Seminars and Workshop Schedule Planning

Possible and definite future speakers

2014

April

16th: Mary Margaret Huizinga, M.D.

9th: Yaoyi Chen

2nd: Paul Harris Ph.D

March

26th: Cole Beck

19th: ENAR

12th: Erica A. Bowton, BioVU

5th: Regression Course by Frank

Feb

26th: Yaomin Xu

19th: Brad Carlin, Ph.D, University of Minnesota, Short course

12th: Jeff Horner

January

29th: Timothy Thornton, Ph.D. Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington

22nd: Bryan Shepherd

2013

December

4th: Anindya Roy, PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore County

November

20th: Benjamin French, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

13th:

6th: Department Meeting

October

30th Dean Follmann, PhD, NIH

23rd: Jeremy Stephens

16th: Hyunyoung Choi, PhD

9th: Chun Li

2nd:

September

25th: Steve Cole, PhD, University of North Carolina

18th: Ben Saville

11th: Dale Plummer

4th: Liping Du

August

28th: Matt Shotwell

14th: Department Meeting

May

8th: Department Meeting

1st: Leena Choi

Apr

24th: Martin A. Lindquist, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University

17th: The regular seminar time is reserved for the Annual Supervisors meeting.

10th: Jennifer Clark

3rd: VPES Preformance Evaluation Workshop

3rd: *Cancelled!* Heidi Weiss, Ph.D, University of Kentucky

Mar

27th: Ed Powell

20th: Bennett Landman, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

13th: ENAR

6th: Regression Course by Frank

Feb

27th: Vincent K. Agboto, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College

20th: *Cancelled!*

13th: Zhouwen Liu

6th: Department Meeting

Jan

30th: Cindy Chen

23rd: Cole Beck

16th: Dale Plummer

9th: Jeffrey Blume

2nd: Winter Break

2012

Dec

26th: Winter Break

19th: Winter Break

12th: Hakmook Kang

5th: Frank Harrell

Nov

28th: Yu Cheng, PhD, Department of Statistics, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

21st: Thanksgiving

14th: Jeff Horner

7th: All Dept meeting

Oct

31st: Dandan Liu

24th: Dave Higdon, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory

17th: Edsel A. Peña, PhD, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina Columbia

10th: Robert D. Collins, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University

3rd: *Cancelled!* Martin A. Lindquist, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University

Sept

26th: Mark Fiecas, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego

19th:

12th: Baxter Rogers, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science

5th: Paul Harris, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Informatics (Topic: ROCKET)

Aug

29th: Trent Rosenbloom, VU Biomedical informatics

1st-22nd: Summer Break

8th: All Dept. meeting

July

Summer break!

June

27th: Summer break

20th: Summer break

13th: useR conference

6th: Bruce Craig, Purdue

May

30th: *Cancelled!*

23rd: Cindy Chen, Assistant Professor, VU Dept of Biostatistics

16th: Shyamal Peddada, NIEHS (Raleigh, NC)

9th: All Department meeting

2nd: Dan Ayers/Jeffrey Blume

Apr

25th: Dan Ayers/Jeffrey Blume

18th: Annual Supervisor's meeting

11th: Pingsheng Wu

4th: No seminar (ENAR)

March

28th: Ben Saville

21st: Anna Snavely

14th: Eric Tchetgen, Harvard

7th: No seminar (Frank's short course)

Feb

29th: Matt Shotwell

22nd: Alan Agresti, Univ. of Florida

15th: George Casella, Univ. of Florida

8th: Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins

1st: All Dept. meeting

Jan

25th: No seminar

18th: KyungMann Kim (CQS invite)

11th: James Ware, Harvard

4th: No Seminar

2011

Dec

28th: No seminar

21st: No seminar

14th: John Graves, Department of Preventive Medicine

7th: Steven Chen, VU Dept. of Biostatistics

Nov

30th: Linux seminar cancelled; replace with Frank

23rd: No seminar (Thanksgiving)

16th: Debashis Ghosh

9th: Ben Saville

2nd: Peter Thall, MD Anderson Cancer center (Dept. of Biostatistics)

Oct

26th: Heidi Chen, VU Dept. of Biostatistics

19th: Kuang Fu Cheng (Chun Li's contact from Harvard)

12th: All dept. meeting

5th: Dave Harrington, Harvard SPH

Sept

28th Linux seminar

21st: Robert Greevy, "Restricted Randomization in Trickle Entry Randomized Controlled Trials"

14th William Wu, VU Dept. of Biostatistics

7th Stefan Conrady, Conrady Applied Science, LLC

Aug

3, 10, 17, 24, 31: NO SEMINARS!

