial or pharmaceutical past-PhD students Chair: Ian White
- Alex McNeil, "Copulas: From Biostatistics to the Financial Crisis"
- Richard Nixon / David Ohlssen, "Why MRC-BSU is a great place to learn your trade!"