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Sunday, 07/29/2018
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Children and Adolescents' Emergency Department Use for Mental Health Reasons in Alberta, Canada
Michelle Thiessen, Simon Fraser University; Joan Hu, Simon Fraser University; Rhonda J. Rosychuk, University of Alberta


Spatiotemporal Analysis of Environmental Health Risk
Renjun Ma, University of New Brunswick; Edward Hughes, Edward Hughes Consulting


Competing Risks Matter in the Analysis of Public Health Data: When and How?
Dahhay Lee, National Cancer Center; Hyunsoon Cho, National Cancer Center


Measurement Reliability in Mental Health Research: Critical Implications for Research Design and Analysis
Alessandro De Nadai, Texas State University; Marieke Visser, Texas State University


Regression Calibration to Address Error Prone Time-To-Event Outcomes
Eric Oh, University of Pennsylvania; Pamela A Shaw, University of Pennsylvania


Big Data Detectives: Improving Human Health Through Informing Policy
Kristin Linn, University of Pennsylvania; Laura Hatfield, Harvard Medical School; Julian Wolfson, University of Minnesota; Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School
2:05 PM

Regression Calibration to Address Error Prone Time-To-Event Outcomes
Eric Oh, University of Pennsylvania; Pamela A Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
2:05 PM

Measurement Reliability in Mental Health Research: Critical Implications for Research Design and Analysis
Alessandro De Nadai, Texas State University; Marieke Visser, Texas State University
2:15 PM

Knowledge Assessment of Statistics Educators in the Health Sciences
Matthew Hayat, Georgia State University; Michael Jiroutek, Campbell University; MyoungJin Kim, Illinois State University; Todd Schwartz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:25 PM

Scalable Methods for Association Analysis in Biobank Scale Data Sets
Dajiang Liu, Penn State College of Medicine
2:55 PM

Competing Risks Matter in the Analysis of Public Health Data: When and How?
Dahhay Lee, National Cancer Center; Hyunsoon Cho, National Cancer Center
3:05 PM

Enabling Phenotypic Big Data with PheNorm
Sheng Yu, Tsinghua University; Yumeng Ma, Tsinghua University; Jessica Gronsbell, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Tianrun Cai, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, Massachusetts General Hospital; Vivian Gainer, Partners HealthCare; Susanne Churchill, Harvard Medical School; Peter Szolovits, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shawn Murphy, Partners HealthCare; Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School; Katherine Liao, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Tianxi Cai, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:20 PM

Bayesian Longitudinal Causal Inference in the Analysis of the Public Health Impact of Air Pollution
Chanmin Kim, Boston University School of Public Health; Corwin Zigler, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Jason Roy, University of Pennsylvania; Michael Daniels, University of Florida
3:25 PM

Perils and Possibilities of EHR Data Linked to Population Disease Registries: The Example of Cancer Registry Linkage
Rebecca Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania
4:05 PM

Reporting to Improve Reproducibility and Facilitate Validity Assessment for Healthcare Database Studies
Shirley Wang
4:05 PM

Helping New Healthcare Researchers to Consider Statistics Early
Nicole Herrera, Children's National Medical Center; Heather Gordish-Dressman, Children's National Medical Center; James Bost, Children's National Medical Center
4:05 PM

Spatial Bayesian Fusing Models for Sparse Networks and Health Risk
Andrew B Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina ; Raymond Boaz, Medical University of South Carolina
4:25 PM

Integrating Observational Data with Prior Knowledge: Wikipedia-Informed Priors for Predicting Health Outcomes
Martijn Jeroen Schuemie, Janssen R&D
4:30 PM

Multiple Imputation of Missing Income Data for the Redesigned National Health Interview Survey
Guangyu Zhang, National Center for Health Statistics; Yulei He, CDC/NCHS; Pavlina Rumcheva, National Center for Health Statistics ; Aaron Maitland, National Center for Health Statistics ; Suresh Srinivasan, National Center for Health Statistics ; Alain Moluh, NCHS; Matthew Bramlett, NCHS; Chris Moriarity, National Center for Health Statistics; Tina Norris, NCHS
4:45 PM

Age-Specific Distributed Lag Models for Assessing the Impact of Heat on Health
Matthew Heaton, Brigham Young University; Cassandra Olenick, National Center for Atmospheric Research
4:45 PM

Overcoming Fears (My Own) Teaching Reproducible Research, Big Data and Data Mining in Nursing and Public Health Education
Melinda Higgins, Emory University
4:50 PM

Probabilistic Analysis of Modified Risk Tobacco Product Effects on Population Health
Bill Poland, Certara; Sylvain Larroque, JT International SA
5:05 PM