Chun Li, Leena Choi ??

July

NO SEMINARS!

13th: All dept. meeting

June

29th: No seminar

22nd: Val Johnson, MD Anderson Cancer Center

15th: David Engler, Brigham Young University

8th: Chris Fonnesbeck

1st: Steve Meurer, Senior Vice President, Comparative Data & Informatics, University HealthSystem Consortium

May

25th: Linux seminar

18th: James Malley, NIH

11th: Svetlana Eden, VUMC

4th: Jonathan Schildcrout, VUMC

April

27th: No seminar: Annual Supervisor's meeting (Mary Banach special seminar sometime this week)

20th: No seminar: ALL DEPT MTG

13th Lily Wang, VUMC

6th: Michael Schemper, PhD, Professor of Clinical Biostatistics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

March

30th: Ming Jung Lee (faculty candidate)

23rd: Linux seminar (ENAR)

16th Lori Dodd, PhD, NIH/NIAID

9th Liz Heitman, VUMC

2nd Dandan Liu, University of Washington (faculty candidate)

Feb

23rd: Jamie Robins, Harvard

16th: Julie Morath, VUMC

9th: Pingsheng Wu, VUMC Dept of Biostatistics

2nd: Kirk Lane, VUMC (Genetics), The Co-Evolution of Genetics and Biostatistics

Jan

26th: Linux seminar

19th: John Cook, MD Anderson

12th: Bryan Shepherd

5th: All Dept. Meeting

2010

Dec

22nd & 29th: No seminar (Holiday break)

15th: Qunhua Li, faculty candidate

8th: Dr. John Kittelson, University of Colorado Denver

1st: Mark Canon, PhD., VUMC

Nov

24th: No seminar (Thanksgiving)

17th: Chun Li, VU Dept. of Biostatistics

10th: Dr. Victor DeGruttola, Harvard

3rd: Linux seminar

Oct

27th: Matthew (Matt) Shotwell, Graduate Student, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina

20th: Patrick Arbogast: Propensity score vs. confounder score (disease risk score)

13th: Ying Qing Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

6th: Vincent Agboto, Director, Biometrics Core, Clinical Research Center (Meharry Medical College)

Sept

29th: Frank Harrell, Dept of Biostats

22nd: Kim Crimin, Dept of Biostats

15th: No seminar

8th: No seminar

1st: No seminar

Aug

No seminars

July

28th: Linux seminar

21st: No seminar (Rafe Donahue workshop)

14th:Jason Connor, Ph.D.: Berry Consultants

7th: Vincent Agbotot, Director, Biometrics Core, Clinical Research Center (Meharry Medical College)

June

30th: Russell Rothman, VUMC (Medical innumeracy)

23rd: Linux seminar

16th: Tatsuki Koyama, VUMC Dept of Biostatistics

9th: No seminar

2nd: Chris Slaughter, VUMC Dept. of Biostatistics

May

26th: Linux Seminar

19th: Yu Shyr, VUMC Dept. of Biostatistics

12th:Frank Harrell, VUMC Dept of Biostatistics

5th: Elizabeth Heitman

April

28th: Lisa LaVange, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (old Linux Seminar)

21st: Bill Dupont, Ph.D., VUMC Dept of Biostatistics

14th: Chun Li, Ph.D., VUMC Dept of Biostatistics

7th: Annual Supervisor's meeting

March

31st: Linux Seminar

24th: No Seminar (ENAR)

17th: Michael Matheny, Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

10th: Morbidity and Methodology series: Gordon Bernard, Frank Harrell

3rd: Hernando Ombao, Associate Professor, Brown University

February

24th: Robb Muirhead

17th: Elizabeth Heitman, Ph.D., Ethics in Biostatistics Case Conference

10th: Charles Federspiel, Ph.D. (History of VUMC Biostatistics)

3rd: Christopher Fonnesbeck (candidate)

January

27th: Linux Seminar

20th: Aixiang Jiang, (Cancer center)

13th: Mario Davidson, Ph.D. (Challenges in statistical consulting)

6th: No Seminar. Nobody wants to work on a presentation over the break!

