BIOMETRICS
SECTION NEWS, JULY 2009
Edited by
Page Moore, Biometrics Section Publications Officer
2009 David P.
Byar Young Investigator Award Winners
The David P. Byar Young
Investigator Award is given annually by the Biometrics Section to a new
researcher in the Biometrics Section who presents an original
manuscript at the Joint Statistical Meetings. The award
commemorates David Byar, a renowned biostatistician who made
significant contributions to the development and application of
statistical methods during his career at the National Cancer
Institute. This year, there were 18 papers submitted to the Byar
Award Committee, which consisted of Katie Kerr (University of
Washington), Kathy Cronin (National Cancer Institute), Paul Vos (East
Carolina University), Jeremy Taylor (University of Michigan), Daniel
Heitjan (University of Pennsylvania), and Barry Graubard (National
Cancer Institute). The committee chose one travel award winner in
addition to the Byar award winner.
Sonja
Greven, a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University
Department of Biostatisticis, is this year’s winner of the David P Byar
Young Investigator Award. She will receive a $1000 cash award for
her paper “On the Behavior of Marginal and Conditional Akaike
Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Models,” which she will present at
this JSM.
This year's travel award winner
is Xiaoxi Zhang from Pfizer
for the paper titled, “Longitudinal Image Analysis of Tumor/Brain
Change in Contrast Uptake Induced by Radiation”.
Our travel award winner will
receive a $500 cash award to present her paper at the JSM.
Winners will receive a check, a certificate and a plaque commemorating
their awards at the Biometrics Section Mixer and Business Meeting on
Monday, August 3, 2009 at the JSM in Washington DC. The committee
was very enthusiastic about the response and the exceptional quality of
the applications. The Section thanks all of the applicants and
the committee members for their excellent work.
Congratulations to the award
winners on their notable accomplishments!
Biometrics
Section Mixer & Business Meeting at JSM 2009
Please join us for drinks,
appetizers, and mingling at the Biometrics section Mixer & Business
Meeting at the 2009 JSM in Washington, DC! It’s a great
networking opportunity and an excellent way to meet other Biometrics
Section members. In addition, the recipient of the 2009 David P.
Byar Young Investigator Award will be presented at the Mixer. It will
be held on Monday, August 3rd from 5:30-7:00 p.m in Meeting Room 6 at
the Renaissance Hotel. The Mixer is open to all JSM
attendees. We hope to see you there!
EXCITING
PROGRAM AT THE 2009 JSM
The theme of this year's Joint
Statistical Meetings, August 2 – August 6 in Washington DC is
"Statistics: From Evidence to Policy”. Be sure to check out the
following events sponsored by the Biometrics Section.
Continuing
Education Courses
•
“Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies: Strategies for Bayesian
Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis”, by Michael Daniels and Joseph Hogan
on Saturday, August 1st from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
•
“Longitudinal Data Analysis: Semiparametric and Nonparametric
Approaches”, by Annie Qu and Peter Song on Saturday, August 1st from
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• “Methodology
for Competing Outcomes: The Analysis of Multiple Mutually Exclusive
Endpoints in a Clinical Trial”, by David Naftel on Monday, August 3rd
from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
• “Absolute
Risk Prediction” by Mitchell Gail and Ruth Pfeiffer on Tuesday, August
4th from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Invited
Sessions
- The issues
of high dimensionality and missing data in complex epidemiological
studies, Organizer: Samiran Sinha (Texas A&M). (Sunday, August 2nd
from 4:00-5:50 p.m).
- Recent
developments in dimension reduction, Organizer: Wensheng Guo
(University of Pennsylvania). (Monday, August 3rd from 2:00-3:50 p.m).
-
Nonparametric approaches for high dimensional data, Organizer: Annie Qu
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). (Tuesday, August 4th from
10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m).
- Statistical
Challenges in Personalized Medicine and Genetic Guided Clinical Trials,
Organizer: Colin Wu (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute).
(Wednesday, August 5th from 8:30-10:20 a.m).
- Statistical
issues and second code of life: epigenomics, Organizers: Rebecca Doerge
(Purdue University) and Jaya Satagopan (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center). (Thursday, August 6th from 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m).
Check the online program at the
2009 JSM web site (available through the ASA web site www.amstat.org) for updates on
locations and times.
JSM 2010
It’s also already time to start
thinking about invited sessions for next year's Joint Statistical
Meetings, which will be held August 1–5 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Anyone who is interested in organizing an invited session or who has
ideas for one, please contact our 2010 Program Chair, Hormuzd Katki, at
katkih@mail.nih.gov.
A typical invited session
consists of three 30-minute talks followed by a 10-minute invited
discussion and 10 minutes of floor discussion. However, other formats
are possible. The 2009 program is a good source for
examples. Decisions will be made in July, so don't delay!
Please also submit ideas for
short courses our 2009–2010 Continuing Education Chair Jerry Heatley at
jerry.heatley@thoratec.com.