Characterization of Critically Ill Patients Using the Profile Counts of Laboratory Tests and Medications
Eduardo PhD Antonio Trujillo Rivera, George Washington University, Children's National Health System; Qing PhD Zeng, George Washington University, Department of Veterans Affairs; James Bost, Children's National Medical Center; Anita MD Patel, Children's National Health System, George Washington University; Hiroki PhD Morizono, Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children's Research Institute; Dongkyu PhD Kim, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Health System; James MD Chamberlain, Children's National Health System, George Washington University; Murray MBA MD Pollack, Children's National Health System, George Washington University
5:20 PM

Estimating the Changing Nature of Scotland's Health Inequalities Using a Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Model
Eilidh Jack, University of Glasgow; Duncan Lee, University of Glasgow; Nema Dean, University of Glasgow
5:25 PM

Monday, 07/30/2018
Strengthening Partnerships in Community-Based Participatory Research by Demystifying Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis
Thomas Belin, UCLA


Improving Health Outcomes on the Last Mile of a Learning Healthcare System - the Importance of Leading with Statistics
Daniel Byrne, Vanderbilt University; Henry Domenico, Vanderbilt; Li Wang, Vanderbilt


Optimization of Biostatistics Units in Health Centers
Anne-Sophie Julien, Research Centre of the CHU de Québec - Université Laval


Learning an Interpretable Behavioral Intervention Policy Using MHealth Data
Xinyu Hu, Columbia University; Min Qian, Columbia University; Ying Kuen Ken Cheung, Columbia University


Risk Analysis of Human Health Among Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining Area in Indonesia
Koji Kanefuji, Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Koyomi Nakazawa, Fukuoka Institute of Technology; Osamu Nagafuchi, Fukuoka Institute of Technology


A Generalized Fellegi-Sunter Framework for Unsupervised Collective Record Linkage in Clustered Relational Data with Applications to Electronic Health Records
Nicole Solomon, Duke University Medical Center; Sean M O'Brien, Duke University Medical Center; Joseph Lucas, Duke University


Combining Inverse Probability Weighting and Multiple Imputation to Adjust for Selection Bias in Electronic Health Records-Based Research
Tanayott Thaweethai, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Sebastien Haneuse, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; David Arterburn, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute


Balancing Scores Weighing Methods and Sensitivity Analysis to Unfold Health Disparity
Chen-Pin Wang, University of Texas Health San Antonio


Intervening on the Data to Improve the Performance of Health Plan Payment Methods
Savannah Bergquist, Harvard University; Tim Layton, Harvard Medical School; Tom McGuire, Harvard Medical School; Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School


Developing and Evaluating Methods for Estimating Race/Ethnicity in an Incomplete Dataset Using Address, Surname and Family Race
Gabriella Christine Silva, Brown University; Roee Gutman, Brown University


Combining Satellite Imagery and Numerical Model Simulation to Estimate Ambient Air Pollution: An Ensemble Averaging Approach
Nancy Murray, Emory University; Howard Chang, Emory University; Heather Holmes, University of Nevada, Reno; Yang Liu, Emory University


Statistically Supporting Health Policy Decision-Making
Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health


Deep Learning on Small Data - Experiences in Transfer Learning for Healthcare
Dennis Murphree


DataSifter: Statistical Obfuscation of Electronic Health Record and Other Sensitive Data Sets
Nina Zhou, University of Michigan; Simeone Marino, Statistics Online Computational Resource, University of Michigan; Lu Wang, University of Michigan; Yiwang Zhou, University of Michigan; Ivo Dinov, Statistics Online Computational Resource, University of Michigan


Exploring Population Health with Fluctuations in Weather
Brian Hochrein, IBM Watson Health


Quantile Function Modeling Applied to Time Between Healthcare-Associated Infection Events
Jonathan R Edwards, Center for Disease Control & Prevention


Assessing Health Care Interventions via an Interrupted Time Series Model: Study Power and Design Considerations
Maricela Cruz, University of California, Irvine; Miriam Bender, University of California, Irvine; Daniel L. Gillen, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology


Leveraging Multiple Study Designs and Statistical Methods to Evaluate Comparative Effectiveness of Asthma Medications
Tebeb Gebretsadik, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Pingsheng Wu, Vanderbilt University; Rees L Lee, U. S. Navy; Amber M Evans, Health ResearchTX LLC; Tan Ding, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nicholas M Sicignano, Health Research Tx ; Ann Wu, Harvard Medical School; Carlos Iribarren, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research; Butler Melissa, Kaiser Permanente; Chang Yu, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; William Dupont, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Christina Fox, Health ResearchTx; Tina V Hartert, Vanderbilt University Medical Center


Optimal Matching Approaches in Health Policy Evaluations Under Rolling Enrollment
Jonathan Gellar, Mathematica Policy Research; Jiaqi Li, Mathematica Policy Research; Lauren Vollmer, Mathematica Policy Research


