2016 IMPACT Symposium IV - Agenda & Speakers

"Statistical Challenges and Opportunities in Precision Cancer Medicine"


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Thursday, November 17th, 2016

7:30 am - 8:15 am Continental Breakfast

8:15 am - 10:15 am Workshop I: Design and Sample Size for SMART Studies
(Cost of workshop included in symposium registration fee)
  Eric B. Laber, North Carolina State University
  Michael R. Kosorok, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

10:15 am - 10:30 am Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:30 pm Scientific Session I: Current Issues in Designing Cancer Clinical Trials
  Luping Zhao, AstraZeneca "Measures of Clinical Benefit in Immuno-Oncology Studies" [Abstract]
  Ting Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Biomarker Stratified Design Enriched by Auxiliary Biomarker" [Abstract]
  Suhyun Kang, North Carolina State University "Subgroup Detection and Sample Size Calculation with Proportional Hazards Regression for Survival Data" [Abstract]

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Keynote Presentation I: Evaluating Immune-based Therapies
  Smita Nair, Duke University "Immune-based therapies" [Abstract]

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Coffee Break

2:45 pm - 4:45 pm Scientific Session II: Recent Methodological Developments in Cancer Genomics
  Jichun Xie, Duke University "Multiple Testing of General Dependence by Quantile-Based Contingency Tables with an Application in Identifying Gene Co-expression Network Change Associated with Cancer Survival" [Abstract]
  Eric C. Chi, North Carolina State University "Getting High-throughput Arrays in Order with Convex Biclustering" [Abstract]
  Kin Yau Wong, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Integration of Multiple High-dimensional Genomic Data Types For Survival Prediction" [Abstract]

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm Speed Session: 5 minute advertisements: for poster session

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Poster Session / Reception [Poster Info]

Friday, November 18th, 2016

7:30 am - 8:15 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 10:30 am Scientific Session III: Analysis with Electronic Health Records
  Susan Shortreed, Group Health Research Institute "Leveraging Electronic Medical Records to Better Target Suicide Prevention" [Abstract]
  Mary Boland, Columbia University "Electronic Health Records and Precision Medicine: Enabling Large-Scale Discoveries Using Phenome-Wide Approaches" [Abstract]
  Joseph G. Ibrahim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Network Meta-analysis for Ordinal Outcomes: Applications in Comparing Crohn's Disease Treatments" [Abstract]

10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break

10:45 am - 11:45 am Keynote Presentation II: Assessing Time-Varying Causal Interactions and Treatment Effects with Applications to Mobile Health
  Susan A. Murphy, University of Michigan "Assessing Time-Varying Causal Interactions and Treatment Effects with Applications to Mobile Health" [Abstract]

11:45 am - 12:00 pm Concluding Remarks

12:00 pm Adjourn

† Poster presenters will have the opportunity to "advertise" their posters to symposium participants during the Speed Session to be held 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm immediately before the posters go on display. Poster presenters should prepare a very short presentation of NO MORE THAN 5 minutes duration highlighting their posters.



Location:


The Embassy Suites in Cary
201 Harrison Oaks Blvd
Cary, NC 27513
Use Reservation Code "UNC Symposium"
for a reduced rate (effective until Nov. 2nd, 2016)

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