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ASA Philadelphia Spring Meeting

ASA Philadelphia Spring Meeting

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 from 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)

Collegeville, PA

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Event Details

J. Richard Landis from the University of Pennsylvania will present on the past decade of experiences 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 event is hosted by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association, and sponsored by Wyeth.

The presentation will start approximately 2 PM, Tuesday June 10, 2008 at the Wyeth Conference Center on Wyeth's Collegeville Campus. Lunch will be available starting 12:30 PM. The event is free. It is open to all chapter members. Capacity is limited to 65 people. 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.

When you register, you will receive a receipt to the email address you specify. If you do not receive such a receipt, please email accounting@amstatphilly.org .

For all details and the preregistration form, please see http://www.amstatphilly.org/events/spring/2008/index.htm . We hope to see you there!

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.


 

When

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 from 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)

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Where
Wyeth Conference Center, Auditorium
500 Arcola Road
Collegeville, PA 19426



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