DataSifter: Statistical Obfuscation of Electronic Health Record and Other Sensitive Data Sets
Nina Zhou, University of Michigan; Simeone Marino, Statistics Online Computational Resource, University of Michigan; Lu Wang, University of Michigan; Yiwang Zhou, University of Michigan; Ivo Dinov, Statistics Online Computational Resource, University of Michigan
8:35 AM

Quantile Function Modeling Applied to Time Between Healthcare-Associated Infection Events
Jonathan R Edwards, Center for Disease Control & Prevention
8:35 AM

Introducing R to Non-STEM Undergraduates in a Second-Semester Statistics Course
Darlene Olsen, Norwich University
8:35 AM

Deep Learning on Small Data - Experiences in Transfer Learning for Healthcare
Dennis Murphree
8:40 AM

Exploring Population Health with Fluctuations in Weather
Brian Hochrein, IBM Watson Health
8:45 AM

A Decision Tool for Causal Inference and Observational Data Analysis Methods in Comparative Effectiveness Research (DECODE CER)
Douglas Landsittel, University of Pittsburgh; (Joyce) Chung-Chou H. Chang, University of Pittsburgh; Sally C. Morton, Virginia Tech
8:55 AM

Statistical Methods and Tools in Mental Health Studies: a Review of Scientific Rigor, Power Analyzes and Reproducibility
Abera Wouhib, National Institutes of Health
8:55 AM

Learning Individualized Treatment Rules from Electronic Health Records Data
Yuanjia Wang, Columbia University
9:00 AM

Optimal Tradeoffs Between Generalized Design Goals in Multivariate Matching
Samuel David Pimentel, University of California, Berkeley; Rachel R. Kelz, University of Pennsylvania
9:00 AM

Statistically Supporting Health Policy Decision-Making
Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health
9:00 AM

Intervening on the Data to Improve the Performance of Health Plan Payment Methods
Savannah Bergquist, Harvard University; Tim Layton, Harvard Medical School; Tom McGuire, Harvard Medical School; Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School
9:15 AM

Improving the Design of Pragmatic Clinical Trials Using Data Collected from Electronic Medical Records
Susan Shortreed, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Carlyn M Rutter, RAND Corporation; Andrea J. Cook, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Greg Simon, Kaiser Permenete Washington Health Research Insitute
9:15 AM

Developing and Evaluating Methods for Estimating Race/Ethnicity in an Incomplete Dataset Using Address, Surname and Family Race
Gabriella Christine Silva, Brown University; Roee Gutman, Brown University
9:20 AM

Evaluation of Nonresponse Adjustment Options on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
William Cecere, Westat; Minsun Riddles, Westat; Te-Ching Chen, National Center for Health Statistics
9:20 AM

Optimal Matching Approaches in Health Policy Evaluations Under Rolling Enrollment
Jonathan Gellar, Mathematica Policy Research; Jiaqi Li, Mathematica Policy Research; Lauren Vollmer, Mathematica Policy Research
9:50 AM

Assessing Health Care Interventions via an Interrupted Time Series Model: Study Power and Design Considerations
Maricela Cruz, University of California, Irvine; Miriam Bender, University of California, Irvine; Daniel L. Gillen, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
9:55 AM

Statistical Methodology for Modern Mental Health Research
Eva Petkova, NYU School of Medicine; Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University; Robert Todd Ogden, Columbia University; Andrea Troxel, New York University School of Medicine
9:55 AM

Nonresponse Bias Analysis for National Survey on Drug Use and Health Using Small Area Estimation Methodology
Akhil Vaish, RTI International; Matthew Williams, SAMHSA/CBHSQ; Kathy Spagnola, RTI International; Ana Saravia, RTI International; Neeraja Sathe, RTI International
10:05 AM

Relevance, Validity, and Bias in the Integration of Health Data
Jerald Lawless, University of Waterloo
10:35 AM

How Small Data Can Leverage Big Data, and/or Conversely
Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
10:55 AM

Combining Inverse Probability Weighting and Multiple Imputation to Adjust for Selection Bias in Electronic Health Records-Based Research
Tanayott Thaweethai, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Sebastien Haneuse, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; David Arterburn, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
10:55 AM

Statistical Methods for Handling Missing Data in Distributed Health Data Networks
Yi Deng, Google Inc.; Xiaoqian Jiang, University of California, San Diego; Qi Long, University of Pennsylvania
11:00 AM

Combining Satellite Imagery and Numerical Model Simulation to Estimate Ambient Air Pollution: An Ensemble Averaging Approach
Nancy Murray, Emory University; Howard Chang, Emory University; Heather Holmes, University of Nevada, Reno; Yang Liu, Emory University
11:10 AM

Adjusting Quality Rankings for Patient Socioeconomic Characteristics
Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University Medical School
11:15 AM

