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The Health Policy Statistics Section of ASA announces JSM 2009 Program!

Speaker luncheon announcement! WL09

The HPSS Student Award Winners will present at Topic Contributed Session # 158
Monday, August 3, 2009, 10:30-12:20pm.

Awards presented 5:30-8:30pm Monday evening at the HPSS Business Meeting and Mixer at RFD (see below)

Jessica Myers, Johns Hopkins University
Learning from Near Misses in Medication Errors: A Bayesian Approach

Carrie Hosman, University of Michigan
Sensitivity analyses for omitted variable bias in multiple regression in a study of right heart catheterization

Sandrah Eckel, Johns Hopkins University
Surrogate screening models for determining low physical activity in the Cardiovascular Health Study

Rui Wang, Harvard University
Nonparametric Inference Procedure for Percentiles of the Random Effects Distribution in Meta Analysis

Sean Devlin, University of Washington
Identification of ovarian cancer symptoms in health insurance claims data


HPSS Annual Meeting and Mixer at RFD Monday 5:30-8:30pm

Not even 3 blocks stroll from the Convention Center and half a block from the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro Red Line!
810 7th St NW near the the Verizon (formerly MCI) Center

HPSS Annual Speaker with Lunch WL09 (fee event) Wednesday 12:30pm

Session 480
Meredith B. Rosenthal
Harvard School of Public Health
Aligning Provider Incentives: Pay for Performance and Beyond

Other Sessions of Health Policy interest at the meetings....

HPSS Invited Paper Sessions

Session 90, Monday 8:30am: Advancing Health Outcomes Measurement: The NIH Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)
Session 341, Tuesday 2:00pm: Profiling Health Care Providers: Emerging Issues, Statistical Methods, and Policy Implications
Session 580, Thursday 10:30am: Using National Center for Health Statistics Data to Study Access to Health Care

HPSS Topic Contributed Sessions

Session 14, Sunday 2:00pm: Data Confidentiality: Do We Really Want to Disturb a Sleeping Bear?
Session 18, Sunday 2:00pm: Propensity Scores and Bayesian Methods for Historical Controls and Observational Studies
Session 153, Monday 10:30am: Health Policy Statistics Student Paper Awards
Session 262, Tuesday 8:30am: Assessing Effects of Interventions in Longitudinal Naturalistic Data
Session 457, Wednesday 10:30am: Innovative methods and findings from healthcare assessment surveys
Session 503, Wednesday 2:00pm: Advancements in Principal Stratification for Causal Inference

HPSS Contributed Sessions

Session 76, Sunday 4:00pm: Applications in Clustered Data, Risk Assessment and Health Surveys
Session 424, Wednesday 8:30am: Advances in Causal Inference and Health Economic Evaluations

Roundtables (fee events)

Monday Session 83, 7am: Challenges in applying regression methods to preference scored indexes of HRQoL
Session 180, 12:30pm: Predicting Health Care Costs of Individual Patients

Tuesday Session 237, 7am: Predictive Modeling of Health-care Outcomes for Underwriting and Disease Management - Industry's Lessons, Trends, Comparative Studies
Session 331, 12:30pm: Drawing evidence using multiple studies for public health questions

HPSS Invited Poster Presentations

Session 227, Monday 2:00pm: Statistics in Policy

HPSS Poster Presentations

Session 282, Tuesday 8:30am


2009 Joint Statistical Meetings JSM (the Joint Statistical Meetings) is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. It is held jointly with the American Statistical Association, the International Biometric Society (ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Statistical Society of Canada. Attended by over 5000 people, activities of the meeting include oral presentations, panel sessions, poster presentations, continuing education courses, exhibit hall (with state-of-the-art statistical products and opportunities), career placement service, society and section business meetings, committee meetings, social activities, and networking opportunities. Denver is the host city for JSM 2008 and offers a wide range of possibilities for sharing time with friends and colleagues. For information, contact jsm@amstat.org.

The 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held August 2-6, 2009 at the Washington DC Convention Center. The HPSS will sponsoring several events at JSM2009, so stay tuned! These typically include invited sessions, luncheons, coffee and lunch round tables, and student awards. Contact the 2009 program chair and program-chair elect if you have ideas to sessions, topics, chairs, or speakers.
 

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