2009

December

30th: No Seminar

23th: No Seminar

16th: Jae Brodsky, Faculty candidate (Reschedule Elizabeth Heitman, Ph.D., Ethics in Biostatistics Case Conference)

9th: Cindy Chen, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics

2th: Paul Harris, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt (REDCap)

November

25th: No Seminar (Day before Thanksgiving)

18th: Theresa Scott, Dept. of Biostatistics (Sweave)

11th: Janez Stare, head of biostatistics at Ljubljana University, Slovenia (Frank's contact)

4th: Jeff Dotson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Marketing, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

October

28th: Linux Seminar

21st: Kirk Lane, VUMC, Ethics in Biostatistics

14th: Chang Yu, Ph.D., Dept. of Biostatistics

7th: JoAnn Alvarez, Dept. of Biostatistics (EM Algorithm)

September

30th: David Afshartous, Ph.D. (Faculty candidate)

23rd: Linda Peelen, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, The Netherlands

16th: David Airey, Ph.D., Pharmacology Research Assistant Professor, Center for Human Genetics Research Member, VUSoM

9th: No seminar (summer break)

2nd: No seminar (summer break)

August

No Seminars (summer break)

July

29th: Linux Workshop

22nd:Jeffrey Blume, Ph.D.

15th: Bryan Shepherd, Ph.D.

8th: Jonathan Schildcrout

1st: Ben Saville

June

24th: Linux Workshop

17th: Caiyan Li (faculty candidate)

10th: Elizabeth Heitman, Ph.D., Ethics in Biostatistics Case Conference

3rd: No Seminar. Time reserved for the Annual Supervisors Meetings.

May

27th: Linux Workshop

20th: Rafe Donahue, Ph.D.

13th: Helena Kraemer, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Biostatistics in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

6th: Lisa Kaltenbach

April

29th : Jeffrey Blume (Likelihood III)

22nd : Melissa Basford and Tara Helmer (Into: Paul Harris): StarBRITE and the synthetic derivative

15th : Elizabeth Heitman, Ph.D., Ethics in Biostatistics Case Conference

8th : Chun Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics

1st : Linux Workshop (moved from last week in March)

March

25th : David Dunson, Ph.D., Duke University (replaces Linux workshop)

18th : No Seminar (ENAR meetings)

11th : Jeffrey Blume, Ph.D. (Likelihood part II)

4th : Robert A. Oster, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

February

25th : Linux Workshop, Jeremy Stephens, KDE 4

18th : Elizabeth Heitman, Vanderbilt (Ethics)

11th: Vincent Agboto, Director, Biometrics Core, Clinical Research Center, Assistant Professor / Biostatistician, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College

4th: Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC SOM

January

28th : Linux workshop

21st : Ellen Clayton

14th : Frank Harrell Jr

7th : Amy Herring, UNC

2008

December

3rd:Patrick Arbogast

10th: Jeffrey Blume

17th: Bradley Malin, Biomedical Informatics

24th: None

31st: None

November

5th: Irene Feurer, Vandy

12th: Leena Choi

19th: Elizabeth Heitman (Vanderbilt Ethicist)

26th: Linux Workshop

October

1st: Lily Wang.

8th: Nate Mercaldo

15th: Ellen Clayton

22nd: Dan Masys: The Rise of Quantitative Decision Making in Clinical Care

29th: Linux Workshop

September

3rd: Summer Break

10th: Steven Chen (tentative-FH on travel)

17th: Valen E. Johnson, MD Anderson

24th: Christopher Lindsell

August

None

July

2nd : Elizabeth Heitman, Round 2

9th : Wei Pan, PhD, Minnesota (Cancelled)

16th :

23rd : Irene Feuer (Postponed)

30th :

June

4th : Frank E. Harrell, Jr., PhD, Vanderbilt University

11th :Carol Y. Lin, PhD, CDC, Atlanta, cylin69@yahoo.com (use cvl6@cdc.gov)