Balancing Scores Weighing Methods and Sensitivity Analysis to Unfold Health Disparity
Chen-Pin Wang, University of Texas Health San Antonio
11:20 AM

Robust Bayesian Variable Selection for Modeling Mean Medical Costs
Lei Liu, Washington University in St Louis; Grace Yoon, Texas A&M University; Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University; Tina Shih, MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:25 AM

Using Electronic Health Records Data for Predictive and Causal Inference About the HIV Care Cascade
Joseph W Hogan, Brown University School of Public Health
11:35 AM

Leveraging Multiple Study Designs and Statistical Methods to Evaluate Comparative Effectiveness of Asthma Medications
Tebeb Gebretsadik, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Pingsheng Wu, Vanderbilt University; Rees L Lee, U. S. Navy; Amber M Evans, Health ResearchTX LLC; Tan Ding, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nicholas M Sicignano, Health Research Tx ; Ann Wu, Harvard Medical School; Carlos Iribarren, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research; Butler Melissa, Kaiser Permanente; Chang Yu, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; William Dupont, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Christina Fox, Health ResearchTx; Tina V Hartert, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
11:45 AM

Nonparametric Mediation Analysis for Investigating the ROle of Microbiome Health
Kyle Carter, University of Arizona; Meng Lu, University of Arizona; Lingling An, University of Arizona
11:50 AM

A Simulation Study to Evaluate How Sample Weight Adjustment with Prevalence Calibration for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Affects Nonresponse Bias
Te-Ching Chen, CDC/NCHS; Jennifer Parker, CDC/NCHS; Tala Fakhouri, CDC/NCHS
2:25 PM

Uses of Alternative Data Sources for Public Health Statistics and Policymaking: Challenges and Opportunities
Zachary H Seeskin, NORC at the University of Chicago; Felicia LeClere, NORC at the University of Chicago; Jaehoon Ahn, NORC at the University of Chicago; Joshua Williams, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
2:25 PM

Assessing the Impact of Health Policy Changes in Primary Care
Miguel Marino, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Biostatistics Group
2:30 PM

A Bayesian Nonparametric Method for Zero-Inflated Data with Applications to Medical Costs
Arman Oganisian, University of Pennsylvania; Nandita Mitra, University of Pennsylvania; Jason Roy, University of Pennsylvania
3:05 PM

Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Small Sample Size Data
Yan Wang, Field School of Public Health, UCLA; Honghu Liu, UCLA; Jian L Zhang, Kaiser Permanente
3:20 PM

Some Sampling and Aggregation Strategies for Statistical Process Monitoring
William H Woodall, Virginia Tech; Inez Zwetsloot, City University of Hong Kong
3:25 PM

Tuesday, 07/31/2018
The Role of Mobile Health in Precision Medicine
Susan Murphy, Harvard University


Propensity Score Analysis Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Maya Sternberg, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; Helen Bisrat, Georgia State University; Alula Hadgu, Morehouse School of Medicine


Exploring the Classification of the Urban-Rural Continuum: Issues and Opportunities
Jason Brinkley, Abt Associates Inc


Analyzing the Effect of the Great Recession (2007-2009) on Changes in Health
Luke Francisco; Elliot Friedman, Purdue University; Ryan Murphy, Purdue University; Lei Nie, Purdue University


Modeling Approaches for Comparing Trends in HIV Testing in Two National Health Surveys
Christopher Johnson, CDC/NCHHSTP; Deesha Patel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Amy L. Krueger, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Barbara J. Maciak, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


SuperLearning and Tree-Regression for Developing Treatment Rules That Optimize Health Outcomes
Andre Kurepa Waschka, University of California, Berkeley


Mortality Disparity Analytics in Rural Health: a Trend and Graphical Analysis
Erin Tanenbaum, NORC at the University of Chicago; Alana Knudson, NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis; Devi Chelluri, NORC at the University of Chicago; Michael Meit, NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis


Career Advice for Statistics Educators in the Health Sciences
Felicity Enders, Mayo Clinic


Probabilistic or Deterministic Data Linkage? Experience from Linking Cancer Registry Data with Health Claims Data
Bin Huang, University of Kentucky; Quan Chen, University of Kentucky


Predicting Mood Using Multivariate Mobile Sensor Data Streams for Medical Interns
Timothy NeCamp, University of Michigan; Zhenke Wu, University of Michigan; Srijan Sen, University of Michigan; Edward Ionides, University of Michigan


On Mediation Analysis in Public Health Using the Complex Survey Data
Julia Soulakova, University of Central Florida; Monsur Chowdhury, University of Central Florida; Thanh Pham, University of Central Florida


A Simulation Study to Evaluate How Sample Weight Adjustment with Prevalence Calibration for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Affects Nonresponse Bias
Te-Ching Chen, CDC/NCHS; Jennifer Parker, CDC/NCHS; Tala Fakhouri, CDC/NCHS


