Ron Brookmeyer, Section Chair; Ruth Pfeiffer, Section Program Chair; Jaya Satagopan, Section Secretary/Treasurer; and Jing Cheng, Section Publications Officer

The Statistics in Epidemiology Section (SIE) will serve as the primary sponsor of five invited, four topic-contributed, and 20 contributed sessions, as well as one A.M. roundtable—Gerontologic Biostatistics: Application and Resources, led by Heather Gwynn Allore of Yale University—at the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia. All are invited to attend these sessions and the SIE awards reception and presentation of the Nathan Mantel Lifetime Achievement Award.

Invited Sessions

August 1
Spatial Epidemiology, GIS, and Disease Mapping, organized and chaired by Dongseok Choi of Oregon Health & Science University. Speakers: Tom Koch, The University of British Columbia; Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina; and Victoria Wan, Simon Fraser University

August 2
A Key to Innovation in Genetic Epidemiology, organized by Iryna Lobach of New York University School of Medicine and chaired by Iryna Lobach of New York University School of Medicine. Speakers: Hongyu Zhao, Yale University; Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University; Danyu Lin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Glen Satten, CDC

August 3
Advances in Instrumental Variables Methods, organized and chaired by Dylan Small of the University of Pennsylvania. Speakers: J. Niels Rosenquist, Harvard Medical School; Joseph W. Hogan, Brown University; and Jing Cheng, University of Florida Discussant: Thomas Louis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

August 4
Novel Methods for Extended Case-Control Designs, organized and chaired by Ivy Liu, Victoria University of Wellington. Speakers: Norman Breslow, University of Washington; Christopher J. Wild, University of Auckland; Yan Li, The University of Texas at Arlington; and Paul J. Rathouz, The University of Chicago

August 5
Risk Stratification Markers: Applications to Public Health and Clinical Medicine, organized by Estelle Russek-Cohen of FDA and chaired by Ruth Pfeiffer of the National Cancer Institute. Speakers: Mitchell H. Gail, National Cancer Institute; Estelle Russek-Cohen, FDA; and Ralph B. D’Agostino Sr., Boston University Discussant: Margaret Sullivan Pepe, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Topic-Contributed Sessions

The topic-contributed sessions include the following:

Integrated Analysis of Family and Case-Control Data in Genetics, organized by Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat of Leiden University Medical Center

Methodological Challenges Encountered in the Analysis of HIV and STD Data at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, organized by Felicia Hardnett of CDC

Risk Prediction in Survival Data, organized by Nancy Cook of Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Hierarchical Models for Health Disparity: A Road Map to Healthy People 2010, organized by Tapabrata Maiti of Michigan State University

Contributed Sessions

Titles of the contributed sessions include the following:

Spatial Epidemiology and Disease Mapping
Topics in Testing
Clustered Data
Infectious Disease Modeling
Topics in Causal Inference
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Survival Analysis
Topics in Missing Data
Errors in Variables and Misclassification
Diagnostic Testing and ROC Analysis
Epidemiology Designs Based on Complex Survey Data
Epidemiologic Studies of Obesity and Cancer
Topics in Genetic Epidemiology
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Survival Methods and Poisson Regression for Health Data
Topics on Time Series and Longitudinal Measurements
Topics in Infectious Disease Modeling
Health Science Applications
Methods for Binary Outcome Data
Methods for Growth Curves and Trajectories

Visit the online program for up-to-date session times and locations.