18th : Terri Scott

25th : Linux workshop

May

5th: Hongwei Zhao, ScD, University of Rochester

7th : Jeff Sloan, PhD

14th : Elizabeth Heitman, Vanderbilt

21st : Laura Lee Johnson, NCCAM

28th : Linux Workshop

April

2nd : Sebastien Haneuse, Group Health, Seattle

9th :

16st : Elizabeth Koehler

23rd : Bryan Shepherd, Vanderbilt

30th : Linux workshop

March

5th : Brian Caffo, Hopkins

12th : Heidi Chen, Vanderbilt

19th : None ENAR

26th : Linux workshop

February

6th : Heidi Chen

13th : T. Charles Casper, University of Wisconsin, Madison

20th : Mark van der Laan, UC Berkeley (postponed)

27th : Linux workshop

January

2nd : None

9th : Hadley Wickham

16th : Warren Lambert, Kennedy Center

23rd : Andy Tomarken, Vanderbilt Psychology

30th : Linux Workshop (Cole Beck)

2007

January

3rd : Larry Churchill
  • Vanderbilt University
10th : Bonnie LaFleur
  • Vanderbilt University
17th : Paul Rathouz, PhD
  • University of Chicago
31st : Linux workshop

February

7th : Frank E. Harrell, Vanderbilt University
Title
Representative curves

Abstract
This talk will cover work in progress related to developing a flexible graphical approach for displaying representative curves from longitudinal or time series measurements from a set of subjects.

14th : Tatsuki Koyama, Vanderbilt University
Title
Proper inference from Simon's two-stage designs

21st : Dubois Bowman, PhD, Emory University

28th : Linux workshop

March

7th : Jonathan S. Schildcrout, Vanderbilt University

Title: A nested case-control design for longitudinal data

Abstract: Longitudinal regression analysis of cohort study or administrative data can be used to examine the relationship between time-varying exposures and binary (yes/no) response vectors. However, over time, new hypotheses emerge that cannot be addressed with the information collected from the original cohort. For example, electronic medical and pharmacy records can be exploited to capture the effect of a daily, medication dose on the occurrence of daily adverse event symptoms among hospitalized patients; however, if interest lies in a dose by genotype interaction, additional (genotypic) information is required. In such a circumstance, analysis of the entire original cohort may not not feasible due to costs associated with genotyping. In this talk, I will discuss a study design in which individuals are selected based on values in their (binary) response vectors. I will show that with targeted, outcome-dependent sampling, acquisition of genotypic information is necessary on only on a subset of (informative) individuals. In many realistic scenarios, the proposed conditional maximum likelihood estimates based on the subsample are highly efficient relative to maximum likelihood estimates based on the original cohort. Thus, with little to no loss of information, we may conserve study resources considerably.

14th : No Seminar

21st : Qing Liu, PhD, Johnson & Johnson

28th : Linux workshop

April

4th :

11th : Mary Dietrich, PhD

18th : Daniel Scharfstein, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

25th : Linux workshop

May

2nd : James C. Slaughter, PhD candidate University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

9th : James Steiger, PhD

15th : Sijian Grace Ge, PhC

16th : Richard Simon, D.Sc.

23rd : Chun Li, PhD

30rd : Xuesong Yu, PhC

June

6th : Yu Shyr, PhD

13th : Jeffrey Blume, PhD, Brown University

20th : Peter Meyer, PhD

27th : Mark Carpenter, PhD, Auburn University

July

4th : None

11th : None

18th : Jeff Jonkman, PhD, Mississippi State University

25th : Linux workshop

August

1st : None

8th : None

15th : None

22nd : (Faculty candidate) Adriana Pérez, MS,PhD: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics

29th : Linux workshop- Room Change to 206 PRB

September

5th : (Faculty candidate) Lei Xu, MS: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Title: Bayesian Spatial Modeling of fMRI data: A multiple-Subject Analysis

12th : Aixiang Jiang, MS Vanderbilt University Title: Local false discovery rate estimation Based on bootstrap null distribution of control group samples

19th : Robert Greevy, PhD

26th : Linux workshop

28th : Paul Horn, University of Cincinnati

October

3rd : Alexander Statnikov Vanderbilt University

10th : Knut Wittkowski, Rockefeller University

17th : Cody Hamilton

24th : Brad Efron (please ask Leena to move to another date)

31st : Linux workshop

November

7th : Leena Choi, Vanderbilt

14th : Tom Braun, Univ Michigan

21st : None (Thanksgiving)

28th : Linux workshop

December

5th : Patrick Arbogast, Vanderbilt

12th : William Wu

19th : None

20th : Christopher Barr

26th : None.