A Statistical Evaluation of Cardiovascular Measurements Collected via Mobile Health Technology and Traditional Tools
Qinlei Huang, Merck; Lori Mixson, Merck


Different Linkage Methods, Same Results? Linking National Center for Health Statistics Survey Data to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrative Records
Cordell Golden, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS); Adam Fedorowicz, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS); Lisa B Mirel, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)


A Probabilistic Linkage Approach for Combining VA and State Prescription Drug Databases for Evaluating Veterans' Receipt of Long-Term Opioid Therapy Across Multiple Systems
Larry Cook, University of Utah; Tess A Gilbert, HSR&D Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care ; Kathleen F Carlson, HSR&D Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care


Inferring Networks from Personal, Dense, Dynamic Data Clouds of Biological and Quantified-Self Data
Elisa Sheng, Arivale


Comparing Direct Survey and Small Area Estimates of Health Care Coverage in New York
Jeniffer Iriondo Perez, RTI International; Rachel Harter, RTI International; Amang Sukasih, RTI International


Correcting for Errors in Variables Derived from Electronic Health Records Using Validation Sampling and Multiple Imputation
Bryan E Shepherd, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Mark Giganti, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
8:35 AM

Genetic Association Testing with Imperfect Phenotypes Derived from Electronic Health Records
Jennifer Sinnott, Ohio State University
8:35 AM

Double Time: Integrating Online Learning Tools with a Flipped Classroom in a Public Health Statistics Course
Brandon George, Thomas Jefferson University
8:55 AM

On the Use of Raking to Improve Regression Calibration: A Flexible Method to Address Error-Induced Bias Efficiently
Eric Oh, University of Pennsylvania; Pamela A Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
9:00 AM

Experimental Design Issues in Choice Based Conjoint Applied to Patient Choice in Healthcare
Pallavi Chitturi, Temple University; Alexandra Carides, Temple University
9:05 AM

Different Linkage Methods, Same Results? Linking National Center for Health Statistics Survey Data to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrative Records
Cordell Golden, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS); Adam Fedorowicz, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS); Lisa B Mirel, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
9:15 AM

Patient Satisfaction with Health Care and Its Association with Health Care Utilization Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
Chenghui Li; Nasim A Khan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
9:20 AM

A Statistical Evaluation of Cardiovascular Measurements Collected via Mobile Health Technology and Traditional Tools
Qinlei Huang, Merck; Lori Mixson, Merck
9:30 AM

Re-Use of Multiple Nested Case Control Studies from the Women's Health Initiative
Erinn Hade, Ohio State University; Theodore M. Brasky, The Ohio State University
9:35 AM

A Probabilistic Linkage Approach for Combining VA and State Prescription Drug Databases for Evaluating Veterans' Receipt of Long-Term Opioid Therapy Across Multiple Systems
Larry Cook, University of Utah; Tess A Gilbert, HSR&D Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care ; Kathleen F Carlson, HSR&D Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care
9:50 AM

Ideas for Creating and Teaching Online Biostatistics Courses for Those with Limited Resources
Michael Jiroutek, Campbell University
9:55 AM

Big Data Distributed System for Phenome and Genome Management and Analysis in a Large Health System
Wendy Wong, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Xinyue Liu, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Prachi Kothiyal, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Wei Zhu, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Fang Zhou, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Shan Gao, Inova Translational Medicine Insitute; Sakthi Madhappan, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Lin Smith, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Henry Hunter, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; Aaron Black, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; John F Deeken, Inova Translational Medicine Institute; John E Niederhuber, Inova Translational Medicine Institute
9:55 AM

A Retrospective Control Study of the Millennium Villages Project
Shira Mitchell, Mathematica Policy Research; Andrew Gelman, Columbia University; Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University; Avi Feller, UC Berkeley; Elizabeth A Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University Medical School
10:35 AM

On Mediation Analysis in Public Health Using the Complex Survey Data
Julia Soulakova, University of Central Florida; Monsur Chowdhury, University of Central Florida; Thanh Pham, University of Central Florida
10:50 AM

The Emerging and Merging Fields of Benefit-Risk and Health Technology Assessments
Susan Talbot, Amgen Ltd; Shahrul Mt-Isa, Merck; Jixian Wang, Celgene
10:50 AM

Integrated Analysis of the Life-Cycle Interactions Between Health and Socioeconomic Status
Ivan Jeliazkov, University of California - Irvine; Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College
10:55 AM

Horse for Courses: Empirical Vs Mechanistic Modeling for Spatio-Temporal Point Process Data
Peter John Diggle, Lancaster University
11:25 AM

