CHL5250H - Biostatistics Seminars Course

Spring/Winter 2008 Seminar Schedule
(Health Sciences Building, Room 108)

Date Tuesday, 4-5pm	Speaker	Seminar Title
January 8 (3-5pm)	John Amrhein SAS Canada	Swimming Without a Lifeguard: An Introduction to Analyzing Complex Survey Data
January 15	University of Toronto	No Class
January 22	Hideki Ariizumi Wilfrid Laurier University	Effects of Unemployment on Health
January 29 (3-5pm, HSB790)	Paul Villeneuve Health Canada	Longitudinal Data Analyses of Cohorts Created Through Record Linkage to Canadian Mortality and Cancer Databases--Part I
February 5 (3-5pm, HSB790)	Paul Villeneuve Health Canada	Longitudinal Data Analyses of Cohorts Created Through Record Linkage to Canadian Mortality and Cancer Databases--Part II
February 12 (3-5pm)	Melania Pintilie Princess Margaret Hospital, UHN	Competing Risks Analysis
February 19	Reading Week	No Class
February 26 (3-5pm)	Lisa Strug Hospital for Sick Children	All Is Not Well in the House of Statistics: A Competing Approach to the Analysis of Genetic Association
March 4 (3-5pm)	Sandra Gardner Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Time Dependent Covariates in Parametric Survival Models-Part I
March 11 (3-5pm)	Sandra Gardner Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Time Dependent Covariates in Parametric Survival Models-Part II
March 18 (3-5pm)	Patrick Brown Cancer Care Ontario	Spatial Point Processes
March 25	Virgilio Gómez-Rubio Empirical College, UK	Introduction to Disease Mapping Using Bayesian Models
April 1	Joseph Beyene Hospital for Sick Children	Data Integration Methods in the Life Sciences-Part I
April 8	Jemila Hamid Hospital for Sick Children	Data Integration Methods in the Life Sciences-Part II
April 15	Exam Week	Exam Week

Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule
(Health Sciences Building, Room 100)

Date Tuesday, 4-5pm	Speaker	Seminar Title
September 18	Wendy Lou	Introduction
September 25	Paul Corey University of Toronto	Computer Simulation: A Practical Tool in Health Research--Part I
October 2	Paul Corey University of Toronto	Computer Simulation: A Practical Tool in Health Research--Part II
October 9	Gordon Lan UMDNJ and J&J Inc.	How to Predict the Final Outcome of a Clinical Trial
October 16	Mohamed Abdolell Dalhousie University	Moving beyond the disease atlas model for public health surveillance: The Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program
October 23	Patrick Brown Cancer Care Ontario	Spatial Statistics for Environmental Epidemiology
October 30	Rahim Moineddin Univ. of Toronto & ICES	Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Categorical Responses--Part I
November 6	Rahim Moineddin Univ. of Toronto & ICES	Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Categorical Responses--Part II
November 13	BUGS (PhD students)	BUGS Research Day
November 20 (3-5pm)	Laurent Briollais Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt Sinai Hospital	Sequential Methods with Applications to Genetic Studies
November 27	Gina Lockwood Princess Margaret Hospital, UNH	Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis in Medical Research--Part I
December 4	Gina Lockwood Princess Margaret Hospital,UHN	Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis in Medical Research--Part II
December 11	Exam Week	Exam Week