The Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) Section will sponsor five invited sessions, six topic-contributed sessions, 19 contributed sessions, three roundtable discussions, and one short course at the 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings this August in Boston. We encourage our members and other interested JSM attendees to join us for these sessions and the SIE awards reception.

SIE Awards Reception

The section welcomes our members, along with all ASA members and their families, to attend the SIE Awards Reception, where the 2014 young investigator (YI) awards will be presented. The YI awards are given annually to new researchers for the best papers in SIE presented at JSM.

This year, the YI awards go to Ian Barnett of Harvard, Xinyi Lin of Harvard, John Rice of the University of Michigan, and Jennifer Anne Sinnott of Harvard.

Short Course

Causal Mediation Analysis
August 5, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Instructor: Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard

Roundtable Discussions

Measurement Error and Misclassification: New Opportunities for Research and Applications
August 4, 7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Donna Spiegelman, Harvard

Causal Inference in Statistics and Epidemiology
August 5, 7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
James Robins, Harvard

Analyzing Data from Older Study Samples: What Should the Toolkit of a Gerontological Biostatistician Include?
August 6, 7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Peter Van Ness, Yale

Invited Sessions

New Developments on Meta-Analysis with Applications to Medical Research
August 3, 4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
Organizer: Sandra M. Hurtado Rúa, Weill Cornell Medical College
Chair: Jaya Satagopan, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center

Advances in Statistical Methods for Large-Scale Genetic Data and Their Impact on Public Health
August 4, 2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Organizer: Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Columbia University
Chair: Seunggeun Lee, University of Michigan

Statistics in Disease Mapping and Spatial Epidemiology: New Insights and New Frontiers
August 5, 8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Organizer/Chair: Ying C. MacNab, University of British Columbia

Advances in Risk Prediction Using Genetic and Genomic Data
August 6, 2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Organizer: Huilin Li, New York University
Chair: Mengling Liu, New York University

Modern Methods for Modeling and Forecasting of Infectious Diseases: From Visualization to Random Networks and Social Media
August 7, 8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Organizers/Chairs: Yulia R. Gel, University of Waterloo, and Elena Naumova, Tufts University

Topic-Contributed Sessions

Applications of Statistical Techniques to the Analysis of HIV/AIDS Data at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
August 3, 2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Organizer: Felicia P. Hardnett, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Fresh Perspectives on Causal Inference, II
August 5, 10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Organizer: Susan Gruber, Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA

Counting Processes for Disease Modeling
August 6, 10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Organizer: Vladimir Minin, University of Washington

Challenges and Innovative Solutions for Time-Dependent Survival Analysis
August 7, 10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Organizer: Li Qin, Yale

Statistics in Epidemiology: Communication Is the Key to Success
August 5, 2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Organizer: Jashvant Poeran, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Contributed Sessions

• Advances in Gene-Environment Interaction and Multi-Marker Association Detection
• Novel Methods for Genetic Association Studies and Vaccine Safety Surveillance
• Innovative Methods for Predictive Modeling and Interesting Applications
• Novel Applications and Investigations of Markov Multistate, Hierarchical, and Marginal Structural Modeling
• Inventive Statistical Methods for Genetic Epidemiology
• Challenges and Innovative Solutions for Measurement Error, Meta-Analysis, and Smoothing
• Challenges in Performing Genetic Association Studies Using Nontraditional Sources Such as Electronic Medical Record
• New Modeling Approaches for Survival and Clustered Outcomes
• Progress in Analysis of Survey Data
• Advanced Statistical Modeling in Spatial and Environmental Epidemiology
• Modern Methods in Missing Data Imputation
• Interesting Application of Complex Methods in the Fields of HIV, Aging, Asthma, and Oncology
• Novel Methods for Analysis of Survival and Longitudinal Data
• Innovative Statistical Modeling of Data from Disease Outbreaks and Trauma Centers
• Interesting Implementations of Network Sampling and Bayesian Regression Topics in Epidemiology and Imaging
• Topics in Epidemiology and Survey Research Methods
• Statistics in Epidemiology

JSM 2015

The SIE section invites organization of invited sessions for JSM 2015, August 8–13, in Seattle, Washington. Please send your ideas/proposals to our 2015 JSM program chair, Haitao Chu, at chux0051@umn.edu.