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John D. Wiley Seminar Series

Date: February 17, 2012

Time: Noon to 1:00 pm

Title: "Biostatistics, ICTR and the Waisman Center"

Speaker: Dave DeMets, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
Vikas Singh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Paul Rathouz, PhD, Professor and Department Chair, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
Christina Kedziorski, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Affiliate Faculty, Department of Statistics; University of Wisconsin-Madison

About the Talk: While quantitative disciplines like biostatistics and bioinformatics have been involved in both basic and clinical research for decades, recent scientific breakthroughs in the field of genomics, proteomics and imaging and a renewed focus on population based research have made these disciplines even more critical and central to research programs. We will provide an overview of the biostatistics and bioinformatics expertise available in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (BMI). Portions of this activity are funded by the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and the Waisman Center's NIH core grants. The Waisman Center has been strengthening relationship with ICTR leading to increased access to biostatistics and informatics resources for early consulting on experimental design and grant proposal development. The ICTR biostatistics group offers these services free to the investigator and the bioinformatics group will soon. These early interactions often lead to longer-term collaborations funded by collaborative grants. Today we shall share examples these collaborations in the areas of population health statistics, statistical genetics and image analysis.

To make a request for biostatistics or bioinformatics support from ICTR point your web browser at www.ictr.wisc.edu and look under "For Investigators".

About Dave DeMets, PhD: David L. DeMets, PhD is currently the Max Halperin Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Since receiving his PhD in 1970, he has been active in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials in several disease areas. Following a postdoctoral appointment at the National Institutes of Health (1970-72), he spent ten years (1972-1982) at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health where he was a member of and later became chief of the biostatistics branch. In 1982, he joined the University of Wisconsin and established the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics where he served as Chair through June 2009. His research interests include the design, data monitoring and analysis of clinical trials, especially large Phase III randomized clinical trials. He is well known for his work on sequential statistical methods for monitoring interim data for early evidence of intervention benefit or possible harm.

Where: John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216, Second Floor, North Tower

For Further Information: Contact Teresa Palumbo at 263-5837 or palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu

This Seminar Series is partially funded by the John D. Wiley Conference Center Fund, the Friends of the Waisman Center and NIH grant P30 HD003352.