The twelfth annual Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health took place this past June in Cleveland, Ohio. Conference activities were hosted at the Biomedical Research Building of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The meeting brought together an international group of professionals and experts.
The keynote presentation by Kelley Kidwell, University of Michigan, focused on recent statistical developments for partially randomized patient preference designs within the framework of sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trials. The methods were illustrated with case studies in chronic pain and depression treatment, highlighting their potential to inform patient-centered care.
Eva Petkova began the formal program with an introduction to the history of the symposium. The symposium then featured an array of presentations. Topics included electronic health records for neighborhood-level studies in mental health, precision nosology for mental health research, multilevel measurement modeling to evaluate clinician-level scores based on individual-level scores, and evaluating medical music therapy using electronic health records. A panel discussion broached the current state of mental health funding. A series of contributed presentations concluded the symposium on the topics of a generative framework for comparative causal modeling of nonlinear feedback systems, childhood trauma, and inattentive symptoms and opportunities for child mental health data.
This annual event was established in 1999 by Thomas R. Ten Have and Petkova as a forum for statisticians engaged in mental health research to explore innovative statistical methodologies and address emerging challenges. In 2011, Ten Have passed away. To honor his statistical contributions to mental health research, the symposium was renamed the Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health.
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