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1 2012 SPRING MEETING APRIL 1–4 on Capitol Hill – Washington, DC Washington, on CapitolHill– Hyatt Regency Washington WITH IMSANDSECTIONSOFASA Preliminary Program EARLY BIRD DEADLINE – MARCH 1, 2012 The Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society welcomes you to our 2012 Spring Meeting to be held April 1–4 in Washington, DC together WELCOME with the IMS and Sections of the ASA. With the help of many of you, we have I am particularly excited about our Presidential of our field for statisticians in academia, assembled scientific and educational Invited Address, “Engaging, Inspiring, and industry and the federal government. Sincere programs we hope you will find exciting. Training the Next Generation: Past Successes, thanks for their help in brainstorming and We introduce two new program initiatives, Future Challenges and Opportunities,” to be identifying these outstanding offerings to and advance a student initiative begun last given by Professor Marie Davidian of the our 2012 Educational Advisory Committee year, to broadly incorporate and recognize North Carolina State University. Among honors of Brad Carlin, Dean Follmann, Joe Hogan, our members’ contributions. We will host too numerous to recount here, Professor Gene Pennello, and Jose Pinheiro, as old favorites including a Young Investigator Davidian is our former ENAR President well as RAB. We hope you will partake of Workshop, a Diversity Workshop, roundtables, (2004), President-elect-elect of the American the outstanding learning and networking student paper awards and a networking and Statistical Association, and the recipient of opportunities to occur. social event. Finally, our site of Washington, two COPSS awards. Professor Davidian’s DC, with disclosure that I am a native, can contributions to our profession span statistical For those of you who are emerging into our be glorious during our early spring meeting discovery, advancement of scholarship in profession, we have planned many additional dates. Our hotel sits in sightline of the Capitol pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and opportunities. The ENAR Regional Advisory Building. The 2012 meeting occurs in the clinical research, outstanding mentorship Board has established a Graduate Student heart of the 100th National Cherry Blossom of junior researchers, vigorous efforts to and Recent Graduate Council to help ENAR Festival. attract students for our field, and extensive better address the needs of students and service in ENAR, our other societies, and recent graduates. This council is organizing Our Program Chair, Debashis Ghosh of national panels. Informed as she is by these ENAR’s first-ever student-organized invited Penn State University, Co-Chair Jonathan wide ranging and dedicated perspectives, session. Other events for our student Schildcrout of Vanderbilt University, and I could not imagine a leader among us to registrants include a Monday evening student their Program Committee have assembled better stimulate or energize our thinking on mixer, our new RAB Poster Awards, and a roster of invited sessions to appeal to a the challenges, opportunities and future for of course ENAR’s annual student paper broad variety of scientific interests. Topics our field both generally and as they relate to competition. In addition, we will host both span clinical trial design and analysis, causal attracting talented students to our profession. of our two extremely popular workshops inference, high-dimensional and functional I thank her for her willingness to share her for prospective and emerging statisticians data analysis, genomics, risk prediction and thoughts with us. Additionally, we are fortunate at our meeting: On Saturday, our Workshop diagnosis, general methodology, and specific that the IMS will be hosting a first with us: for Junior Investigators, and on Sunday, a application areas spanning diseases to The recently established IMS Tweedie Lecture Diversity Workshop. In recent years both of environmental epidemiology to health policy. recognizing an outstanding researcher within these workshops have filled to capacity very Additionally we will have special sessions five years of receiving his or her doctoral quickly, so that interested attendees should featuring noteworthy papers from the Journal degree. Congratulations to our Tweedie be sure to register early. Finally, for those of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental lecturer, Hui Zou of the University seeking employment, don’t miss our ever- Statistics, surveying grant funding of Minnesota. growing Career Placement Center. opportunities, and commemorating our colleague who made so many contributions Our 2012 Spring Meeting has much to We hope you will join us in the networking to his colleagues and