Spring 2008 Meeting

On June 10th, J. Richard Landis from the University of Pennsylvania will speak about his experiences the past decade at the Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology (DBE), in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The title is "Developing the Biostatistics Program at Penn: Challenges of the Past -- Visions for the Future". The abstract is given below.

Registration is open (scroll down below), and is limited to the first 65 attendees due to space constraints. A waiting list will be constructed if needed. Priority will be given to current dues-paid chapter members.

The event will be held at the Wyeth Conference Center in Collegeville, with a 12:30 start for lunch, and the presentation beginning around 2:00 PM. More specific details to direct you to and navigate the Wyeth campus are given below.

The event, including lunch, is free, thanks to the sponsorship of Wyeth. Please consider this opportunity to network with fellow ASA Philadelphia members and enjoy a sure to be interesting presentation by Professor Landis.

A wait list will be constructed and monitored if needed, with ASA members that have dues in good standing taking priority. Pre-registration is required to facilitate security entrance, parking, and to obtain an accurate headcount for food and beverages. Please do not register unless you are really sure you can attend. If you register and later find out you cannot attend, please notify us to cancel your registration. NO on-site walk-in registration will be available the day of the event. The deadline for registration is Thursday, June 5th.

The following links provide all details of the event, including the registration form. We hope to see you there! For any questions, please contact Bill Pikounis at president at amstatphilly.org or by phone at 610 240 8498.

Abstract

Registration

Directions

Registration

You may register at the form below or go directly to http://asap2008springevent.eventbrite.com/ to register.

Directions

General directions to the Wyeth campus in Collegeville, PA can be found at Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Mapquest, etc. by using the address:

500 Arcola Road
Collegeville, Pa. 19426

Please give yourself plenty of time to arrive, park your car, and make it to the conference center, as there is limited visitor parking at the actual conference center building. The main lot is large so some walking will be required when the Conference Center lot is full.

Directions from your origin can be determined from using 500 Arcola Road, Collegeville PA 19426 at the destination in your favorite on-line map & directions finder. Once you arrive on the Wyeth campus, here are some more specific directions:

After turning on Arcola Road from Rt. 29, take your first left onto Wyeth Drive. Bear to the right. The Conference Center will be on your right. It has silos like a barn. There is limited visitor parking at the conference center. You can park in any of the spots marked “visitor” in the Conference Center lot or in any spots not marked “reserved” in the main lot adjacent to the Conference Center parking lot.

When you check in, lunch will be served buffet-style upstairs.

Abstract

This talk will explore key development issues over the past decade at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as current challenges facing Biostatistics programs more widely. Using many practical examples, I will highlight general principles related to the development and sustainability of a vital biostatistics program within a complex academic medical center environment. Issues to be addressed include recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty, promoting effective balance between collaborative and methodological research, launching and sustaining a nationally competitive graduate (PhD, MS) training program, recruiting and retaining excellent biostatistical analyst/programmer, data management and project management research staff. The parallel issues of promoting and deploying a leading-edge research IT infrastructure, as well as biomedical informatics methods and tools, within a rapidly changing research landscape will also be highlighted. Major challenges facing biostatistics programs include cultivating a new generation of biostatistical scientists with the technical breadth, as well as the leadership skills, to guide multidisciplinary research teams within the evolving clinical and translational science award (CTSA) paradigm of NIH Roadmap research, pursuing new partnership approaches with industry for graduate education that includes collaborative approaches to scientific inquiry, and promoting research teams within the academic health system to harvest the research potentials of enterprise-wide clinical practice data.

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