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Central Indiana Chapter Hosts Talk on Personalized Medicine, Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Abdus S. Wahed, an associate professor in the department of biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh, gave a fast-paced, two-hour presentation on dynamic treatment regimes for the Central Indiana Chapter.
‘Personalized Medicine’ Featured at JSM, AAAS Annual Meetings
As representative from the ASA to AAAS in biological sciences, ASA life member Turkan Gardenier organized “Evolutionary Personalized Medicine,” a symposium assigned to the Human Biology and Health track of the 2011 Annual Meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Washington, DC, in February. A follow-up will be held on August 3 in Miami Beach, Florida, with the panel titled “Personalized Medicine and Convergence: Prospects for Statisticians.”