The Utility of Using Web Surveys to Measure and Estimate Health Outcomes, a Pilot Study
Yulei He, CDC/NCHS; Hee-Choon Shin, CDC/NCHS; Bill Cai, CDC/NCHS; Jennifer Parker, CDC/NCHS
11:35 AM

Model-Based Electronic Health Records Phenotyping from Only Positive and Unlabeled Data
Lingjiao Zhang, University of Pennsylvania; Naveen Muthu, University of Pennsylvania; Xiruo Ding, University of Pennsylvania; Daniel S Herman, University of Pennsylvania; Jinbo Chen, University of Pennsylvania
11:35 AM

Inferring Networks from Personal, Dense, Dynamic Data Clouds of Biological and Quantified-Self Data
Elisa Sheng, Arivale
11:40 AM

Statistical Graphics in Drug Development: Dose-Finding to Dossier Submission
Suddhasatta Acharyya, Novartis pharmaceuticals corporation
11:50 AM

Sample-Weighted Semiparametric Estimates of Cause-Specific Cumulative Incidence Using Left-/Interval Censored Data from Electronic Health Records
Noorie Hyun, Medical College of Wisconsin; Hormuzd A. Katki, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute; Barry Ira Graubard, National Cancer Institute
11:50 AM

Comparing Direct Survey and Small Area Estimates of Health Care Coverage in New York
Jeniffer Iriondo Perez, RTI International; Rachel Harter, RTI International; Amang Sukasih, RTI International
11:50 AM

The Role of Body Mass Index at Diagnosis on Black-White Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Survival: a Density Regression Mediation Approach
Katrina Devick, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Linda Valeri, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Jarvis Chen, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Alejandro Jara, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Marie-Abele Bind, Harvard University; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
2:05 PM

If it Is in the Electronic Health Record, Then it Must Be True
Jareen Meinzen-Derr, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Med Center
2:05 PM

Improving Data Quality for Time-Varying Measurements in EHRs via Dynamic Interaction: a Case Study for Growth Chart
Qingxia Chen, Vanderbilt University
2:45 PM

Predicting High-Cost Members in the HCCI Database
Brian Hartman, Brigham Young University; Rebecca Owen, HCA Solutions; Zoe Gibbs, Brigham Young University
3:05 PM

Application of State Health Status In the Design of the 2011-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Jay Clark, Westat; Leyla Mohadjer, Westat; Te-Ching Chen, National Center for Health Statistics
3:20 PM

Predicting Suicide Risk: Statistical Methods for Using EHR Data to Inform Mental Health Care
Rebecca Coley, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Susan Shortreed, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Rod Walker, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Eric Johnson, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
3:25 PM

Wednesday, 08/01/2018
ADAPT: a Dynamic Approach to Probability Thresholding Based on Healthy Controls
Alessandra Valcarcel, University of Pennsylvania; Russell T Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania


Distance-Weighted Predictor Models to Estimate the Spatial Scale of Built Environment Health Effects
Adam Peterson, University of Michigan; Brisa N. Sanchez, University of Michigan; Emma V Sanchez-Vaznaugh, San Francisco State University


Reliability-Adjusted Composite Measures for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)
Mathew Sapiano, CDC; Jonathan R Edwards, Center for Disease Control & Prevention


DataFests for Reinforcing Concepts, Challenging Students, and Creating Community in the Health Sciences
Jodi Lapidus, Oregon Health & Science University


Application of Principal Components Analysis to Urine Metal and Metalloid Exposures in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Data
Po-Yung Cheng, CDC; Robert L Jones, CDC; Kathleen L Caldwell, CDC


Impact of Distance Calculation Methods on Geospatial Analysis of Healthcare Access
Sarah Lotspeich, Vanderbilt University; Robert E. Johnson, Vanderbilt University


Statistical Approaches to Assess Early Life Exposure to Complex Mixtures and Associations with Latent Patterns of Neurodevelopmental Trajectories
Shelley H. Liu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Robert Wright, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


Model-Based Socio-Economic Health Measures Using Causal Modeling
F. Swen Kuh, Australian National University; Anton H. Westveld, Australian National University; Grace S Chiu, Australian National University


Bayesian High-Dimensional Multi-Outcome Regression with Tree-Structured Shrinkage
Emma Grace Thomas, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Giovanni Parmigiani , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Lorenzo Trippa, Harvard


Small Data and N-of-1 Trials: Developing Personalized Biostatistics for Personalized Medicine and Individualized Health Care Delivery
Christopher Schmid, Brown University; Deborah Estrin , Cornell Tech; Ying Kuen Ken Cheung, Columbia University; Mark Drangsholt, University of Washington; Richard L. Kravitz, University of California Davis; Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
8:35 AM

Application of Principal Components Analysis to Urine Metal and Metalloid Exposures in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Data
Po-Yung Cheng, CDC; Robert L Jones, CDC; Kathleen L Caldwell, CDC
8:45 AM

