Edited by Page Moore, Biometrics Section Publications Officer
Abstract submission opens December 1 for contributed and topic-contributed presentations for JSM 2011, which will be held July 30 to August 4 in Miami Beach, Florida. All abstracts are due February 1.
As an alternative to contributed sessions, topic-contributed sessions are organized around a central topic and include 20-minute talks and possible discussants. Typically, sessions consist of five speakers (e.g., four speakers and one discussant or three speakers and two discussants). The section JSM program chair for 2011, Tianxi Cai, is collecting proposals for topic-contributed talks. If you are interested in organizing a topic-contributed session, contact her at tcai@hsph.harvard.edu.
Topic-contributed panel sessions are another alternative. They usually include three to six panelists who work together to submit one abstract for all speakers. Visit the JSM 2011 website for more information.
Nominations Sought
The ASA Biometrics Section is seeking applications for the 2011 David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. This annual award is given to a young investigator for best emerging work to be presented during JSM. The award commemorates the late David Byar, a biostatistician who made significant contributions to the development and application of statistical methods and was esteemed as an exceptional mentor during his career at the National Cancer Institute. The winner will receive a $1,500 award. Additionally, the section may provide travel awards to the authors of other outstanding papers submitted to the competition.
Applicants must have held a doctorate in statistics, biostatistics, or a related quantitative field for three or fewer years as of April 1 of the current year or be enrolled as a doctoral student in statistics or biostatistics and in active pursuit of a doctoral degree. They also must be current members of the ASA Biometrics Section and first author of the paper submitted. (Membership in the ASA does not automatically confer section membership. Applicants may join at the time of submission for a $5 annual membership fee.) The paper may be submitted to a journal or under review, but may not have appeared online or in print at the time of the application or have been accepted for publication as of January 1, 2010. Also, the paper may not have been submitted to any other ASA section student/young investigator award competition. Finally, applicants must be scheduled to present the submitted paper at JSM 2011 as a talk or poster presentation.
Applicants must submit their JSM abstracts to the Biometrics Section in addition to submitting them to the ASA by February 1, 2011. They also must contact Cai prior to the abstract deadline. The section will organize a series of topic-contributed sessions to highlight the submitted papers.
By March 1, applicants should complete their application by submitting a cover letter certifying that they meet the eligibility requirements and are not submitting the paper to another ASA section student/young investigator award competition, a current CV, and one copy of the finished paper. All materials must be submitted electronically to Barry Graubard, section chair, at graubarb@mail.nih.gov.
The 2011 awards committee is composed of the current and past section chairs and chair-elect, as well as three individuals appointed by the section chairs. More information can be found on the section web page.
Transition
With the arrival of the New Year, we will have the following new set of officers:
- Barry Graubard – Past Chair
- J. Jack Lee – Chair
- Dianne Finkelstein – Chair-elect
- Debashis Ghosh – Secretary/Treasurer
- Page Moore – Council of Sections Representative
- Annie Qu – Continuing Education Chair for JSM
- Tianxi Cai – Program Chair for JSM
- Jason Fine – Program Chair for ENAR
- Rosyln Stone – Strategic Initiatives Chair
- Songthip Ounpraseuth – Publications Officer
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