President Invited Speaker

1.    Topic novel approaches to clinical trials

New developments in Bayesian adaptive trials

Session organizer: Dave Dunson

Speakers:

• Nigel Stallard

Professor of Medical Statistics &
Deputy Director Health Sciences Research Institute
Warwick Medical School
University of Warwick

• Andrew Grieve

Professor
Division of Health & Social Care Research
Department of Public Health Sciences
School of Medicine, King's College
London

• Yisheng Li

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas

• Sylvie Chevret

Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Saint Louis Hospital
Paris, France

2.    Topic epidemiology

New statistical methods for pharmaco-epidemiology

Session organizer: Catherine Quantin

• Michal Abrahamowicz

Professor
Division of Clinical Epidemiology
McGill University
Montreal General Hospital

• Paddy Farrington

Professor
Department: Mathematics And Statistics
The Open University
Buckinghamshire.
UK.

• M. Alan Brookhart, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston

3.    Topic Analysis of complex data

3.1 Competing risks and multi-state models

Session organizers: Helene Jacqmin-Gadda & Jan Beyersmann

• Per Kragh Andersen

Professor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Copenhagen

•  Pierre Joly

Senior researcher
Equipe Biostatistique de l'U897 INSERM
ISPED - Universite Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
Bordeaux

• Michael Koller

Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University Hospital Basel
Hebelstasse Switzerland

3.2 Developments of risk prediction models

Session organizer: Thomas Gerds

• Tianxi Cai

Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Harward School of Public Health
Department of Biostatistics
Boston, Massachusetts

• Martin Schumacher

Professor
Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics
University Hospital Freiburg Stefan-Meier-Str.
Freiburg, Germany

• Ewout Steyerberg

Professor of Medical Decision Sciences
Erasmus MC
Dept. of Public Health
Dr. Molewaterplein 50
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

4.    Topic Use of genetic dat

Multiple testing

Session organizer: Jelle Goeman

• Martin Posch

Associate Professor
Institut für Medizinische Statistik
BE für Medizinische Statistik und Informatik
Medizinische Universität Wien
Spitalgasse Vienna, Austria

• Aldo Solari

Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Padova
Department of Chemical Process Engineering
Padova, Italy

• Jim Berger 

The Arts and Sciences Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University, Durham, USA
Director
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute

5.    Mixed Models

Session organizer: France Mentré

Speakers:

• Dipak K. Dey

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Head
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut

• Dimitris Rizopoulos

Professor in Biostatistics
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus Medical Centre
Department of Biostatistics, Chair

• Pr Marc Lavielle,

INRIA
Saclay, France