Statistical Approaches to Assess Early Life Exposure to Complex Mixtures and Associations with Latent Patterns of Neurodevelopmental Trajectories
Shelley H. Liu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Brent A. Coull, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Robert Wright, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
8:50 AM

REMAP-CAP: a Precision Medicine Embedded Platform Trial for Community Acquired Pneumonia
Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
9:15 AM

Model-Based Socio-Economic Health Measures Using Causal Modeling
F. Swen Kuh, Australian National University; Anton H. Westveld, Australian National University; Grace S Chiu, Australian National University
9:20 AM

Measuring Latent Quality of Medical Groups Using IRT Models Accounting for Missing Data: Can We Get Reliable Estimates of Quality After All?
Amelia M Haviland, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College; Denis Agniel, RAND Corporation; Cheryl Damberg, RAND Corporation; Paul Shekelle, RAND Corporation
9:35 AM

Bayesian High-Dimensional Multi-Outcome Regression with Tree-Structured Shrinkage
Emma Grace Thomas, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Giovanni Parmigiani , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Lorenzo Trippa, Harvard
9:35 AM

Impact of Distance Calculation Methods on Geospatial Analysis of Healthcare Access
Sarah Lotspeich, Vanderbilt University; Robert E. Johnson, Vanderbilt University
9:50 AM

Data Science in a Hurry
Iyue Sung
11:50 AM

Integrative Statistical Learning with Real World Healthcare Data: Towards a Data Driven Suicide Prevention Framework
Kun Chen, University of Connecticut
11:55 AM

Substate Small Area Estimates Using Data from the 2014-2016 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs)
Neeraja Sathe, RTI International; Matthew Williams, SAMHSA/CBHSQ; Kathy Spagnola, RTI International; Akhil Vaish, RTI International
2:05 PM

Making Ranking Priorities More Explicit
Cora Allen-Coleman, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Ronald Gangnon, University of Wisconsin
2:20 PM

Unsupervised Clustering of Physical Activities and Its Application in Health Studies
Jiawei Bai, Johns Hopkins University; Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University
2:25 PM

Comparison of NSDUH Population Percentages from the United States, Census Regions, States, and the District of Columbia
Kathy Spagnola, RTI International; Matthew Williams, SAMHSA/CBHSQ; Akhil Vaish, RTI International; Neeraja Sathe, RTI International
2:35 PM

Real-Time, Within-Person Randomization Using a Bandit Algorithm in a Clinical Trial
Susan Murphy, Harvard University
2:55 PM

Nonparametric Quantile Curves of Health Risk Factors for American Adolescents
Jessica Rudd, Kennesaw State University; Mohammed Chowdhury, Kennesaw State University
3:05 PM

Inter-Facility Transitional Care Management: Social Network Analysis Perspectives
Shun Zhang; Tim Rimnac, Health Care Services Corporation ; Qianyin Huang, NORC at the University of Chicago
3:20 PM

Template Matching for Comparing Hospital Performance in Veterans Affairs Health System: a Simulation Study
Brenda Vincent, VA Center for Clinical Management Research; Hallie Prescott, VA Center for Clinical Management Research
3:35 PM

Thursday, 08/02/2018
Collaborative Biostatistics: Finding a Happy Medium in Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
Manisha Desai, Stanford University; Christopher Lindsell, Vanderbilt University; Phillip Schulte, Mayo Clinic; Susan Halabi, Duke University; Leah Welty, Northwestern University; Mi-Ok Kim, University of California San Francisco
8:35 AM

Modeling Preferential Site Selection in Networks Used to Monitor Environmental Spatio-Temporal Processes
Jim Zidek, University of British Columbia; Joe Watson, UBC; Gavin Shaddick , University of Exeter
8:35 AM

Real World Data and Evidence in Health Care Decision Making
Kun Chen, AbbVie Inc; Weili He, AbbVie; Hongwei Wang, AbbVie Inc; Yabing Mai, AbbVie, Inc; Qiming Liao, AbbVie Inc
8:35 AM

A Hierarchical Bayesian Markov-Dependent Model for Lifetime Persistence and Recurrence of Major Depressive Episodes
Chenyang Gu, Harvard Medical School; Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University Medical School; Ronald Kessler, Harvard Medical School
8:35 AM

A New Direction for Health Policy Decisions Based on Subgroup Discovery: The Cost-Effectiveness Determination Curve
Andrew Justin Spieker, University of Pennsylvania; Jason Roy, University of Pennsylvania; Nandita Mitra, University of Pennsylvania
8:50 AM

Healthy Disruption for Diagnostic Studies Through Pragmatic Benefit:Risk Evaluation
Scott Evans, Harvard University; Ying Liu, Harvard University
9:05 AM

