Special Symposium in honor of Prof Laurence Freedman
70th Birthday Tribute
12th Feb 2018
Auto-Immune Disease Auditorium, Sheba Medical Center
אודיטוריום במרכז למחלות אוטו-אימוניות
8:30-9:00 Morning Coffee Gathering
9:00-9:15 Greetings
Mordechai Shani
The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research
Siegal Sadetzki
The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research
Havi Murad
Israeli Biostatistics Forum (IBF)
9:15-9:55 The duality of classical and Berkson measurement error
Laurence Freedman
Biostatistics & Biomathematics Unit, Gertner Institute
Clinical Trials Session (Chair: Anat Sakov, Teva Pharmaceuticals)
09:55-10:35 Improving outcomes as rapidly as possible for patients: Multi-arm, multi stage platform,
umbrella and basket protocols
Mahesh Parmar
MRC University College London
10:35-11:15 Correlation among baseline variables yields non-uniformity of p-values
Rebecca Betensky
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
.Clinical Trials Session cont
11:45-12:20 Clinical trials testing disease management interventions in the treatment of people with
chronic diseases: Do you really want to get confused with facts?
Ofra Kalter-Leibovic
Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Gertner Institute
Measurement Error Session (Chair: Itai Dattner, Haifa University)
12:20-12:55 Applications of the urinary biomarker of sugars intake in studying dietary measurement
error and sugars-disease associations in epidemiologic studies
Natasha Tasevska
School of Nutrition & Health Promotion, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University
12:55-13:30 New insights into the effects of time-varying error-prone exposure in the analysis of
longitudinal studies with mixed models
Victor Kipnis
Biometry, National Cancer Institute, NIH
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:05 Considerations for analysis of time-to-event outcomes measured with error:
Bias and correction with SIMEX
Pamela Shaw
Division of Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
15:05-15:40 Nonparametric adjustment for measurement error in time to event data: Application to
risk prediction models
Malka Gorfine
Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University
15:40-16:10 Interactions between explanatory variables measured with error: Estimation and testing
using regression calibration versus multiple imputation
Havi Murad
Biostatistics & Biomathematics Unit, Gertner Institute, Israel
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