students, ENAR and offer for scholars of all ages. ENAR is and social event we have planned for Tuesday our profession, Tom TenHave. Sincere thanks proud to offer an outstanding array of short evening of the meeting: A dinner outing go to Debashis, Jonathan, their committee– courses and tutorials across topics ranging to the Mount Vernon site featuring private representing ENAR, IMS, and eight ASA from cutting-edge general biostatistical access to the Donald W. Reynolds Museum Sections, and the many who submitted invited methodology, to clinical trials and translation, and Education Center. Our site visiting team paper proposals. to biological applications, to computing was delighted by this outstandingly well done and software implementation. Additionally and engaging museum facility on the life and roundtables offer discussion opportunities living environment of George Washington. relating to professional development, specialized methodology, and advancement 2 ENAR 2012 SPRING MEETING APRIL 1–4 WELCOME The drive out along Washington’s lovely George Washington Parkway, dinner, and museum time to be offered by the event present opportunity to network with colleagues in a beautiful setting: We hope that many of you will join us! Please see page 5 for details. Additionally, our Local Arrangements Committee and ENAR officers have recommended other fun activities for you to pursue while in Washington (see pages 6–8). We encourage you to enjoy several while you’re in town for the meeting. Finally, we are working on plans to continue our recent tradition of community outreach: Watch for details on our website and future communications. Thanks so much to our Local Arrangements Chair, Rochelle Tractenberg of Georgetown University, and the Local Arrangements Committee, for their help on all these fronts. SECTION PAGE Finally, I wish to thank Kathy Hoskins, our Welcome ENAR Executive Director, Laura Yarborough and Overview 2 – 3 Jennifer Weitz, and their other colleagues at Drohan Management for their amazing, General Information 4 – 5 year-round efforts to maintain ENAR as Washington, DC a professional organization of value to its Highlights 6 – 8 members. If you have a chance, please stop Program Summary 10 – 15 by the registration desk to thank them for all CONTENTS Scientific Program 17 – 61 they have done in making the ENAR 2012 Spring Meeting a success. Special Thanks 63 Presidential Invited Speaker 64 We hope to see you in IMS Washington in April! Tweedie Lecturer 65 Short Courses 67 – 70 Karen Bandeen-Roche Tutorials 71 – 72 ENAR 2012 President Roundtables 73 – 75 Career Placement Services 78 – 79 Meeting Registration Form 80 Hotel Registration Form 81 Membership Form 82 3 Preliminary Program MEETING DATES Sunday, April 1, 2012 through Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 12:15 pm Location New Member Reception, Opening Be sure to register in advance, since Hyatt Regency Washington Mixer, and Poster Session courses close once they are full. Use either on Capitol Hill A new member reception will be held from the registration form on page 80 or the 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW 7:30 to 8:00 pm on Sunday, April 1. All electronic registration form on the ENAR Washington, D.C., USA 20001 new ENAR members are cordially invited website (www.ENAR.org/meetings.cfm). Tel: 202-737-1234 to attend. The Opening Mixer and Poster Fax: 202-737-5773 Session (included in the registration fee) Tutorials washingtonregency.hyatt.com will take place from 8:00 to 11:00 pm on Tutorials are offered on Monday and Sunday, April 1. Tuesday, concurrent with the scientific GENERAL INFORMATION GENERAL Registration program. These offerings provide a pre- Advance registration using either the Roundtable Luncheons sentation of a continuing education topic Registration Form on page 80 or at This year, the roundtable luncheons will be in a briefer time period (1 hour and 45 www.enar.org is preferred and costs less held on Monday, April 2, from 12:15 to minutes). Fees for the tutorials are $75 for Registration Hours: 1:30 pm. Space for each roundtable is lim- members ($85 after March 1) and $85 Saturday, March 31 – 3:00 to 5:00 pm ited and pre-registration is advised. The fee for non-members ($95 after March 1). Sunday, April 1 – 7:30 am to 6:00 pm is $35 per person and includes lunch. For Be sure to register in advance, since tutori- The registration fee includes refreshment topic information, please see pages 73-75. als close once they are full. breaks and the opening mixer. The registration fee, less a $100 administrative Short Courses Student Mixer fee, is refundable if written notice of The 2012 ENAR meeting will begin with All students are invited to attend the student cancellation is received by March 1, 2012. an exciting set of short courses on Sunday, mixer on Monday, April