Switching from Field Enumeration to an ABS Frame: The Effect on Coverage Bias
Ashley Amaya, RTI International; Matthew Williams, SAMHSA/CBHSQ; Devon Cribb, RTI International; Rachel Harter, RTI International; Katherine B Morton, RTI International
9:05 AM

Pragmatic Benefit:Risk Evaluation: Healthy Disruption for Clinical Trials
Scott Evans, Harvard University; Ying Liu, Harvard University; Dean Follmann, NIAID
9:35 AM

Quantile Regression Application in Cost Analysis of Peripheral Artery Intervention in U.S. Healthcare Setting
Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Shirling Tsai, Dallas VA Medical Center; Bala Ramanan, Dallas VA Medical Center; Abigail Wheeler, R Gare; Houman Khalili, Dallas VA Medical Center; Subhash Banerjee, Dallas VA Medical Center; Ishita Tejani, UT Southwestern Medical Center
9:35 AM

Predictive Multiple Imputation Models to Facilitate Analyzes of Association Between Contemporaneous Medicaid Enrollment Status and Health Measures Among NHANES Participants
Jennifer Rammon, CDC; Jennifer Parker, CDC/NCHS; Yulei He, CDC/NCHS
9:50 AM

Uncontrolled Studies and Health Technology Appraisal ? The Need for Methods, Modeling, and Further Research
Anthony Hatswell, University College London
9:55 AM

Accelerometry-Based Methods for Smartphone Proximity Detection
Josh Barback, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Nikita Raman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Alexi Anne Wright, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
10:05 AM

Risk Prediction Using Longitudinal Predictors: An Application to Electronic Health Records Data
Benjamin A Goldstein, Duke University; Michael Pencina, Duke University; Gina-Maria Pomann, Duke University; Wolfgang Winkelmayer, Baylor University
10:35 AM

Simulation of Rainwater Harvesting and Demand-Side Water Conservation for Hospitals
Lawrence Fulton, Texas State University; Lana Ivanitskaya, Central Michigan University; Dmitry A. Erofeev, Central Michigan University
10:50 AM

Deriving and Analyzing Endpoints from Electronic Health Record Data: a Case Study from Clinical Oncology
Sandra Griffith, Flatiron Health; Ariel Bourla, Flatiron Health; Bryan Bowser, Flatiron Health ; Geoff Calkins, Flatiron Health; Joe Chang, Flatiron Health; Rebecca Miksad , Flatiron Health ; Brian Segal, Flatiron Health; Elizabeth Sweeney, Flatiron Health ; Erin Williams, Flatiron Health ; Paul You , Flatiron Health ; Amy Abernethy, Flatiron Health
11:15 AM

The Impact of PEPFAR PMTCT Funding on Reduced Infant Mortality and Improved ANC Care in Kenya: a Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
Donna Spiegelman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Dale Barnhart, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health; Isaac Tsikhutsu , Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD; Fredrick Sawe , Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD ; Jane Muli, Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD; Duncan Kirui, Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD; William Sugut, Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD; Nareen Abboud, Office of the U.S. Global AIDs Coordinator and Health Diplomacy; Tiffany Hamm, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Peter Coakley, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Patrick W. Hickey, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Vanessa Wolfman, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Elizabeth Lee, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
11:15 AM

Differences in Rates of Suicidal Ideation and Potential Suicide Attempt Among Disabled and Gender Minority Medicare Beneficiaries from 2009--2014
Ana M. Progovac, Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance; Brian Mullin, Cambridge Health Alliance; Alex McDowell, Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance; Maria Jose Sanchez, Cambridge Health Alliance; Sari L. Reisner, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Emilia Dunham, Massachusetts Department of Public Health ; Cynthia Telingator, Cambridge Health Alliance; Benjamin Le Cook, Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance
11:35 AM

Classification of Healthcare Data: When Scarcity of Labeled Data Is the Norm Semi-Supervised Learning Methods Can Come to the Rescue
Didem Egemen, The George Washington University; Paulo Macedo, Integrity Management Services Inc.; Sewit Araia, Integrity Management Services Inc.
11:35 AM

Bayesian Single-Index Model for Bounded Mental Health Response with Functional Covariates
Debajyoti Sinha, Florida State University; STUART LIPSITZ, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
11:50 AM

Online Non-Negative Tensor Decomposition with Application to Kidney Paired Donation
Mathieu Bray, University of Michigan; Peter X.-K. Song, University of Michigan
11:50 AM

Recent Updates to the Medicare Transgender Cohort: Results from ICD-10
Paul Guerino, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Erin Ewald, NORC at the University of Chicago; Alison Laffan, NORC at the University of Chicago; Christina Dragon, CMS Office of Minority Health; Carl Streed, ?Brigham and Women's Hospital; Zil Goldstein, The Mount Sinai Hospital
11:55 AM