2006

January

4th : Marie Griffin, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
11th : Don Berry, Ph.D.
  • MD Anderson Cancer Research Center
18th : John Morris, M.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
25th : No Seminar

February

1st : Ming Li, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
15th : Chang Yu, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
March

1th : Dan Ayers, M.S.
  • MD Anderson
8th : Heinrich Roder
  • Efeckta Technologies
15th : William DuMouchel, Ph.D.
  • Lincoln Technology
16th : Xi Chen, Ph.C.
  • _NC State _
22nd : Ayumi Shintani, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
April

5th : William Dupont, Ph.D. and Leena Choi Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
12th : William Dupont, Ph.D. and Leena Choi Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
19th : Susan Cao, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
26th : Joe Schafer, Ph.D.
  • Penn State
May

3rd : Kathy Edwards, M.D.
  • Vanderbilt
10th : Mike Daniels, Ph.D.
  • University of Florida
17th : Jonathan Schildcrout, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
24th : Linux Workshop
  • Vanderbilt
31st : Pingsheng Wu, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
June

7th : Chin-Shiang Li, Ph.D.
  • St. Jude's
14th : Ayumi Shintani, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
21st : Chuan / Chuck manuscript discussion

28th : Linux workshop

July

5th :

12th : Frank Harrell, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
19th : Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt
26th : Linux workshop

August

2nd :

9th : None (Joint Statistical Meetings)

16th :

23th : Linux workshop

30th :

September

6th : Wei Zheng, MD Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
13th : Chuan Zhou
  • Vanderbilt University
20th : Bryan Shepherd, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
27th : Linux workshop

October

4th : Karl Moons, MD

11th : Rafe Donahue
  • Vanderbilt University
18th : Cindy Chen
  • Vanderbilt University
25th : Linux workshop

November

1st : Miguel Hernan (tentative)
  • Harvard
8th : Dan Rowe
  • MedColWisc
15th : Aixing Jiang
  • Vanderbilt University
22nd : None (Day before Thanksgiving)

29nd : Jinbo Chen, PhD
  • University of Pennsylvania
December

6th : Joseph Hogan, Ph.D. (tentative)
  • Brown University
13th : Rogers and Ken

20th : None

27th : None

2005

May

4th : Open

11th : Jeremiah Cohen
  • Graduate student in Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University.
18th : Jonathan Schildcrout, Ph.D.
  • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University.
25th : Chun Li, Ph.D.
  • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University.
June

1st : Open

8th : I. Tsamardinos Ph.D. & C.F. Aliferis M.D., Ph.D.
  • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University.
15th : Open

22nd : Craig Trost, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Pfizer, Inc.
29th : Open

July

6th : Open

13th : Tapabrata Maiti, Ph.D.
  • Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
20th : Yi He

August

3rd : Jonathan Schildcrout, Ph.D.
  • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
17th : Patrick Arbogast, Ph.D.
  • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
24th : Stephen Evans

31st : Dean Billheimer, Ph.D.
  • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
September

7th : Marylyn Ritchie, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
14th : Kerry Lee, Ph.D.
  • Duke University
21st : Frank Harrell, Ph.D.
  • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
28th : Lily Wang, Ph.D.
  • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
October

12th : Dean Billheimer, Ph.D.
  • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
19th : Irene Feurer, Ph.D.
  • Departments of Surgery and Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
26th : Dan Gillen, Ph.D.
  • University of California, Irvine
November

2nd : Bruce Coill, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
9th : Bryan Shepherd, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
16th : Wayne Ray, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
30th : Brad Biggerstaff, Ph.D.
  • CDC
December

7th : Terry Thearneau, Ph.D.
  • Mayo
14th : Yu Shyr, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University
21st : Ming Li, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt University