This year's annual NISS/SAMSI Affiliates Meeting took place Sunday, March 6, 2016, in conjunction with the Eastern North American Region International Biometrics Society's (ENAR) meeting at the JW Marriott in Austin, TX.
Travel support to the NISS/SAMSI Affiliates meeting is a benefit of Affiliates membership. For this meeting NISS will reimburse up to $600.00 (with receipts for travel and hotel) for one liaison, and up to $800.00 for two liaisons who attend.
Agenda
Program
Sunday, March 6, 2016
| 8:30-9:00 a.m. | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and Review of NISS Events Nell Sedransk, Director, National Institute of Statistical Sciences |
| 9:15-10:30 | Session on Record Linkage Chair: Jane Pendergast Rebecca Steorts, Duke University Modern Bayesian Record Linkage: Some Recent Developments and Open Challenges |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:45 | Meeting Future Needs of NISS/SAMSI Affiliates Discussion Leader: Jane Pendergast, Duke University |
| 11:50-12:10 | Speed Session: Introduction of ENAR talks by NISS/SAMSI Affiliates Chair: Nell Sedransk, NISS 11:50-11:55: Rachel Carroll, postdoc at the Medical University of South Carolina 11:55-12:00: Masaki (Chien-Wei) Lin, a graduate student from the University of Pittsburgh (Biostatistics) 12:00-12:10 Questions |
| 12:10-1:10 | Lunch |
| 1:10-2:25 | Session on Biosimilars Chair: Dan Holder, Merck 1:10-1:45: Thomas Gwise, FDA 1:45-2:10: Yulan Li, Novartis Pharmaceuticals 2:10-2:25: Floor Discussion |
| 2:25-3:15 | SAMSI Postdoc Session Chair: Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo 2:25-2:50: Yize Zhao, SAMSI and UNC-CH 2:50-3:15: Zhengwu Zhang, SAMSI and Duke University |
| 3:15-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-5:00 | Data Science Panel Discussion Chair/Moderator: Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo Vladimir Svetnik, Merck |
| 5:00-7:00 | Reception |
Event Type
- NISS Hosted