Joint Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Pepper Centers Symposium
   

Third Joint Symposium: September 2011
The Third Joint Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Pepper Centers Biostatistics Symposium was held on Friday, September 9, 2011 from 8:30am - 12:00pm.  This event took place on the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus in the SMC Campus Center, Ballroom 210 B (621 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201).  The symposium focused on Time to Event (Survival) Analysis with featured talks by Drs. Laurence Magder, Ph.D. (UMB), Daniel Scharfstein, Sc.D. (JHU), and Mei-Cheng Wang, Ph.D. (JHU). The meeting flyer, agenda and slide presentations are available for download below in PDF format:

• Symposium Flyer
• Symposium Agenda
  
• Session 1: "Fundamentals of Survival Analysis" by Dr. Laurence Magder, PhD (University of Maryland)
  
• Session 2: "Censoring" by Daniel Scharfstein, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
  
• Session 3: "Forward, backward and time-adjusted recurrent event processes in the presence of a terminal event" by Mei-Cheng Wang (Johns Hopkins)
  

Second Joint Symposium: December 2010
The Second Joint Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Pepper Centers Biostatistics Symposium was held on Monday, December 6, 2010 from 2:00 - 5:00pm.  This event occurred in the Mountcastle Auditorium (725 N. Wolfe Street) on the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. This symposium focused on longitudinal data analysis, with sessions on: 1) an introductory review of cross-sectional, time series, and longitudinal approaches; 2) presentation on longitudinal analysis (why is it important, what are key considerations); and 3) examples and discussion of different types of longitudinal analyses such as GEE, random effects, transition models, and survival analysis.  The meeting flyer, agenda and slide presentations are available for download below in PDF format:

• Symposium Flyer
  
• Symposium Agenda
  
• Session 1: "Medical Epistemology (A Gerontologist's Perspective)" by Dr. John Sorkin, MD, PhD (University of Maryland)
  
• Session 2: "A Practical Guide to the Selection, Analysis, and Interpretation of Longitudinal Models" by Qian-Li Xue, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
• Session 3: "Growth Mixture Models" by Jeannie Marie Leoutsakos, PhD, MHS (Johns Hopkins)

First Joint Symposium: May 2010
The First Joint Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Pepper Centers Symposium on Clinical and Comparative Effectiveness Research was held on Monday May 24, 2010 from 8:30am - 12:00pm.  This event occurred at the Allied Health Building (100 Penn Street, Baltimore, MD 21201; map) on the University of Maryland Baltimore campus. The meeting flyer, agenda and slide presentations are available for download below in PDF format:

• Symposium Flyer
  
• Symposium Agenda
  
• Symposium Welcome / Introduction by John Sorkin, MD, PhD (University of Maryland) 
  
• Session 1: Introduction to Causal Inference in Clinical Research by Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
  
• Session 2: Pilot Studies  by Michael Terrin, MD (University of Maryland)
  
• Session 3 Introduction: Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) by Ravi Varadhan, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
  
• Session 3a: CER Overview and Pragmatic Trials by Jodi Segal, MD, MPH (Johns Hopkins)
  
• Session 3b: Secondary Data Analysis in CER: A Case Study by Amy Davidoff, PhD, MS (University of Maryland)